Courses with numbers 101-299 are designed for freshmen
and sophomores but are open to all undergraduate
students. Advanced courses, with numbers 300-599, are
generally designed for students who have completed introductory
courses in the appropriate area. For courses
offered during any particular semester, see the schedule of
Arts and Sciences and Engineering courses. An examination of the history of the various cultures that
arose in the Mediterranean world from the beginnings
in the Near East to the collapse of the Roman Empire in
the West. Nirenberg 3 credits The course explores selected topics in the political, economic,
social, and intellectual history of Western Europe
in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and
the 15th century. Special emphasis is given to understanding
the ways in which medieval society functioned
as a pioneer civilization, compelled to reorganize itself
after the almost total collapse of the ancient world, and
to the interplay between material and cultural forces in
the process of social organization Spiegel, Nirenberg 3 credits A survey of European history in the period from the
Renaissance and Reformation to the late 18th century.
This wide-ranging and topical course discusses social,
cultural, and intellectual developments in Europe, and
the diversity and complexity of European societies as
they evolved through contact with other cultures. Bell, Kagan, Marshall 3 credits A survey of European history from the French Revolution
to the present that provides political, social, economic,
and cultural perspectives. Nineteenth-century topics
include the rise of democracies, the industrial revolution,
the development of capitalism and socialist
responses, nationalism and nation-building, and imperialism.
Themes from the 20th century include the two
World Wars, fascism and the Holocaust, decolonization,
the rise and decline of the Soviet Union, and the formation
of the European Union. Brooks, Moss, Jelavich 3 credits fall Exploration of the interrelated histories of U.S. slavery
and freedom from the American Revolution through
Reconstruction. Readings include primary sources and
historical accounts. Johnson, Morgan, Dailey 3 credits This course explores U.S. social and cultural history since
1880 as a series of political contests by different constituents
over the meanings of national cultural identity. Dailey 3 credits This course will explore the tensions between individualism
and solidarity in America’s political, social, and
economic experience from roughly 1820 to 1920. Attention
will be paid to the variety of ways Americans defined
their highest ideals and the rights and obligations that
link individual, community, nation, and humankind. Dailey 3 credits This course examines society, politics, and culture in
colonial British mainland America and the early United
States, with special emphasis on the history of domination
and freedom in the context of empire and revolution. Ditz 3 credits Beginning with the political framework established by
the Constitution and concluding with Progressivism and
its immediate consequences, this course will examine
the complicated ways in which Americans attempted to
come to terms with racial, ethnic, cultural, and other
forms of diversity. Walters, Morgan 3 credits This course has three objectives: to describe and evaluate
the transformation of America’s political, economic,
and professional institutions in the last century; to relate
that transformation to the position of the U.S. in the
world today; and to help students see that transformation
through the eyes of those who had less power,
wealth, and status than those who were in control of the
dominant institutions. Galambos 3 credits General trends from the pre-Columbian period to the eve
of Independence. Special emphasis upon the socioeconomic
nature of colonization and the extent to which
colonial institutions reflected those of Spain and Portugal. Russell-Wood 3 credits An introductory history of African enslavement in the
Atlantic that considers the African origins of slaves and
their subsequent experiences in North America. Larson 3 credits An introduction to the African past. First term: to 1880.
Second term: since 1880. Berry, Larson 3 credits Introduces the student to the history of the Jewish ethnoreligious
community and its cultural, intellectual and political development
from the conflict-ridden emergence of a distinct Jewish identity in
ancient Israel to the fraught encounter between tradition and
modernity at the brink of the modern era in the 18th century.
