Travel Funding

Additionally, all students are eligible to apply for travel funding from the GSS, which automatically funds $600 in travel expenses per graduate student each cycle so long as they apply by the deadline. Our department typically supplements, in the form of reimbursements for additional expenses, any travel funding a graduate student receives, whether from the GSS or from external funding sources.

Renewal

Students on fellowship are reviewed annually for renewal. Assuming appropriate performance, MA student fellowships will be renewed for a second year. The fellowships will be canceled, however, in cases of unsatisfactory academic performance.

College of Education, Health and Human Services

James Hogue

EHHS grad James Hogue, MAT ’02, Bedford, OH, is named the principal at Orange High School. A Cleveland native, Hogue earned a master's degree in education from Kent State University. He holds a bachelor's degree in English language and literature/letters from John Carroll University in University Heights, and is a 1990 graduate of Maple Heights High School. --Photo courtesy of Cleveland.com ...

Statement of Purpose

This document should be around 500 words long and should explain to us why you would like to study in our department. We use the document primarily to determine whether you are a good fit for what we have to offer, though the Statement of Purpose also gives us a sense of your writing, research, and reasoning skills.

Writing Sample

You should also decide what you might want to submit for a writing sample. This should be at least 12 pages long, should have a thesis, and should draw on both primary and secondary sourcing. Usually, this is a history research paper. This paper should demonstrate that you can write clearly and well, that you can develop an interesting thesis, and that you can defend it with a combination of well-selected primary and secondary research. You can feel free to improve on a paper that you have already submitted for another purpose before using it as your writing sample.  

Letters of Recommendation

About three months before you plan to apply, you should reach out to potential writers of letters of recommendation and ask if they would be willing to write you a letter for our program. Letter writers should be people who are familiar with your academic work, and who are capable of judging whether you would be likely to succeed in a graduate program in history. Usually, these letters are written by history faculty members with whom you have taken classes.

Contact Us

Once you have ideas of a person or people you may want to work with in our program, you should reach out to our program. It is customary to contact our graduate coordinator first, though you can also reach out to a potential supervisor directly if you have questions that you think they could best answer. 

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