Guide to Graduate Study

The Guide to Graduate Study, is your essential source for guidelines, requirements, and advice related to the MA and PhD degrees. Students should maintain ongoing communication with their advisors and the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) about their progress through the program and consult regularly with faculty mentors and the DGS about any questions that arise. Below are the Graduate Guides applicable to students currently in the history graduate program.

Guides to Graduate Study (based on Academic Year started):

AY 2023 (coming soon)
AY 2022                          AY 2017  
AY 2020                          AY 2016 
AY 2019                          AY 2015   
AY 2018                         

Department Forms

Individual Development Plan -- a personal and flexible planning tool designed to help graduate students plan and achieve their professional goals. Should be done in coordination with the advisor and/or any mentors

Plan of Study Document -- similar to the Sample Plan found in MyUI, this document will help you keep track of your progress through program requirements.

Report of Qualifying Research Paper (QRP) -- the QRP is required to be completed by all PhD students by the end of the 3rd semester.

Report of Research Paper -- a second paper required of PhD students without an MA, completed before Comps Prep begins

Graduate Certificate Programs

A number of interdisciplinary Graduate Certificates are available to enhance your graduate education in History, including Book Studies, College Teaching, Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, Global Health Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and more.

Graduate College Rules & Regulations

• The official Manual of Rules and Regulations governing graduate study at Iowa.
• Graduate College Deadlines for graduate students, including registration and filing your dissertation.
• Graduation Checklist of things that must be done in the semester you plan to graduate.

Campus Partners

• History Corps is a student-led, online digital and oral history project based in the Department.
• The Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio collaborates with faculty and students to design and implement digital scholarly research projects. You can schedule individual consultations with Studio staff and apply for money to support your digital work.
• University of Iowa Libraries offers graduate students access to one of the country’s great research libraries and the expertise of librarians in a range of subjects. The History Librarian is Janalyn Moss. Special Collections is home the rare book collections, the Iowa Women’s Archives, the University Archives, the International Dada Archive, Map Collection, and more.
• Obermann Center for Advanced Studies supports artists, scholars, and researchers—independently and in cross-disciplinary collaborations—as they unearth the past, explain and engage the present, and invent the future.