Early Modern Studies
Early Modern Studies offers a combined PhD degree that integrates concentration in a partner department with interdisciplinary study of the historical period between 1350 and 1800, a temporal range that recognizes "early modernity" as manifested differently and at different times across the world. The program’s scope is global, transnational, transcultural, and committed to a vision of an interlinked world with many, varied, locally-inflected transitions to modernity. Inclusive in scholarship and teaching, the combined degree encourages students to forge connections to diverse disciplinary frameworks, geographic conjunctures, and institutional structures. Current partner departments are: Classics, Comparative Literature, English, French, Germanic Languages and Literatures, History, History of Science & Medicine, History of Art, Music, Italian Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese.
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- Combined PhD
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Nicholas Jones
Director of Graduate Studies
Julia DiVincenzo
Departmental Registrar
Admission Requirements
Admission Information
Prospective students should apply to the doctoral program of one of the partner departments: Classics, Comparative Literature, English, French, Germanic Languages and Literatures, History, History of Science & Medicine, History of Art, Music, Italian Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese.
Academic Information
Combined PhD Information
Early Modern Studies is a combined degree program: students must first apply to the doctoral program of one of the partner departments; if accepted, they can then apply to the Program in Early Modern Studies during their second term of graduate study at Yale. Admission to the combined degree in Early Modern Studies thus occurs after the student has already matriculated in the Graduate School. Upon acceptance to the combined degree, students will normally be enrolled as such from their second year of graduate study.
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The Graduate School's academic calendar lists important dates and deadlines related to coursework, registration, financial processes, and milestone events such as graduation.
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Registration Information and Dates
https://registration.yale.edu/
Students must register every term in which they are enrolled in the Graduate School. Registration for a given term takes place the semester prior, and so it's important to stay on top of your academic plan. The University Registrar's Office oversees the systems that students use to register. Instructions about how to use those systems and the dates during which registration occurs can be found on their registration website.
Financial Information
PhD Stipend & Funding
PhD students at Yale are normally full-funded for a minimum of five years. During that time, our students receive a twelve-month stipend to cover living expenses and a fellowship that covers the full cost of tuition and student healthcare.