Graduate secretary, Laurier - Lynne Doyle (4-210 CTB, 519-884-1970, ext. 3389) (E-mail: ldoyle@mach1.wlu.ca)
Graduate officer, Laurier - David Monod (4-210A DAWB, Ext. 3261) E-mail: dmonod@mach1.wlu.ca)
Graduate officer, Waterloo - Patrick Harrigan (114 HH, Ext. 3768) (E-mail: harrigan@watarts.uwaterloo.ca)
Donna T. Andrew* BA CCNY, MSc London, PhD Toronto
Keith M. Cassidy BA Loyola College, MA, PhD Toronto
Terry A. Crowley* BA Bishop's, MA Carleton, AM, PhD Duke
Elizabeth L. Ewan* BA Queen's, PhD Edinburgh
David R. Farrell BA, MA Wisconsin, PhD Western Ontario
Peter J. Goddard BA British Columbia, DPhil Oxford
Linda L. Mahood BA Saskatchewan, MLitt, PhD Glasgow
Clarence J. Munford BA, MA Western Reserve, DPhil Leipzig
David R. Murray* BA Bishop's, MA Edinburgh, PhD Cambridge
Eric G. Reiche BA Western Ontario, PhD Delaware
Richard M. Reid* BA Carleton, MA, PhD Toronto
Mordechai Rozanski BA McGill, PhD Pennsylvania
James G. Snell* BA McGill, MA Western Ontario, PhD Queen's
Gilbert A. Stelter* BA Moravian, BD, PhD Alberta
Ronald M. Sunter* MA, PhD Edinburgh
Catharine A. Wilson* BA Guelph, MA, PhD Queen's
Associated Graduate Faculty
Gunnar C. Boehnert BA, MA Western Ontario, MA Toronto, MPhil Waterloo, PhD London
The following members of Wilfrid Laurier University are members of the program:
Donald N. Baker BA British Columbia, MA, PhD Stanford
Cynthia Comacchio* BA Glendon, MA York, PhD Guelph
Terry Copp* BA Sir George Williams, MA McGill
Leonard G. Friesen BA Waterloo, MA, PhD Toronto
Richard P. Fuke BA Toronto, MA Maryland, PhD Chicago
Barry M. Gough* BEd British Columbia, MA Montana, PhD London
Douglas A. Lorimer* BA, PhD British Columbia
Joyce Lorimer* BA, PhD Liverpool
David Monod BA, MA McGill, PhD Toronto
Erika Rummel* BA Vienna, MA, PhD Toronto
Michael D. Sibalis BA McGill, MA Sir George Williams, PhD Concordia
George Urbaniak BA, MA, PhD Toronto
Suzanne Zeller* BA, MA Windsor, PhD Toronto
The following members of the University of Waterloo are members of the program:
Michael J. Craton* BA London, MA, PhD McMaster
Gail Cuthbert Brandt* BA Toronto, MA Carleton, PhD York
Keith D. Eagles BA Waterloo, AM, PhD Harvard
Patrick J. Harrigan* BA Detroit, AM, PhD Michigan
Geoff W. Hayes BA, MA Laurier, PhD Western Ontario
Stan K. Johannesen* BA Evangel College, MA, PhD Missouri
Heather A. MacDougall* BA, MA, PhD Toronto
Karin J. MacHardy* BA, MA Western Ontario, PhD California (Berkeley)
Ken M. McLaughlin BA Waterloo, MA Dalhousie, PhD Toronto
Wendy L. Mitchinson* BA, MA, PhD York
Werner O. Packull* BA Guelph, MA Waterloo, PhD Queen's
C. Arnold Snyder BA Waterloo, MA, PhD McMaster
Gerald J. Stortz BA, MA Waterloo, PhD Guelph
Lynne Taylor BA Western Ontario, MA London, PhD Michigan
James A. Wahl BA Western Ontario, MA, PhD St. Louis
James W. Walker* BA Toronto, MA Waterloo, PhD Dalhousie
David E. Wright BA, MA Cambridge, MA, PhD McMaster
Applications are considered by the co-ordinating committee. Only students who are graduates of accredited universities and colleges are eligible for admission. Students will be admitted only after they have obtained an MA in which they have received at least an ‘A-' standing. Since not all applicants can be admitted, close attention is paid to samples of applicants' written work, to applicants' transcripts and past records as a whole, and to their statement of research interests.
Applicants from outside Canada whose previous education cannot be assessed readily may be required to demonstrate their knowledge by other means, such as the Graduate Record Examination. Non-Canadian applicants whose first language is not French or English are required to submit evidence of proficiency in the English language or pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). A net score of 600 is required.
Registration at one university for three degrees (BA, MA, PhD) is discouraged.
Degree Requirements
Students must demonstrate a knowledge of written French (or other appropriate second language, approved by the co-ordinating committee) before the qualifying examination. Students must register in the Doctoral Seminar. For details see the program handbook.
PhD Fields
Each student is required to demonstrate competence in three fields (one major, two minor). This competence will be demonstrated by successful completion of the colloquium or the qualifying examination. One field must be in an area of study distinct from the major field and one may be in another discipline. The distinction between a major and a minor field is the depth and required range of reading rather than by geographical or chronological span. The major and minor fields must be constructed so that a student can complete the major during two terms and both minor fields within another two terms.
Students must take a seminar course in each of their qualifying or colloquium fields.
The student's advisory committee, in collaboration with the student, will establish the fields to be examined. The student's advisory committee, in collaboration with the candidate, will select either the comprehensive or the colloquium mode of examination, determine the scheduling of the examinations or colloquium, and approve the thesis proposal submitted by the student before the student proceeds to the examination. The comprehensive modeinvolves one historiographical essay and one written examination in each field and an oral examination covering the three fields. The colloquium mode requires two essays, one of which must be historiographical, to be written in each field. Following the completion of field preparations to the satisfaction of the advisory committee, the candidate in the colloquium mode presents an independent research paper on a topic approved by the advisory committee. For both modes, the examining committee will be composed of the thesis adviser, the field advisers, an additional member of the graduate faculty, and the director or designate as chair.
The PhD fields and the oral qualifying examination must be completed by the end of the fifth term/semester. The colloquium must be completed by the end of the sixth term/semester. No extensions will be permitted, except in cases where approval has been given by the co-ordinating committee. Continuation in the program after the qualifying exam or colloquium requires at least a ‘B+' average, based on all courses taken in the program to that point and their proportionate weighting.
Following successful completion of the colloquium or qualifying examination, the student must complete, under the supervision of a Tri-University Doctoral Program in History faculty member, an original research project on an advanced topic. A thesis embodying the results of that research must be presented and defended before an examining committee.
The Tri-University Doctoral Program limits thesis supervision to eleven fields of study - Canadian history; British history; Scottish history; early modern European history; modern European history; United States history; the history of women, gender and family; the history of science, medicine and technology (19th and 20th century only); the history of race, slavery and imperialism; international history; and community studies (including rural and urban history).
