*History 99. Senior Thesis Tutorial
Catalog Number: 5803
Adam G. Beaver and Daniel C. Wewers
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 70b. Julian the Apostate - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9000 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Christopher P. Jones
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
The course studies the Roman Emperor Julian (ruled 361-363), who tried to turn the Roman Empire back to Paganism after it had become officially Christian, and who mounted an unsuccessful invasion of Mesopotamia. The course will study the life and policies of the emperor, and the reactions of his admirers and detractors to his policies. No knowledge of ancient languages necessary.
*History 70c. Topics in Natural History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9332 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
[*History 70d (formerly *History 1212). The Imperial System: Byzantine Society and Civilization, 8th c.-1204]
Catalog Number: 6078 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Byzantine society from the time of the Iconoclastic controversy through centuries of successful imperial rule and until the conquest of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade. Topics will include state ideology and diplomacy, social structure, the formation of the aristocracy, the economy, urban and rural life, the role of women, relations with Western Europe and the Muslim world, art and culture. Considerable emphasis will be given to primary sources.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Expected to be given in 2010-11. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Historical Study B.
*History 70e. The Problems and Possibilities of Medieval History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9105 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Carol Symes 6110
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
A seminar devoted to the past and future of medieval history, focusing on influential or innovative works of scholarship and the sources that inspire them. Topics will include changes in the writing of history and the formulation of new historical methods; the meanings of holiness and heroism; sexuality, embodiment, and gender politics; forms of power, persecution, and governance; the interrelationships between literacy, orality, and authority; and the question of modernity’s origins in the Middle Ages.
[*History 71a (formerly *History 1166). Family, Sex, and Marriage in Western Europe, East and West in the Medieval and Early Modern Period]
Catalog Number: 2725 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Steven Ozment and Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Reading and discussion of major sources and studies illustrative of the development of family life in the Byzantine Empire and in medieval and early modern Western Europe, in a comparative perspective. Attention will be given to important historiographical controversies and to a variety of national traditions.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*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). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
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.
*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). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
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.
[*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 2009–10.
*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 72d (formerly *History 1463). Paris From the French Revolution Through the 19th Century
Catalog Number: 6355 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Patrice Higonnet
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
*History 72e. The Life and Reign of Catherine the Great - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9664 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
*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 73a (formerly History 1474). Republics and Republicanism]
Catalog Number: 2494 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
James Hankins and Eric M. Nelson
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History 73b. (formerly History 90d). Introduction to Intellectual History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1881 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ann M. Blair
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This reading seminar is designed as an introduction to major themes, periods and authors in intellectual history. Through discussion of an important work of intellectual history each week students will gain exposure to selected developments in intellectual history from antiquity to the 20th century, in the West and beyond, and to a range of fruitful approaches represented in the field. Students will be guided through the stages of writing a bibliographic essay on a topic of their choice. Designed for current and future history concentrators, but open to those with similar needs, with the consent of the instructor.
[*History 74a (formerly *History 1612). African Diaspora in the Americas]
Catalog Number: 9564 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Vincent Brown
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History 74b (formerly *History 1622). Readings in the History of Slavery]
Catalog Number: 9361 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Susan E. O’Donovan
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Awareness has grown of slavery’s institutional role in national economic and political development. But the extent to which individual slaves were meaningful participants in this process of nation making remains an open question. By means of monographs, articles, and the occasional primary source, this course will investigate a still unfolding debate about slaves - as women, as men, as workers - and the extent to which they were agents of historical change.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History 74c. Bodily Functions: Histories of Bare Life and Bio-Power - (New Course)
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.
Prerequisite: 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 2009–10.
*History 74e. North American Borderlands History - (New Course)
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 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9078 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Rachel St. John
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
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 (on leave 2008-09)
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 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0297 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit 6066
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
*History 74i. American Constitutional History, 1776-1865 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4611 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Daniel C. Wewers
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course surveys classic works and new perspectives on the constitutional history of the early national United States between the American Revolution and the American Civil War. Major topics include republicanism, popular sovereignty, federalism and states’ rights, citizenship and individual rights, political parties, rebellion, and revolution. Please note that this course focuses on the historiography of early American political thought rather than constitutional jurisprudence.
*History 74j. Women’s Work: Gender in the World of Atlantic Slavery - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3174 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Susan E. O’Donovan 3962
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Starting in Africa and ending in the age of emancipation, this course will consider enslaved women as agents of historical change. Through close readings of both primary and secondary sources, special attention will be paid to the many conditions of bondage and how they informed women’s experiences, their ideologies, their aspirations, and most of all, the ways in which they helped shape the always dynamic system that was Atlantic slavery.