Characterized by the vicissitudes of exile, fruitful and conflicted
encounters with numerous civilizations, and profound shifts in
identity and culture in tension with a commitment to a distinctive
religious canon, this history offers a point of entry for any further
study of Jews and Judaism, a fascinating case study in the nature
of traditional societies and pre-modern civilization, and a unique
vantage point from which to understand the larger history of
Europe and the Middle East. Moss 3 credits The purpose of this course is to explore the large changes
in Soviet life and society, intellectual and literary life, economic
development, and the revolutionary movement. Brooks 3 credits An examination of the history of Jews over the past three hundred years. Explores the dramatic
encounter at the close of the 18th century between rapidly changing European societies caught up
in intellectual, political, and economic revolution and a 2000-year old traditional civilization living in
their midst; the kaleidoscopic array of Jewish political, religious, cultural and social responses to this
encounter; the new forms of Jewish communal and individual life and consciousness which emerged
in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries; the extension of this new modern framework to the Jews
of the Middle East in the context of European imperialism and colonialism; the key roles played by the
Jews as agents and symbols of political, economic, and cultural modernity; the phenomenon of anti-Semitism
and whether it is a pathology or integral part of modern European civilization; the extreme shifts in Jewish life
from the mid-20th century in light of the Holocaust, the creation of the state of Israel, and integration into American
society. Moss 3 credits A topical introduction to the histories of China and
Japan. Major topics include the classical traditions of ethical
and political thought; the development of statecraft;
the foundations of rural society; and cultural interaction
within East Asia and between East Asia and the West. Rowe 3 credits An introduction to the history of the Jewish encounter with modernity on the fractured political,
cultural, and social terrain of Eastern Europe. Key foci include: religious and cultural transformations
within Jewish life from the late 18th century which gave birth to Hasidism, Orthodoxy, and a Jewish
Enlightenment movement; the 19th century encounter with the invasive reformism of the Russian and
Austro-Hungarian empires; the recasting of everyday life and identity in relation to imperial interventions,
changing cultural norms vis-à-vis authority, tradition, and gender, and dramatic social and economic
transformations; the formation of modern Jewish nationalism; encounters between Jews and East European
socialism and social radicalism; the development of a secular Jewish cultural sphere and an opposing
Orthodox counter-culture and cultural assimilation; relations between Jews and the other peoples and
cultures of Eastern Europe; Jewish prospects and predicaments in the nation-state and in Communist
Russia; and the Holocaust in local context. Moss 3 credits This class will examine the links between the imperial projects
of European states in the modern period and the novel significance
of "racial" distinctions. Shepard 3 credits Analysis of the American Civil War from the perspectives
of government leaders, political activists, military officers,
common soldiers, whites and blacks, men and
women, North and South. Johnson 3 credits
For freshmen only. Reading and discussion course introduces students to
major themes in family history since the 17th century: sentiment and authority
relations; gender and sexuality; family and work; dynamics of family and race.
Readings stress interdisciplinary perspectives.
Ditz 3 credits Required for all history majors and normally taken during
the sophomore year. Deals with the elements of historical
thinking and writing. Must be taken in sequence. Staff 3 credits Political, social, and cultural history of one of the great
turning points in European history. Bell 3 credits This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times
through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE!).
It will feature discussion of art, material culture, and literature as well as politics
and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive
use of visual material in lectures will help students gain a first hand perspective on
the dynamism and diversity of Chinese history during the period covered. Meyer-Fong 3 credits This introductory class will explore the Cultural Revolution
(1966–1976), Chairman Mao’s last attempt to transform China,
and a period marked by social upheaval, personal vendettas,
violence, and ideological pressure. Meyer-Fong 3 credits An overview of Latin America today including geography,
culture, politics, economics, religion, and race relations. Knight 3 credits Our contemporary preoccupation with ethnicity and multiculturalism
raises complicated questions: How do politics, culture, and language
intersect? What is ethnicity, nationality, national culture? The Jews of
modern Eastern Europe offer a fascinating case for the study of such
questions. Beset by massive social, political, and cultural changes,
these men and women created a new sort of Jewish politics, radically
new varieties of Jewish culture, and innovative, competing visions of
Jewish identity. Using diverse primary sources -- political writings,
literature, memoir, census data, art, and film -- we will trace the
complex intersections of these phenomena, focusing as well on the
use of primary sources and questions of historical method. Moss 3 credits An inquiry, through the use of autobiographies, diaries,
and letters, into attitudes toward family, politics, relations,
work and the self with emphasis on traditional Europe.
