fullname qtr yr	Crs	Sec	Title	Instructor	Description
Aut 09	32401	01	Europe in the Early Middle Ages	Fulton, Rachel	This lecture-discussion course offers an in-depth introduction to the history of Europe from the conversion of the Roman Empire to the end of the first Christian Millennium. Principal themes include relations between Christians and pagans, the break-up of the Mediterranean world and subsequent cultural interaction between the three medieval "heirs of Rome," the origins of Latin Christendom and the European Kingdoms of northern and southern Europe, and the special role of the Church in the formation of a distinctive European culture. Readings include primary sources in translation from both Latin and the vernacular along with relevant scholarship.
Aut 09	33408	01	Proto-Globalization: Empire, Science & Environment	Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik	This course investigates the beginnings of the modern global economy by analyzing the environmental basis of Western expansion 1492-1800. The power and wealth of early modern empires rested on the massive reordering of the natural world. We will track this process in multiple and interconnected dimensions: ecological, social, scientific, and political. In terms of geographic scope, we will look at a series of concrete case studies in colonization, from medieval Iceland to seventeenth-century Barbados and eighteenth-century Lapland, Mauritius, and New South Wales. Readings will include a variety of primary sources as well as scholarly classics of the field such as Alfred Crosby s Ecological Imperialism and Richard Grove s Green Imperialism.
Aut 09	34100	01	Zen and History	Ketelaar, James	This course examines Chan/Zen history, debates over this history, and consequences of Chan/Zen for understanding history and historiography perse.
Aut 09	34500	01	Reading Qing Documents	Alitto, Guy	Reading and discussion of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical political documents, including such forms as memorials, decrees, local gazetteers, diplomatic communications, essays, and the like.
Aut 09	35501	01	Evol of Mind/Morality, 19th-21st C	Richards, Robert	FULL TITLE: "Evolution of Mind and Morality, Nineteenth-Twenty-first Centuries" This lecture-discussion course will focus on efforts to give an evolutionary account of mind and moral judgment. We will consider individual theorists of such evolutionary accounts, e.g., Darwin, Spencer, James, Lorenz, Wilson, Sober, and Dennett; recent evolutionary psychologists, e.g., Tooby and Cosmedes, Gigerenzer; and critics of such efforts, e.g., G. E. Moore, Gould, Flew, etc. The considerations will encompass such topics as the evidence for evolutionary theories of mind, the naturalistic fallacy, naturalistic constructions of cognition, altruism, etc. Through gentle suasion the thesis will be advanced that, to borrow Dobzhansky's observation, nothing makes any sense except in the light of evolution.
Aut 09	35704	01	Islamic History and Society 1	Donner, Fred	The course covers the period ca. 600 to 1100 C.E., including the rise and spread of Islam, the Islamic empire under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, and the emergence of regional Islamic states from Afghanistan and eastern Iran to North Africa and Spain.
Aut 09	36101	01	Latin American Civ 1	Kouri, Emilio	This sequence fulfills the Common Core requirement in civilizational studies by introducing students to the history and cultures of Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean Islands. Autumn quarter examines the origins of civilizations in Latin America with a focus and the political, social, and cultural features of the major preColumbian civilizations of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec. The quarter concludes with consideration of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and the construction of colonial societies in Latin America. Winter quarter addresses the evolution of colonial societies, the wars of independence, and the emergence of Latin American nation-states in the changing international context of the nineteenth century. Spring quarter focuses on the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the challenges of economic, political, and social development in the region.
Aut 09	36500	01	Hist of Mexico, 1876-pres	Kouri, E. & Tenorio, M	From the Porfiriato and the Revolution to the present, a survey of Mexican society and politics, with emphasis on the connections between economic developments, social justice, and political organization. Topics include fin de siècle modernization and the agrarian problem; causes and consequences of the Revolution of 1910; the making of the modern Mexican state; relations with the United States; industrialism and land reform; urbanization and migration; ethnicity, culture, and nationalism; economic crises, neoliberalism and social inequality; political reforms and electoral democracy; the zapatista rebellion in Chiapas; and the end of PRI rule.
