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. Requisites: Restricted to History (HIST) graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Formerly HIST 6417. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces classic and recent scholarship, and critical issues in African American history, from slavery to the present. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces major topics and themes in South Asian history. Reviews central theories relating to topics such as religion, nationalism, law, gender, colonialism, and literature. Formerly HIST 6628. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines the field of gender history that includes an understanding of women's and/or men's experience as lived and socially or culturally constructed. Regional or national focus and time period to be determined by the faculty member teaching the course in any given semester. Repeatable for credit up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores various topics, regions, and methods in history and historical writing by utilizing a global/thematic approach. Geared toward graduate students in History, but students from other disciplines with graduate standing may enroll with instructor consent. Topic and content of course will vary depending on instructor. May be repeated up 12 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Prepares students for research in historical documents in Asian languages in order to write a substantial original research paper based on primary and secondary source materials. Recommended prereq., background in Asian history. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