Emphasis is on reading and discussion of original sources. Kagan 3 credits Eleven keys to an understanding of contemporary Brazil
have been selected and put in historical perspective in a
discussion of continuity and discontinuity. Russell-Wood 3 credits
Analysis of the American Civil War and its aftermath with
emphasis on social, political, economic, and cultural
dimensions of the military conflict. Johnson 3 credits An introductory seminar that investigates the history of
southern women from the Revolution to the civil rights
movement. Dailey 3 credits
This course examines the development of the institution,
its importance for understanding early America,
the world of slaves and of masters. Morgan 3 credits Examines the intersection of the social, cultural, and
political changes which characterize the Jewish experience
in the modern era with the societal transformations linked to
modern capitalism. Focusing comparatively on Western European,
Eastern European, Middle Eastern and eventually American and
Israeli Jewries from the 18th to the mid-20th century, we will investigate
the different socioeconomic experiences of these populations;
disintegrative and integrative impacts of societal change on Jewish
communal structures; disparate Jewish cultural and intellectual
responses to social transformation; the fateful imputation of a special
relationship between Jews and capitalism in modern European
thought left and right; class formation and differentiation in Jewish life;
and the interplay of capitalism and class with modern Jewish politics
in its liberal-integrationist, nationalist, socialist, and mixed forms. Moss 3 credits Readings and discussions on selected topics including
bureaucracy, social groups, and the structure of communities. Kagan 3 credits Concepts and practices of “Jewish culture” in 19th-20th century
Europe, America, and Israel in relation to secular formations of
subjectivity, art, nationhood, language. Key foci include: tradition,
canon and rupture; Hebrew, Yiddish, and metropolitan languages;
high and popular; art, state, and market; art, self, and nation.
Focus on literature, art, and film. Moss 3 credits The development of a modern Russian culture. Topics
include literature, intellectual life, the revolutionary
movement, and popular culture. The emphasis is on the
19th and early 20th centuries. Brooks 3 credits Issues include developments in literature and the arts
during the revolutionary era, efforts to create a revolutionary
culture, repression and official culture, dissident
movements, popular culture, and the cultural crisis of
the Soviet old regime. Brooks 3 credits Using primary sources, including literature and film, we
will explore the changing ways in which ideologues, intellectuals,
and ordinary citizens defined national identity
in 20th-century China and Japan. Meyer-Fong 3 credits Jewish modernity through the real and imagined spatial environments
in which it took shape. The shtetl as metonym for tradition and as reality;
Jewish life in Odessa, Petersburg, Tel-Aviv, and Jerusalem; spaces of
violence, extrusion, and genocide; liberal modernity in New York and the
suburbs; spaces of settlement, self-determination, and sovereignty in
Palestine and Israel. Moss 3 credits This course surveys the changes that have taken place in global
public health in both the developed and developing economies.