Aut 09	37001	01	Law & Soc in Early Amer	Cook, Edward	This mixed level colloquium is intended for upper-level undergrads and early state graduate students. It considers law, legal institutions, and legal culture within the lived experience of colonial and revolutionary America. It will emphasize the interaction of social development and legal development, and will explore the breadth of everyday experience with legal institutions like the jury, with courts as institutions for resolving disputes, and with the prosecution of crime.
Aut 09	37200	01	Af-Am Hist to 1877	Holt, Thomas	This lecture course examines selected topics in the African American experience from the slave trade to slavery emancipation. Each lecture will focus on a specific problem of interpretation in African American history, all framed by an overall theme: the "making" of an African-American people out of diverse ethnic groups brought together under conditions of extreme oppression; and its corollary, the structural constraints and openings for resistance to that oppression. Readings will emphasize primary sources, especially autobiographical materials, supplemented by readings in important secondary sources. A midterm and final examination required.
Aut 09	37604	01	Asian Amer/ Legacies of War Cancelled	Mah, Theresa	This is a course that explores the ways in which U.S. wars in Asia have transformed Asian American social, economic, political and cultural life in the United States. Focusing on political conflicts and their aftermath rather than on the diplomatic or political relations between nations, the course will open up discussions of migration, citizenship, U.S. imperialism, nationalism, neo- and post-colonialism, and the production and use of racial representations in political conflict. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which these conflicts affect social relations and the production of knowledge. During the quarter, we will trace Asian American histories and experiences through the Philippine-American War, World War II, the Korean War and conflict in Southeast Asia. The broad scope of this course will also allow us to examine such topics as race, gender, national identity, power, violence and cultural production within specific historical contexts.
Aut 09	38900	01	Roots of the Modern American City	Conzen, Michael	This course traces the economic, social, and physical development of the city in North America from early industrialization to the present. Emphasis is on evolving urban systems and the changing spatial organization of people and land use. All-day Illinois field trip required. Superior term papers from this course may be selected for special publication.
Aut 09	39301	01	Human Rgts 1	Fleischacker, Samuel	This course deals with the philosophical foundations of human rights. The foundations bear on basic conceptual and normative issues. We examine the various meanings and components of human rights and the subjects, objects, and respondents of human rights. We ask questions such as Who has the rights? What are they rights to? Who has the correlative duties? What methods of argument and implementation are available in this area? The practical implications of these theoretical issues are also explored.
Aut 09	47002	01	Interracial America	Briones, Matthew	This course will examine the interaction between different racial groups in the U.S. from the 19th century to our present moment. Conventionally, such studies focus solely on the relationship between African Americans and whites, relying on the hackneyed black-white paradigm of U.S. race relations. This seminar explodes that dichotomy, searching for a broader historical model, which includes yellow, brown, red, and ethnic white. In other words, how did African Americans respond to the internment of Japanese Americans? What made desegregation cases like Mendez v. Westminster important precedents in the run-up to Brown v. Board of Education? What is a model minority, and why did Asians inherit the mantle from Jews? What is a protest minority, and why were Blacks and Jews labeled as such during the Civil Rights Movement? What is the relationship among Black Power, Yellow Power, the American Indian Movement, and Chicano Power? We will critically interrogate the history of contact that exists between and among these diverse groups, and whether conflict or confluence dominates their interaction. If conflict, what factors have prevented meaningful alliances? If confluence, what roles have these groups played in collectively striving for a multiracial democracy?
Aut 09	47501	01	Colloq: Paris and Chicago, 1870-1930	Goldstein, J. & Conzen, k.	Paris and Chicago might seem to be incomparable cities: the first, with its roots in Roman antiquity, a long-evolving French capital designed to symbolize power; the second, a fresh American creation designed to make money. But from the late nineteenth century on, these two very different cities were brought together by their common participation in the global economy, the common problems of infrastructure that they faced as great metropolises, and sometimes by direct cultural exchange. This course will examine the two cities comparatively under such rubrics as the built environment, municipal government, migration, class formation, housing, cultural institutions, tourism and world's fairs, the birth of the department store, the birth of urban sociology. This course will be conducted as a discussion colloquium. Reading knowledge of French is not required. Open to graduate students without permission and to undergraduates with permission.
