Forms for the PhD in History

Students are advised that in order to maintain the circulation of important forms and documents, it will be the student's responsibility to fill out and distribute all forms in order to gain faculty signatures and deliver the completed form to the PhD director and coordinator.

(The only exception to this policy is for the minor field exam grading forms that are originated by the faculty readers).

Please refrain from leaving forms in the custody of faculty advisors with the expectation that they will circulate the form on students' behalf.

Note on Signatures:

Students may use electronic signatures by sharing an Adobe pdf version of forms (scanners are located in the department and via all campus Canon printing machines). Please be advised that if you sign any form using the digital id signature, the pdf will be locked and will need to be recreated without the digital id.

Alternatively, students may carry hard copy forms and request ink signatures by hand.

Student Protocol for Completing Forms:

After retrieving all faculty signatures, students must scan and send the form to the PhD director via email attachment and cc the graduate coordinator for storage in the official student file.

University Forms

For special situations, including re enrollment following inactive semesters, late schedule adjustments, etc. please see the list of graduate forms on the Registrar's website:

https://registrar.gmu.edu/forms/graduate/

*These forms must be approved by the PhD director, and (for some of them) the chair of the department.