The Global Middle Ages II, c. 1000–1600

Professor: Nathanael Aschenbrenner  

Course Number: HIST 102

CRN Number: 10199

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Medieval Studies

This course will examine c.1000–1600 CE across Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas, exploring major changes in religion and warfare, the rise of new empires and thickening webs of commerce, conquest, and consumption across the globe. From the religious violence of crusades and pogroms, to the Mongol sweep across Eurasia; from the emergence of new racial categories and prejudices to projects of cultural celebration like the Renaissance; from the conquest and colonization of the Americas and the robust trade in spice, sugar, textiles, and human beings—the course will focus on the mobility of commodities, ideas, and practices throughout an increasingly connected world. Through diverse literary, material, and artistic evidence, students will encounter the experiences of people from vastly different regions and will learn to identify new connections through this dynamic period.

U.S. History in the Long 19th Century

Professor: Shay Olmstead  

Course Number: HIST 104

CRN Number: 10328

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Hegeman 106

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

In the 130 years after its founding—during what is called the Long Nineteenth Century—the United States experienced tremendous changes to its political, economic, and constitutional frameworks. U.S. citizens lived through major demographic and geographic shifts, rapid technological growth, the mass displacement of Indigenous nations, and the turmoil of a Civil War. This survey course will explore this history from many angles, anchoring broad discussions of politics, economy, and war in the lived experiences of actual people and especially focusing on the ways unlanded men, yeomen farmers, women, free and enslaved African Americans, Indigenous peoples, industrial workers, and recent immigrants asserted their rights to participate in, shape, and belong to this new nation.

Before and after Islam: Arabia and the Horn of Africa in the First Millennium CE

Professor: Valentina Grasso  

Course Number: HIST 108

CRN Number: 10196

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     5:10 PM - 6:30 PM Olin Language Center 118

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

Islam was not an alien product of Arabia nor of the first millennium. It emerged in a pivotal area both for the exchange of goods and ideas. This course serves as an introduction to the history of both shores of the Red Sea in the first millennium CE. Through a focus on the interactions between empires and Scriptural traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) within the historical frame of the first millennium, the course aims to incorporate the history of the Red Sea into the study of the so-called “Late Antiquity”. The first half of the course will examine the history of pre-Islamic Arabia and the Horn of Africa, from the kingdom of Saba and Himyar in South Arabia to that of Aksūm in today’s Ethiopia and Eritrea. The rise of Islam, the formation of the Islamicate World, and the effects of these events on East Africa will be the focus of the second half of the course. Large attention will be paid to archaeological sources, including (but not limited to) epigraphical material, buildings, statuettes, and numismatics, as well as to modern representations of Arabia, East Africa, and Islam.

Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1500

Professor: Lloyd Hazvineyi  

Course Number: HIST 109

CRN Number: 10197

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Africana Studies

This course is a survey of the history of Sub-Saharan Africa from 1500 to the present. It identifies different historical processes that shaped the region into what it is today. Starting with the sophisticated states and empires, through to colonization and decolonization, and up to the most recent contemporary developments, the course locates Sub-Saharan Africa within the context of global political and economic developments. At the end of the course, students will have an appreciation of different historical processes that shaped not only Africa but the rest of the world. The course will be taught using one key monograph, Robert O. Collin and James McDonald Burns, A History of Sub-Saharan Africa.

An Introduction to the History of India, 2500 BCE to 1947

Professor: Rupali Warke  

Course Number: HIST 118

CRN Number: 10198

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Asian Studies

This class gives an overview of about five thousand years of history of the Indian subcontinent, primarily, the contemporary nation-states of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. It covers the period of the earliest cities of India until the independence from British colonial rule. It introduces students to the epoch-making events, personalities, historical trends, and key aspects of Indian culture and society. In doing this, the class situates India in a global frame and explores the history of India through the transmission and circulation of people, ideas, and material culture. We would be looking at leading scholarly works as well as key primary texts and audiovisual material.

War and Peace: International History since 1914

Professor: Richard Aldous and Sean McMeekin

Course Number: HIST 120

CRN Number: 10680

Class cap: 44

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 115

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Global & International Studies

This global lecture course surveys international history in the modern era. We will give particular attention to the three major wars of the twentieth century—World War I, World War II, and the Cold War—and the shifting global balance of power. We will also explore the historiographical controversies that surround these events. Special prominence is given to the policies of the Great Powers, and the major ideological forces that defined them. In that way, our survey will help you achieve an understanding of the broad sweep of international history and to be able to differentiate among the forces—including imperialism, fascism, communism, liberal capitalism, and globalism—that have disrupted and shaped the modern world.

