Course: |
JS/HIST 120 Jewishness Beyond Religion: Defining Secular Jewish
Culture |
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Professor: |
Cecile Kuznitz |
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CRN: |
90145 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 3:50 PM
- 5:10 PM Olin 101 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Historical Studies
In the pre-modern world Jewish identity was centered on religion but
expressed as well in how one made a living, what clothes one wore, and what language
one spoke. In modern times, Jewish culture became more voluntary and more
fractured. While some focused on Judaism as (only) a religion, both the most
radical and the most typical way in which Jewishness was redefined was in
secular terms. In this course we will explore the intellectual, social, and
political movements that led to new secular definitions of Jewish culture and
identity in the modern period. We will focus on examples drawn from Western and
Eastern Europe but will also look at American and Israeli societies. Topics
will include the Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment), acculturation and
assimilation, modern Jewish politics including Zionism, and Jewish literature
in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.
Course: |
HIST 122 Twentieth
Century Britain |
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Professor: |
Richard Aldous |
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CRN: |
90146 |
Schedule: |
Wed Fri 2:00 PM - 3:20
PM Reem Kayden Center 101 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
20 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies
This introductory course offers a survey of Britain in the twentieth
century. We start at the end of Queen Victoria's reign, when Britain was the
most powerful country in the world, and move chronologically through the century.
Particular emphasis is given to the multi-layered British experience of global
conflicts (two world wars and the cold war), the relationships with Empire,
Europe and the United States, as well as the creation of the welfare state, a
diverse multicultural society and the eccentricities of a country where, to
quote George Orwell, "a nice cup of tea is one of the mainstays of
civilization."
Course: |
HIST 129 Urban American History |
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Professor: |
Jeannette Estruth |
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CRN: |
90147 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
5:40 PM - 7:00 PM Olin
201 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban
Studies
This class will explore the history of the urban American experience. We
will ask: what makes a city? How have people built cities, inhabited them, and
lived urban lives? What drives urban development and growth? What is the role
of cities within capitalism and within government? Together we will begin to
think of cities as sets of relationships, as well as a distinct spatial form.
To that end, this course will use cities as a lens to research the following
themes in United States history: labor and markets, wealth and inequality,
ethnic identity and race, and gender and the environment since
industrialization. With these frames of analysis, we will examine what ideas
activists, architects, planners, social scientists, literary scholars, critical
theorists, and sociologists have generated about urban America. Our tools of exploration will include
lectures, discussions, scholarly books, primary sources, articles, blogs, and
films. 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.
Course: |
HIST 134 The Ottomans and the Last Islamic Empire |
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Professor: |
Omar Cheta |
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CRN: |
90148 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 10:20 AM - 11:40
AM Henderson Comp. Center 106 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Middle Eastern Studies
In the aftermath of World War I, the Ottoman Empire disappeared from the
world scene. In its place arose numerous states, which today make up the Middle
East and significant parts of Eastern Europe. In all of these
"post-Ottoman" states, the memory of the Ottoman Empire is well and
alive. For example, it is in relation to the Ottoman legacy that modern Middle
Eastern and East European national identities were constructed and claims to
national borders settled (or not). This course is a general historical survey
of Ottoman history from the founding of the empire around 1300 until its
collapse in the aftermath of World War I. The course covers major topics in
Ottoman history, including the empire's origins, its Islamic and European
identities, everyday life under the Ottomans, inter-communal relations, the
challenge of separatist movements (Balkan, Greek, Arab) and the emergence of
modern Turkish nationalism.
Course: |
HIST 160 Latin-American Histories |
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Professor: |
Miles Rodriguez |
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CRN: |
90149 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Olin
301 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: American Studies; Global & International Studies;
Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies
There are now nearly sixty million people of Latin American origin or
descent in the United States. Yet there is no agreement by members of this
population, nor otherwise, on how to define, speak of, or understand them, in
terms of either common or diverse experiences or histories. The very names
people have used to describe them, and how they have described themselves,
alternate, fluctuate, and vary tremendously by person, place, time, and
circumstance. Those names include, but are not limited to: Hispanic, Latin,
Latina, Latino, Latinx, and Latin-American, as well as for more specific
groups, including: Afro-Latino, Chicano, Cuban, Dominican, Guatemalan,
Honduran, Mexican, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Xicano, and
people of Indigenous and Latin American descent in the US. This class deals
with the ways in which those of Latin American origin can be understood in
terms of culture, race, ethnicity, nationality, and identity, and the attendant
controversies inside and outside of their communities. It focuses on the
distinct, and distinctive, qualities and histories of various parts of this
population, including by far the largest group, people of Mexican descent, as
well as the next largest, of Spanish Caribbean and Central American descent.
