91508 |
HIST 100 Ancient History |
Carolyn Dewald |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 201 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Classical Studies The
course has two main purposes: first, to see how much is implied by the notion
of historical causation and what it means to 'think historically'; second, to
gain a sense of the way the foundations of western culture were first shaped in
the Near East and then developed quite distinctively in the ancient cultures of
Greece and Rome. We will begin with the
beginnings of recorded civilization in the
91501 |
HIST / JS 101 Introduction to Jewish Studies |
Cecile Kuznitz |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HUM/DIFF |
Cross-listed:
Religion This interdisciplinary course will introduce
students to major themes in the field of Jewish Studies. The primary focus will
be on the history of the Jewish people and on Judaism as a religion, but we
will also examine topics in Jewish literature, society, and politics. The
course will treat selected themes from the Biblical period to the present, but
with a greater emphasis on the medieval and especially the modern period. Among
the issues to be explored: What role has the
Class
size: 22
91894 |
HIST 112 THREE CITIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE URBAN
HISTORIES OF |
Drew Thompson |
M . W . . |
10:10 am -11:30 am |
OLIN 205 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
Africana Studies, Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & Int’l Studies
Human Rights This introductory course in African
history traces the development of Lagos, Nairobi, and Johannesburg, beginning
before 1850, with people’s first encounters with the concept of the ‘city.’ We
will continue into the contemporary period, exploring the impact of
colonization, apartheid, as well as globalization in the post-independence era.
Students will explore each city through the perspectives of the very people who
participated in their construction. The class will not merely look at the
infrastructure of these cities, but also incorporate music, films, and
theatrical plays to consider their underworlds, from the slums to the shopping
centers. Class size: 22
91895 |
HIST 130 Origins of American Citizen |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
American Studies; Africana Studies; Human Rights The
United States is often portrayed historically as emerging triumphantly in 1776
to offer inclusive citizenship and a transcendent, tolerant “American” identity
to all its indigenous and immigrant residents.
Yet the reality of American history belies this myth. The nation’s
history is transnational and yet we focus mostly on its Anglophone roots,
ignoring that the “
91896 |
HIST 134 THE Ottomans & THE Last Islamic EmpIRE |
Omar Cheta |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am -11:30 am |
OLIN 205 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies; Middle Eastern
Studies In the aftermath of
World War I, the
91897 |
HIST 140 IntroDUCTION to Russian Civilization |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 301 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
Medieval Studies, Russian and Eurasian Studies
This course examines the origins and
evolution of Russian civilization from the founding of the first Eastern Slavic
state through the eighteenth century, when
91898 |
HIST 143 European Diplomatic History, 1648-1914 |
Sean McMeekin |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
RKC 102 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies A survey of the major developments in European
diplomatic history between the Treaty of Westphalia and the outbreak of World
War I. Key themes of discussion will
include the changing nature of diplomacy and international order; the rise of
the nation state and standing armies; war finance and the bond market; the
French Revolutionary upheaval, the Industrial Revolution, and ideological
responses to them (eg, liberalism, nationalism/irredentism, conservatism,
socialism, and anarchism). The course
concludes with an examination of the high era of imperialism and the origins of
the First World War. Class size: 22
91899 |
HIST 153 Diaspora & Homeland: A GLOBAL CORE COURSE |
Cecile Kuznitz |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 102 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: American Studies; Africana Studies; Global & Int’l Studies; Human
Rights; Jewish Studies; Related interest: Asian Studies The concept of Diaspora has gained widespread
popularity as a way of thinking about group identity and its relationship to
place. In an era of increasing globalization individuals are more likely to emigrate
to distant shores, although this is in fact a longstanding historical
phenomenon. Homelands in turn have taken on multiple, complex meanings in the
imaginations and lived experience of migrant populations, particularly in
recent times as technological and transportation innovations facilitate the
maintenance of links with native lands.
In this course we will read recent theoretical works on Diaspora and
then examine case studies of diasporic populations from ancient times to the
present. We will inquire about the
extent to which Diaspora is celebrated or lamented, how this attitude affects
real and imagined ties to homelands.
While our focus will be chiefly on diasporic peoples themselves, we will
examine the perspective of native/homeland populations on such issues as
well. Case studies will include the
first and longest-lived diasporic minority group, the Jewish people; black
African-descended people since the trans-Atlantic slave trade; and Chinese and
South Asian migrant populations. Class
size: 44
91903 |
HIST 2035 The Wars of Religion |
Tabetha Ewing |
. T . Th . |
6:20 pm -7:40 pm |
OLIN 101 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality
Studies, Human Rights Religion and revolution
have formed an unholy alliance at several distinct moments in history. This
course is a journey across the motley religious landscape of early modern
91904 |
HIST 2110 Early Middle Ages |
Alice Stroup |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am -11:30 am |
OLIN 203 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Classical Studies, Medieval Studies The European "middle ages" –
originally so called as a term of derision – are more complex and heterogeneous
than is commonly thought. This course surveys eight centuries, focused around
the formation and spread of Christianity and Islam in the
91976 |
HIST 2112 The Invention of Politics |
Tabetha Ewing |
. T . Th . |
4:40 pm -6:00 pm |
OLIN 101 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
Human Rights Individuals
and groups spoke, wrote, and fought to make their claims to public power in the
period between 1500 and 1800 in ways that forced a reimagining of political
relationships. The greatest institutions
in place, particularly monarchies and the papacy, used their arsenals of words,
documents, symbols, and ritual to maintain their legitimacy in the face of
subtle or uproarious resistance. The
tension between or, more accurately, among groups created new political
vocabularies to which we, in our present, have claimed historical ownership or
explicitly rejected.