The United States in the 20th Century

Professor: Jeannette Estruth  

Course Number: HIST 121

CRN Number: 10687

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    5:10 PM - 6:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Global & International Studies

This course offers a survey of the history of the United States over the last century. With a particular emphasis on political history, we will move chronologically through primary sources and secondary literature that shine light on this dynamic era. This course also offers an introduction to the methods and tools that historians use, and some of the problems historians encounter when writing and interpreting the past.

Intro Modern Japanese History

Professor: Robert Culp  

Course Number: HIST 127

CRN Number: 10201

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Global & International Studies

Japan in the mid-19th century was beleaguered by British and American imperialism and rocked by domestic turmoil. How, then, did it become an emerging world power by the early 20th century? Why did Japan’s transformations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries lead to the total war of the 1930s and 1940s? And why did the horrible destruction experienced after World War II ultimately result in rapid economic growth and renewed global importance for Japan after the 1950s? These questions provide the framework for our study of modern Japanese history. Throughout the course we will focus special attention on Japan’s distinctive urban culture, the changing role of women in Japanese society, the re-invention of Japan’s imperial institution, the domestic and international effects of Japanese imperialism, and the question of the United States’ role in Japan’s post-war reconstruction. Readings of drama, fiction, satire, and memoir will contribute to our exploration of these and other topics. No prior study of Japan is necessary; first-year students are welcome.

History of Technology and Economy: The Hydrocarbon Era

Professor: Gregory Moynahan  

Course Number: HIST 161

CRN Number: 10202

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Cross-Listed: Global & Int¿l Studies; Science, Technology & Society Related interest:  Human Rights This course will survey the history and historiography of technology in the late modern period.  The course will begin by studying how a separate domain of technology first came to be defined, in theory and practice, during the eighteenth century within such diverse activities as agriculture, time measurement, transport, architecture, and warfare.  We will then address how institutional forces such as law, academia, business and government came to define and influence technological change and scientific research during the industrial revolution.  Throughout the course, we will avoid casting the history of technology solely as a history of 'things' and instead focus on technology as a process embedded within research agendas, institutions, social expectations, economics, and specific use -- and thus as part of a broader 'socio-technical system.'  Case studies ranging from the bicycle and nuclear missile targeting to public health statistics and the birth control pill will allow us to develop 'internal' accounts of the development of technology and science in conjunction with 'external' accounts of the historical context of technologies.  The course will conclude with an assessment of recent approaches to the history of technology, such as the influence of systems theory or actor-network theory.  Authors read will include Hacking, Heidegger, Hughes, Landes, Latour, Lenoir, Luhmann, Mokyr, Spengler, and Wise. If course space is limited, preference will be given to History and History of Science concentrators.

The Age of Extremes: Modern European History since 1815

Professor: Gregory Moynahan  

Course Number: HIST 192

CRN Number: 10694

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: German Studies; Global & International Studies

This course will present a thematic survey of European history in the modern period.  Each week we will address transformations in the era using different methodologies and forms of history, ranging from demographic and gender history to diplomatic and military history.  The class will thus offer an in-depth presentation of key aspects of modernity and a survey of contemporary historiography. Issues discussed will include: the relation of the agricultural and industrial revolutions to long-term ecological and demographic change; the intensification of capitalism as the basis of social organization; the coextensive development of competing ideologies of conservatism, anarchism, socialism, communism and liberalism; the role of Europe in the global economic system, “scientific racism,” and neo-colonialism; the creation of new institutions of technological research, patent, and communication; the wars of the twentieth century, systematic genocide, and the development of a military-industrial technocracy; the transformation of the state system through the European Union; and the effect of mass media on definitions of the public sphere and political action.

