Master Histoire - parcours Histoire transnationale (History, Transnational History) at Université PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres)

Master from the history department of ENS-PSL and the École nationale des chartes training students in research in transnational history, whose themes overlap with global, imperial, connected and cross-cultural history and cultural transfers. It combines demanding empirical archival research with a broader methodological and historiographical perspective drawn from the social sciences, with international mobility and foreign languages central.

Faculty: ENS - PSL / École nationale des chartes - PSL  |  Duration: 2 years (Master 1 and Master 2)  |  Study mode: full-time; taught in French  |  Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

Mobilities and circulations of people, ideas, objects, texts and artworks, histories of globalisation, interactions and connections, and classic questions such as the construction of the modern state, the origins of the French Revolution, the dynamics of capitalism, colonisation and twentieth-century wars.

Career pathways

Mainly higher education and research (doctorate, academic posts, teaching in secondary schools and classes préparatoires), as well as journalism, senior civil service, diplomacy and heritage conservation.

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