The Department of History has thesis-based M.A. and Ph.D. programs. We specialize in eight signature research areas, but can accommodate a wide range of topics. Signature research areas: Indigenous history, Environmental history, Prairies and the North American West, Health, medicine, science, and occultism, History and politics of memory, Gender and sexuality, Colonial and post-colonial histories, Twentieth-century politics, culture, and foreign relations Graduate students in our department have access to opportunities found nowhere else in the world. We boast an Ethnohistory Field School, Collaboratorium, Digital History and HGIS Lab, and embedded support structures for community engaged research.