*History 99. Senior Thesis Tutorial
Catalog Number: 5803
Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Research and writing the senior thesis in History.
Note: Required of, and ordinarily limited to, seniors completing the History concentration’s thesis program. Permission must be obtained from the Tutorial Office.
[*History 70c. Topics in Natural History]
Catalog Number: 9332 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A reading seminar focused on literature relevant for a natural history of humankind from several million years ago to the present. Topics will include population diasporas; long-distance exchange; coevolution; family, sex, and marriage; food; communication; goods and things; technology; human contact with ecosystems; status; demography and scale; and cognitive studies. The course will introduce students to the rapidly growing field of big history or deep history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 70f. Rule in Classical Antiquity - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 96843 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Emma Dench 5243
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An exploration of the ways in which political power was modeled in classical antiquity, with close attention to the most dynamic recent discussions within modern scholarship. Particular focus on the language, ideology and cultural expressions of tyranny, monarchy, democracy, the ’balanced’ constitution of the Roman Republic, and imperial rule, and on the ways in which power was negotiated between rulers and ruled.
*History 70g. Modern Jewish Religious Movements - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 61092 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Robert Liberles 6444
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course will study some of the more prominent religious movements that have significantly impacted modern Jewish religious life. In contrast to the usual emphasis on ideological positions, we will emphasize the broader context of social phenomena. We will discuss Sabbatianism, Reform, Neo-Orthodoxy, and Conservative Judaism. Students may also select other movements for individual projects, as for example, Reconstructionism, the Havurah movement, or Gush Emunim.
*History 71b (formerly *History 1942). The European Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1650
Catalog Number: 6819 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Steven Ozment
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An introduction to Renaissance and Reformation scholarship. Both classic and recent studies are read and discussed, and new fields of research explored. Attention given to a variety of national traditions and to the major historiographical controversies.
Note: This course is open to first and second year graduate students.
[*History 71c (formerly *History 1339). Anglo-American Constitutional History 1603-1787]
Catalog Number: 8660 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David Smith 5904
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course surveys the historiography on English and American constitutional law from the reign of James I to the Framing. Major topics include sovereignty, republicanism, parliamentary authority, the development of legal protections, and the Atlantic constitution. Surveying a period punctuated by three Anglo-American revolutions, our focus will be on political instability and the search for constitutional balance.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 72a (formerly *History 1425). The Rise of the British Empire, 1757-1857]
Catalog Number: 8040 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Maya Jasanoff
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the expansion of the British Empire from the Seven Years War to the Indian Mutiny-Rebellion. Large themes of resistance, cross-cultural relations, and government practice will be considered together with specific episodes such as the Hastings trial and challenges to British rule in South Asia, the American Revolution, the settlement of Australia, and the abolition of slavery. Readings divided between primary and secondary sources, with emphasis on imperial controversies past and present.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 72b (formerly *History 1426). On Display: Commemoration, Collection and Public Spaces (c. 1600-2000)]
Catalog Number: 9970 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Rachel L. Greenblatt
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Traces the collection, commissioning, creation and display of artworks and objects from their development in religious and royal settings of the early modern period to their uses in nation-building and self-representation in the twentieth-century. Topics include monuments and urban spaces in Christian-Jewish polemics, collections as displays of political power, and museums as sites of national, cultural and ethnic identity. Geographical focus on Central Europe, but Western Europe and North America will also be considered.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 72c (formerly *History 1460). French History through French Literature
Catalog Number: 5038 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Patrice Higonnet
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines 19th century French history through some of the masterpieces of the post-revolutionary French tradition. The emphasis will be on the definitions of individualism (male and female) in an age of revolution and high capitalism. Readings will include Constant, Staël, Balzac, Stendhal, Sand, Tocqueville, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Zola, as well as corresponding texts on the history of the period such as Marx and Walter Benjamin.
[*History 72e. The Life and Reign of Catherine the Great]
Catalog Number: 9664 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the private and public worlds of one of Russia’s most famous rulers. Introduces students to the numerous images of Catherine and debates about her reign that have emerged in two hundred years of historical writing. Topics include gender and authority, the reception of the Enlightenment, architecture and urban planning, state ideology, literary activity, and religious policy.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 72f (formerly *History 1529). East European Identities: Russia and Ukraine
Catalog Number: 6477 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Serhii Plokhii
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Discusses the formation of modern national identities in the Slavic world, and traces the development of competing imperial and national projects from the Napoleonic Wars to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of independent successor states. Examines the reflection of growing national awareness in Russian and Ukrainian political writings, historiography, literature, and culture, as well as the role of multiple "others" in the formation of modern East Slavic identities.
*History 72g (formerly *History 1491). Religion and Popular Culture in 19th-Century Europe
Catalog Number: 6681 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David Blackbourn
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Explores the relationship between social and political change and popular religious practice from the French Revolution to World War I. Considers methodological problems in the study of religion and popular culture; religious revivals and popular politics; pilgrimages and prophetic movements; the relationships between class, gender, and religious culture; the feminization of religion, and the origins and resistance to the secularization of state and society. Readings include primary documents and secondary texts.
*History 72h (formerly History 1468). The Histories of France and the United States Compared
Catalog Number: 9325 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Patrice Higonnet 2730
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Will compare the historical experience of France and the United States from the late 18th to the 20th century. The issues at stake will be the formation of national consciousness, revolution, and democratization, the development of industrial capitalism, immigration, imperialism, and war.
*History 72i. Cities and the Making of Modern Russia - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 35624 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris 5881
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Introduces students to how historians think and write about the modernization of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries by examining the history of urban landscapes. Explores the ways in which the built environment shaped social and cultural life. Topics include the rise of mass entertainment, politics of architecture, crime and disorder, infrastructure of public health, technology and the natural environment, urban spaces and nation-building.
*History 73a (formerly History 1474). Republics and Republicanism
Catalog Number: 2494 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
James Hankins and Eric M. Nelson
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4.
Surveys the history of republican political theory from antiquity to the modern era. Themes to be discussed include: the relationship between republicanism and liberalism; the roots of republicanism in Greek and Roman political thought; Italian civic humanism; and the ideological origins of the English and American Revolutions. Readings will be drawn from Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, More, Montesquieu, the Federalist Papers, Tocqueville, and others.
*History 73b. (formerly History 90d). Introduction to Intellectual History
Catalog Number: 1881 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David R. Armitage 5023
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Introduction to major themes, periods and authors in intellectual history, in the West and beyond, and to a variety of approaches to the field. Students will be guided through the stages of writing an essay on a topic of their choice. Designed for current and future history concentrators and open to those with similar interests, with instructor’s consent.
*History 74a (formerly *History 1612). African Diaspora in the Americas
Catalog Number: 9564 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Vincent Brown
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4.
How can we best understand the diverse cultural practices of black people in the Americas, from where did those practices derive, and how are they related to each other? We explore a history of attempts to answer those questions, and examine ways that interpretations of the “African diaspora” have been conceived by scholars to better appreciate the complex histories of African-American cultural practices.
*History 74c. Bodily Functions: Histories of Bare Life and Bio-Power
Catalog Number: 1090 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Walter Johnson
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course will expose students to challenging and influential scholarship on the history of human being. The reading combines an emphasis on social theory - Marxism, Cultural Anthropology, Post-modernism, Feminism, etc. - and on historical topics of central importance - the history of the senses, labor, torture, starvation, racism, colonialism, sexuality, etc. The class will meet once a week for two hours.
Note: Students will be required to write weekly papers of one to three pages summarizing their response to the assigned reading, and to write a final paper of approximately fifteen pages on a historiographical issue of their own choosing.
[*History 74d (formerly *History 1669). Gender in US History]
Catalog Number: 1673 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Nancy F. Cott
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Gender analysis will be the continuing theme in the readings in this course, which will cover important topics in U.S. history and examine examples of different historical methods, such as microhistory, biography, and demography. Topics will range from sexuality in the era of the American Revolution to plantation slavery, Progressive-era politics, consumption, social policy, and the social movements of the 1960s.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 74e. North American Borderlands History
Catalog Number: 7623 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Rachel St. John
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This reading seminar will explore the major themes and historiographical approaches to the study of North American borderlands history. Drawing on scholarship from across the continent, we will study the interactions of peoples, nations, and empires on the boundaries of Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Course topics include: imperial claims and competition, Native peoples’ responses to conquest, state and nation-building, settlement and economic integration, and conflict and cooperation between different racial and ethnic groups.
*History 74f. U.S. Environmental History
Catalog Number: 9078 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Rachel St. John 5328 and Joyce E. Chaplin 1058
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This reading seminar will explore the major themes and debates in U.S. environmental history. The course will introduce students to the study of the historical relationships between people and the natural environment and chart how the field has evolved over the past forty years. Beginning with Europeans’ arrival in North America and continuing to the present, we will study how people have used, transformed, and thought about nature and how their environments shaped their experience.
[*History 74g (formerly *History 1679). Making America Modern: The US during the 1920s]
Catalog Number: 9496 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Lisa M. McGirr 2543
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Looking at the US in the period from the Great War to the Depression, closely explores the central developments of the decade—in society, culture, and politics—to determine its contribution to the making of “modern America.”
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 74h. Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Origins of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1898]
Catalog Number: 0297 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit 6066
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduces major themes in modern U.S. foreign relations. Students will learn to read historical literature critically and efficiently regardless of previous knowledge. Units pair contrasting studies of important moments in American external affairs. Readings/discussions will reveal the multiplicity of narratives constructed by historians, demonstrate the alchemic power exerted by questions on evidence, and give students confidence to ask unique questions of widely explored topics.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 74n. U.S. History: Major Themes in the Twentieth Century - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 26718 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Lisa M. McGirr 2543
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
The twentieth-century United States is a vibrant and flourishing field of historical study. The goal of this seminar is to introduce students to the central questions, problems and debates in the history of the "American century." Students will learn how the literature of history has developed through reading both older and newer approaches. Readings focus on questions of politics, political culture, the state and social life. The course is both thematic and chronological (as well as necessarily selective). Students are expected to prepare well for seminar and to participate actively in discussion. Each class will begin with a brief introduction to the readings (no more than five minutes) b a member of the seminar. The idea here is for one student to take special responsibility for leading discussion, raising questions and problems posed by the reading.