Aut 09	49601	01	Early Modern England	Johns, Adrian	This course looks at English history in the long seventeenth century, ranging from the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 to the end of the Stuart dynasty in 1714. The period was one of upheaval, extraordinary both in itself and in its lasting consequences. The country saw protracted civil conflict, a king put on trial and executed, and (arguably) two revolutions. Its culture was distinguished by figures like Shakespeare, Milton, Newton, Locke, and Purcell. And it created the origins of a world empire, as well as pursuing radical developments in economics, politics, and experimental science. We shall explore aspects of this period, using selected primary and secondary sources to introduce the history and historiography of early modern English culture.
Aut 09	52802	01	Coll: The French Revolution	Cheney, Paul	This colloquium has two related goals. The first is to deepen our understanding of the causes, events and outcomes of the French Revolution. Second, since none of these elements is undisputed in the rich historical literature on this subject that began to flourish already in 1789, we will also examine the historical debate surrounding the Revolution. In this connection, we will single out some areas of special interest: the Old Regime and structures of the absolutist state; models of democratic participation; economic interpretations of the Revolution; the Terror; the Revolution in an Atlantic perspective. Our discussion will begin with L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Aut 09	53501	01	Religious Thought in the Later Middle Ages	Fulton, Rachel	Derided for centuries as a period of decline, the later Middle Ages are now generally recognized as a period of exceptional flowering in the religious thought and practice of the Christian West. This course seeks to introduce students to some of the great textual works of the period while at the same time situating them within the social, intellectual, practical and liturgical concerns of their day. Larger issues to be addressed include the relationship between mysticism, theology and devotion; the role of women, laypeople and the devotio moderna in the development of new devotional ideals; and the tensions between aesthetics, visions, cult and scripture as sources of inspiration and authority. Readings will include works from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries and (in translation) from both Latin and the vernaculars.
Aut 09	54000	01	Coll:Euro/Colonialism/Globalism	Austen, Ralph	FULL TITLE: "European Overseas Expansion, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial World: Chronology, Political Economy, Culture" This course encompasses European overseas expansion from the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, the emergence from this process of new colonial territories inhabited by non-Europeans, and the fate of these territories as "postcolonies" in the late-twentieth and twenty-first century global order. The analytic goal is to integrate politics ( the formation of colonial regimes and successor nation-states); economics (the dialectics of colonialism, "underdevelopment," and global capitalism) and culture (the construction of European and "Third World" identities via colonialism).
Aut 09	56800	01	Coll: Intro to Science Studies	Johns, Adrian & Knorr Cetina. K.	This course explores the interdisciplinary study of science as an enterprise. During the twentieth century, sociologists, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists all raised interesting and consequential questions about the sciences. Taken together, their various approaches came to constitute a field, "science studies." The course provides an introduction to this field. Students will not only investigate how it coalesced and why, but will also apply science-studies perspectives in a fieldwork project focused on a science or science-policy setting. Among the topics we may examine are: the sociology of scientific knowledge and its applications; actor-network theories of science; constructivism and the history of science; images of normal and revolutionary science; accounts of research in the commercial university; and the examined links between science and policy.
Aut 09	57703	01	Sem: Important Things		Over a free lunch, we talk about the latest literature in history and philosophy of science.
Aut 09	60702	01	Colloq:Contemporary European History	Geyer, Michael	Think of this course as a twentieth-anniversary celebration of 1989 and then some. Contemporary European History covers roughly the period from the late 1970s to the present. Despite valiant efforts (Judt, Wasserstein), there is no conclusive history of Europe in our time. The challenge of the colloquium is to sort out and discuss the major issues of this newest slice of contemporary history and to reflect on the methodological and theoretical challenges it poses. The so-called post-industrial society of the 1970s, the revolution of the political order in 1989-1991, the European Union as empire, the multi-ethnicity (and -religiosity) of nation states, or the uncertain boundaries of Europe are indications of the former. The role of media or of transnational actors points to methodological considerations. The issue of Europe in a phase of accelerated globalization will be the major theoretical interest. A class of this kind requires sustained and intense reading and a readiness to participate in discussion.