Class
size: 20
91900 |
HIST 2118 Soviet |
Sean McMeekin |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
HEG 308 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, Political
Studies, Russian & Eurasian Studies This course examines the Russian Revolution
and Civil War; the New Economic Policy and the succession struggle after Lenin;
the major phases of Stalinism, from collectivization and the Five Year Plans to
the Great Terror, the “Great Patriotic War” (i.e,
World War II) and the onset of the Cold War; the volatile Khrushchev era; “soft
repression” and the growth of the Soviet bureaucratic elite of cadres
(nomenklatura) under Brezhnev; the Kosygin reforms and efforts to improve Soviet
economic performance; the KGB directorates and their roles in foreign espionage
and domestic repression; dissidents and samizdat; Soviet foreign policy; the
Soviet economic crisis of the 1980s and the rise to power of Gorbachev,
perestroika and glasnost’; the re-emergence of submerged nations in the
Baltics, Ukraine, and the Caucasus, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Class
size: 22
91902 |
HIST 2123 FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL: PhotoGRAPHY & Visual
History in |
Drew Thompson |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 120 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies, Experimental Humanities,
Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights As technology and practice of image making,
photography in introduces
students to the historical development of photography in Africa and the historical
use of photographs in the late-nineteenth century to recent times. Divided into
five parts, the course begins with different theoretical views on the
relationship between photography and history. After a consideration of the
photography of the royal courts in North Africa and Christian missionaries in
91906 |
HIST 2127 THE GENEALOGY OF Modern RevolutionS IN THE Middle East |
Omar Cheta |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
HEG 308 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights,
Class
size: 22
91907 |
HIST 2134 Comparative Atlantic SLAVE Societies |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies, French
Studies, Human Rights, LAIS
Forced labor, whether indentured or enslaved, underpinned the early
modern Atlantic world. Beginning in the
early sixteenth century, millions of enslaved Africans and indigenous Americans
came to or moved around the
91937 |
HIST 2136 Reason & Revolution: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY TO
1870 |
Gregory Moynahan |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 310 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: French Studies, German Studies,
Science, Technology & Society, Victorian Studies
The course will outline
some of the principle transformations in the modern understanding of society
and nature within a political, cultural, and institutional framework. Particular attention will be placed on the
interrelation of science, theology and philosophy that characterized the period
from Descartes and Leibniz to Mach and Nietzsche. Our attention will largely focus on the
nineteenth century, using as our guide a close reading of texts from writers
such as Vico, Kant, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, Burke, Fourier, Bakunin, Marx and
Darwin. Texts will be read in
conjunction with a selected study of contemporary political forces,
institutional settings, and scientific, social, or artistic practices. Major
topics of interest include skepticism, the interrelation of enlightenment and
romanticism, feminism, conservatism, utopian socialism, nationalism and
anarchism. Please note that this course
is not intended for first year students; a prerequisite for it is the second
half of First Year Seminar. Class
size: 20
91908 |
HIST 2307 The American Dream |
|
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: American Studies, Sociology “But there has been also the American dream, that
dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every
man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or
achievement." These words from James Truslow Adams summarize the
optimism and sense of exceptionalism that have defined much of American
experience. In this course, we will consider the various articulations of
the Dream, the ideological and structural supports for the Dream, limits of the
Dream, and how these have changed over time. We will look briefly
and comparatively at alternative dreams, e.g, the, the new “European Dream,” in
an effort to assess implicit understandings of the Dream's uniqueness, and
critiques of the Dream within a global context. Class
size: 22
91909 |
HIST 2703 FROM THE |
Cynthia Koch |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 203 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: American Studies History is an academic subject, yet most
people encounter it outside the academy. They watch TV documentaries and
historical films, visit museums and historic sites, and travel to historic
places. All of these are examples of
public history. It is here that history
has a definitive role in community and national discourse—sometimes involving
pointed political debate. Why did the
91901 |
HIST 279 THE OTHER |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 310 |
HIST |
Cross Listed:
Global & Int’l Studies; Human
Rights; Russian and Eurasian Studies The course will cover the history of East
Central Europe from 1945 to the present. After a brief summary of the history
of the region before and during World War II, the course will concentrate on
the region’s evolution since the war. In addition to surveying the period and
examining the turning points in its evolution (for example, the Berlin uprising
of 1953, the Hungarian revolution and reforms in Poland in 1956, the
"Prague spring" of 1968, the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the
revolutions at the end of the 1980s), we will explore a variety of specific
topics, including political systems, economic organization, ethnic conflicts,
and gender relations.
