[Graduate studies in history: trends and prospects for the area].

Historian and coordinator of the history area in Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes), Carlos Fico discusses the criteria and challenges of evaluation faced by Fundação Capes and analyzes the panorama of the field. He criticizes academic productivism, deals with the distortions in the training of the historian, the dilemma with respect to the expected profile of the academic master and comments on the internationalization efforts of the subject. He advocates greater maturity of the area in terms of acknowledging and meeting social demands, as well as enhancing internal procedures in the area, such as peer review.