Aut 09	62304	01	Classics in the Study of American Culture	Slauter, Eric	This seminar treats classic scholarship on American culture, from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, and traces the institutionalization of the interdisciplinary project known as American Studies. Faculty members from across the University (Humanities, Social Sciences, Divinity, and Law) join seminar members each week to discuss the lasting significance of the books under discussion.
Aut 09	63902	01	Colloq: History of Women and Gender	Stansell, Christine	This course will examine how relations between men and women have shaped, and been shaped by, political, social ad economic dynamics. The course will cover the historical scholarship from the late Victorian period through the social / political movements of the late 1960s and early '70s. The course will stress the relationship of the history of sexuality, reproductive rights, racial divisions, labor force participation and feminism to broad patterns of change, with particular attention to the cultural and political meanings of the various expressions of modern gender identities - New Women and New Men - throughout this hundred year period.
Aut 09	64600	01	Coll: Marx	Postone, Moishe	This course will undertake an intensive examination of Karl Marx's mature social theory. Although it will also consider the development of Marx's thoughts, the course will primarily focus on a close reading of Capital. That text will not be approached as a positive science of economics, but as an attempt to formulate a critical and reflective theory of social mediation that would be adequate to the character and dynamic of modern social life.
Aut 09	66601	01	A Scandal for Gentiles and Jews	Nirenberg, D & Otten, W.	This course will focus on the challenges that Christianity s belief in the incarnation posed for ancient readers of scripture, both Jewish and Gentile, in order to ask what the consequences of these challenges were for the development of Christian approaches to the Hebrew Bible, ranging from tendencies in early Christianity to relinquish the Old Testament to reading it hence forth exclusively through a Christological lens. Special attention will be given to dualist perspectives and their alternatives in late antiquity (Paul, Philo, Marcion, Ignatius, Justin, Augustine) but the course will also deal with modern echoes in Von Harnack, Barth and Bultmann.
Aut 09	70503	01	Sem:Early Rome 1	Hall, J. & Hawkins, C.	Our knowledge of Rome during the Regal Period and the Early Republic is founded largely on two categories of evidence: archaeological data, and a literary tradition that originated only in the third century BC. This two-quarter course, fulfilling the seminar requirement for graduates in history and the Department of Classics Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World, will examine these categories of evidence and grapple with the methodological problems that they inevitably raise: how should we read these kinds of evidence, whether in isolation or in conjunction with one another, and what kinds of narratives of Rome's early development can they support? The first quarter will be devoted to guided reading and discussion while the second quarter will be reserved for writing a major research paper. Students will also be permitted to enroll for just the first quarter by arrangement with the instructors.
Aut 09	74201	01	Sem:The Politics of Everyday Life	Auslander, A. & Fitzpatrick, S.	Full Title: Sem:The Politics of Everday Life: Materia Culture and the Built Environment East and West This course is designed to address the question of the nature of everyday life in Eastern and Western Europe from the Russian Revolution of 1917 through 1989. Most broadly, we are interested in likenesses and differences in the conceptualization, design, meaning, and use of things and of the built environment between capitalist and non-capitalist societies in these crucial years of the 20th century. We will start with an analysis of concepts of "cultural revolution" and their utility in discussing the politics of everyday life, followed by a discussion of some key theoretical texts on objects, exchange, space and place. Subsequent weeks will engage questions of the shaping of desire (including popular culture and advertisements), town planning and architectural design and construction, the selling an! d ! acquiring of goods (including "conventional shopping," rationing, the black market, and gifts), and the use of objects and space once acquired. Close attention will be paid to the effect of war (hot and cold) and to transnational interactions and influences. This is a two-quarter research seminar. The fall term may, however, be taken as a free-standing colloquium. There is no language requirement for the fall. Those planning to write a research paper in the winter quarter are expected to be able to efficiently conduct research in the languages needed for their area of specialty. The course is open to non-history students and students from other disciplines are welcome.
Aut 09	74801	01	Sem: Euro/Colonialism/Globalism 1	Austen, Ralph	FULL TITLE: "European Overseas Expansion, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial World: Chronology, Political Economy, Culture" This course encompasses European overseas expansion from the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, the emergence from this process of new colonial territories inhabited by non-Europeans, and the fate of these territories as "postcolonies" in the late-twentieth and twenty-first century global order. The analytic goal is to integrate politics ( the formation of colonial regimes and successor nation-states); economics (the dialectics of colonialism, "underdevelopment," and global capitalism) and culture (the construction of European and "Third World" identities via colonialism).