India Under Colonial Rule, 1750-1947

Professor: Rupali Warke  

Course Number: HIST 197

CRN Number: 10203

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Albee 106

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Global & International Studies

After the demise of the great Mughal empire of India in the eighteenth century, the British gained power which eventually led to two hundred years of colonial rule ruled over South Asia. This course introduces students to the modern history of South Asia between the years 1750 and 1947. Students will learn how South Asia, a region consisting of several contemporary nation-states, came under colonial rule and how the indigenous communities navigated the colonial experience. Some of the main themes that this course explores are – the political rise of the British East India Company (EIC), the influence of western political thought on Indian society, Gandhi’s ideology of non-violence, socio-political movements against caste inequality, the emergence of extremist ideologies, and modernist women’s movements. Through critical primary and secondary textual as well as audio-visual sources, we will explore questions such as – How could the British rule over a culturally alien people for two hundred years? How did South Asians respond to western modernity? What is the significance of Gandhi in Indian history? What happened to caste during colonialism? What were the causes of political conflict between Hindus and Muslims?

Swinging London: Britain in the Sixties

Professor: Richard Aldous  

Course Number: HIST 2060

CRN Number: 10307

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

"The sixties saw an old world die," said one columnist about 60s Britain, "and a new one come to birth." At the center of everything was London, which spread its cultural influence around the world. Carnaby Street and the King’s Road, Mary Quant and the mini skirt, Shirley Bassey and Julie Christie’s "Darling," Mods and Beatlemania: they all represented a Swinging London that took Britain to the forefront of international culture, gossip, and fashion. A new open-mindedness and progressive sensibility also brought political and social change, not least when Parliament decriminalized abortion and homosexuality. But there was another sixties too, one that took place away from the glare of fashion photographers and London newspapers. This sixties was a time of evolution rather than revolution, when rising affluence was accompanied by fears of national decline, and where public tastes were often more conventional. "The soundtracks of ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘South Pacific,’" points out historian Dominic Sandbrook, "comfortably outsold any of the Beatles albums of the decade." By examining the political, cultural and social history of these "two sixties," this course takes stock of a complicated, often contradictory, decade and a national experience where the Pill, "Twiggy," and Small Faces were more than matched by bingo, bowls, and mowing the lawn. In doing so it asks if John Lennon was right all along when he quipped of the sixties, "Nothing happened except that we all dressed up."

Latin-Americans in the United States

Professor: Miles Rodriguez  

Course Number: HIST 2101

CRN Number: 10308

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Global and International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

This course examines the lives of people of Latin-American descent in the US. Following the introductory-level course, Latin-American Histories, it is a more advanced examination of the histories, cultures, and identities of those in the US who in some way trace their lineages to Latin America. The course closely considers questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality, and the roles of migration and intergenerational settlement, in the formation of diverse identities within the US. It focuses primarily on peoples of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and wider Spanish Caribbean and Central American ancestry, the largest groups of people of Latin-American descent according to nationality or national origin. The course is organized around a series of critical themes and debates, which include: the meanings, identities, and ontologies of Latin-American origin peoples; the uses of multiple languages and concepts, including self-descriptions and external categorizations, such as Latina, Latino, and Latinx; cultural appropriation versus appreciation; cultural adaptation versus accommodation over generations; the maintenance of cultural continuity through colonization, migration, and settlement; relations between origin country and country of arrival, as in homelands versus diasporas, in migratory relations; the origins of racial and interracial categories and concepts in colonial and other historical eras, to mestizaje and beyond, as both process and ideology. As in the introductory course, the goal of this advanced-level course is to create a more complex and complete historical understanding of people of Latin-American descent in the US today.

U.S. LGBTQ+ History and Culture

Professor: Shay Olmstead  

Course Number: HIST 211

CRN Number: 10329

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies

This course explores the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people within what is now the United States from the colonial period to the present day. It explores how contemporary understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality have shifted and developed over time; highlights key moments of LGBTQ+ activism and political engagement; traces the interplay between sexual and gender minorities and law, politics, religion, and medicine; and explores how queer identities intersect with race, class, disability, and nationality. Our collaborative in-class activities, discussions, and assignments will engage with memoirs, treatises, academic works, documentaries, art, and a range of primary sources produced by, for, and about LGBTQ+ people.

Deserts and steppes: from the Xiongnu to the Mongol Empire

Professor: Valentina Grasso  

Course Number: HIST 214

CRN Number: 10305

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 118

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

From the words of the Western Han historian Sima Qian (145–86 BCE) to the 2014 Netflix series Marco Polo, the people inhabiting the deserts and the steppes of Eurasia have played a significant role in the common imaginary. This course will focus on the history of Central and East Asia from the fourth century BCE to the fourteenth century. Beginning with an analysis of the Xiongnu Empire, “the first steppe empire in history”, and ending with an overview of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous one, the course will pay attention to the formation and collapse of political entities in the region, including that of the Rouran and the Göktürk Khaganates. Emphasis will be laid on the interaction between diverse cultures in the period and on the formation of trading nodes and missionary activities in the area. The final classes will cover ancient and contemporary cinematic representations of the people encountered during the courses, with a special focus on Genghis and Kublai Khan.