We examine the major institutions - public, private, and
non-governmental - that play a role in developing public health
policies around the world. Galambos 3 credits An examination of the West and the “frontier” as lived
and as the subject of literature and popular culture. Walters 3 credits Course examines contemporary economic and political
trends and problems in selected African countries with
reference to colonialism, independence, globalization,
and internal struggles over economic opportunity and
nation-building. Berry 3 credits Explores the problematic, controversial, and sometimes
productive relationship between art and politics, with
emphasis on Germany, Russia, Italy, and France. Brooks 3 credits A survey from Moorish times to the present. Knowledge
of Spanish is desirable but not required. Kagan 3 credits Primarily a reading and discussion course, emphasis is
upon Spain’s important cultural achievements during
the 16th and 17th centuries. Knowledge of Spanish is
desirable but not required. Prerequisite: 100.341 or its
equivalent, or permission of instructor. Kagan 3 credits Using a variety of literary and historical sources available
in English, this course will trace the period from the conquest
of Ceuta in 1415 to the independence of Portugal’s
colonies. Russell-Wood 3 credits Exploration and Portuguese settlement in Africa, Asia,
and America, and integration of these regions into a
multi-continental, multi-oceanic system. Political, commercial,
military, cultural, and social aspects examined in
the context of European/non-European interactions. Russell-Wood 3 credits The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries. Rowe 3 credits The history of China from about 1900 to the present. Rowe 3 credits Kagan 3 credits Brooks 3 credits Examines the key terms, processes, and phenomena of Jewish
modernity in Eastern Europe, America, Palestine and Israel (Enlightenment,
Emancipation, assimilation, nationalism, socialism, anti-Semitism,
to name a few) through the lens of Jewish life in Warsaw, Vilna,
St. Petersburg, Odessa, New York, Tel-Aviv, and Jerusalem.
Simultaneously, it asks how the particular social, economic, and
cultural character of Jewish life in these various cities inflected or
even dictated the shape and pace of these larger processes and
shaped Jewish history in ways that are arguably obscured by
approaching Jewish history in the usual national (Russian-Jewish,
German-Jewish, etc.) terms. Particular attention is paid to the 20th
century and the significance of mass urbanization, integral nationalism,
and sovereignty for a Jewish history still largely written in terms native
to the 19th century; the course closes with a treatment of the place of the
city in contemporary Jewish trajectories and dilemmas in Israel and America. Moss 3 credits Major works of the French Enlightenment and some
recent interpretations. Bell 3 credits Politics and culture in Russia from 1850 to WWI. Brooks 3 credits Spiegel 3 credits In this course we shall explore how women of different
classes and ethnicities experienced transformations in daily
life as well as cataclysmic social and political change. Topics
include revolution, war, family, cultural production,
work, sexuality, political thought, feminist movements. Walkowitz 3 credits Open to undergraduate and graduate students. Bell 3 credits After examining some of the great historical narratives
(including Gibbon, Michelet, Parkman, etc.), the course
will look at recent debates over the genre, and recent
attempts to reinvent it. Bell 3 credits Examination of the opposition to slavery in the U.S.,
1750-1865. Reading and analysis of primary sources and
historical accounts. Johnson 3 credits This course surveys the development of the global economy
and its political and economic institutions from the
period before WWI, through the ultra-nationalism of the
interwar era, and into the emergence of three major economic
blocks (Europe, Asia, and the Americas) in the
years since WWII. Galambos 3 credits Includes readings by Machiavelli, More, Erasmus, Castiglione,
Montaigne, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke, and
Voltaire. Marshall 3 credits Discussion, intensive reading, and short papers treating
selected topics in American social and cultural history.
The topics to be examined will vary from year to year,
but will include such matters as social stratification, family
patterns, sex roles, reform movements, race relations,
urbanization, and ethnicity. Walters 3 credits Investigates key problems in modern Jewish thought, culture, and
politics through the lens of ‘tradition’ as a fractured social and cultural
legacy, a productive concept, and an intellectual dilemma for modern Jews.
Topics include the workings of traditionality in pre-modern rabbinic Judaism and
Jewish society; 18th and 19th century challenges to tradition by
Enlightenment thought, political emancipation and new modes of cultural
mobility; Jewish reformist and traditionalist religious movements in the 19th
century; the relationship between Jewish tradition, Jewish nationalism and
mobilitiy; Jewish reformist and traditionalist religious movements in the 19th
century: the relationship between Jewish tradition, Jewish nationalism and
Zionism, and self-conscoiusly modern secular Jewish culture; the 20th century
career of 'tradition' in European liberal and Orthodox Judaism, in the Jewish
nation-state of Israel, and contemporary Jewish life in America and Israel.