*History 74o. Colonial Lives - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 87146 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
In the years between 1600-1820, thousands of otherwise obscure individuals seized the opportunity to tell their own stories-in pamphlets, petitions, spiritual autobiographies, captivity narratives, depositions, letters, interviews, and material objects of many kinds. This course explores these remarkable sources and recent works of scholarship based upon them. In the process it traces an unexpected history of colonialism as it reshaped Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
*History 74p. Afro-Asian Encounters - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 34579 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Denise Khor
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course surveys the convergences between Asian and Black communities that bridge the histories of the Atlantic and the Pacific. Though often regarded as separate entities, these oceanic passages have well worn parallel routes that connect the histories of racialization, labor, militarism, social movements, and intercultural contact.
*History 75c. Readings on Modern Latin American History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 45858 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Sergio Silva-Castañeda
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course serves as an introduction to Latin American historiography, covering the span between the 19th Century’s processes of independence and the military dictatorships of the second half of the 20th Century. It includes readings on Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil. This course is not designed to provide an extensive review of Latin America; however, the readings have been selected to cover an ample spectrum of themes, sources, countries and historical periods.
[*History 76a (formerly *History 1858). Japanese Imperialism]
Catalog Number: 6688 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ian J. Miller
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course examines one of the most important, but least studied empires of the modern world.
By the early 1940s the Japanese empire encompassed some 200 million subjects, stretching from the cold northern woods of Sakhalin Island to the tropical rain forests of the Indonesian Archipelago. Rather than treating Japanese imperialism as exceptional, we will use it to explore the nature of modern empire, asking how its study might reshape broader understandings of imperialism and its consequences.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 76c (formerly *History 90g). Major Themes in World History: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Post-Colonialism
Catalog Number: 0119 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Hue-Tam Ho Tai 6079
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
A general introduction to theories of imperialism, nationalism, and post-colonialism. Case studies to include Asia and Africa. Will combine the study of theory with examination of particular anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements.
*History 76d. Asian and African Encounters with Empire - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 94343 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Raja Adal
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
This course introduces you to Western expansion from the perspective of Asian and African societies. It begins with theoretical approaches to the role of Western expansion in the modernization of Asian and African societies. It then turns to case studies of Western expansion, asking how five Asian and African societies reacted to the threat of Western arms and the attraction of Western goods and sciences.
[*History 77a (formerly *History 1902). Alcohol in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1850 to the Present]
Catalog Number: 2765 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Emmanuel Akyeampong
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the uses and meanings of alcohol in precolonial and rural Africa, its place in European-African trading contacts, and its role in the process of colonization. The course ends with a review of alcohol in nationalist politics, the place of the alcohol industry in the economies of independent African states and addiction in contemporary Africa.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 77b. Protest, Rebellion and Power in East African History] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 90642 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Caroline M. Elkins 3961
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines African responses to the imposition of colonial rule and to the impact of the post-colonial period in the countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Themes include initial African resistance to colonial rule, organized protests and violent rebellion against colonial institutions, and post-colonial struggles for power in the region. Case studies include popular rebellion in Zanzibar, the Mau Mau Emergency, the regime of Idi Amin, and the Rwandan genocide.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 77c. Readings in African Environmental History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 57928 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Charlotte M. Walker 6312
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This seminar explores debates over the historical transformation of African landscapes including climatic change and human/environmental interaction such as agriculture, deforestation, conservation, famine, and disease from the colonial era to the development era. The environment will be analyzed as a contested space with competing actors managing resources. The course discusses various forms of environmental "knowledges" from African conceptions of ecology, ethnobotany, agricultural technology to European and "Western" technical science in the colonial and contemporary eras.
*History 78a (formerly *History 1874). The Middle East During the First Wave of Modern Globalization, 1870-1925
Catalog Number: 2291 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
E. Roger Owen
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Examines the place of the Middle East during the first wave of modern globalization including the role of formal and informal empire, government and greater economic integration. Explores different ways of writing such a history using case studies designed to illustrate different aspects of the various processes involved.
[*History 79a (formerly *History 1986). Topics in International History]
Catalog Number: 0735 Enrollment: Limited to 24.
Erez Manela 4762 (on leave spring term)
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduces several major themes in modern international history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 79c. Seminar in International Capitalism: Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Nations]
Catalog Number: 1257 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Instructor to be determined
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3.
This course explores the history of business and capitalism in four countries: Britain, the US, Germany, and Japan. Themes include entrepreneurship, management, regulation, salesmanship, the evolution of big business, and differences in national economic systems.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 79d. An Introduction to Global History ]
Catalog Number: 8463 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Joyce E. Chaplin 1058
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This seminar offers introductory readings on the topic of global history and gives students the opportunity for further, individualized reading. Discussion topics include: deep history and human genetics, ancient and modern forms of imperialism, commercial networks and consumerism, global biography, long-distance travel and communication (including the invention of the passport and the telegraph), definitions of international and transnational communities, modernity and mass culture, globalization, decolonization, the space age, and cyberworlds.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 79e. Commodities in International History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 17812 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alison F. Frank 5313
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Introduces students to international history through the study of commodities ranging from oil, coal, and cotton to potatoes, rum, coffee, and sugar. Showcases historical writings that transcend geographic, cultural, and political boundaries between East and West, North and South, Atlantic and Pacific as well as methodological boundaries between cultural, economic, business, and environmental history, the history of food, of technology, and of ideas.
*History 79f. Empire and Nation in Russia and China - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 54227 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Terry D. Martin 2966 and Mark C. Elliott 3329
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines comparatively how imperial rule functioned in the Eurasian empires of Russia and China, and how the imperial heritage affected the transition to national and communist state forms. Theories of empire and nationalism based on European paradigms will be interrogated. Topics will include discourses of empire, the production of imperial knowledge, ethnicity, the frontier, colonization, Communism and national self-determination, Russification and Sinicization, religion, gender, and language. All readings will be in English.
*History 79g. The Museum in Settler Society: Imperialism, Nationalism, Pluralism - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 71912 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ruth B. Phillips 6369
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines the museum’s role in settler societies in relation to evolving constructs of colony, empire, and nation. Places a series of Canadian case studies in comparative perspective with examples from other settler societies, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Explores historical changes in collecting practices and paradigms of display ranging from the eighteenth-century curiosity cabinets to postcolonial strategies of collaboration and digital repatriation.
*History 80b (formerly *History 1122). Persons and Things in Medieval Europe
Catalog Number: 9657 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will introduce students to innovative currents of research in medieval European history, focusing on the use of texts for the study of material culture. Through their own research in medieval sources (in translation), students will contribute to building a collective database of clothing fashions, luxurious objects, dowry goods, liturgical goods, weapons, color preferences, and many other components of medieval material culture. This database will serve as a major source and gateway for building an original research paper.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Historical Study B.
*History 80d. The Papacy, the Empire and Rome in the High Middle Ages - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 21923 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Andreas Fischer 6425
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3.
Will explore the ideological background and the political effects of the conflict between "Church" and "State" (11th-13th centuries). Topics include the development of papal primacy, the investiture controversy, the struggle of the Hohenstaufen against the papacy, overreaching papal claims on secular power and the importance of Rome for the Popes and Emperors. The course shall deepen the understanding of the fundamental political and mental changes resulted from these conflicts and created the modern intellectual world.
*History 81a (formerly *History 1309). History in Early Modern Europe
Catalog Number: 6583 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ann M. Blair
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will examine the cultural significance of history as a discipline and as practice in Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. We will consider the nature and purposes of different kinds of historical writing and the ways in which histories were read and used. Histories were written to justify disciplines, states and religions; at the same time historical research prompted the development of new scholarly methods and subdisciplines. Emphasis on reading from primary sources including Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Francis Bacon, Voltaire and Gibbon.
[*History 81b. Book History]
Catalog Number: 0836 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ann M. Blair
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This research seminar offers an introduction to methods of research in the history of the book and of reading. Assigned readings will include methodological articles and case studies in the field, focused especially on the handpress period (15th-18th centuries). Students will be guided through the stages of writing a major research paper and may write their paper on a time-place context of their choosing, with the consent of the instructor. Designed for concentrators in History and History and Literature; open to others with similar needs.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 81c (formerly *History 1338). The English Revolution
Catalog Number: 0296 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course will fulfill the concentration requirement for a research course requiring the completion of an historical essay based on primary materials. It will explore the causes, course, and consequences of the English Revolution by focusing on selected topics covering the range of issues that dominated the period from the convening of the Lord Parliament to the execution of Charles I. Emphasis will be on research techniques and the use of seventeenth century sources.
[*History 81e (formerly *History 1443). Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Scholar, Diplomat, Artist]
Catalog Number: 4061 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ivan Gaskell
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An investigation of how 21st-century responses to artworks by Rubens may relate to the development of historical understanding. Examines the tensions between the specificity of Rubens’s artworks and other actions, and broader patterns and conventions of behavior in art, politics, and the western European social fabric more generally in the first half of the 17th century. Will examine artworks associated with Rubens, including paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrated books in Harvard and Boston collections.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 81f (formerly History 1127). Women’s Voices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Catalog Number: 7597 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Rachel L. Greenblatt 5537
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Seeks out the voices of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women, with an emphasis on women’s writings, and examines methods for uncovering information about women’s lives when their own voices are absent from the historical record. Considers ideal images and the daily realities of both men’s and women’s gendered roles in such areas as life-cycle rituals, livelihood and spirituality.