91911 |
HIST 3102 Research Seminar in U. S.
URBAN History |
|
. T . . . |
3:10 pm -5:30 pm |
OLIN 309 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
American Studies, Environmental & Urban Studies Ideally, students
in this course will have taken History 232, American Urban History, although
this is not required. The course will
provide an opportunity for students to pursue specialized study and research in
American urban history. Students
interested in urban space and its meanings, urban planning and design, new
urbanism, suburbanism, the postmodern city, urban politics, urban
infrastructure, and urban culture are especially invited in this course to
bring their individual topics to the table, although additional subjects can be
imagined. The class will initially consider a common set of readings having to
do with urban historiography. Class
organization will then shift to focus on individual student research projects,
and the literature and methods informing them. All students will produce a long
research paper. Class size: 15
91922 |
HIST 3112 PLAGUE! |
Alice Stroup |
M . . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 308 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & Int’l Studies; Human Rights; Medieval Studies The
cry “Plague!” has struck fear among people around the world, from antiquity to
the present. What is plague? How has it changed history? Starting with Camus’ metaphorical evocation
of plague in a modern North African city, we will examine the historical impact
of plague on society. Our focus will be
bubonic plague, which was epidemic throughout the Mediterranean and European
worlds for four hundred years, and which remains a risk in many parts of the
world (including the southwestern United States) to this day. Topics include: a natural history of plague;
impact of plague on mortality and socio-economic structures; effects on art and
literature; early epidemiology and public health; explanations and cures; the
contemporary presence of bubonic plague and fears about “new plagues.”
91912 |
HIST 3148 READING THE Postcolonial IN
African History & AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT |
Drew Thompson |
. T . . . |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
OLINLC 115 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies, Global & Int’l Studies,
Human Rights, Political Studies
Africa’s history has been framed around the moment of colonial contact
and the resulting chronological constructions of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial.
Scholars have interpreted this idea of the post-colonial as a temporal
disjuncture, after colonialism. This class is a course in the reading of
theory and the history of theory in Africa, and it will shift away from the
temporal understanding of the post-colonial concept in order to conceptualize
the postcolonial (without a hyphen) as a theoretical shift and site of
engagement over the discourses of colonialism, nationalism, race, and
globalization. Drawing from scholars and political theorists from the African
continent as well as Subaltern Studies, students will cover the topics of
historiography, the relationship of power to knowledge production, and
critiques of colonialism, nationalism, and apartheid. Class
size: 15
91910 |
HIST 3229 Before Bard and Beyond: A Public History
Practicum on the |
Cynthia Koch |
. . . . F |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 309 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: American Studies, Art History For
millennia the
91913 |
HIST 3234 Your Papers Please? TECHNOCRACY, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIAL
CONTROL IN NAZI |
Gregory Moynahan |
M . . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 101 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: German Studies In this research course, we will address the
coercive and violent powers of the modern state as they were refined through
technologies and techniques in National Socialist Germany, and then alternately
condemned and utilized in the two German nations of the (East) German
Democratic Republic (DDR) and the (West) German Federal Republic (BRD). Topics
will range from the development of new techniques of propaganda and military
oversight to the manipulation of social technologies such as identification
papers, the census, racial pseudo-science, and, most horrifically, the
concentration camp system. At the end of
the Nazi period, the DDR defined itself through its resistance to the Nazi
party, and nearly the entirety of its ideology was grounded in anti-Fascism and
cosmopolitanism. The means of organizing and controlling society were
often directly carried over from the Nazi past. Similarly, the liberal
capitalist ideology of the BRD defined itself in complete opposition to the
Nazi past, but here as well there were surprising number holdovers from the
Nazi era, ranging from the system of registering with the police to the
retention of leading bureaucrats. By comparing the two movements,
ideologically complete opposites yet organizationally often surprisingly similar,
we can address some of the most disturbing issues of modern techniques of
social control. Similarly, protests within each system against specific
moments of state power – ranging from issues such as the use of the census and
identity cards to methods of police surveillance and conscription – were
frequently couched in terms of their links with the Nazi era. Please note
that the core of this course will be spent writing and refining an independent
historical research paper of approximately 35 pages in length. No
previous knowledge of German history is required, although students without
such knowledge will need to set aside time for some background reading. Class
size: 15
91997 |
HIST 325 FOUR CASE STUDIES OF REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE |
Wendy Urban-Mead |
. . . Th . |
6:00 pm-8:20 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST |
As
a course in World History students will be comparing four revolutionary case
studies from
The
question of violence - the violence of repressive governments, revolutionary
violence, and counter-revolutionary violence– is a theme that we shall trace
across all the case studies. We shall seek to understand each revolution in
terms of both indigenously generated dynamics as well as world-historical
factors. Engaging with each case separately and then in comparison with the
others opens up consideration of the potential problems and benefits involved
in applying world-historical concepts of change to individual cases. Theoretical readings include Skocpol,
Goldstone, and Fanon. This is a
graduate level class offered jointly by the MAT and the college. This course is cross-listed with the MAT program for 3+2 seniors seeking
certification in social studies/history.