*History 74k. American Immigration Law and Policy in Historical Perspective - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6755 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
S. Deborah Kang
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This seminar surveys the history of American immigration law and policy in order to undertake what Samuel Hays termed a "social analysis of politics." We will explore how social forces (demographic, economic, and ideological) played a pivotal role in immigration law and policy formation. At the same time, the course examines how law and policy mediated the immigrant experience itself -- that is, the social, political, and legal status of immigrants in America.
*History 75a. The Intellectual History of the Caribbean - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9765 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Richard Drayton
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Caribbean people, from c. 1850 onwards, began to take stock of the region and its place in the modern world. This course will examine this tradition, and its increasing self-consciousness, in both the ’high’ world of novels, poetry, historical and political essays, anthropology and sociology, and in the popular intellectual life of music, religion, and mass politics.
*History 75b. Reform and its Discontents in the Southern Atlantic World - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5717 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gabriel Paquette
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course explores the ways that Portuguese and Spanish governments sought to overhaul their peninsular and overseas kingdoms during the 18th-century. It examines these reform efforts in comparative perspective, mainly with reference to France and the Italian states. The impact of these attempts, including responses to them, receive special attention. Themes include: inter-state rivalry’s impact on domestic affairs; absolutism and its limits; political economy and its extra-European applications; and the link between reform and revolution.
[*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 76b. Religion and State in Qing China - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6066 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jeff Snyder-Reinke
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course will provide an introduction to the complex relationship between religion and the Chinese state during the Qing dynasty. The course will approach this relationship from three perspectives: by examining the state as a religious actor that carried out its own religious activities; as a hegemonic institution that sought to exert control over religious practices; and as a target for religiously-inspired rebellions, such as the Taiping and Boxer uprisings.
*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). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
*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). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
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 78b (formerly *History 1877b). History of the Near East, 1055-1517]
Catalog Number: 3026 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
Prerequisite: History 1877 helpful, but not required.
[*History 79a (formerly *History 1986). Topics in International History]
Catalog Number: 0735 Enrollment: Limited to 24.
Erez Manela and Ernest R. May
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduces several major themes in modern international history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History 79b. America and the Muslim World - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7876 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Karine Walther
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will examine the influence of cultural and religious beliefs on interactions with Islam and Muslims both at home and abroad. Topics covered include: Muslim slaves in the Americas, the Barbary Wars, American missionaries in the Middle East, the Nation of Islam, US-Middle East relations, the American Muslim community after 9/11 and the most recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
*History 79c. Seminar in International Capitalism: Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Nations - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1257 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Walter A. Friedman 6673
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.
*History 79d. An Introduction to Global History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8463 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Joyce E. Chaplin 1058
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
[*History 80b (formerly *History 1122). Persons and Things in Medieval Europe]
Catalog Number: 9657 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will explore certain styles of thinking and forms of behavior that governed everyday life in medieval Europe. Major topics will include forms of identity, including kinship and gender, manners and clothing fashions, forms of exchange, and patterns of mobility.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Expected to be given in 2009-10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Historical Study B.
*History 80c (formerly *History 1158). The Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages, 1204-1500
Catalog Number: 2711 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Jeffrey Robert Webb 6668
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines the economic, social, and political developments in the Mediterranean basin during a critical period. Investigates patterns of economic dominance, trade patterns, forms of colonization, the function of the merchant groups in Venetian, Genoese, Byzantine, and Muslim societies. The development of shipping, maps, and financial and commercial techniques is discussed; travel, war, and politics are also examined in their relation to economic and social developments.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Historical Study B.
[*History 81a (formerly *History 1309). History in Early Modern Europe]
Catalog Number: 6583 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ann M. Blair
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History 81b. Book History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0836 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ann M. Blair
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
*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 81d. The Near East in the Christian West, 300-1700 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8951 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Adam G. Beaver
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
In this course we will explore the long history of European interactions with the Near East, from the earliest days of Christian pilgrimage in the fourth century to the peak of Renaissance antiquarianism in the seventeenth. Particular attention will be paid to Western observers’ongoing attempts to reconcile eyewitness testimony of the land and its peoples with knowledge derived from ’authoritative’ sources, such as the Bible and early Christian authors.
[*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 2009–10.