Topics for special consideration include: ways to name, describe, and
conceptualize people of Latin American origin and descent in the US; relations
between different homelands and diasporas in Latin America and the US; race,
racism, and mestizaje, or interracial mixture, as process and ideology; popular
social movements; civil rights; women's rights; labor; migration; and relations
with other Americans of different, as well as the same or similar origins. Its
goal is to create a more complex and complete historical understanding of
people of Latin American descent in the US today. LAIS Core Course.
Historiography course. 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.
Course: |
HIST 180 Technology, Labor, Capitalism |
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Professor: |
Jeannette Estruth |
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CRN: |
90150 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
7:30 PM - 8:50 PM Olin
201 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies;
Experimental Humanities; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society
Artificial intelligence and the knowledge economy. Computation and Credit.
Satellites and social media. Philanthropy and factory flight. "Doing what
you love" and digital activism. Climate change and corporate
consolidation. This class will explore changes in capitalism, technology, and
labor in the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States. We will learn
how ideas about work and technology have evolved over time, and how these
dynamic ideas and evolving tools have shaped the present day.
Course: |
HIST 186 India before Western Imperialism: 1200 to 1750 CE |
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Professor: |
Rupali Warke |
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CRN: |
90444 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 5:40 PM - 7:00
PM Olin 204 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Asian Studies
This entry-level course perceives India from a global perspective. It surveys
the history of South Asia from 1200 to 1750 CE, the period during which most of
the region came under the rule of Central Asian Muslim warriors and
aristocrats. In this class, we will look at various textual and audio-visual
sources to understand how the multiregional cultural identities crystallized
under different political dynasties through the patronage of arts,
architecture, religion, and cultural exchange due to trade. We will explore how
the confluence of Indic and Perso-Arabic traditions was reflected in the
languages, visual art, buildings, ideas of kingship, and religion. Students
will read leading secondary works in conjunction with primary sources such as
memoirs, travel accounts, and chronicles.
Course: |
HIST 192 The Age of Extremes: Topics in European History |
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Professor: |
Gregory Moynahan |
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CRN: |
90151 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin
201 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: German
Studies; Global & International Studies
This course will present a thematic survey of European history in the
modern period. Each week we will
illuminate pivotal 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. A
rudimentary grasp of modern European history is assumed, but supplemental
reading will provide a broad narrative base for students with no background in
the field. This course satisfies the
Historical Studies Program's historiography requirement.
Course: |
HIST 195 Living Black in America: Major Themes in African American History |
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Professor: |
Myra Armstead |
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CRN: |
90144 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 10:20 AM - 11:40
AM Olin 201 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies
This course is intended to provide a foundation for understanding the
African American experience in the past, and contemporary resonances of that
past. Rather than a strictly
chronological overview, this survey is thematically organized. Each theme will be approached within a periodization that moves forward
through the preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial eras—thus
highlighting the way in which the race/class nexus will be a central
concern. Major themes will be: the
economics or wages of Blackness, social and cultural constructions of race,
violence/surveillance/criminalization, self-constructed identities (racial,
national, ethnic, gender), representations of Blackness (in art and
literature),Black cosmologies/philosophies/resistance strategies and politics,
and memory. As students of history, we
will consider continuities and discontinuities, connections and rupture—when,
how, and why these occur. While the
themes can be viewed as discreet subjects, the ways in which they overlap and
intersect will be addressed in the course as well. 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.
Course: |
HIST 203 Russia under the Romanovs |
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Professor: |
Sean McMeekin |
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CRN: |
90153 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Reem
Kayden Center 102 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
20 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Russian
Studies
This course is a survey of Russian history during the reign of the Romanov
dynasty from 1613 until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917. Key themes
will include military history and imperial expansion, autocracy and its
critics, Russia's allegedly "belated" economic modernization, serfdom
and land reform, and the long-running argument over Russian identity between
"westernizers" and Slavophiles. Towards the end of the term, we will
investigate the origins and nature of Russian political radicalism, in both
populist and socialist strains.
Course: |
HIST 2128 Domesticity and Capital: gender, households, and
women's wealth in South Asia |
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Professor: |
Rupali Warke |
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CRN: |
90443 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 3:50 PM - 5:10
PM Hegeman 201 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Asian Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies
This course explores "˜capital' beyond the conventional materialist understanding
of the term. Historically, women in South Asia have played an active role in
politics and business enterprises and possessed personal wealth. This course
historicizes households and domesticity, focusing on marriage, kinship,
intimacy, and domestic slavery, to explore how these aspects shaped gender
relations and wealth creation in South Asian history. We will discuss their
impact on women's entrepreneurship, political networks, property rights, and
inheritance. Students will engage with works of prominent scholars, theories of
capital and kinship along with primary sources such as archival documents,
religious texts, and chronicles.