Will not only be of interest to students of modern Jewish history and modern
European thought, but also offers a case study of the dynamics of ‘tradition’
at a moment when traditionalism seems to be an ever more powerful global reality. Moss 3 credits This is a survey of Russian history from Peter the Great
to the Revolution. Brooks 3 credits
This course will focus on business organizations, their performance,
and sociopolitical relations in the 20th century. Galambos 3 credits Analysis of U.S. slavery, focusing on the politics, culture,
and society of both slaves and slave owners. Johnson 3 credits
Reading knowledge of Chinese recommended but not
required Rowe 3 credits This course examines the experience of Chinese women,
and suggests the ways in which writers, scholars, and politicians (often
male, sometimes foreign) have represented women’s
experiences for their own political and social agendas. Meyer-Fong 3 credits Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles;
fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany,
France, Italy. Marshall 3 credits The rise and fall of the Mesoamerican and Andean peoples
of pre-Columbian America. Special emphasis will be
placed on the interrelationship between man and his environment
and the interplay between economic, technological,
political, and religious factors in these societies. Russell-Wood 3 credits Walkowitz 3 credits Development of Brazilian civilization from 1500 to 1822
with special reference to the interrelationship of socioeconomic
determinants and Crown policy. Russell-Wood 3 credits History of censorship in Europe and the U.S., 18th century
to present. Jelavich 3 credits The history of Mexico since 1810, looking at general
social, political, and economic factors, the Wars of the
Reforma, intervention of Maximilian, the Revolution of
1910, and the contemporary scene with the discovery of
large oil resources. Knight 3 credits A lecture course dealing with the development of the
Cuban Revolution and tortuous history of the Caribbean
during the 19th and 20th centuries. Knight 3 credits This course will examine the conditions which produced
revolutionary changes in Haiti (1782-1810), Mexico
(1910-1930), Bolivia (1952-1960), and Cuba (1959-1978).
The experiences of these states will be compared with
Vargas’s Brazil, Peron’s Argentina, and Betancourt’s
Venezuela. Apart from the concept of revolutionary
change, the course will try to come to grips with the
nature of the State in Latin America, its changing impact
on local societies, and the reciprocal effects of international
politics and economics. Knight 3 credits A survey of Latin America after World War II with special
emphasis on social structures, political systems, economic
development and trade, grassroots organizations, and
the informal economy as well as international relations. Knight 3 credits
Larson 3 credits
An examination of the process of religious conversion
from anthropological and historical perspectives. Larson 3 credits Examination of slavery and the American Civil War
through the speeches and writings of Abraham Lincoln
and related works by and about his contemporaries. Johnson 3 credits Topics covered include feminism, sexuality, work, socialism,
war, and imperialism. Walkowitz 3 credits Concentrates on sexuality in Great Britain from 1700 to
the present, with some examples also drawn from the
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United States and Europe. Topics covered include gender
and sexual identity, sexual theories, sexual politics
and strategies, abortion and birth control, religion and
its discontent, sexual spaces and the city. Walkowitz 3 credits This course examines representations of the African past
in historical scholarhip, literature, film, and popular discourse,
to see how interpretations of the past are shaped
by the interests of the interpreters, and how they influence
social and political relations in the present. Berry 3 credits Outside of Africa, the largest population of persons of
African descent is in Brazil. This course will examine this
diaspora through literature, iconography, and historical
documentation. Russell-Wood 3 credits Analyses society, culture, gender, religion, politics, and
intellectual history from the causes, nature, and significance
of the English Revolution through to the late 18thcentury
beginnings of industrialization. Seminar-style. Marshall 3 credits This seminar explores the ritual, political, and religious
significance of architectural sites in Asia. We will
also examine their more recent role as signifiers of cultural
and national identities—and in tourism. Meyer-Fong 3 credits A survey of a century of fundamental change in the
meaning of gender, this course will focus on individual
women of varying class and racial background. Faculty
identified course which includes discussion on race, ethnicity,
gender, or non-Western cultures. Ryan 3 credits A seminar-level survey of the history of the Indian Ocean
with an emphasis on human diaspora. Larson 3 credits This seminar incorporates literary and visual materials as well as historical accounts.