*History 82b (formerly *History 1446). Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Catalog Number: 1471 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Alison F. Frank
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Explores the history of the political, social, and cultural center of the largest continental European Empire in modern history, and one of the birthplaces of European modernism. From the 1880s through WWI and into the early years of the Republic of Austria, the course examines not only Vienna’s intellectual vitality, but also the social and ideological divisions underlying the human catastrophes of World War and genocide in the twentieth century.
[*History 82c (formerly *History 1466). Vichy France in Comparative Perspective]
Catalog Number: 8154 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Patrice Higonnet 2730
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
First, we cover the background of the Vichy years and the legacy of 1789 and the First World War; military affairs; Vichy’s social policy; Vichy, the Germans, and the Jews; Vichy and Free France; and the legacy of the Vichy years. In the second half of the course, we move on to compare occupied France to other occupied countries of Europe.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Students interested in this course should contact Professor Higonnet at higonnet@fas.harvard.edu. Films will be shown weekly.
*History 82d (formerly *History 1483). French Colonial Encounters: 1870’s to Present
Catalog Number: 0461 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Mary D. Lewis
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Explores and compares three colonies in the French Empire: French West Africa, Algeria, and Indochina, considering how colonial rule was extended, how individuals responded, and what reverberations there were between colony and metropole.
Prerequisite: One language relevant to the regions studied (e.g. French, Arabic, Vietnamese, etc.) preferred but not required. An introduction to French history recommended.
[*History 82e (formerly *History 1490). Max Weber in His Time]
Catalog Number: 9550 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
David Blackbourn
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
We still read and reinterpret Max Weber’s work on bureaucracy, charisma, and the links between religion and capitalism. This course places Weber (1864-1920) in his time, as a participant in contemporary German debates. Using his own scholarly and political writings, plus other biographical and historical materials, we examine Weber’s strong views on subjects that include German political leadership, nationalism, imperialism, the rise of socialism, university reform, Polish immigrant labor, Catholic "backwardness", and World War I.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 82f. The Origins of the Cold War: The Yalta Conference (1945)
Catalog Number: 1959 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Serhii Plokhii 4454
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
The Yalta Conference is analyzed in the context of the long-term geostrategic goals of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the USSR. Special attention is paid to psychological and cultural aspects of the negotiating process.
[*History 82g. The Black Sea World]
Catalog Number: 4664 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Located at the crossroads of crucial trade routes and imperial frontiers, the Black Sea has been the site of exploration, exchange, and often bloody competition for over a millennium. We will explore the social, cultural and economic relationships that linked inhabitants, as well as the cleavages that divided them over the course of the nineteenth century. Topics include commerce and trade, scientific exploration, military conflict, urbanization and the emergence of national narratives.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 82h (formerly *History 1532). Everyday Life in the Soviet Union]
Catalog Number: 2636 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Terry D. Martin
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Analysis of everyday life in the USSR up to the death of Stalin through the use of first-person documentation: diaries, personal correspondence, autobiographies, and oral history. Topics include family, friendship, consumption, corruption, entertainment, housing, material goods, the emotions, the self, among others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 82k (formerly History 1481). Nation, Empire and Immigration in Modern France
Catalog Number: 5855 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Mary D. Lewis 4369
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines the challenges posed to French society by the principles that emerged from the French Revolution. Considers how abstract, "universal" ideas have been difficult to implement evenly across French society, and explores what historical circumstances have prevented particular groups from enjoying the rights associated with these principles from 1789 to the present day. Focuses on race and colonial status, religion, nationalism and immigration.
Prerequisite: French strongly preferred but not required.
*History 83a (formerly *History 1411). The History of Economic Thought Since 1750
Catalog Number: 5927 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Emma Rothschild
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines the history of various kinds of economic thought, including 18th century laissez-faire political economy and late 19th century theories of economic and social reform. Will emphasize writings about long-distance or global connections, in different media from scientific theories to economic periodicals. Students will prepare individual research projects.
*History 83b (formerly *History 1472). Historical Ontology
Catalog Number: 6425 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This advanced seminar addresses the now-prevalent idea that reality is an historical construction, i.e., that what counts as objectivity or truth may depend upon conceptual schemes, discourses, or practices of world-making, such that the conditions for something being "an object" or being "true", in the natural or human sciences and in social experience, are subject to variation and structural transformation over time. Topics and authors include: Foucault, Heidegger, Latour, Sokal, Hacking, Poovey, Shapin, and Cervantes.
Prerequisite: One of the following: Modern European Intellectual History, Social Studies 10, French Social Thought, American Social Thought, or any philosophy course in Metaphysics or Epistemology.
[*History 83c. Care of the Soul]
Catalog Number: 8082 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
James Hankins
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The teachings of major philosophers in the Western tradition about how living a philosophical life can cure diseases of the soul and bring tranquility, harmony with nature, and a sense of moral worth. Readings in Plato, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Sextus Empiricus, various Pythagoreans, Boethius, Augustine, Marsilio Ficino, Ignatius of Loyola, Justus Lipsius, Montaigne, Pierre Gassendi, Robert Burton.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 83d (formerly *History 1479). Intellectuals and Auschwitz
Catalog Number: 5579 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This seminar for advanced undergraduates investigates a variety of philosophical debates and intellectual controversies concerning National Socialism and the Holocaust; focusing on disputes as to the significance of the Holocaust for social theory, the philosophy of history, theories of empathy and historical as well as aesthetic representation. Authors include: Adorno, Agamben, Arendt, Celan, Derrida, Jaspers, Jonas, and Levi.
Prerequisite: One course in Intellectual History, Social Studies 10, Political Theory or Philosophy.
*History 84a (formerly *History 1605). Early American Slave Revolts
Catalog Number: 4218 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Vincent Brown
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4.
Will analyze political dynamics of resistance and social control within the slave societies of the early Americas from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. Topics for consideration include maroon resistance, struggles over time, territory, status, and cultural practice within slavery, the organizing strategies of the enslaved, and competing visions of the future.
*History 84b. The American Revolution
Catalog Number: 7369 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Jill M. Lepore
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This hands-on research seminar will take you out of the classroom and into the archives. An intensive study of the political, cultural, literary, and social history of the American Revolution, with an emphasis on Boston from the Writs of Assistance, in 1761 to the British evacuation of the city, in 1776. The class includes field trips to Boston and Cambridge historic sites, archives, museums, and graveyards.
[*History 84c (formerly *History 1610). Confronting Objects/Interpreting Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America]
Catalog Number: 2479 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Ivan Gaskell
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Using case studies drawn from the Longfellow National Historic site and Harvard collections, students will explore a range of methods used in interpreting art and artifacts from colonial North America and the early US. Emphasis on the interplay between particular objects and larger historical themes, such as colonialism, patriotism, or the beginnings of mechanization. Students will be introduced to a range of scholarly tools, including laboratory analysis of materials, quantitative studies of household inventories, and iconography.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
[*History 84f. Science and Religion in America]
Catalog Number: 9283 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Andrew Jewett
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
From the founding generation’s engagement with Enlightenment rationalism to the contemporary controversies over intelligent design and stem-cell research, American history has witnessed constant skirmishes along the troubled border between religion and science. Students in this seminar will become familiar with the broad contours of these cultural, intellectual, and political engagements, while carrying out their own research in the field.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 84g (formerly *History 1656). Harvard and Slavery
Catalog Number: 1778 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Sven Beckert 2415
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Will explore the links between Harvard and slavery during the first 229 years of the university’s history. Students will write original research papers on various aspects of the history of Harvard University and slavery, including how resources extracted from slave labor benefited the university, the ways Harvard administrators and faculty supported or struggled against the institution of slavery, and what kinds of links the university built to slaveholders.
[*History 84h (formerly *History 1667). The Northern Side of the Civil Rights Movement]
Catalog Number: 8594 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the movement for racial equality outside the South from the 1940s and into the early 1970s, and will examine integrationist efforts, as well as competing ideologies of black power through weekly urban case studies.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 84i (formerly *History 1969). Secularization in Europe and the United States, c. 1780-2000
Catalog Number: 6171 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
David Hempton (Divinity School)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Will examine the respective religious characteristics of two large and diverse areas from the age of revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present with special reference to secularization. Will address the complex issues at stake in the debates between those who make claims either for European or American exceptionalism.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2356.
[*History 84j. Pragmatism and Reform in American Social Thought]
Catalog Number: 4330 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit 6066
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduces students to the practice of intellectual history, through primary-source based investigations of the influence of pragmatism on progressive-era reformers. Students will read Peirce, James, and Dewey and explore their influence on reformers such as Addams, Du Bois, Veblen, Brandeis, Croly, Lippmann, etc. We will explore the implications of pragmatic progressivism for domestic and international politics from 1890-1920. Requirements include: one research presentation, final research paper.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 84l (formerly History 1666). The World of William James and Henry James
Catalog Number: 9674 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
James T. Kloppenberg 3157 and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn 4426
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course examines the writings of William James and Henry James in relation to each other and to transformations in American and European culture from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Readings include Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and selected stories, prefaces, and essays by Henry James and selections from The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, and selected essays by William James.
*History 84m (formerly History 1670). The New Deal: The United States During the Roosevelt Years
Catalog Number: 4878 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Lisa M. McGirr 2543
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
An exploration of the trajectory of New Deal reform and the broader social, economic, political, and cultural changes in the US in this period. Topics will include the First and Second New Deal, the rise of liberalism, the Roosevelt administration, the social movements of the Left and the Right during the 1930s, the coming of war, and the waning of the reform impulse.