Course: |
HIST 2143 China's Last Emperors: Late Imperial Chinese History |
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Professor: |
Robert Culp |
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CRN: |
90152 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 8:30 AM - 9:50
AM Olin 201 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Asian Studies; Global & International Studies
Modern China is in many ways the product of its imperial past. The dynamic
commercial economy, vibrant cities, rich intellectual culture, expansive
territory, and rapidly growing population of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing
(1644-1911) dynastic periods have provided resources that continue to shape
Chinese life today. At the same time, the collapse of the imperial state caused
by internal rebellion and foreign imperialism in the 19th century sparked a
crisis that generated China's modern revolutions in the 20th century. This
course explores the complex dynamics and legacies of Ming and Qing China, with
special attention to state formation, domestic and international commerce,
urbanization, consumerism, print culture, intellectual trends of idealism,
empiricism, and statecraft, colonial expansion, ethnic politics, imperial
autocracy, ritualization, rebellion, and reconstruction. The course culminates
in an exploration of why the fall of the Qing dynasty meant the end of empire
and how post-war reconstruction led to radical revolution. No prior study of
China is required; first-year students are welcome.
Course: |
HIST 219 The Past and Present of Capitalism in the Middle
East |
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Professor: |
Omar Cheta |
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CRN: |
90154 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 2:00 PM - 3:20
PM Olin 305 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Middle
Eastern Studies
Capitalism is not only a Western economic system. It is a more
comprehensive mode of organizing society that is being continuously adopted,
modified and subverted around the globe. In this course, we will explore the
multiple, and often counter-intuitive ways, in which capitalism became
entrenched in the modern Middle East. Drawing on social, intellectual,
environmental and business histories, we will examine how the encounter with
modern capitalism shaped such pervasive political phenomena as European imperialism,
post-colonial nationalism, and contemporary sectarianism. Additionally, we will
dissect common modern practices, like smuggling and consumerism, to uncover how
they came to define the culture of capitalism in Middle East over the past two
centuries. Finally, we will consider the paradoxical place of the Middle East
within the current global (capitalist) order, being at once a major exporter of
oil and financial capital that power the world's most advanced economies, and a
major exporter of economic migrants and refugees.
Course: |
HIST 2210 Africans, Empire, and the Great War |
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Professor: |
Wendy Urban-Mead |
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CRN: |
90167 |
Schedule: |
Tue 5:40 PM - 8:00
PM Olin 202 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
8 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies
What made the First World War a "world" war? Many
factors contributed to the conflict's designation as a world war, but the significant
role of Africa, Africans, and members of the African Diaspora in the war is not
least among them. Some Africans and members of the African diaspora signed up
in response to a call for volunteers, others were ruthlessly coerced, and many
more became involved for reasons that fell somewhere in the uncertain middle
ground between coercion and willing participation. African-Americans, and
African subjects under French, German, and British colonial rule in Africa and
the Caribbean were drawn into the war's vortex. Following DuBois' prescient
observation that "[t]he problem of the twentieth century is the problem of
the color-line," this course visits the Great War with an eye to unpacking
the experiences, choices, and impacts of Africans and members of the African
diaspora in the context of both empire and white supremacy. Gender - in
conversation with questions regarding masculinity, warfare, and race - will be
a vital course theme. Working from a wide range of primary materials and
selected theoretical and secondary works, students will have the opportunity
both to form questions in response to what they find in the readings, and
explore possible answers, using the skills of the historian. 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.
This
course is cross-listed with the MAT program.
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Course: |
HIST 225 Migrants and Refugees in the Americas |
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Professor: |
Miles Rodriguez |
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CRN: |
90155 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin
301 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: American Studies; Global & International
Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies
Cross-listed: American Studies; Human Rights; Latin American 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.
Course: |
HIST 2311 London Calling: 80s Britain |
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Professor: |
Richard Aldous |
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CRN: |
90158 |
Schedule: |
Wed Fri 3:50 PM - 5:10
PM Reem Kayden Center 101 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
20 |
Credits: |
4 |
Asked what she had changed in Britain in the 1980s, the prime minister
Margaret Thatcher declared, "Everything!" This 200-level course examines
a transformational and highly contested period in politics, culture and society
through documents from the UK National Archives and the Thatcher Archive, plus
seminal contemporary texts that illustrate and exemplify a decade of upheaval.
