From 1993 to 2003 I was actively associated with the PhD program at Northeastern, the first to make World History a formal PhD field. I was major professor for David Kalivas (PhD 2000), Pamela Brooks (PhD 2000), Yinghong Cheng (PhD 2001), Jeffrey Sommers (PhD 2001), Eric Martin (PhD 2001), Deborah Smith Johnston (PhD 2003), Whitney Howarth (2004), and Stacy Tweedy (PhD 2005). Students finishing PhDs under my direction are Josh Weiner, Tiffany Trimmer, and Aiqun Hu. I have also served on the PhD committees of George Reklaitis (PhD 2003), Jeremy Neill (PhD 2004), and George Dehner (PhD 2004), and I worked closely with Bin Yang (PhD 2004). I continue to serve on the committee of Christopher Harris.

In my position as Vice President of the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association (2004-2006), I have significant responsibility in implementation of the report of the AHAšs Committee for Graduate Education, which calls for major restructuring and strengthening in doctoral education. In particular, this has brought creation of a major new website on History Doctoral Programs, overseen by the AHA, providing detailed and consistent information on doctoral programs in history.

For the report on doctoral education, see Thomas Bender, et al., The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century (University of Illinois Press, 2004). A similar report on the Masteršs degree in history is forthcoming.