*History 84n. Visual Culture, Translation, and Indigeneity in the Great Lakes - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 87019 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ruth B. Phillips 6369
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Explores visual culture in the Great Lakes region as a site of cultural translation and exchange between indigenous peoples and different groups of outsiders-missionaries, soldiers, settlers, and tourists-from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Students will develop skills in material and indigenous historical research through individual projects focusing on images and artifacts in Boston collections and through readings in theories of materiality, visuality, agency, translation, and indigenous knowledge.
*History 84o. Woodrow Wilson’s America: The Emergence of the Modern United States, 1856-1924 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 59842 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit 6066
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was a lawyer, scholar, and statesman who experienced, studied, and shaped many defining moments in America’s emergence as a unified nation-state and modern industrial society. In this research seminar, Wilson’s responses to his changing nation prompt engagement with multiple narratives of epochal events in his lifetime, including: Civil War, Reconstruction, industrialization, immigration, imperialism, segregation, woman suffrage, progressivism, state centralization, scientific advance, religious fundamentalism, modernism, consumerism, and World War I.
*History 84p. Immigration and American Life - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 19472 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Denise Khor 6367
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course is an introduction to the major concepts in the study of American immigration history and culture. We will explore the role of immigration --and the figure of the immigrant-- in the writing of national and transnational histories.
*History 84q. Histories of the Present - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 32206 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Walter Johnson 5616
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This course will focus on creating oral histories of the current crisis. The 2009-10 topic will be the history of Allston and Cambridge and their relation with Harvard, including the history of Boston and of Harvard in Boston, and the practice of oral history. Students will obtain certification to work with human subjects, identify a topic, and contact sources. The goal will be to create an archive for the future, to better understand university/community relations, and to rework the relationship of "Harvard" to "Allston" and "Cambridge".
Note: Part of the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics and the activity-based-learning initiative.
*History 86a (formerly *History 1828). Christianity and Chinese Society
Catalog Number: 2587 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Henrietta Harrison
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Examines the history of Catholic and Protestant Christianity in China from the 16th century to the present. The focus is on non-elite Chinese believers and the ways in which Christianity affected their lives.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past.
[*History 86b (formerly *History 1843). Imperial Japan and the US]
Catalog Number: 3802 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Andrew Gordon
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The United States and Japan emerged simultaneously as imperial powers at the turn of the 20th century. This course examines the cultural and economic, as well as political relations to these two empires in the early decades of their interaction. It draws on the rich body of English language archival materials at Harvard and in the Boston area for student research projects.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 86d (formerly *History 1895). The Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective]
Catalog Number: 8123 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Sugata Bose
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the history of the Indian Ocean inter-regional arena in the comparative context of histories of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and the Pacific worlds from the 1490s to the 1990s. The changing meanings of sovereignty, religiously informed universalisms and the links forged by intermediary capital and migrant labor in the age of global empire.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 86e (formerly *History 1897). Nation, Reason and Religion in South Asia]
Catalog Number: 1447 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Sugata Bose
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the connections between nation, reason and religion in South Asian political thought and practice. Precolonial patriotisms, rational and religious reforms, colonial modernity and anti-colonial nationalisms, visions of nationhood and forms of state power, and post-colonial nationalisms for and against the state.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures.
[*History 87a (formerly *History 1912). Health, Disease, and Ecology in African History]
Catalog Number: 5905 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the history of disease and health in sub-Saharan Africa from the 19th century to recent times, exploring African and western concepts of health, disease and healing. Illustration through discussion of case studies of individual diseases, including malaria/sickle cell trait, trypanosomiasis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, alcoholism, AIDS, and onchocerciasis, and the public health policies affecting them.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Senior level undergraduates.
*History 87b (formerly *History 1917). Human Rights in Africa: An Historical Perspective
Catalog Number: 4514 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Caroline M. Elkins
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
An examination of the evolution of human rights in sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th century and its impact on states and societies throughout the region. The theoretical underpinnings of international human rights accords will be assessed alongside African conceptualizations of individual rights and community obligations. The tension between concepts of universal rights, civilization, and cultural relativism will be explored through an examination of specific case studies in the colonial and post-colonial periods.
[*History 88a (formerly *History 1887). Modern Iran: A Historical Overview]
Catalog Number: 0706 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Starting with the 1979 revolution, this course journeys back in time to offer an overview of modern Iranian history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 89a (formerly *History 1916). British Colonial Violence in the 20th Century]
Catalog Number: 4626 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Caroline M. Elkins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will explore Britain’s deployment of various forms of violence in its 20th-century empire, and how this violence was understood, justified, and represented in the empire and at home. Imperial objectives and policies will be weighed alongside local factors such as race, settler presence, indigenous responses to colonial rule, and economic and strategic interests to assess the universality and particularity of British colonial violence.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 89b (formerly *History 1957). International Society]
Catalog Number: 3056 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Erez Manela
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Reading and research on the development of ideas and institutions of international society in the 20th century, covering the Wilsonian moment, the League of Nations, internationalist ideologies and movements, the United Nations system, human rights, decolonization and development, and non-governmental organizations.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 1020 (formerly History 1091). Jews and Judaism in the Ancient World
Catalog Number: 6035
Shaye J.D. Cohen
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
A survey of Jewish history in antiquity from the Persian period (5th century BCE) to the Byzantine period (5th century CE). Topics include: political accommodation and resistance, Hellenism, the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great, the effects of Roman rule, Pharisees, Qumran, Christians, unity and diversity, the destruction of the temple and its aftermath, the emergence of rabbinic Judaism, homeland and diaspora.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1462.
History 1025. Overlapping Spheres: Jewish Life in Early Modern Europe - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 76199
Rachel L. Greenblatt and Robert Liberles (Ben Gurion University)
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Participants in this course will use primary and secondary sources to examine multiple aspects of the ways Jews lived among their Christian neighbors during this exciting crossroads between traditional society and the beginnings of what we later called "modernity." We will look at the period from approximately 1500 to 1750, characterized by the advent of print, the Protestant challenge to Catholic hegemony, increasing use of the written vernacular, and the rise of capitalism, absolutism and toleration.
History 1040 (formerly History 1111). The Fall of the Roman Empire
Catalog Number: 6019
Michael McCormick
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Uses the latest results of archaeology, written sources, and the natural sciences to study the changes, violent or subtle, that transformed the Roman world to produce medieval civilization between ca. 300 and 700. Topics include Constantine’s conversion, economic recovery and collapse, the barbarians, women and power, pandemic disease; emphasizes reading of ancient sources in translation.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
[History 1050 (formerly History 1101). Medieval Europe]
Catalog Number: 4278
Michael McCormick
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This course will examine the emergence of medieval civilization from the ruins of the ancient world, and the evolution of that civilization into modern Europe. Themes include: the fall of Rome, the spread of Christianity, the rise and fall of Byzantium, the challenge of Islam, the Vikings, the Crusades, commerce and agriculture, the Feudal Revolution, the Twelfth Century Renaissance, spirituality and persecution, the origins of law and government, the Black Death, and the Italian Renaissance.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Given in alternate years. Students prepared to pursue special topics can be accommodated. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
History 1055 (formerly History 1121). Vengeance, Hatred, and Law in Premodern Europe
Catalog Number: 7743
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Will explore the great transformation in European legal habits that took place between 500 and 1600, as family-based forms of law, vengeance, and regulation gave way to royal, municipal, and ecclesiastical justice. Topics include the blood feud, the judicial ordeal, and judicial torture. The course is designed to raise ethical and substantive issues that are relevant to an understanding of the function of law and justice in the modern world.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
[History 1060. Europe and Its Borders, 950-1550]
Catalog Number: 0914
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Surveys an early phase of European expansion and colonial activity in areas including the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, the eastern Mediterranean, eastern Europe, the Baltic lands, Wales, and Ireland. A major goal of the course is to explore how a European identity emerged in the process of contact and conflict in the new borderlands. Readings will include primary and secondary sources.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past.
[History 1080 (formerly History 1150). The Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain]
Catalog Number: 5331
Bernard Septimus
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A study of the political, social, and cultural history of the Hispano-Jewish community from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the expulsion of the Jews from Christian Spain in 1492. Emphasis on literary and intellectual developments and on the complex relationship of the Jews to Iberian Christendom and Islam. Combines material from former courses History 1151 and 1152.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
History 2055 (formerly History 2122). Early Medieval History: Seminar: Communications in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Catalog Number: 5011
Michael McCormick
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Communications, travel, and commerce in the early medieval Mediterranean. Meetings will include close philological and historical analysis of relevant Latin sources, and research papers by participants.
Prerequisite: Latin, with either German or French, is required. Normally History 2050 and or MS 101.
[History 2060 (formerly History 2125). Problems in High and Late Medieval History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1874
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the sources and methodologies necessary to conduct research on medieval Europe.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[History 2080 (formerly History 2126). Medieval Law]
Catalog Number: 3140
Charles Donahue, Jr. (Law School)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Readings focused alternately on the English legal tradition and on the Roman-canonical tradition. Short papers analyzing texts will be required but not a research paper. Topic for 2010-11: to be announced.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Some Latin required.
History 1114 (formerly History 1514). Early Modern Eastern Europe (1450-1795)
Catalog Number: 9973
Serhii Plokhii
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Explores the history of the "other" Europe from the collapse of Mongol rule and the rise of an independent Muscovite state in the second half of the fifteenth century to the partitions of Poland in the late eighteenth century. Examines the early modern history of the territories that became Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland-a period that saw the formation and collapse of multiethnic states, the creation of modern empires, and fierce religious competition.
History 1117. Kingdoms to Empire: The Rise of Early Modern Britain, 1485-1714 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 93347
David Smith
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
This course surveys the rise of Britain from a disparate group of medieval kingdoms, including England, Scotland and Ireland, to a world power. Major topics include religious upheaval and reformation, constitutional transformation and the emergence of parliamentary supremacy, the rise of print culture, and Britain’s larger involvement in the European and Atlantic worlds. Readings include Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke, Spenser, and More.