From the conservative revolution and inner-city riots to Princess Diana,
"Chariots of Fire," multiculturalism and post-punk, this is a time
one historian calls "the revolutionary decade of the twentieth
century."
Course: |
HIST 2701 The Holocaust, 1933-1945 |
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Professor: |
Cecile Kuznitz |
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CRN: |
90159 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 2:00 PM
- 3:20 PM Campus
Center Weis Cinema |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: German
Studies; Human Rights; Jewish Studies; Russian Studies
This course will provide an overview of the Nazi attempt to exterminate
the Jewish people during the Second World War. We will begin by discussing some
theoretical questions around the study of hate (specifically the hatred of Jews
termed "antisemitism") and genocide. We will then proceed
chronologically, examining the rise of the Nazis to power; the institution of
ghettos and the cultural, social, and political activities of their
populations; the turn to mass murder and its implementation in the
extermination camps; Nazi persecution of other groups including the disabled
and Roma and Sinti, and death marches and the liberation. In the latter part of
the course we will focus on three of the most important historiographical
debates in the study of the Holocaust, those surrounding the behavior and
motives of "victims" (the nature of Jewish resistance),
"perpetrators" (the Germans as "ordinary men" or "willing
executioners") and "bystanders" (the reactions of Polish
"neighbors," the Allies, etc.). As a course focusing on the
persecution of a group defined as a racial minority, it fulfills the college's
Difference and Justice requirement.
Course: |
HIST 301 The Second World War |
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Professor: |
Sean McMeekin |
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CRN: |
90160 |
Schedule: |
Tue
Thurs 3:50 PM - 5:10
PM Hegeman 106 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
11 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies
This course examines the Second World War in all its manifold dimensions,
from causes to consequences, covering all major fronts. The course satisfies the 300-level
requirement for HS majors for either historiography or the research-focused
major conference, but non-history majors are also welcome. Students taking the course as a major
conference are strongly encouraged to use the resources of the FDR Library in
Hyde Park, which we will visit together.
Course: |
HIST 3103 Political Ritual in the Modern World |
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Professor: |
Robert Culp |
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CRN: |
90162 |
Schedule: |
Thurs 10:20 AM - 12:40 PM Olin
303 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and
Justice |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Anthropology;
Asian Studies; Experimental Humanities; Global & International Studies;
Human Rights
Bastille
Day, the US presidential inaugural, Japan's celebration of victory in the
Russo-Japanese War, pageants reenacting the Bolshevik Revolution, and rallies
at Nuremberg and at Tian'anmen Square. In all these
forms and many others, political ritual has been central to nation-building,
colonialism, and political movements over the last three centuries. This course
uses a global, comparative perspective to analyze the modern history of
political ritual. We will explore the emergence of new forms of political
ritual with the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century and track
global transformations in the performance of politics as colonialism spread the
symbols and pageantry of the nation-state. Central topics will include state
ritual and the performance of power, the relationship between ritual and
citizenship in the modern nation-state, the ritualization of politics in social
and political movements, and the role of mass spectacle in the construction of
both fascism and state socialism. Seminar meetings will focus on discussion of
secondary and primary materials that allow us to analyze the intersection of
ritual and politics in a variety of contexts. These will range from
early-modern Europe, pre-colonial Bali, and late imperial China to
revolutionary France, 19th century America, colonial India, semi-colonial
China, nationalist Japan, fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, the USSR, Europe in
1968, and contemporary Syria. In addition to common readings and seminar
participation, students will write a final seminar paper exploring one aspect
or instance of political ritual. Moderated history students can use this course
for a major conference.
Course: |
HIST 3138 How to Read and Write the History of the
(Post-)Colonial World |
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Professor: |
Omar Cheta |
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CRN: |
90163 |
Schedule: |
Tue 10:20 AM - 12:40
PM Olin 303 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Middle
Eastern Studies
In this seminar, we will study the most prominent approaches to writing the
history of the colonial and post-colonial worlds, especially the Middle East
and South Asia. Our primary goal will be to think about historical narratives
of the (post-) colonial worlds as constructed artifacts and as products of
certain intellectual environments. For each meeting, we will explore an
influential school of historical writing, such as the French Annales or Italian
Microhistory. Alongside these explorations, we will study examples of the
scholarship on (post-) colonial history that engage with these
historiographical traditions. Our discussions will revolve around the
possibilities and limits of writing history in light of the existent historical
sources, academic and disciplinary norms, other disciplinary influences
(especially from literature and anthropology), as well as present political
considerations.
