The program operates in the realization that the very nature of European history and market conditions for new History Ph. Our new and existing graduate offerings featuring this pan-European perspective fall into three categories. The second category is the common TransEurope research seminar, which instructors will make suitable for initiation into advanced research on any European subject. Finally, we will continue and when possible increase the number of topical, regional, and comparative seminars already offered, which include subjects like nationalism, intellectuals and culture, communism, revolution, and gender. The program draws on existing relationships with and resources of Pitt's Russian and East European Studies Center and the Center for West European Studies .
Funds are available for graduate fellowships, conferences, travel, and research.
History graduate students and faculty are frequent recipients of UCIS grants. We hope students and faculty can join together in meeting the new intellectual and practical challenges of studying the European heritage in broad perspective. She has taught a variety of courses and seminars including Soviet Russia, Western Civilization and Russian Revolutionary Movements. Europe Under the Dictators, is an upper-level seminar on the construction of national political cultures in the authoritarian regimes of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin during the thirties. In addition, she is developing a teaching module on Russian Imperialism and Scientific Exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries for the upcoming Honors Seminar, Explorations and Empires, with Prof. Ann Jannetta.