History 1118. Encounters: Early Modern British Exploration and Settlement in the Atlantic World
Catalog Number: 7586
David Smith
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
This course investigates voyages to the Americas and the establishment of colonies by early modern English explorers and settlers up to the mid-seventeenth century. As they yearned for commercial, religious and social utopias in their "New World," the English encountered peoples with frequently conflicting visions of the world. Topics include cross-cultural encounter, travel narratives, slavery, the technology of early modern exploration, colonialism, and piracy.
History 1151 (formerly History 1450). France 1500-1715
Catalog Number: 7575
Ann M. Blair
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
A general survey of the history and historiography of early modern France ca. 1500-1715, with a special emphasis on topics in cultural history, including: humanism and printing; Protestantism; political thought; royal and court rituals; and the beginnings of the Enlightenment. Assigned readings from Rabelais, Montaigne, Pascal, Racine, and Voltaire among the primary sources; from Fernand Braudel, Natalie Davis and Robert Darnton among the secondary sources.
Note: All assignments in English. An optional extra French-language reading section will be arranged in case of interest.
History 1166 (formerly *History 71a). Marriage, Sex, and Family in Western Europe, 1250-1750: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 2725 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Steven Ozment
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
History 1166 goes into the preindustrial household to discover first hand the rule of men, the rights of women, the bearing and rearing of children, and the opportunities of teenagers and young adults.
Both contemporary sources and modern scholarship will be read and discussed.
Note: Highly recommended for beginning graduate students.
[History 2111. Classical and Neo-Latin Literature in the Italian Renaissance: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0123 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
James Hankins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course studies the reception and interpretation of classical literary and philosophical texts between 1350 and 1600. Topics include the revivals of the ancient philosophical schools, the reception of ancient literary texts, and the revival and development of the classical genres in Renaissance Latin literature.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Latin and Italian.
*History 2112 (formerly *History 2473). Latin Texts of the Italian Renaissance: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 0140
James Hankins
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4.
Introduction to methods and techniques of textual scholarship with reference to Renaissance Latin texts. Topics include finding and describing manuscript and printed sources; paleography and codicology; text editing; rhetorical analysis. Course includes a six-week paleography workshop held in Houghton Library.
Note: Enrollment by permission of the instructor. May not ordinarily be credited as one of the research seminars required in the first-year program.
Prerequisite: A reading knowledge of Latin, French, Italian, and German.
History 2121. Cultural History of Early Modern Europe: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 60428
Ann M. Blair
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will examine different approaches in cultural history of early modern Europe and guide students through the stages of writing a major research paper. The syllabus will emphasize France 1500-1700, but students with the requisite background may write on a topic in another national context.
Note: Also open to advanced undergraduates, with the consent of the instructor.
[History 2123. Early Modern Intellectual and Cultural History: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 3160
Ann M. Blair
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This course is designed primarily for graduate students preparing a graduate field exam in early modern European intellectual and cultural history, but it is open to others with similar needs and preparation, with the consent of the instructor.
Note: Expected to be given in 2011–12. Students interested in this course should attend the first meeting of History 2121.
*History 2132 (formerly *History 2332). Early Modern England: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7105 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Students will conduct primary research on topics of significance in the history of England, ca. 1563–1714.
Note: Permission of instructor required.
History 2133 (formerly History 2902). Studies in Tudor and Stuart History: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 1428
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A graduate colloquium designed for students preparing preliminary examinations in early modern history or interested in English historiography of the early modern period. Historiographical papers and reviews.
Note: Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor.
History 1214 (formerly History 1414). Encountering of the Other: The Expansion of the Christian West, 1650-1830
Catalog Number: 2392
David Hempton (Divinity School)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 8:30–10. EXAM GROUP: 10, 11
Investigates themes in the history of Christianity from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Will focus on European Christendom and its expansion to other parts of the world in the early modern period. What was at stake in the multifaceted cultural encounters between European Christianity and other religious traditions as Christianity expanded into new social spaces, and what was the relationship between Protestant and Catholic missionary movements and the expansion of the European seaborne empires?
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2355.
[History 1224 (formerly History 1424). Britain Since 1760: Island, Europe, Empire]
Catalog Number: 2630
Maya Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey history of Great Britain from the reign of George III to the administration of Tony Blair. These centuries witnessed Britain’s spectacular emergence as the world’s leading industrial and imperial power; and its dramatic decline in influence after World War II. How did Britons experience domestic and global change? Themes include political reform, social class, national identity, popular culture, rise and fall of empire, relations with Europe. Extensive use of written and visual primary sources.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 1252 (formerly *History 72d). Paris From the French Revolution Through the 19th Century: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6355 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Patrice Higonnet and Henri Zerner
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Examines the art, literature, and history of the “capital of the 19th century.” Subjects will include Balzac, Flaubert, and Baudelaire; Delacroix, Manet, and Degas; the Revolutions of 1789, 1848, and 1871.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
[History 1258 (formerly History 1458). “French Modern”, 1848-Present]
Catalog Number: 5919
Judith Surkis
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines impact of and responses to political and cultural modernity in France from the mid-19th century forward. Themes and topics include: citizenship and its exclusions; social revolt and reform; urbanization and mass culture; population anxiety, anti-Semitism, and racism; imperial expansion and rule; war and decolonization; postwar development and May ’68; "multiculturalism" and contemporary challenges to the republican model.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 1259. European Sexual Modernities: Conference Course - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 41825 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Judith Surkis
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4.
Explores how conceptions of desire and sexuality, gendered and raced bodies, have shaped major events and processes in modern Europe since 1750: the Enlightenment and empires; modern industry and the metropolis; political and sexual revolutions; consumption and commodities; war and ethnic conflict; fascism and the Cold War; debates surrounding multiculturalism and religion; postsocialism and globalization. Featuring: political and philosophical treatises; legislation and literature; film and visual sources.
[History 1260 (formerly History 1449). Nationalism and Socialism in 20th-Century Central Europe]
Catalog Number: 5125
Alison F. Frank
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduction to theoretical literature concerning nationalism and socialism and to the history of the states of Central and Eastern Europe formed in the aftermath of WWI. Wedged between Germany and the USSR, the fledgling states of Central Europe struggled to balance nationalism and socialism as competing ways of interpreting the world and as programs for changing it. Their successes and failures will be placed in the context of the legacy of the Habsburg Empire.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1266 (formerly History 1456). Central Europe, 1789-1918: Empires, Nations, States]
Catalog Number: 3736
Alison F. Frank
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the development of nationalism and socialism as ideologies intended to shape the identities, public and private behavior, and political activities of subjects of the continental European empires in the long nineteenth century. Primary focus will be on the Habsburg Empire, with attention paid to other German-speaking lands and to the western territories of the Russian Empire (especially Poland).
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 1270. Frontiers of Europe: Ukraine since 1500
Catalog Number: 1910
Serhii Plokhii
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
The history of Ukrainian territory and its people within a broad context of political, social and cultural changes in Eastern Europe in the course of the half of a millennium. Special emphasis on the role of Ukraine as a cultural frontier of Europe, positioned on the border between settled areas and Eurasian steppes, Christianity and Islam, Orthodoxy and Catholicism, as well as a battleground of major imperial and national projects of modern era.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 1280 (formerly History 1531). History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
Catalog Number: 4501
Terry D. Martin
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines the history of the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution to Gorbachev’s failed reforms. Focus on the period 1928-53 when industrialization, nationalization and political terror created a distinct Soviet society and culture. Readings include novels, short stories, memoirs, Soviet propaganda, high policy deliberations, letters, journalism, songs, jokes, etc.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 1281. The End of Communism - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 84441
Terry D. Martin and Alison F. Frank
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines how and why communism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Places the events of 1989/1991, usually considered sudden and shocking, within the political, economic, social, and cultural context of the surrounding decades (1970-2000). Considers both international and domestic factors, including the Cold War and the arms race; ideology and dissent; consumption and culture; oil, economics and the environment; nationalism and civil war; gender and health. Investigates the role of structural conditions and contingency in history.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past.
History 1285. Russia and the Great Eurasian Steppe
Catalog Number: 8443
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Introduction to the history of Russian interactions with the peoples and states of the Eurasian steppe from the rise of Chinggis khan to the fall of the Romanovs. Topics include the legacy of Mongol conquest, the importance of trade, and the Russian-Ottoman struggle for dominance in the region. How did the experience of Russia’s Muslim inhabitants change over time? Did Russia civilize the steppe? Emphasis on incorporating non-European voices into the narrative of Russian history.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past.
History 1290. The History of the Russian Empire
Catalog Number: 9566
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
The history of Russia from the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan in the sixteenth century to 1917. Topics include the struggle with "westernization", the nature of autocratic authority, the role of the Orthodox Church, the integration of non-Russian peoples, industrialization and modernization, and the inevitability of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
[History 2242r (formerly History 2342r). The French Revolution: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1914
Patrice Higonnet
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The history of Paris during the French Revolution.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 2260 (formerly *History 2441). Central Europe: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6464 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alison F. Frank
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Major themes include nationalism, communism, the ‘Polish question,’ the ‘Jewish question,’ the political and economic viability of the Habsburg Empire, cultural exchange and diplomatic relations between Austria, Germany and the Russian Empire/Soviet Union.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Reading Knowledge of either German, Polish, Czech, or another Central European language.
*History 2261. Environmental History of Europe and the World: Proseminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 69334 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alison F. Frank
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Introduces graduate students to recent scholarship on environmental history, with an emphasis on Europe and Europeans’ interactions with the rest of the world.
History 2262. France as Empire: Proseminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 48026 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Mary D. Lewis
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Intensive introduction to the major historiographical debates regarding French imperialism/colonialism, covering its full geographic and temporal breadth (17th-20th c.).
