The research areas of the social history program bring together researchers from different disciplines, encouraging coordinated research across the board and seeking new themes, issues and sources. This perspective is intended to expand the field of theoretical study and open up new themes in social history.

Each research area has a coordinator and each area promotes activities geared to its specific interests. These research areas serve to guide the organization of research seminars, which take place each semester, involving supervisors and those who are supervised. The laboratories linked to the social history program play an important in integrating the interlinked research areas.