Course: |
HIST 3230 Infrastructure History |
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Professor: |
Gregory Moynahan |
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CRN: |
90164 |
Schedule: |
Tue 2:00 PM - 4:20
PM Olin 301 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities; Science, Technology,
Society
This research course will use the history of infrastructures -- such as those
of communication / information, transportation, energy, and military
organization - to introduce pivotal themes in the contemporary history of
science and technology, economics, and social-institutional history. Infrastructure will be defined broadly to
include both the explicit set of practices, systems, and technologies that
provide the conditions for the possibility of modern social life and the
implicit contexts (environmental, cultural, psychological) that these planned
structures reveal. Using the history of infrastructure, we will assess recent
historiographical responses to the long-standing debate between 'social
constructivism' (society determines technology / science) and 'technological
determinism' (science / technology determines society), particularly those
which attempt to define a third 'hybrid' reading in which technological and
social choices reciprocally define each other. General themes will include the
increasing place of ethics in constructing infrastructures, the role of economics
in both 'big science' and massive technological projects, the development and
role of the military-industrial complex, and the problem of complexity in
contemporary historiography. Specific infrastructures studied as examples will
include those centered around the railroad, the modern financial system, the
urban newspaper, the concentration camp, the electrical grid, nuclear missile
guidance technologies, and the Arpanet / Internet. Authors read will include
Edwards, Habermas, Haraway, Hughes, Latour, Luhmann, Rabinbach, and
Simmel. Students will be expected to
complete a 30-35 page original paper using primary sources.
Course: |
HIST 331 Latin America: Race, Religion and Revolution |
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Professor: |
Miles Rodriguez |
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CRN: |
90161 |
Schedule: |
Wed 9:20 AM - 11:40
AM Olin 303 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: American Studies; Global & International Studies;
Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies; Study of Religions
This research seminar will study the violent interactions between race,
religion, and revolution in Latin America from the early twentieth-century to
the present, to understand how these interactions have mattered to the region's
history and how they explain some of its most violent current conflicts. The
very name "Latin America" derived from and became associated with
specific racial, religious, and revolutionary meanings through a history of
violence. The seminar will begin by studying how racial concepts formed and
became fixed ideas through distinct revolutionary-inspired intellectual debates
on interracial mixture and indigenous rights. Based in Mexico and Peru, the
formation of concepts like global mestizaje, a "cosmic race," and
indigenismo involved rival valuations of each nation's indigenous and colonial
histories and cultures, with lasting effects. The seminar will then explore the
simultaneous rise of wars and conflicts over radically different religious
meanings and faiths, within and outside of Catholicism, including native
religions and the rise of Evangelical Protestant Christianity. The latter part
of the seminar will focus on Guatemala, which dramatically combined extreme
violence over race, religion, and revolution, and focused global attention on
indigenous rights and human rights. These histories will allow for a deeper
understanding of the rise of different forms of violence in Central America
today, and therefore of the current human rights, migrant, and refugee crisis
centered there and involving other parts of Latin America and the US. This
seminar emphasizes the narratives, interpretations, and voices of participants
in the history, and critical engagement with these primary sources in the
writing of the history. 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.
Cross-listed courses:
Course: |
ANTH 218 The Rift and the Nile |
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Professor: |
John Ryle |
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CRN: |
90189 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 10:20 AM - 11:40
AM Bard Chapel |
Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap |
20 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban
Studies; Historical Studies; Human Rights
Course: |
CLAS 114 The Ancient World, 750-480 BC |
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Professor: |
James Romm |
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CRN: |
90203 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 2:00 PM - 3:20
PM Olin Languages Center 115 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap |
30 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Historical Studies
Course: |
EUS 321 GIS for Environmental Justice |
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Professor: |
Susan Winchell-Sweeney |
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CRN: |
90170 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 10:20 AM - 12:40
AM Henderson Comp. Center 101A |
Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap |
12 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Historical Studies; Human Rights
Course: |
HR 253 Abolishing Prisons and the Police |
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Professor: |
Kwame Holmes |
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CRN: |
90135 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 2:00 PM - 3:20
PM Olin 203 |
Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Historical
Studies
Course: |
PS 264 U.S. and the Modern Middle East |
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Professor: |
Frederic Hof |
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CRN: |
90024 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 8:30 AM - 9:50
AM Olin 305 |
Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
Class cap |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: American Studies; Global & International Studies;
Historical Studies; Middle Eastern Studies
Course: |
THTR 249 Black Experience in American Theater |
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Professor: |
Nilaja Sun Gordon |
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CRN: |
90358 |
Schedule: |
Tue 10:10 AM - 1:10
PM Fisher Performing Arts Center
Studio North |
Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of Art D+J Difference and Justice |
Class cap |
12 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies; Historical Studies