*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
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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: 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., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
*History 82f. The Origins of the Cold War: The Yalta Conference (1945) - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1959 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Serhii Plokhii
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 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4664 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
*History 82h (formerly *History 1532). Everyday Life in the Soviet Union - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2636 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Terry D. Martin
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
*History 82j. Civilisation and Barbarism in the Kingdom of Ireland 1537-1800 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9135 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Gerard Livesey (University of Sussex)
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This seminar will investigate the political literature created by thinkers and political actors involved in the Anglo-Irish relationship between 1537 and 1800. The extension of the claim to sovereignty by the English crown over Ireland set the scene for a long and torturous debate on the conditions of civility and the nature of barbarism, and occasioned cycles of violence interspersed with cultural creativity. Work studied will include, but not be limited to, Edmund Spenser, William Petty, the Duchess of Ranelagh, Jonathan Swift, Geoffrey Keating, George Berkeley, Charles O’Conor, Edmund Burke.
*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, looking at 18th century laissez-faire political economy, and at late 19th century economists and social reformers. 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). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
Prerequisite: One of the following: Modern European Intellectual History, Social Studies 10, French Social Thought, American Social Thought, or any philosophy course inmetaphysics or epistemology.
*History 83c. Care of the Soul - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8082 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
James Hankins
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
[*History 83d (formerly *History 1479). Intellectuals and Auschwitz]
Catalog Number: 5579 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
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, Blanchot, Celan, Derrida, Jaspers, Jonas, and Levi.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
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). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History 84b. The American Revolution - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7369 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Jill M. Lepore
Half course (spring term). Th., 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 site, 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). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
[*History 84d (formerly *History 1615). The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin]
Catalog Number: 6296 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Joyce E. Chaplin
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History 84e. Reconstructing America - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1168 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Susan E. O’Donovan
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will explore America’s efforts to come to terms with freedom and free labor in the years following the Confederate surrender. Topics to be considered will include the changing civil and economic place of women and former slaves, workers’ struggles for justice, and the rise of new and exclusionary forms of racism. This course will offer training in the use of primary source materials, historical method, the problems of bibliography, and historical writing.
*History 84f. Science and Religion in America - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9283 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Andrew Jewett
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
[*History 84g (formerly *History 1656). Harvard and Slavery]
Catalog Number: 1778 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Sven Beckert
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*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 2009–10.
[*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). Hours to be arranged.
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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2356.
*History 84j. Pragmatism and Reform in American Social Thought - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4330 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit 6066
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
*History 84k. American Immigration History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7673 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
S. Deborah Kang
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This class will allow students to pursue research projects in the field of American immigration history. Given the breadth of the field, students are encouraged to approach the topic from a variety of perspectives. Students may choose to write about the migratory process itself, immigrant communities, identity formation, ethnic and race relations, immigration law and policy, or the transnational dimensions of migration, among others.
[*History 85a (formerly *History 1746). Contestation, Rebellion, and Revolution in Brazil and Spanish South America (1770-1808)]
Catalog Number: 8945 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Kenneth R. Maxwell
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
A comparative examination of Brazil and the Andes in the two decades before independence. This course will explore the diverse forms of contestation in South America between 1770 and 1808. For Brazil this will involve the several pre-independence conspiracies, and for Spanish America the Rebellions in the Andes. The seminar will focus on the intellectual articulation of these movements and well as their social and economic roots.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History 85b (formerly *History 1750). Brazil Between Revolutions, 1776-1789]
Catalog Number: 5510 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Kenneth R. Maxwell
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Will focus on the period between the American declaration of independence to the French revolution, and the impact of events in North America on proto-nationalist movements in Brazil, particularly on the Minas Conspiracy of 1788-1789. Will assume prior knowledge of Latin American, European and US history of this period, as well as language skills in Portuguese, Spanish and French.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History 85c. Latin American Independence - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5258 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gabriel Paquette
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course explores the processes which led to the demise of the Iberian empires and the creation of independent states in the Americas. It examines the factors which contributed to this change, both in Old World and the New. Students engage fully in the debates with which historians are grappling. These include: identity-formation and the rise of nationalism; "enlightened absolutism" and its discontents; the impact of the North American and French revolutions in Ibero-America; war and the origins of the nation-state; and the persistence of "colonial" institutions after political independence. Equal attention given to Brazil and Spanish America.
*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; W., at 9. 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.
*History 86b (formerly *History 1843). Imperial Japan and the US
Catalog Number: 3802 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Andrew Gordon
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
[*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). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
*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). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
Prerequisite: Senior level undergraduates.
[*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). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
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.