History 2265 (formerly History 2475). Problems and Sources in Modern German History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 8355 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David Blackbourn
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A research seminar that examines different ways of approaching German history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We consider a variety of interpretations and methodologies. Particular attention is given to diverse source materials, including literary and visual sources.
Note: Reading knowledge of German not required.
History 2266. The Holocaust: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 56805
Samuel D. Kassow
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Intensive investigation of the historiography of major topics of Holocaust scholarship including the genesis of the Final Solution, Jewish responses and the reactions of so-called "bystanders."
[History 2271 (formerly History 2532). The Soviet Union: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 2405
Terry D. Martin
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduction to major debates in the historiography of the Soviet Union and late imperial Russia.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 2272 (formerly History 2531). The Soviet Union: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7969
Terry D. Martin
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Introduction to archival and primary sources, as well as major historiographical debates. Primary focus on major research paper.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian.
History 2285. Imperial Russia: Proseminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 48104 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Intensive introduction to major problems, themes and approaches to the history of imperial Russia. Prepares students for the general exam but is open to all interested graduate students.
[History 1301 (formerly History 20b). Western Intellectual History: The Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century]
Catalog Number: 7573
James Hankins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of major themes in medieval and early modern intellectual history. Readings in Anselm, Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Thomas More, Martin Luther, Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
History 1304 (formerly History 1470). Modern European Intellectual History Subject and Structure, Nietzsche to Postmodernism
Catalog Number: 7131
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 10-11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
An introduction to major landmarks in Continental philosophy and social theory in the modern period, beginning with Nietzsche. Focuses on the various challenges to traditional enlightenment notions of freedom and subjectivity in psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, existentialism, French structuralism, and post-structuralism.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1305. The European Enlightenment: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 3702 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
James Hankins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Reading and discussion of major texts of the European Enlightenment, from the late 17th century to the late 18th century, with particular attention to the intellectual community that produced the Encyclopédie and to the theory of religion. Readings in Spinoza, Locke, Bayle, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Voltaire, D’Alembert, Diderot, Rousseau, Hume and Kant.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 1318. History of the Book and of Reading
Catalog Number: 7410
Ann M. Blair
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
An introduction to the cultural history of the book and its functions as both material object and text. Major themes include the techniques of book production, authorship, popular and learned readership, libraries and censorship. The course surveys developments from scroll to web with a special focus on printing and developments in early modern Europe, 16th-18th centuries.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1321 (formerly History 1471). The Thought of Martin Heidegger]
Catalog Number: 5691
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A lecture course on the development of the ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Mostly a sustained, critical reading of his monumental 1927 text, Being and Time. We will also discuss some of his later contributions to theories of technology, language, and art; as well as the controversy surrounding his engagement with Nazism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: History 1304; Social Studies 10; or a course in introductory philosophy or continental political theory.
[History 1322. Heidegger and Arendt]
Catalog Number: 1906
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course investigates the complex philosophical affiliation between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Will understand how various themes of Heideggerian philosophy were borrowed, displaced, revised, and challenged in Arendt’s political theory. In the first half of the course we will read texts by Heidegger, esp. selections from Being and Time, and An Introduction to Metaphysics. In the second half of the course we will read Arendt’s major theoretical works, including Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and On Revolution.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 1330 (formerly History 1661). Social Thought in Modern America
Catalog Number: 8440
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1;. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
An inquiry into American ideas since 1890, examining developments in political and social theory, philosophy, and literature in the context of socioeconomic change. Topics include the breakdown of Victorian idealism and laissez-faire; the emergence of social science and progressivism; conflicts over gender, race, and ethnicity; interwar cultural ferment and political reform; post-World War II theories of consensus and 1960s radicalism; and the consequences for democracy of our contemporary culture of irony.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1340 (formerly History 1454). French Social Thought from Rousseau to Foucault and Beyond]
Catalog Number: 4665
Judith Surkis
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines trends in French social thought as dialogues between thinkers and between thinkers and their historical contexts. Covers liberalism, conservatism, republicanism, socialism, existentialism, structuralism, Marxism, feminism, and anti-colonialism. Readings from Rousseau, de Maistre, Saint-Simon, Tocqueville, Durkheim, Mauss, Bataille, Levi-Strauss, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Fanon, Althusser, Foucault, Bourdieu, Rosanvallon.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[History 1345. The Human Sciences in the Modern West]
Catalog Number: 1324
Andrew Jewett
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This course offers an historical overview of the human sciences, a group of disciplines that includes not only sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, and economics, but also "borderland" fields such as psychiatry, law, history, linguistics, and philosophy. Ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, the course examines pivotal changes in how Westerners have used scientific methods to represent and analyze "the human," while situating these changes in their cultural and political contexts.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[History 1350. Theories of Secularization: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 5865 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This advanced undergraduate course surveys various debates concerning the historical process and philosophical-political significance of secularization, especially the secularization of political norms. The course concentrates on the history of European thought since 1650, with special reference to the encounter between Western monotheistic religion and rationalist modes of criticism that first emerged with the scientific revolution. Readings from: Veyne, Febvre, Marx, Weber, Schmitt, Löwith, Strauss, Blumenberg, and Taylor.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 1390 (formerly History 1984). Understanding Democracy through History
Catalog Number: 1517
Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School)
Half course (spring term). M., W., 2:40–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines the evolution of democracies in different nations over extended periods of time, and will focus on one fundamental issue: Under what circumstances or conditions have democracies (or political rights) expanded, and under what circumstances of conditions have they contracted? Readings will include historical studies as well as comparative theoretical works.
Note: Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as DPI-703. This course may be lotteried.
[*History 2321. Methods in Book History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 5169 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ann M. Blair and Leah Price
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Will introduce students to methods and debates in the history of the book and of reading. Primarily for graduates; open to advanced undergraduates by consent of the instructors.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 2330 (formerly History 2410). Ideas in Europe in the 18th Century: Seminar
Catalog Number: 1077
Emma Rothschild
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A graduate seminar which examines a number of 18th century writings (by Hume, Smith, Wollstonecraft, and Condorcet) and ideas (enlightenment, religion, empire), and explores different ways of writing about the history of ideas.
*History 2340 (formerly *History 2662 & *History 2662hf). Readings in American Thought
Catalog Number: 8845 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3.
An examination of classic and contemporary histories of American thought.
[History 2345 (formerly History 2664). Race and African-American Intellectual History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6804
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A research seminar in African-American intellectual history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 2350. Research Seminar in the History of Education: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 77605
Julie A. Reuben (Education School)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2:30–5:30.
This course offers students the opportunity to conduct original research in the history of education.
Note: Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Education as S-508.
History 1415 (formerly *History 84d). The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6296 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Joyce E. Chaplin
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4.
Examines some of the multiple lives that Franklin led during the eighteenth century. Students examine in depth one of these lives or identify and explore yet another, to better comprehend Franklin and the worlds in which he lived: colonial America, British empire, independent US, books, science, popular culture, politics, war, personal improvement, and many others.
History 1433. American Populisms: Thomas Jefferson to Rush Limbaugh - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 86765
Brett Flehinger
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10; W., at 4; Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 12
This course studies the American Populist tradition that defines the common "people" as the centerpiece of American economic and political life and thrives on opposition between the people and "elite" interests. The class focuses on the formal Populist movement and the People’s Party of the late nineteenth century, and places this history in broader context, from Jeffersonian tradition through the rise of anti-elitist and anti-government movements characterized by Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh.
History 1437. Asian American History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 70994
Denise Khor
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 10; Tu., 8–10 p.m. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course explores the major concepts and themes in Asian American history from the mid 1800s to the present. The course contextualizes the communities and politics of Asian immigrants with the history of state power, capitalism, and social inequalities.
History 1438. Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 86101
Denise Khor
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course explores the history of comparative racial formation in the United States. We will explore the production of racial meanings across the historical processes of settler colonialism, slavery, migration, empire, capitalism, and nation-building.
[History 1440 (formerly History 1639). The Expanding United States, 1803–1917]
Catalog Number: 9411
Rachel St. John
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will explore the history of 19th century American expansion, from 1803 when the US was an adolescent republic bounded by the Mississippi River and inhabited by a relatively homogeneous population, to 1917 when an expansive federal government presided over a continent-spanning nation, overseas territorial possessions, an industrial, capitalist economy, and a diverse population struggling over political inclusion, economic equity, and national identity.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 1441 (formerly History 1641). History of the US West
Catalog Number: 3887
Rachel St. John
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This lecture course will introduce students to the history of the place that we now know as the US West from before European expansion to the present. Lectures and readings will examine how both particular national boundaries and distinctive regional patterns have defined the West. Drawing on histories, memoirs, journals, films, and images, students will explore a variety of perspectives on the political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental transformations of the American West.
[History 1455 (formerly History 1650a). The United States in the World, to 1920]
Catalog Number: 3435
Erez Manela
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
American foreign relations from the colonial period through World War I. Topics include the transition from colonial to imperial status; the changing role of the US in international relations; interaction between domestic politics and foreign policy; political, economic, and cultural relationships between Americans and other peoples.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
History 1457. History of American Capitalism - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 75535 Enrollment: Limited to 100.
Sven Beckert
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
Examines the development of the American economy from its beginnings to the present. Focuses on the nature of economic change during the past 400 years and the reasons for and effects of capitalist growth. Topics include Native-American economies, the industrial revolution, slavery, the rise of new business structures, labor relations, and technological change.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. Students who have taken Historical Study B-49 may not take this course for credit.
History 1465 (formerly History 1650b). The United States in the World, since 1900
Catalog Number: 4745
Erez Manela
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
This course provides a broad-ranging view of U.S. interactions with the wider world from the Spanish-American War through 9/11. Topics we explore include war, international politics, economic relations, the role of ideology, cultural influences, globalization, and non-state actors.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for The United States in the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past.