It begins in the late Ming, a period of commercial expansion and intellectual iconoclasm,
political incoherence and thriving print culture. It then turns to a discussion of the Ming
collapse and the Manchu (Qing) conquest (1644) - and the political, intellectual, economic,
and cultural consequences of these difficult and transformative events. Meyer-Fong 3 credits
Reading and discussion of works in Western languages on
the role of cities in Chinese society, from the T’ang
dynasty (618-906 A.D.) to the present. Topics include
city formation; rural-urban and inter-urban relations;
urban social structure; conflict and community; and
urban policies of the imperial, republican, and communist
states. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Rowe 3 credits A survey of assumptions and approaches in the study of
Modern Chinese history, as written by Chinese, Japanese,
and Western historians. Prerequisite: permission of
instructor. Rowe 3 credits This course focuses on Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru,
exploring their commonalities and their differences. It
spans a number of fields: culture, economics, history,
political science, and anthropology. Although there are
no prerequisites, this course requires some reading and
participation in the discussions. At the end of the course
students should be able to place the selected countries
within the wider context of the rest of the America. Knight 3 credits
The purpose of this seminar is to explore a variety of ways
in which the Atlantic economy fostered cultural transformations
in the Africas and the Americas. The thematic
focus will be on slavery as a trans-oceanic phenomenon,
investigating how the linked experiences of enslavement,
movement along the “way of death,” and life/labor in destination
societies on both sides of the Atlantic changed
identities and cultural practices. Geographical focus will
be primarily on the Western half of Africa, the Caribbean,
and Brazil. Investigations will include such topics as gender,
ethnicity, race, witchcraft, and religion. Larson 3 credits An interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on the
chronology and geography of terrestrial and maritime
exploration (800 A.D. to 1777) and its social, technological,
economic, and political repercussions. Russell-Wood 3 credits
Reading and discussion of representative works on the
history of agrarian life in a variety of cultures. Topics
include land utilization, crop selection, commercialization,
technology, land tenure systems, rural social relations,
the bases of rural community, and the roles of
cultural systems and the State. Rowe 3 credits Intensive reading and discussion. Continuing themes are: the extent and
limits of women's power and authority; the history of emotional life;
the politics of gender and sexuality; the varieties of family life as conditioned
by race, ethnicity, and class. Emphasis is on the 18th through
the 19th centuries, with some attention to the politics of the family and gender
in contemporary life. Ditz 3 credits A seminar supervised by the director of undergraduate
studies and designed to provide a forum for collective
exchange among seniors undertaking the senior thesis.
All students undertaking the senior thesis must register
and attend. Staff 3 credits Staff Cross-Listed The departments of Classics and Near Eastern Studies
offer courses in ancient history and civilizations. Credits
earned in certain of these courses by undergraduate students
who are history majors may be applied toward
departmental requirements. Courses numbered 600-799 are seminars, either general
or in special fields. They are designed to give doctoral
candidates, according to their individual needs and
capacities: (1) training in historical methods; (2) introduction
to bibliography; (3) direction for individual reading;
and (4) supervision in research, exposition, and
interpretation in the preparation of papers and dissertations.
Each candidate for an advanced degree will take
one seminar in a special field and one general seminar
every semester. They are offered every year.
Kagan Brooks This graduate seminar will explore the historiography
of the Ming-Qing transition with emphasis on social, cultural,
and political conditions in China both before and
after the Qing conquest. Meyer-Fong Spiegel Johnson Johnson This is a chance to explore the uniqueness of the Russian
experience in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This
course is open to undergraduate students. Brooks
Bell 100.660-661 France: Culture, Society, Politics, 1700-1950
Intensive introduction to this period of French history,
emphasizing political culture, cultural politics, and the
French Revolution, as well as themes in social history. Bell Bell Intensive background to the key trends and trajectories in modern Jewish History and the
major themese in Jewish historiography. It is designed for those with little or no background
in the field. Moss Directed readings. Topics vary, but have included: the hsitory of cultural encounter; the culture
of commerce; print culture and political publics; the formation of imperial and national subjects.