Russia, Turkey and the First World War

Professor: Sean McMeekin  

Course Number: HIST 224

CRN Number: 10310

Class cap: 18

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Albee 106

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Russian and Eurasian Studies

This course will tell the story of Tsarist Russia’s collapse during and after the First World War, culminating in a violent Revolution and Civil War.  In parallel, we will examine the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of World War I.  We will progress chronologically from the turn of the twentieth century up to 1923, by which time the Bolsheviks had secured supremacy in most of the regions of the former Tsarist Empire, and Turkey had regrouped under Mustafa Kemal to win its war of independence.  We will focus on five major periods in depth:  political upheaval in the late Tsarist and Ottoman regimes (1903-1909), the Italian and Balkan wars (1911-1913), the Great War from 1914-1918, the Russian revolutionary upheaval of 1917-1918 and finally the Russian Civil War, which largely coincided (and intersected with) Turkey’s own war of independence.  We will conclude with a look at the “settlement of 1922-23,” when most diplomatic questions opened up by the collapse of the Romanov and Ottoman empires had been settled by force of arms. Motivated first-year students are encouraged to enroll in this course.

Migrants and Refugees in the Americas

Professor: Miles Rodriguez  

Course Number: HIST 225

CRN Number: 10311

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

The Border. The Ban. The Wall. Raids. Deportations. Separation of Families. Immigrant Rights. Sanctuary. Refugee Resettlement. These words - usually confined to policy, enforcement, and activism related to migrants and refugees - have recently exploded into the public view and entered into constant use. The current political administration made migratory and refugee enforcement, and of migration more generally, a centerpiece of its electoral campaign and the subject of its first executive orders, generating broad public controversy. Most migration to the US is from Latin America, by far the largest single migrant population is from Mexico, and the rise of Central American migration has proved enduring. Focusing on south-north migration from these Latin American regions, this class argues that it is impossible to understand the current political situation in the US without studying the relatively lesser-known history of migrant and refugee human rights over the last three decades, including massive protests, movements for sanctuary, and attempts at reform and enforcement. The class takes into account shifting global demographics, changing reasons for migration, rapid legal and political changes, complex enforcement  policies and practices, and powerful community movements for reform, which are often forgotten  with the opening and closing of a given news cycle. The class also argues that migrant and refugee voices matter and are critical to understanding migration as an historical and current problem. The course includes migrant, refugee, and activist narratives, and an array of historical, legal, political, and other primary sources. Its goal is to create a more complete historical understanding of Latin American-origin migration in the contemporary US context. This course is part of the Liberal Arts Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education initiative. This course is part of the Racial Justice Initiative, an interdisciplinary collaboration among students and faculty to further the understanding of racial inequality and injustice in the United States and beyond.

Music and Society in Africa Since 1900

Professor: Lloyd Hazvineyi  

Course Number: HIST 233

CRN Number: 10306

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Hegeman 201

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Africana Studies

Since 1900, the history of Africa has been characterized by protests against colonial governments and post-colonial injustices. Music assumed a central role not only in communicating these grievances but also in protesting against different forms of repression. This course takes advantage of Africa’s rich history in music to revisit Africa’s history through music. Right from the Maji-Maji Rebellions of 1907 in East Africa, through to the protracted independence wars of the 1950s-60s, up to the most recent processes such as the anti-SARS protests in Nigeria, music played a central role not only in airing out people’s grievances but also in archiving events for posterity. The course will be taught using published secondary material, primary sources, audio recordings, and videos.

Student Protest and Youth Activism in Modern China

Professor: Robert Culp  

Course Number: HIST 239

CRN Number: 10309

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Politics

From the May Fourth protests in 1919 to the demonstrations in Hong Kong a century later, students have been key political actors in modern China. This course will explore the origins of Chinese student protest at the turn of the twentieth century and follow the transformations of youth activism to the present. We will track developments in Chinese youths’ nationalist protests from the Anti-American boycotts of 1905 through the twists and turns of the Chinese revolution. We will also analyze how Chinese Communist Party efforts to mobilize youth for political activism and socialist construction culminated in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and Mao’s call for a generation of urban youths to go “up to the mountains and down to the countryside” to develop rural China. Finally, we will consider how the Democracy Wall Movement (1978-1979), Tiananmen Square protests (1989), Umbrella Movement (2015), and more recent protests in Hong Kong have drawn on or departed from earlier repertoires of student activism. We will ask why “youth” (qingnian) emerged as privileged political actors, assess how different political movements and parties have sought to mobilize them, and gauge how students and other groups of Chinese youth have responded. Our inquiry will situate Chinese student activism in relation to global and local currents of youth culture and politics. No previous study of China is required; first-year students are welcome.

