Courses

Prereq., graduate standing.

Examines the history of ideas and the social history of intellectuals in American society during the 19th and 20th centuries. Stresses social and political dimensions and the changing cultural and institutional contexts of intellectual discourse. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to History graduate students only.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Examines major historical trends in the study of meanings and practices of sex and sexuality. Focuses on emergence and negotiation of sexual matters in circumstances where sex and identity were not coterminous. Restricted to graduate students.

Examines Britain's withdrawal from South Asia and the Palestine mandate. Topics include collaboration, anticolonial resistance, Indian and Palestinian nationalisms, zionism, transcolonial connections, counter insurgency, and partition. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Prereq., general background in European history.

Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Offers historical perspective on the complex and interdependent relationship between human social and cultural institutions and the natural world. Considers interdisciplinary methodologies incorporating history, biology, geography, law, and other disciplines.

Engages in debates about historical methods and how the past is represented. Central topics will include memory and the forces of nationalism and war; commemoration and monuments; the role of memory in the construction of race and ethnicity; personal past and cultural remembrance; and the relationships between academic, public, and popular histories. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces classic and recent scholarship, and critical issues in African American history, from slavery to the present. Prereq., graduate standing.

Examines major issues in labor history through comparative study of Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Issues to be studied include working-class formation, the development of worker identities, and workers and the state.

Prereq., instructor consent.

Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Introduces standard works and recent developments in cultural history. Explores structuralism and post-structuralism, semiotics, social construction, relativism, hegemony, and the idea of postmodernity in the uses of culture as an historical category. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

Introduces major topics and themes in South Asian history. Reviews central theories relating to topics such as religion, nationalism, law, gender, colonialism, and literature.

Focuses on analytical, ideological, cultural, and political tensions between understandings of race and nationalism. Readings are interdisciplinary, but students identify and analyze tensions between race and nationalism at particular historical moments. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Examines topics in ancient Greek and Roman history at an advanced seminar level. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as CLAS 7011.

Discusses the concepts and methods that inform the field of Atlantic history in the early modern era. Readings and research papers explore the interactions of peoples from Europe, Africa, and the Americas, including the exchange of ideas, peoples, commodities, and cultural practices. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.