History 1495 (formerly History 1672). The US in the 1960s
Catalog Number: 5900
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
An introduction to the main developments in American society, culture, and politics during the premiere liberal decade of the 20th century. Topics include the New Frontier, the Great Society, the Vietnam war, the Civil Rights movement, the student movement, the counter-culture, and the rise of populist conservatism.
[History 2402. American Food: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1656 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Joyce E. Chaplin
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
From the starving time at Jamestown to present-day concerns over obesity, food has been central to the American experience. But what is American about American food? Students will address that question through independent research.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 2403. Harvard Collections in World History (Graduate Seminar in General Education) - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 72039 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Ivan Gaskell
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Participants in the seminar will explore Harvard’s vast collections of tangible things, from rocks to medical specimens to works of art. They will also design and develop an undergraduate General Education course that will employ objects to teach history.
History 2405. Politics, Social Life, and Law in Jeffersonian America: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 41698 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Annette Gordon-Reed
Half course (fall term). M., 12–2. EXAM GROUP: 5, 6
This seminar examines politics, law, and social life in the United States from 1776 to 1828, discussing well-known members of the founding generation while considering the role of women, enslaved people, and the working class.
Note: Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Law School as LAW-98055A.
[History 2412 (formerly History 2665). Topics in the History of Atlantic Slavery: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4231
Vincent Brown
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Will introduce graduate students to major synthetic works on the history of Atlantic slavery, surveying the period between the mid-15th century and the late 19th, and provide them an opportunity to develop original research projects.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 2442 (formerly History 2602). Readings in the History of the US in the 19th Century: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 2383 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Sven Beckert
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
The second in the sequence of three proseminars required of all graduate students in American history and open to graduate students in other history fields and other departments as space permits.
[*History 2461 (formerly *History 2601). The US in the 20th Century: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1270 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Research on topics in 20th-century US history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
[History 2462 (formerly History 2607). Readings in the US in the 20th Century: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 2931
Instructor to be determined
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The third proseminar required of all graduate students in American history. Readings in classics and recent monographs, with attention to politics, social life, and culture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 2463 (formerly History 2661). Graduate Readings in 20th-Century African-American History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 9004 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Covers key literature on themes and developments shaping the national experience of African Americans from Redemption to the emerging multi-racial Republic.
History 2464hf. Transnational America from Above and Below: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 88933
Vincent Brown and Walter Johnson
Half course (throughout the year). M., 4-6, plus an occasional additional meeting to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 9
The workshop will develop a global, imperial, and national account of the historical coordinates of migration, immigration, and diaspora in United States history, mapping the patterns traced by commercial, military, and legal power alongside the movements of people, their ideas, and their political struggle.
Note: Students will be required to participate in the bi-weekly seminar meetings and write a research paper on a topic approved by the instructors.
*History 2470hf (formerly *History 2640hf). Workshop in 20th-Century US History
Catalog Number: 0565
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
For dissertation writers only.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
History 2480hf (formerly History 2650hf). The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3719
Sven Beckert and Christine Desan (Law School)
Half course (throughout the year). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
A year-long research and reading course on the history of capitalism during the past 300 years.
Note: Offered jointly with the Law School as 98060A-1FS.
History 1506. Central American and Mexican (or Mesoamerican) Peoples: 1500-1840 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 88679
Rodolfo Fasquelle Pastor
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
The Spanish conquerors of the Mesoamerican peoples designed policies to preserve them as a labor force while maintaining their traditional institutions. Gradually race and culture mixtures demanded adaptations and generated new ethnic groups and identities. Despite later policies to assimilate them culturally, the peoples of Mesoamerica survive today as significant minorities who participate actively in national life. We will study how these peoples adapted while rebelling against and accommodating systemic demands and resisting change.
History 1619 (formerly History 1820). Premodern Vietnam
Catalog Number: 4581
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 7
Vietnamese history from antiquity to the founding of the Nguyen dynasty in 1802 with emphasis on the period following independence from China in the 10th century. Topics include the Sinicization of Vietnam and the sources of Vietnamese national identity; tensions between aristocratic and bureaucratic rule; territorial expansion and national division; first contacts with the West; the changing status of women.
History 1620 (formerly History 1821). Modern Vietnam
Catalog Number: 8192
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Survey of Vietnamese history from 1802 to the present. Covers the period of unified rule under the Nguyen dynasty, French colonial conquest, the struggle for independence, the Vietnam War, and the recent unification under Communism. Major topics include the relationship between the state, the village, and the individual; the transformation of Vietnamese society, culture, and politics under French rule; the rise of nationalism and Communism; the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War.
History 1623 (formerly History 1851). 20th-Century Japan
Catalog Number: 8696
Andrew Gordon
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Explores Japan’s emergence as a world power and the Japanese experience of modernity. Examines politics, social movements, and culture of the imperial era; the experience of World War II and postwar occupation; the “economic miracle” and postwar political economy; social and cultural transformation. Concludes by considering historical context for issues of the present day ranging from economic crisis to tensions with Japan’s Asian neighbors.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 1627. China in the Wider World, 1600-2000 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 99548
Henrietta Harrison
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course examines China’s modern history from the point of view of its interconnections with the rest of the world. It provides a general overview of the history of modern China, and some standard theoretical frameworks for China’s foreign relations, but also considers the many different ways in which China has shared in world history ranging from environmental history and the spread of global religions, to international trade and the development of modern nationalism.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past.
[History 1700 (formerly History 1904). The History of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860]
Catalog Number: 5936
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Caroline M. Elkins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey of sub-Saharan Africa to 1860, with attention to the range of methodologies used in writing early African history, including oral history, archaeology, and anthropology. Will address themes of the impact of climate change on migration and settlement, trade and commerce, state formation, slavery, and the impact of Islam and Christianity on the continent. Will provide a methodological and historiographical framework in which more specific historical processes and events may be placed and understood.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
[History 1701 (formerly History 1907). West Africa from 1800 to the Present]
Catalog Number: 4650
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the internal dynamics of West African states from 1800, and West Africa’s relations with the wider world. Examines African perspectives of colonialism, nationalism, and the transfer of political power. Concludes with the study of the continued struggle of independent West African states to achieve economic independence.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 1710. Africans and Europeans in Francophone Africa, 1800-1970 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 42821
Charlotte M. Walker
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
This course explores French colonialism in Africa from Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt to the Algerian War. It examines the transformation of ideas of race, gender, science, governance, and development in a Francophone African context. North Africa, French West and French Equatorial Africa and these regions’ experiences with market capitalism, medical technology, cultural imperialism, and military intervention are discussed. An analysis of the legacies of French imperial republicanism will close the course.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1877a (formerly History 1877). History of the Near East, 600-1055]
Catalog Number: 1770
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of the history of the Near East and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the Turkish ascendance in the mid-11th century. Includes Muhammad and his community, Arab conquests, Umayyads and Abbasids, sectarian movements, minority communities, government and religious institutions, and relations with Byzantium and the Latin West.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 1877b (formerly *History 78b). History of the Near East, 1055-1500: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 3026 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Surveys history of the Near East from the coming of the steppe peoples to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. Includes Seljuks, Crusades, Mongols, and the fall of the Abbasid caliphate, Mamluks, the development of Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade, and the Timurids and their successors.
Prerequisite: History 1877a helpful, but not required.
History 1878a. Ottoman State and Society I (1300–1550)
Catalog Number: 5471
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4, 13
Surveys the emergence of the Ottoman state from a frontier principality into a world empire in its sociopolitical and cultural contexts. Topics include pre-Ottoman Anatolia; frontier society; methods of conquest; centralization of power; classical institutions of the land regime and of the central administration; urbanization; religion and literature. Relations with Byzantium, other Islamic states, and Europe are examined.
[History 1878b. Ottoman State and Society II (1550-1920)]
Catalog Number: 6470
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Surveys the transformations of the Ottoman order in the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the early modern era and in the long nineteenth century until the demise of the state. Topics include changes in the conduct of state; social and religious movements; the impact of the new world economy and new trade routes; relations with Europe; emergence of nationalism; the ’Eastern Question.’ Ethnic structure, rural society, urban popular culture, guilds, gender and family life are also examined. The importance of this era for understanding today’s Middle East is stressed.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[History 1890 (formerly History 1890b). The Economic History of the Middle East Since World War II]
Catalog Number: 1249
E. Roger Owen
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A critical overview of the processes of economic growth and transformation in the Middle East from World War II to the present. Countries to be studied include Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, the Arab states of the Arabian Peninsula, Israel/Palestine, Iran and Turkey.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 1891. Understanding the Middle East since 1945: The Basic Socio-Economic and Political Structures - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 56932
E. Roger Owen
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
The aim of the course is to set out the main structures and processes which underlie the contemporary political and economic systems in the Middle East, including the Arab countries, Iran, Israel and Turkey. For the Arab countries these include the development of the ’security state’ with its associated practices of crony capitalism, managed elections and controlled opposition, as well as a particular style of conducting intra-Arab relations. For the non-Arabs, pluralism, civil/military relations and political religion.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 2623 (formerly History 2823). Readings in Modern Chinese History: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 3460
Henrietta Harrison
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
A graduate colloquium designed for students preparing for general examinations in modern Chinese history or interested in the historiography of modern China.
[History 2624 (formerly History 2848a & History 2848b). Introduction to Archival Research in Chinese History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1863
Mark C. Elliott
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Training in the use of a wide array of reference tools and sources for research in the history of late imperial China, focusing upon the reading and analysis of Qing archival documents. The course aims to familiarize students with the Qing communications system and to prepare students for doctoral research in China. Students will write a seminar paper based on original research incorporating the types of materials introduced in class.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructor.