[*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 89c (formerly *History 1958). Islam and Ethnicity]
Catalog Number: 4023 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Terry D. Martin
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the relationship between Islamic religious identity and ethnic identity in the Russian, Ottoman, and Indian empires and their successor states. Inquires into what extent Islam can substitute for, reinforce, or undermine ethnic identity based on theoretical and historical works.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History 89d (formerly *History 1963). Cold War Crises]
Catalog Number: 6643 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ernest R. May
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
We focus on three crises of the Cold War: Berlin, 1948-49; Suez, 1956; and Berlin/Caribbean missiles, 1961-62. Discussion compares not only the crises but types of historical sources and problems involved in analyzing collective memory.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History 89e (formerly *History 1964). International History: War, Peace, and International Organizations]
Catalog Number: 7774 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
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 2009–10. 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 89f (formerly *History 1965). International History: States, Markets, and the Global Economy
Catalog Number: 7148 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Niall Ferguson and Charles S. Maier
Half course (spring term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
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 1010 (formerly History 1085). The Roman Empire, Augustus to Constantine
Catalog Number: 3109
Christopher P. Jones
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
The Roman Empire from its foundation by Augustus to the death of Constantine; its social, political, and military development; its institutions (emperor, senate, army); Roman imperial art and coinage; Greek and Roman literature of the imperial period; religious developments, including Judaism and Christianity under Roman rule; women and minorities. Sections will focus on issues of particular interest and on the study of primary documents. No knowledge of ancient languages required.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
[History 1020 (formerly History 1091). Jewish History in the Second and Post-Temple Period]
Catalog Number: 6035
Shaye J.D. Cohen
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1462.
[History 1040 (formerly History 1111). The Fall of the Roman Empire]
Catalog Number: 6019
Michael McCormick
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. Expected to be given in 2009-10.
[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 (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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: 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 1060. Europe and Its Borders, 950-1550 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0914
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
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: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World and the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
History 1071. Medieval England and Its Influences - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1117
Carol Symes
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
England’s multicultural history from the end of Roman rule in Britain to the early sixteenth century, and the later uses of that history. Themes will include the complex interactions between England and its neighbors, the changing conceptualization of kingship and national identity, the development of law and political institutions, the roles of women, the status of commoners and designated Others (Jews, heretics, the poor), intellectual trends, social and religious movements, popular entertainment, and daily life.
History 1080 (formerly History 1150). The Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain
Catalog Number: 5331
Bernard Septimus
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
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: 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). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
Prerequisite: Latin, with either German or French, is required. Normally History 2101 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). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the sources and methodologies necessary to conduct research on medieval Europe.
[*History 2070 (formerly *History 2120). Problems in Byzantine History: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 9720
Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Graduate colloquium for students preparing for general examinations in Byzantine history. Focus on major issues and historiographical debates, 4th-12th century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. May not be credited as a research seminar.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of French or German.
History 2071r (formerly History 2271r). Topics in Byzantine History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3868
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This year’s topic will be "Byzantium and the Mediterranean World".
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Greek, Ancient, Medieval and/or Latin, French and/or German.
History 2080 (formerly History 2126). Medieval Law
Catalog Number: 3140
Charles Donahue, Jr. (Law School)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 5–7 p.m. EXAM GROUP: 18
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 2008-09: the English legal tradition.
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 1118. Encounters: Early Modern British Exploration and Settlement in the Atlantic World - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7586
David Smith
Half course (fall term). M., W., 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 1119. The Cultural History of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Conference Course - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4763 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Allen J. Grieco (Villa I Tatti)
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Although food has long been considered beyond analysis and beneath history, in the past two decades the history of food, dietary theory and eating habits has become on of the most innovative areas of social and cultural history. The course provides an introduction to the cultural history of food and wine in Italy, focusing on the period 1300-1600.
[History 1127 (formerly History 1427). Women’s Voices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe]
Catalog Number: 7597
Rachel L. Greenblatt
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[History 1151 (formerly History 1450). France 1500-1715]
Catalog Number: 7575
Ann M. Blair
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. All assignments in English. An optional extra French-language reading section will be arranged in case of interest.
[*History 2112 (formerly *History 2473). Latin Texts of the Italian Renaissance: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 0140
James Hankins
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. 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 2123. Early Modern Intellectual and Cultural History: Proseminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3160
Ann M. Blair
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
[*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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. 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 1205 (formerly History 1484). Europe Since World War II]
Catalog Number: 4588
Mary D. Lewis
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Considers the political, economic, social and cultural development of Europe since the end of the Second World War. Examines post-war reconstruction; decolonization and the Cold War; the development of social democracy, new social movements, and the welfare state; the birth and expansion of the European Union; the emergence and importance of “immigrant politics” and new extreme-right movements; the events of 1989 and their significance.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1213 (formerly History 1413). The Evangelical Tradition, c. 1700-2000]
Catalog Number: 5888
David Hempton (Divinity School)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 8:30–10. EXAM GROUP: 10, 11
Investigates the Evangelical tradition from its origins in the religious revivals of the eighteenth century to its contemporary role in American culture and society. Will explore the complexities of gender, ethnicity, social class, and political culture. Will make use of primary and secondary materials to shed light on Evangelical theology, spirituality, and cultural expression throughout the North Atlantic region and beyond.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2358.
