范德比尔特（Vanderbilt）在早期近代史上拥有一批活跃的学者。教师的研究和教学兴趣包括英国/英国，法文，德文，意大利，东欧，印度和中国的地理专家。调查领域包括法律，宗教，经济，文化和性别/性历史。早期现代教师与古代和中世纪历史学家紧密合作，并与古典和地中海研究，犹太研究，妇女和性别研究，英语，法语和意大利语以及德语，俄语的部门合作和东欧研究，艺术史以及近现代文化研究研讨会（罗伯特·佩恩·沃伦中心）。
Vanderbilt has a vibrant group of scholars in Early Modern history. Faculty research and teaching interests include geographic specialists in England/Britain, France, Germany, Italy, eastern Europe, India, and China. Among the areas of inquiry are legal, religious, economic, cultural, and gender/sexuality history. The Early Modern faculty work closely with historians of antiquity and medieval history, and in collaboration with the programs in Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, the departments of English, French and Italian, and German, Russian and East European Studies, History of Art, and the Pro-Modern Cultural Studies Seminar (Robert Penn Warren Center.)<br><br>We welcome applications from potential graduate students interested in particular subject areas as well as in the questions and methods shared by all historians of early modern societies, including how to work with incomplete, fragmentary, or (deliberately) misleading evidence, how to reconstruct the world of culture and symbols, how to push beyond the learned texts that predominate in the historical record, and how to ask meaningful questions about the past.<br><br>There is no prescribed graduate curriculum, students are invited to craft their own program within the framework of the History Department Ph.D. requirements during coursework, but a applicant's prior preparation, including knowledge of languages necessary to undertake Ph.D. level research, and the writing sample are particularly important factors. Applicants are encouraged to contact potential supervisors in advance.