Beyond Witches, Abbesses, and Queens: European Women 1500-1800

Professor: Tabetha Ewing  

Course Number: HIST 297

CRN Number: 10313

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 210

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

Women make history – as historical actors and as historians. In this course, we will read about the “woman question” in the medical, legal, religious, and political discourses of the early modern period through processes such as the centralization of European states, Protestant and Catholic reformations, explorations, and colonial settlement. Many of our readings examine how social, economic, and other material circumstances shaped the history of working and bourgeois women. However, where possible, we will focus on women’s cultural production – literary, musical, and artistic. The course will also serve as an opportunity to reflect upon the history of women’s studies, both as a field of inquiry and as an academic institution.

Marking Time: The History of Temporality from Antiquity to Tomorrow

Professor: Nathanael Aschenbrenner  

Course Number: HIST 313

CRN Number: 10314

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Scientifically measured and seemingly infinite, time seems both natural and unchanging. Yet throughout history, people have marked, measured, controlled, and divided time in profoundly different ways. This seminar, "Marking Time: The History of Temporality from Antiquity to Tomorrow," will introduce students to the varieties of time and temporality that have structured human societies from Hellenistic kingdoms in the 4th c. BCE to current visions of the multiverse and impending climate catastrophe. It asks how measuring and controlling time have often been used to exert political and social control throughout history. We will encounter time as a technology of resistance and a tool of imperialism. Through primary sources drawn from history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, art, and pop culture, we will explore how new forms of dynastic dating and biblical prophecy competed to control the future in antiquity; how humans struggled to construct calendars to map agricultural and ceremonial cycles onto astronomical phenomena; how innovations in time-keeping in the Industrial Revolution enabled more intensive and exploitative regulation of labor; and how the atomic clocks, stopwatches, and instantly updating news feeds of today have created new temporalities in the 21st century.

The Company Raj, 1757-1857

Professor: Rupali Warke  

Course Number: HIST 315

CRN Number: 10315

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Asian Studies

This research seminar explores the trajectory of the East India Company (EIC) from a joint stock company to a political power in South Asia. The class explores in depth the period between the declining Mughals and the rising British empire. While focusing on this period, we would also discuss the archive, methodology, and scholarship on early colonial history. Some of the questions we would explore with this approach are - How could a commercial entity become the ruler of one of the oldest civilizations of the world? How did the company adapt to the Indian conditions? What do we mean by ‘Company Raj’? How did the EIC influence the future course of Indian history? Students would read important scholarly works as well as primary sources from this period. At the end of the course, students are expected to write a research paper using a primary source. Background in Indian history is not needed.

Re-Thinking Silicon Valley

Professor: Jeannette Estruth  

Course Number: HIST 382

CRN Number: 10316

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

This seminar uses the space of the Silicon Valley to explore larger threads and themes in post-war economic, urban, political, and intellectual United States history.

The Early Modernity of Witchcraft

Professor: Tabetha Ewing  

Course Number: HIST 386

CRN Number: 10317

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin Languages Center 208

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

This course explores the witch craze, both practice and persecution. It focuses on Europe, 1450 to 1750, from the investigation, interrogation, torture, confession, exile, and execution of witches to the witch’s pact with the devil and injury to children, animals, and crops these procedures “revealed.” However, the course begins with 20th-century South Africa and West Africa where studies of witchcraft’s modernity, its legislation, the accused’s internment, and its victims’ asylum-seeking amid globalization and accelerated technological progress have been most robust. The great age of European witch trials and printed demonological manuals coincided similarly with the history we most associate with the decline of magic and advent of European modernization projects: the Age of Print; the Reformations; the Age of Discoveries; the Scientific Revolution; the Enlightenment; political and legal centralization; economic and financial revolution; and the radical developments in social ideas, notably the invention of racial difference, on the one hand, and natural equality, on the other. Historiographical paradoxes are always good to think with and the witch craze in relation to the age of reason is one of the best. Students may find that occult practices and moral panics today would be more familiar than strange in the 17th-century world, despite the ruptures ushered in by the rational agents of early-modern change. In this way, through the lens of witchcraft, students gaze forensically at history-making as human progress and have the opportunity to stake out their own theories of historical change. Major Conference. Limited to12. Moderating or moderated students only.