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 1221 (formerly History 1421). Ireland 1689-1922
Catalog Number: 1974
Gerard James Livesey (University of Sussex)
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A general survey of the history of Modern Ireland looking at the transformation of the island across three centuries. Will examine the creation of cultural and religious communities in the eighteenth century, the problem of political violence, the creativity of cultural history and the distinctive dynamics of Irish society and conclude with an approach to the Irish revolution.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B
History 1224 (formerly History 1424). Britain Since 1760: Island, Europe, Empire
Catalog Number: 2630
Maya Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
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.
[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 2009–10.
[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 2009–10. Expected to be given in 2009-10. 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). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
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).
History 1270. Frontiers of Europe: Ukraine since 1500 - (New Course)
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.
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.
History 1285. Russia and the Great Eurasian Steppe - (New Course)
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.
History 1290. The History of the Russian Empire - (New Course)
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). F., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
The history of Paris during the French Revolution.
*History 2260 (formerly *History 2441). Central Europe: Seminar
Catalog Number: 6464 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alison F. Frank
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
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.
Prerequisite: Reading Knowledge of either German, Polish, Czech, or another Central European language.
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 2271 (formerly History 2532). The Soviet Union: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 2405
Terry D. Martin
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17, 18
Introduction to major debates in the historiography of the Soviet Union and late imperial Russia.
History 2272 (formerly History 2531). The Soviet Union: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7969
Terry D. Martin
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Introduction to archival and primary sources, as well as major historiographical debates. Primary focus on major research paper.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian.
[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). Hours to be arranged.
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: 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 1305. The European Enlightenment: Conference Course - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3702 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
James Hankins
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
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.
[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 2009–10.
Prerequisite: History 1470; Social Studies 10; or a course in introductory philosophy or continental political theory.
History 1322. Heidegger and Arendt - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1906
Peter E. Gordon and Dana R. Villa (University of Notre Dame)
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12, and a weekly section on Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 14
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.
[History 1330 (formerly History 1661). Social Thought in Modern America]
Catalog Number: 8440
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Expected to be given in 2009–10. 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). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
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.
History 1345. The Human Sciences in the Modern West - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1324
Andrew Jewett
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
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.
History 1350. Theories of Secularization: Conference Course - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5865 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
[History 1390 (formerly History 1984). Understanding Democracy Through History]
Catalog Number: 1517
Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as API-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 2009–10.
[History 2330 (formerly History 2410). Ideas in Europe in the 18th Century: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1077
Emma Rothschild
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*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). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of classic and contemporary histories of American thought.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[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 1430 (formerly History 1657). Native America: The East]
Catalog Number: 1723
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This survey course uses culture to analyze Native American history. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the oral and spiritual histories of Native people east of the Mississippi prior to the arrival of Columbus, why and how Native nations adapted to the European presence, and how colonial and US Indian policy developed through the late twentieth century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1431 (formerly History 1658). Native America: The West]
Catalog Number: 5296
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This survey course uses culture to analyze Native American history. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the oral and spiritual histories of Native people west of the Mississippi prior to the arrival of Columbus, why and how Native nations adapted to the European presence, and how colonial and US Indian policy developed through the late twentieth century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 1435. American Legal History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3386
S. Deborah Kang
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
A survey of American legal history from the colonial period to the present, this class defines the law not only as constitutional doctrine or judge-made law but also as a tool in the shaping of American political institutions, public policy, and society. Major topics include the Constitution, law and economic development, crime and criminal justice, slavery and Reconstruction, civil liberties and civil rights, and the rise of the regulatory state.
History 1436. Immigrants in America, 1492 to the Present - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9460
S. Deborah Kang
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
This class will unravel what it means to be an immigrant in America. Students will discover the complexities of the immigrant experience from the migratory process itself to the creation of immigrant communities, the conflicts between immigrants and "Americans," and the formation of ethnic identities. Free and un-free, sojourners and settlers, aliens and citizens, immigrant histories reveal the multiple ways of being and becoming an "American."
[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 2009–10.
