The new Combined PhD in Early Modern Studies will admit students who have completed at least one semester of their doctoral degree programs at Yale. Students will apply for admission to the Combined Degree in the spring of their first year and will officially join the program in Year 2 of their doctoral programs.
Graduate funding will be through the joint departments who will have already admitted such students in Year 1.
The primary goal of the combined degree is to bring together students and faculty working across disciplines in the broad historical period that extends from 1350-1800 to share methodological, theoretical and historiographic frameworks, rather than to train students in a fixed scholarly corpus.