The Beautiful Game: A Global History of Soccer

Professor: Lloyd Hazvineyi  

Course Number: HIST 392

CRN Number: 10415

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      8:00 AM - 10:20 AM OSUN Course

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights

Soccer has enthralled and excited many audiences throughout the centuries. From the factory workers in Victorian England, to colonial prisoners such as Nelson Mandela incarcerated on Robben Island, to the streets of Sao Paulo Brazil, soccer has been one of the most consequential and celebrated sports. This course takes the position that soccer is more than just a game, and invites students to consider and examine the cultural, social and political meanings which societies around the world have attached to the beautiful game. The class situates the global history of soccer in the context of themes which include industrialization, settler colonialism, race, segregation, empire, violence and corruption. As such, the class engages explicit political dimensions of soccer such as Catalan nationalist ambitions in Spain, which are often expressed in the Spanish derby, the El Classico between Barcelona (from the Catalan region) and Real Madrid (from Madrid). The class also explores how soccer became entangled in anti-apartheid and anti-colonial struggles across the African continent. Through class readings, discussions and documentary screenings, students will be expected to examine and comment on how dominant ideas about race, belonging, as well as social hierarchies have been negotiated on the field of play. The class foregrounds questions which seek to understand the role of sport in society, interrogating how soccer has not only mirrored society’s prejudices, but has often reproduced them. This is an OSUN Online Class, taught online and open to Bard students and students from OSUN partner institutions.

Qualitative Research Methods

Professor: Victor Apryshchenko  

Course Number: HIST 394 OSU

CRN Number: 10684

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      8:30 AM - 11:30 AM OSUN Course

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

The course seeks to expand the range of voices involved in the researching and writing global history. Employing the same networked, blended model used in ‘A History of the World’, the course trains students in history methods and project design. Students, collaborating with each other and with instructor, develop and answer research questions before carrying out independent research projects. At the end of the course, they share their findings with the class, creating opportunities for students to see and explore connections, parallels, and intersections between their diverse projects. The course inverts traditional hierarchies of knowledge production by helping displaced learners and their neighbors build the research and critical thinking skills needed to create and share historical narratives—turning them from consumers to producers of historical knowledge. This is an OSUN Online Class, taught online and open to Bard students and students from OSUN partner institutions.

Archaeology of African American Farms, Yards, and Gardens

Course Number: ANTH 290

CRN Number: 10342

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

Professor:

Christopher Lindner

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Hegeman 201

    Fri   1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Hegeman 201

Distributional Area:

LS  Laboratory Science   

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Environmental Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Historical Studies

The Roman World: An Introduction

Course Number: CLAS 122

CRN Number: 10108

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

David Ungvary

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 103

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists:

Historical Studies

Ancient Egypt: From the Pyramids to the Ptolemies and Beyond

Course Number: CLAS 206

CRN Number: 10690

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor: Robert Cioffi  

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin Language Center 115

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists: Historical Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

Stalin and Power

Course Number: LIT 2205

CRN Number: 10384

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

Professor:

Jonathan Brent

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

Crosslists:

Historical Studies; Russian and Eurasian Studies

History and Philosophy of Science

Course Number: PHIL 274

CRN Number: 10287

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

Professor:

Michelle Hoffman

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Henderson Comp. Center 106

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value   

Crosslists:

Historical Studies; Science, Technology, Society

Power, Diplomacy, and Warfare in Global Affairs

Course Number: PS 273

CRN Number: 10279

Class cap: 18

Credits: 4

Professor:

Frederic Hof

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 307

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists:

Global & International Studies; Historical Studies

"All Men Are Created Equal": Dissent and the Declaration of Independence

Course Number: PS 329

CRN Number: 10280

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Simon Gilhooley

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 102

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Historical Studies

Empires, City-States & Nation-States: An exploration of the social and political dimensions of Rule

Course Number: SOC 348

CRN Number: 10267

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

Professor:

Karen Barkey

Schedule/Location:

Mon       3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 308

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

Crosslists:

Historical Studies