[History 1441 (formerly History 1641). History of the US West]
Catalog Number: 3887
Rachel St. John
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History 1452. American Politics and Society, Reconstruction to the Present - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0502
Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10, and a weekly section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 12
Surveys major themes in U.S. public life from Reconstruction to today. Examines contests over the meaning of freedom and citizenship; transformations of government; competing conceptions of national identity; America’s rise to global power; shifting patterns of work, thought, faith, political participation, and social life; and persistent patterns of economic and social inequality. Lectures provide a basic chronicle of the period; section meetings develop analytical skills through small group discussions of primary sources and secondary works.
[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 2009–10. 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 1461. War and the World of Ideas in America, Civil War to Iraq - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8539
Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11, and a section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 4
Explores how modern U.S. wars have both shaped and been shaped by American intellectual life. Examines the ideological/cultural origins of America’s modern wars; enthusiasm and dissent during wartimes; persistent currents of belligerence and pacifism; the influence of intellectual elites on security policy/diplomacy; and war’s impact on scholarship, arts, and literature, including how such legacies affect the occurrence and course of subsequent wars. Lectures provide background for analyses of primary sources; few secondary works assigned.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1465 (formerly History 1650b). The United States in the World, since 1920]
Catalog Number: 4745
Erez Manela
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
American foreign relations since World War I. Topics include the world role of the supposedly isolated US in the interwar years, World War II, postwar “hegemony,” the Cold War, and political, economic, and cultural interaction between Americans and other peoples.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Expected to be given in 2009-10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
[History 1494 (formerly History 1676). Social Movements in the United States from Populism to the New Right]
Catalog Number: 4073
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines social movements in America from the late 19th century until today in an historical perspective. Topics include populism, temperance, suffrage and the labor movement, as well as civil rights activism and the student movement. Attention will also be given to right-wing movements in the 20th century such as the Ku Klux Klan and the New Right. Course will address the origins of these various social movements, their strategies and tactics, and successes and failures.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[History 2401 (formerly History 2606 & 2606hf). Early American Social History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6049
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Research culminating in the production of a scholarly essay. Some prior knowledge of the period assumed.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History 2402. American Food (Graduate Seminar in General Education) - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1656 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Joyce E. Chaplin
Half course (spring term). W., 12–2. EXAM GROUP: 5, 6
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. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates.
[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.
Rachel St. John
Half course (fall term). Tu., 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 2443 (formerly History 2632). Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the 19th century United States: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8558
Walter Johnson
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Will illuminate the imperial dimensions of the history of the nineteenth-century US.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History 2460hf. Race Making and Law Making in the Long Civil Rights Movement: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4221
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Kenneth Mack (Law School)
Half course (throughout the year). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
A year-long seminar using multiple disciplinary perspectives to rethink the conventional time period and actors of the movement for racial equality in America, focusing on discontinuities, disruptions, and ironies in the struggle for equal citizenship.
Note: Offered jointly with the Law School as LAW-97415A.
*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). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Research on topics in 20th-century US history.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
History 2462 (formerly History 2607). Readings in the US in the 20th Century: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 2931
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
[History 2463 (formerly History 2661). Graduate Readings in 20th-Century African-American History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 9004
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Covers key literature on themes and developments shaping the national experience of African Americans from Redemption to the emerging multi-racial Republic.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*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.
Prerequisite: For dissertation writers only. Permission of the instructor.
History 2480hf (formerly History 2650hf). The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3719
Walter Johnson 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. For 2008-2009 Professor Walter Johnson will co-teach this course with Professor Christine Desan while Professor Sven Becket is on leave.
[History 2490hf (formerly History 2652hf). Politics and Social Movements in North America: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 2204
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
An interdisciplinary research workshop attached to the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, focused on examining the intersection between politics and social movements. We will explore how, when, and why various groups of Americans have collectively organized to press their claims and influence the political process, and, in turn, what influence social mobilization had on the state. The group will include resident fellows, graduate students and invited speakers. Student research will culminate in the production of a scholarly essay based on primary sources.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[History 1501 (formerly History 1749). Turning Points in Brazilian History: From Cabral to Lula]
Catalog Number: 5991
Kenneth R. Maxwell
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
The course will begin with a discussion of Brazil led by the union organizer Lula. From an examination of the present it will look back to critical moments in the formation of Brazilian society. Each episode will be examined both in terms of its Atlantic or global dimension as well as within its domestic national context.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History 1509. Global Iberian Empires, c. 1400-1800 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1098
Gabriel Paquette
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
This course surveys the origins and development of the Portuguese and Spanish empires in the early modern period, emphasizing the circuits that facilitated exchanges of people, ideas, commodities, and technologies. Major topics include: Mediterranean precedents of Iberian colonialism; early maritime exploration; institutions of colonial governance; the interaction between the European and indigenous peoples; the religious dimension of overseas expansion; the slave trade and slavery; the impact of empire on European geopolitics; and 18th-century government reform.