Aut 09	76001	01	Sem: Mod Chinese Hist	Alitto, Guy	During the first quarter, students begin defining and researching their seminar paper topic and become acquainted with the secondary literature and primary sources of the area of their research. During the winter quarter, students write a paper on defined topic, based on the secondary literature and primary sources studied during the autumn. The seminar meets every week to discuss the progress of each student s paper.
Aut 09	76601	01	Sem: Japanese Hist 1	Ketelaar, James	Reading and research in Japanese history, which culminates in a major seminar paper at the end of winter term.
Aut 09	79101	01	Sem: Topics in Lat Amer Hist 1	Tenorio, Mauricio	The Seminar seeks to serve as a basic introduction to the craft of reading and writing histroy, and specifically of the region known as "Latin America." It aims at considering the most elementary aspects of the profession and field-history, Latin America, writing the past, finding the past in order to launch the wondering of future historians. The seminar is divided in two parts: The Craft(more general and abstract subjects are examined in order to form the repertoire to start carting a historiographical style, position and persona). In the first section learning will become as important as unlearning mental, political, and epistemological routines. The second section will deal with the historiography of Latin America using five subfield (political, economic, cultural, and social histories, and more-than-national histories) as foci of analsis, trying to highlight recent approaches but without loosing track of long lasting approaches.
Aut 09	79701	01	Sem:US-Mexican Borderlands, 1530-1848	Gutierrez, Ramon	This two-quarter seminar introduces graduate students to the history and historiography of those states that now forms the international border between Mexico and the United States. Known historically as Northern New Spain, as Mexico s Far North and eventually as the American Southwest, this area has been the site of successive cycles of conquest and colonization among indigenous peoples and European and American colonists for more than three hundred years. In the autumn the seminar does three things. (1) Intensively examines the area s historiography to identify the issues and questions historians interested in this area have asked and yet need to be answered. (2) To expose students to the range of narrative techniques individuals have employed to tell this history. (3) And, to identify a potential research topic each student will pursue in the second quarter of the course. During the winter quarter, or the second half of the course, the seminar will begin with each student presenting their research paper topic, the historiography, the methods to be employed, and the primary sources that will be used to produce a forty-page research paper. Student may work with Spanish, English, French, Russian, or indigenous language primary sources, and requires no advanced knowledge of the area s history.
Aut 09	83601	01	Sem: Urbanisms 1	Green, Adam	This seminar will offer students an introductory sample of historiography and social theory regarding modern urban society. It will engage urbanism as structured condition, as well humanely expansive experience two distinct definitions, it should be noted, for the term. Concentrating on the US from the ante-bellum period to the present, but also drawing on studies related to England, Brazil, and Sub-Saharan African, we will consider several constituent themes of the city as social experiment, including: its establishment of unprecedented forms of consciousness; its correspondence to market needs, progressively over time; the difficulty of defining power within cities; the question of what comprise city limits and what it is that cities are different from; the extent to which city life has serves to articulate fundamental systems of meaning, be they ideologies, cultural projects, or ethical frameworks.
Aut 09	90000	##	Rdg/Rsch: History Grad	Arr
Aut 09	90600	##	Oral Fields Preparation: History	Arr
Aut 09	97800	01	Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science	Richards, Robert
Aut 09	97900	01	Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences	Richards, Robert
Aut 09	99001	01	Workshop: Professional Issues	staff	This practical workshop advises students on their professional development from the first years of graduate course work to a career as a freshly minted Ph.D. Meeting every two weeks throughout the academic year, the workshop features panel discussions and tours led by upper-level graduate students, faculty, and staff and addresses such issues as study, research, and teaching skills; orals fields; dissertation proposals; grantsmanship and conference presentations, among other topics. The workshop is open to students in all stages of the doctoral program, as well students in masters programs who are contemplating a career as an historian.
Aut 09	99700	##	Thesis Preparation: History	Arr