Prerequisite: Chinese 106b or equivalent foundation in literary Chinese.
*History 2651 (formerly *History 2851). Japanese History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 5146 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Andrew Gordon
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Students write research papers on topics of their own choosing drawing on sources in Japanese, and other languages as appropriate.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Japanese.
History 2653 (formerly History 2853). Historiography of Modern Japan: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 4442
Andrew Gordon
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A critical introduction to the historiography of modern Japan, with emphasis on English-language scholarship.
[History 2692 (formerly History 2892). Colonial and Post-Colonial Histories of South Asia: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8502
Sugata Bose
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Analyzes trends and debates in historical research and writing on colonial and post-colonial South Asia.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[History 2708 (formerly History 2908). Sources, Methodology, and Themes in African History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 5861 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Seminar to equip graduate students with the necessary tools for archival research and fieldwork, as well as to introduce them to recent approaches in the historiography.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
Prerequisite: A graduate field on Africa.
History 2709 (formerly History 2909). Themes in Modern Sub-Saharan African History: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 5840 Enrollment: Limited to 14.
Caroline M. Elkins
Half course (fall term). W., 9–11.
An in-depth study of the major themes in sub-Saharan African history from the mid-19th century to the present, including the scholarship and debates on the changing relationship between Africa and the West.
Note: Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor.
[History 2805 (formerly History 2905). Gender and Sexuality: Comparative Historical Studies of Islamic Middle East, North Africa and South Asia: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8070
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Informed by theories of gender and sexuality, this seminar investigates how historically notions of desire, body, sex, masculinity, femininity, gender and sexual subjectivities have formed and reformed in Islamicate cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 2882. Readings in the History of Iraq, 1900-2006: Seminar
Catalog Number: 4735
E. Roger Owen
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Readings selected to provide an understanding of Iraq’s 20th-century political and socio-economic history.
History 2884. Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3762
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (fall term). M., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Topic to be announced.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Turkish.
History 2885. Introduction to Archival Research in Ottoman History: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 3274
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–4.
A survey of archival collections related to Ottoman history. Introduction to the archives of the central government, pious endowments, provincial administrations, and court records.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Turkish.
History 2886. Topics in Islamic History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3470
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Topic to be announced.
History 2887b. Debates in the Political and Ideological History of the Middle East: Seminar
Catalog Number: 4102
E. Roger Owen
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Major questions and debates in modern Arab political and ideological writings including Orientalism, Arab and local nationalism, religious revival, power and authority, and the difficulties of establishing democratic institutions.
[History 1921 (formerly History 1961). International Financial History, 1700 to the Present]
Catalog Number: 9661
Niall Ferguson
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to modern financial history from the first stock market bubbles to the most recent. Topics include money and banking, public debt and bond markets, corporations and stock markets, investment banking, cross-border capital flows, private insurance and welfare systems, mortgages, consumer credit, privatization, emerging markets, derivatives and hedge funds. Special attention will be paid to the role of financial institutions and financial crises in economic and political development.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 1964 (formerly *History 89e). International History: War, Peace, and International Organizations: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 7774 Enrollment: Limited to 25.
Niall Ferguson and Charles S. Maier
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A comparative approach to the history of international society, including sources of conflict and efforts at peacemaking, imperial and hegemonic regimes, the protection of minorities and human rights, based on the reading and discussion of classic and modern works.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. History 1964 and 1965 are designed particularly for advanced undergraduates in the international history track of the concentration and graduate students preparing a general examination field in the history of international relations.
*History 1965 (formerly *History 89f). International History: States, Markets, and the Global Economy: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 7148 Enrollment: Limited to 25.
Niall Ferguson and Charles S. Maier
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
International economic history and political economy, including strategies of economic development, international trade, migration, finance and monetary relations, based on both theoretical works and specific case studies, and focusing on the period from around 1700 to the present.
Note: History 1964 and 1965 are designed particularly for advanced undergraduates in the international history track of the concentration and graduate students preparing a general examination field in the history of international relations.
[History 2911. Theories of International Relations: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6430
David R. Armitage
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An historical introduction to theories of war and peace, sovereignty, diplomacy, colonialism, international law, and international relations since the fifteenth century. Readings include primary and secondary sources.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[History 2918. International Human Rights: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0857
Caroline M. Elkins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course will analyze the formulation, expansion, and enforcement of international human rights norms. Historical case studies will include the use of torture, war crimes, genocide, refugees, and women’s and children’s rights.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History 2921. Western Ascendancy: Historiography and Pedagogy (Graduate Seminar in General Education) - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 89802 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Niall Ferguson
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4.
The purpose of this graduate seminar is to get Teaching Fellows and other graduates to engage with the historiographical and pedagogical challenges of the new General Education course, Societies of the World 19: Western Ascendancy. Courses in Western Civilization are nowadays widely seen as outmoded and excessively Eurocentric. The aim of SW 19 is to address questions of global economic and political divergence in a fresh way, taking advantage of more recent literature on economic history, for example.
[*History 2966 (formerly *History 2616). The Art and Craft of Historical Writing: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4655
Jill M. Lepore
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An intensive writing workshop and research seminar for history graduate students across field groups, divided into two parts, exposition, and narrative. Readings will be limited to essays on historical writing and samples of particularly effective academic prose.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 2967 (formerly *History 2912). What is History? Concepts, Practices, Critique: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4766
Afsaneh Najmabadi and Judith Surkis
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Offers a thematically structured critical introduction to key concepts, methods, and problems of historical practice and writing; examining the history of history, philosophies of history, the relationship of history to other disciplines.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[*History 2968 (formerly *History 2915). History and Economics: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 1557
Emma Rothschild
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines approaches to the history of economic thought and economic history by the exploration of particular topics, including the political economy of empire, information, and globalization.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[History 2969 (formerly History 2920). Readings in Gender History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0882
Nancy F. Cott
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Reading and discussion of works of theory and historiography that use gender analysis to re-view social and political phenomena such as revolution, nationalism, imperialism, citizenship, class formation, the welfare state, and consumerism. Predominantly US history, but including some European and Latin American comparison.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History 2970. Gender History: Proseminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 24013
Nancy F. Cott and Judith Surkis
Half course (fall term). Tu., 12–2. EXAM GROUP: 14, 15
Readings in a wide range of historical works using gender analysis to reconsider such phenomena as citizenship, revolution, imperialism, nationalism, family, sexuality. Comparative U.S. and Europe, with selected readings about other areas.
*History 3900 (formerly *History 3910). Writing History: Approaches and Practices
Catalog Number: 1358
David R. Armitage 5023 and Rachel St. John 5328
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Required of and limited to first-year doctoral students in History, HMES, and those students in EALC who choose the History specialization.
Prerequisite: First year graduate students only.
*History 3010. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 3424
Asad A. Ahmed 5567 (on leave spring term), Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421 (on leave 2009-10), David R. Armitage 5023, Bernard Bailyn 1841, Sven Beckert 2415, Mario Biagioli 1756, Thomas N. Bisson 1451, David Blackbourn 3203, Ann M. Blair 2467, Peter K. Bol 8014, Sugata Bose 3960 (on leave 2009-10), Vincent Brown 4638, Joyce E. Chaplin 1058, John H. Coatsworth 3248, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Kathleen M. Coleman 2289 (on leave 2009-10), Nancy F. Cott 4261, Robert Darnton 5980, Emma Dench 5243, Charles Donahue, Jr. (Law School) 2650, Carter J. Eckert 1178, Caroline M. Elkins 3961, Mark C. Elliott 3329, Drew Gilpin Faust 3857, Niall Ferguson 4938, Francis Fiorenza (Divinity School) 2735, Alison F. Frank 5313, Ivan Gaskell 3174, Andrew Gordon 1891, Peter E. Gordon 3907, Annette Gordon-Reed 6394, Peter A. Hall 7272 (on leave spring term), James Hankins 1239 (on leave spring term), Henrietta Harrison 5161, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Patrice Higonnet 2730, Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Akira Iriye 1968, Maya Jasanoff 5877, Andrew Jewett 5878 (on leave 2009-10), Walter Johnson 5616, Christopher P. Jones 3204 (on leave 2009-10), Cemal Kafadar 2459, Samuel D. Kassow 6368 (fall term only), Edward L. Keenan 1825, Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School) 4323, William C. Kirby 3128, Mark A. Kishlansky 2895, James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Philip A. Kuhn 8051, Shigehisa Kuriyama 5269 (spring term only), Jill M. Lepore 4830, Mary D. Lewis 4369, Charles S. Maier 7227, Erez Manela 4762 (on leave spring term), Terry D. Martin 2966, Michael McCormick 2849, Lisa M. McGirr 2543, Ian J. Miller 5880 (on leave 2009-10), Roy Mottahedeh 1454, Afsaneh Najmabadi 4052 (on leave 2009-10), Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris 5881, E. Roger Owen 1028, Steven Ozment 6197, Richard Pipes 1827, Serhii Plokhii 4454, Michael J. Puett 1227, Julie A. Reuben (Education School) 4428, Emma Rothschild 5001 (on leave spring term), Daniel L. Smail 5343, Rachel St. John 5328, Ajantha Subramanian 4618 (spring term only), Judith Surkis 4184, Michael A. Szonyi 4842, Roman Szporluk 3033, Hue-Tam Ho Tai 6079, Stephan Thernstrom 4141, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, Charlotte M. Walker 6312, and John Womack, Jr. 1863
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall: Tu., 3–5; F., 1–3; Spring: Th., 2–4; F., 1–3.
Instructors listed above under History 3010 supervise individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree.
Note: Limited to candidates for the PhD who are in residence, who have been for a year in residence, and who are in good standing in the Graduate School. May ordinarily be taken only in preparation for a field (or fields) to be examined on the General Examination. May not be counted toward the AM degree except by permission of the Department.