范德比尔特大学（Vanderbilt University）对伊斯兰教历史的各个时期进行培训，从古代起源到现代，再到各个区域环境。<br>我们的教师在法律，商业，宗教，帝国主义和民族主义等多个领域开展工作。他们写了许多主题，包括早期的伊斯兰死亡仪式，安达卢斯的政治和社会，中世纪的地中海的犹太穆斯林贸易，古吉拉特邦早期的政治，宗教和经济格局，奥斯曼帝国的犹太身份，伊斯兰教在现代巴尔干半岛，尼日利亚人对殖民主义的反应以及ISIS的兴起。
Vanderbilt University has one of the oldest programs in Latin American studies in the United States. Our doctoral program focuses on developing scholars and teachers with both a broad knowledge of Latin American and Caribbean history and intensive training in research and writing in their specialty. Doctoral students normally do four semesters of classes, then take their qualifying exams at the end of their fourth semester or the beginning of their fifth semester. Working closely with our historians of Latin America and the Caribbean, students develop a dissertation topic and prospectus during their fifth semester.<br><br>From their first semester, we encourage our doctoral students to become actively engaged in the profession through field research, networking, publishing, collaborative projects, and grant applications. Our students have presented their research at numerous national and international conferences including the American Historical Association, Conference on Latin American History, Latin American Studies Association, Brazilian Studies Association, Association of Caribbean Historians, and the Southern Historical Association. Over the last decade our students have won many prestigious internal and external research awards (ACLS, Mellon, Boren, SSRC, and Fulbright).