History 1510. Latin America in the 19th Century - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2553
Gabriel Paquette
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
This course surveys the history of Latin America, from the dissolution of the Iberian empires until the fall of the monarchy in Brazil. Major themes include: imperial reform and resistance to it; the wars of independence and the consolidation of post-colonial states; the development of national economies; the history of political ideas; and Latin America’s external relations (cultural, intellectual, political, and economic).
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 (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Japan’s emergence as a world power and the Japanese experience of modernity. 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. From the 1980s boom to the 1990s bust; the early end to the Japanese century?
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 1626. Modern Chinese History, 1644-1949 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5734
Jeff Snyder-Reinke (The College of Idaho)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
This course is an introduction to the history of modern China from the founding of the Qing dynasty in 1644 until the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The objective of the course is to provide students with an understanding of key issues, events, and figures during this period, as well as an understanding of the contemporary historiography on modern China. No prior knowledge of Chinese history is assumed or required.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
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). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
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: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core 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). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
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: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
History 1876. Late Ottoman History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9650
Edhem Eldem
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
A survey of Ottoman history from the mid-seventeenth century to the immediate aftermath of World War I, with a focus on the transformations undergone by the system up to the end of the eighteenth century, and on the process of westernization and modernization of the nineteenth century. A pluridisciplinary approach will ensure that the period is covered from as many perspectives as possible, political and economic, social and cultural, intellectual and mental.
History 1877 (formerly History 1877a). History of the Near East, 600-1055
Catalog Number: 1770
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
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.
[History 1878a. Ottoman State and Society I (1300–1550)]
Catalog Number: 5471
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
[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 classical Ottoman order in the Middle East and southeastern Europe until the demise of the state. Topics include decentralization; social disturbances; the impact of the new world economy and new trade routes; reforms; changing relations with Europe; nationalist movements; 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 2009–10.
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). Tu., Th., at 10, and a weekly section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 12
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: 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). Hours to be arranged.
A graduate colloquium designed for students preparing for general examinations in modern Chinese history or interested in the historiography of modern China.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
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). W., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
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: Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructor.
Prerequisite: Chinese 106b or equivalent foundation in literary Chinese.
History 2626. Society and Culture in Modern China: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2238
Jeff Snyder-Reinke (The College of Idaho)
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This course will provide graduate students with an introduction to some of the more recent literature on the social and cultural history of modern China from the seventeenth century until the early twentieth century.
History 2627. Violence in Modern Chinese History: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5939
Jeff Snyder-Reinke (The College of Idaho)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
The primary objective of this course is to provide graduate students with an introduction to the secondary literature on violence in modern Chinese history from the seventeenth century until the early twentieth century.
History 2628. Asia in the Making of the Modern World (Graduate Seminar in General Education) - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9741
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Ian J. Miller, and Parimal G. Patil
Half course (spring term). M., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9
This seminar will spotlight familiar aspects of life in contemporary America, and show how a deeper understanding of them requires study of peoples and events in distant places and times. Using a variety of sources and methods, the course will explore how Asia and its past are in fact woven into the intimate fabric of life here and now. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates.
*History 2651 (formerly *History 2851). Japanese History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 5146 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Andrew Gordon
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Analyzes trends and debates in historical research and writing on colonial and post-colonial South Asia.
[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 (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
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: Expected to be given in 2009–10. 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 2876. Ottoman Paleography and History: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0744
Edhem Eldem
Half course (spring term). Tu., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17
This specialized seminar will combine history with palaeography by focusing on one particular ’case study’ of nineteenth-century Ottoman history, the life and personal writings of Sultan Murad V’s son Prince Salahaddin Efendi (1861-1915).
Prerequisite: Previous knowledge of Turkish and Ottoman script.
[History 2882. Readings in the History of Iraq, 1900-2006: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4735
E. Roger Owen
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Readings selected to provide an understanding of Iraq’s 20th-century political and socio-economic history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[History 2884. Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 3762
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Topic to be announced.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Turkish.
[History 2885. Introduction to Archival Research in Ottoman History: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 3274
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of archival collections related to Ottoman history. Introduction to the archives of the central government, pious endowments, provincial administrations, and court records.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Turkish.
History 2886. Topics in Islamic History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3470
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring 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). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[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 2009–10.
