HSE St Petersburg's Department of History invites international applicants to apply to our two-year English-language MA program “Usable Pasts”: Applied and Interdisciplinary History.
This is the 1st international, 100% English-language taught History MA program in Russia, with international students from currently 12 countries.
Academic Head of the Program: Julia Lajus, Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History.
The program is taught by internationally well-known scholars: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (formerly Prof. at Cambridge U.), Nathan Marcus (PhD from New York University), Alexander Semyonov (PhD from Central European U.), Marina Loskutova (PhD from Central European U.), Alexandra Bekasova (formerly European University at St. Petersburg), Tatiana Borisova (PhD from U. of Turku).
This is a program for you, if you are keen:
to understand how history speaks to the future
to get an interdisciplinary training or to add historical training to your previous education
to pursue an academic career in new global, comparative, environmental, technological history, the history of empire and nationalism, or heritage and historical memory studies
to learn how to apply historical knowledge to media, museums, the tourism industry, or to new methods in digital humanities and public history
The program offers strong research-led teaching that draws on our department’s strength in global, comparative and transnational history, including studies of empires and nationalism, socialism, post-socialism and post-colonialism, environmental and economic history and anthropology, the history of science and technology, and the anthropology of memory.
Students will benefit from an interdisciplinary training in methods of historical research and textual criticism, cultural heritage and museum studies, anthropology, historical geography and geoinformation systems, digital humanities, oral history as well as visual methods.
We seek applicants with undergraduate degrees in all disciplines, but with strong commitment to studying history. To apply send us your personal motivation statement and be prepared for an admissions interview. Eligible students will need a good command of English as demonstrated by international certificates or an entrance exam. Native English speakers and students who have completed a degree exclusively in English do not need to submit a proof of their language proficiency.
This program provides skills for further academic study, including a PhD, as well as non-academic careers. It also offers the possibility of internships in over fifty St. Petersburg museums and provides the option for Russian language training.
Only applications submitted before February 28, 2018 will be considered for full tuition scholarships.
Successful international applicants can apply for these scholarships after being admitted to the program.
Contacts:
Head of the Program Julia Lajus (jlajus@gmail.com)
Coordinator Dilorom Akhmedzhanova (dakhmedzhanova@hse.ru)
Details of course: http://spb.hse.ru/en/ma/apphist/about
Potential supervisors: http://spb.hse.ru/en/ma/apphist/programmefaculty
How to apply: http://spb.hse.ru/en/ma/apphist/programmefaculty
Contact Email:
jlajus@gmail.com
URL: https://spb.hse.ru/en/ma/apphist/apply_international