Readings emphasize the wide variety of approaches to the interpretation of texts and other
sources in contemporary scholarship. Ditz Ditz
Morgan A historical investigation of the modern concept of culture and its
associated institutions and practices, especially aesthetic culture.
Focusing on mid-18th through the mid-20th century, the bulk of the
class traces the formation and reformation of culture in its interaction with
modern formations of society and politics, post-traditional idea-systems
associated with the Enlightenment and its aftermath, the market, the modern
state, structures of empire, the nation as ideology and institution, ethnic and
linguistic collectivities and traditions, and modern forms of secular (and no-so-secular)
selfhood. The final three weeks of the course explore promising methodologies for
further study and conceptualization of culture as a research object. Moss
Galambos Walters Interdisciplinary introduction to the topic. Major synthetic accounts of nationalism;
historical case studies; recent theory emphasizing systemic and relational emergence,
institutionality, and practice over origins, spread, and ideology; nationalism in relation to
ethnicity, religion, class, and gender;in relation to different types of states, state-systems,
empires; in relation to language and cultural identity. Moss Russell-Wood Knight Russell-Wood Cultural theory and historiography of consumer culture,
with attention to the following: State and the market;
imperialism; the public sphere; reorganization of urban
space, rise of mass media, commercialized leisure, advertising,
and the fashion system; theories of the self, sexuality,
and pleasure. The focus will be on Great Britain,
with some examples drawn from U.S. and French cases. Walkowitz Large populations of Muslims, Christians, and Jews coexisted
in medieval Iberia. We will explore the dynamics
of that coexistence, and its consequences for the religious
identities of the three communities. Nirenberg Berry The seminar will read theory and monographs about the
physical grounds of history in place, space, architecture,
and the built environment. Ryan Taking off from recent writing on the history of women,
masculinity, and sexuality, we will explore the impact of
gender on American history. Ryan Spiegel Ditz, Morgan Larson A hands-on document reading class designed to familiarize
students with the skills, sources, and reference
materials necessary to conduct research in Qing history.
Open to advanced undergraduates by permission. Prerequisite:
one semester of classical Chinese. Meyer-Fong Marshall We will focus on French and British imperialism, although we will
also touch upon other post-1830 histories (Germany, Russia, the
USSR, and the USA). Shepard 3 credits
Exploration of recent work in European and U.S.
women’s history, focusing on some of the following: sexuality,
cultural production, politics, family formation,
work, religion, differences, civic orders. Walkowitz, Ditz This course focuses on the exploration of recent work
in Victorian history on class, gender, and race, with attention
to some of the following: physical transformations
and representations of the city, popular culture, religion,
science and medicine, sexuality, family forms, and work. Walkowitz
Exploration of recent work in the history of gender in
European empire focusing on some of the following: economy,
labor, administration, resistance, sexuality, reproduction,
health, cultural and religious transformation. Larson Staff Staff All but one of the general seminars are for the presentation
and critical discussion of research papers by firstand
second-year graduate students. The Seminar by faculty, invited scholars, and advanced graduate
students. Course compares methodological approaches in historical
and ethnographic studies and examines their influence
on theoretical and interpretive debates in
anthropology. Berry, Carter Bell, Haeri 3 credits Knight, Castro-Klaren 3 credits An introduction to contemporary Latin America with
invited speakers and cultural events. Knight, Castro-Klaren 3 credits An interdisciplinary inquiry into changing ideas and practices
of kinship and family in African societies and cultures,
past and present. Berry 3 credits Staff Interdisciplinary exploration of recent works on gender,
politics, and culture: United States, Europe, and ethnographic
comparisons. Ditz | 