History 1930. The Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1500 to the present - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1191
Richard Drayton (University of Cambridge)
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
The Caribbean was the crucible in which Amerindians, Europeans, Africans, and ultimately Asians came into violent encounter. Resistance to colonialism and slavery created a space of ‘transculturation,’ out of which came Cesaire and Walcott, vodun and Santeria, reggae and salsa.
This course examines the making of this Atlantic region, and its role, reciprocally, in shaping the modern economy, ideas of race, European imperialisms, the Pan-Americanism of Bolivar and Marti and Pan-Africanism of Garvey and Fanon.
[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 2009–10.
History 2917 (formerly History 2681). International Relations of the US: Seminar
Catalog Number: 8886
Ernest R. May
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Advanced research on topics in the history of U.S. foreign and national security policy.
History 2918. International Human Rights (Graduate Seminar in General Education) - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0857
Caroline M. Elkins
Half course (spring term). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
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. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates.
*History 2616 (formerly *History 3901). The Art and Craft of Historical Writing: Seminar
Catalog Number: 4655
Jill M. Lepore
Half course (spring term). Tu., 12–2. EXAM GROUP: 14, 15
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.
*History 2912 (formerly *History 3902). What is History? Concepts, Practices, Critique: Seminar
Catalog Number: 4766
Afsaneh Najmabadi and Judith Surkis
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
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.
*History 2915 (formerly *History 3904). History and Economics: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 1557
Emma Rothschild
Half course (fall term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
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.
[History 2920 (formerly History 3905). 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 2009–10.
*History 3900 (formerly *History 3910). Writing History: Approaches and Practices
Catalog Number: 1358
David R. Armitage and Caroline M. Elkins
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.
*History 3010. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 3424
Asad A. Ahmed 5567, Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421, David R. Armitage 5023, Bernard Bailyn 1841, Sven Beckert 2415 (on leave 2008-09), Thomas N. Bisson 1451, David Blackbourn 3203, Ann M. Blair 2467, Peter K. Bol 8014, Sugata Bose 3960, Vincent Brown 4638 (on leave 2008-09), Joyce E. Chaplin 1058, John H. Coatsworth 3248, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Kathleen M. Coleman 2289, Nancy F. Cott 4261 (on leave 2008-09), Robert Darnton 5980, Emma Dench 5243, Charles Donahue, Jr. (Law School) 2650, Carter J. Eckert 1178 (on leave spring term), Caroline M. Elkins 3961, Mark C. Elliott 3329 (on leave spring term), Drew Gilpin Faust 3857, Niall Ferguson 4938 (on leave fall term), Alison F. Frank 5313, Ivan Gaskell 3174, Andrew Gordon 1891, Peter E. Gordon 3907 (on leave fall term), Peter A. Hall 7272, James Hankins 1239, Henrietta Harrison 5161 (on leave fall term), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Patrice Higonnet 2730, Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Akira Iriye 1968, Maya Jasanoff 5877, Andrew Jewett 5878, Walter Johnson 5616, Christopher P. Jones 3204, Cemal Kafadar 2459 (on leave 2008-09), Edward L. Keenan 1825, Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School) 4323, William C. Kirby 3128, Mark A. Kishlansky 2895, James T. Kloppenberg 3157 (on leave 2008-09), Philip A. Kuhn 8051, Angeliki E. Laiou 7282 (on leave 2008-09) (fall term only), Jill M. Lepore 4830, Mary D. Lewis 4369, Malinda Maynor Lowery 5320 (on leave 2008-09), Charles S. Maier 7227, Erez Manela 4762 (on leave 2008-09), Terry D. Martin 2966, Ernest R. May 1817 (on leave spring term), Michael McCormick 2849 (on leave 2008-09), Lisa M. McGirr 2543 (on leave 2008-09), Ian J. Miller 5880 (on leave fall term), Roy Mottahedeh 1454, Afsaneh Najmabadi 4052, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris 5881, E. Roger Owen 1028 (on leave fall term), Steven Ozment 6197 (on leave spring term), Richard Pipes 1827, Serhii Plokhii 4454, Michael J. Puett 1227 (on leave 2008-09), Emma Rothschild 5001 (on leave spring term), P. Oktor Skjaervo 2869 (on leave fall term) (spring term only), Daniel L. Smail 5343, Rachel St. John 5328, Judith Surkis 4184, Roman Szporluk 3033, Hue-Tam Ho Tai 6079, Stephan Thernstrom 4141, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, John Womack, Jr. 1863 (on leave 2008-09), and Steven J. Zipperstein (Stanford University) 5910 (fall term only)
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall: F., 1–3; Tu., 3–5; Spring: F., 1–3; Th., 2–4.
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.