The Department of History is a large and diverse department with over 200 students currently pursuing advanced study in 18 different fields of history. History graduate programs offer opportunities to study historical experiences in a very wide range of different times and places, from ancient Greece and imperial China to contemporary Africa, Latin America, Europe and the United States. The program also offers the chance to study a variety of thematic fields, including women's and gender history, the history of sexuality, environmental history, the history of technology, the history of capitalism, and military and diplomatic history.