fullname qtr yr	Crs	Sec	Title	Instructor	Description
Aut 08	30101	01	Colonial Autobiography	Austen, Ralph	The focus of this course will be the reading of works which deal, in one way or another, with "coming of age under colonialism" in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Some are autobiographies in the normal sense, others are works of fiction, and many fall in between. Most are colonial but some are literally postcolonial. The focus will be upon themes of developing a personal identity in negotiation between a local culture and a dominant colonial one, with formal schooling as a major common site. There are obviously major issues of "postcoloniality" at stake here, in a mixture of political and cultural terms which we ourselves will need to negotiate. The two weekly session will normally (but not always) be divided between a lecture, which will introduce the historical context and author, and a discussion of the assigned text. Additional texts will be suggested both for background reading and potential paper topics.
Aut 08	30302	01	Ancient Sparta	Hall, Jonathan	From Herodotos to Hitler, ancient Sparta has continued to fascinate for its supposedly balanced constitution, its military superiority, its totalitarian ideology, and its brutality. Yet the image we possess of the most important state of the Peloponnese is largely the projection of outside observers for whom the objectification of Sparta could serve either as a model for emulation or as a paradigm of "otherness." This course will examine the extant evidence for Sparta from its origins through to its repackaging in Roman times and will serve as a case study in discussing the writing of history and in attempting to gauge the viability of a non-Athenocentric Greek history.
Aut 08	31005	01	Economy and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome	Hawkins, Cameron	In this course we will explore not only the nature of ancient Greek and Roman economies, but also the way in which social and political structures constrained or facilitated the efforts of individuals to devise successful strategies within those economies. We will consider trade, manufacture, and agriculture, and we will devote considerable attention to issues of methodology: what questions should we ask about ancient economic life, and with what evidence can we answer them?
Aut 08	31703	01	Byzantine Empire, 1025-1453	Kaegi, Walter	Internal and external problems and developments. Internal tensions on the eve of the arrival of the Seljuks. Eleventh-century economic growth. The Crusades. Achievements and Deficiencies of Komnenian Byzantium. The Fourth Crusade and Byzantine successor states. Palaeologan Political and Cultural Revival. Religious topics such as relations with the Papacy, Bogomilism and Hesychasm. Readings will include M. Angold, The Byzantine Empire 1025-1204, D. M. Nicol, Last Centuries of Byzantium, the histories of Michael Psellos and Anna Comnena. Course grade will include a final examination and a 10-page paper.
Aut 08	32605	01	British Empire 1600-1900	Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik	This course approaches the expansion of the British Empire by means of a combination of lectures and seminar discussions of case studies. In particular, we will explore the emergence of plantation economies in the British West Indies, the operation of merchant networks in the Atlantic, and the rise of the territorial state of the East India Company
Aut 08	33600	01	The Russian Law Code of 1649	Hellie, Richard	This discussion course will involve a close reading of the text and deliberation about its sources. A comparative law essay is required of every student.
Aut 08	33904	01	Russ Hist to Peter the Great	Hellie, Richard	The course deals with Russia from the Paleolithic to the period of Peter the Great. Social history, law, economy, material culture, and historiography will be stressed. Grading will be based on a two-hour written final exam.
Aut 08	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 08	34905	01	Darwin's "Origin of Species" and "Decent of Man"	Richards, Robert	This lecture-discussion class will focus on a close reading of Darwin's two classic texts. An initial class or two will explore the state of biology prior to Darwin's Beagle Voyage, and then consider the development of his theories before 1859. Then we will turn to his two books. Among the topics of central concern will be: the logical, epistemological, and rhetorical status of Darwin's several theories, especially his evolutionary ethics; the religious foundations of his ideas and the religious reaction to them; and the social-political consequences of his accomplishment. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th of the publication of the "Origin."
Aut 08	35203	01	Econ/ Soc Hist of Euro, 1700-1880	Craig, John	This course examines the causes, characteristics, and effects -- economic, social, and otherwise -- of the "industrious" and industrial revolutions. The course reviews an array of unresolved debates, among them the so-called Brenner debate and the debates over proto-industrialization, the enclosure movements, the sources of technological innovation, path dependence and diffusion patterns within and across economies, the family economy, the standard of living, the formation of the middle and working classes, the consequences of literacy, and the voluntary iniatives and public policies addressing such social problems as poverty, disease, illegitimacy, and crime. The course is the first in a two-course sequence covering the economic and social history of Europe from 1700 to the present, but each course is free-standing -- students enrolled in this course are not required to take its sequel.
Aut 08	35701	01	North Af, Late Antiquity-Islam	Kaegi, Walter	Examination of topics in continuity and change from the third through ninth centuries CE, including changes in Roman, Vandalic, Byzantine, and early Islamic Africa. Topics include the waning of paganism and the respective spread and waning of Christianity, the dynamics of the seventh-century Muslim conquest and Byzantine collapse. Transformation of late antique North Africa into a component of Islamic civilization. Topography and issues of the autochthonous populations will receive some analysis. Most of the required reading will be on reserve, for there is no standard textbook. Readings in translated primary sources as well as the latest modern scholarship. Final examination and 10-page course paper.
Aut 08	35704	01	Islamic History and Society 1		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 08	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 08	36404	01	Cultural History of Modernist Americas	Tenorio, Mauricio	Between circa 1870 and 1930 artistic, literary, scientific, and political ideas, motifs, and style circulated throughout the main urban centers of the Americas (New York, Chicago, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo). The course is designed to deal with the historiography of such a modernist moment continentally, addressing issues related to art, architecture, urban planning, social science, race theory, economic thought, and political ideas.
Aut 08	38402	01	US and the World since 1945	Bradley, Mark	This course explores the place of the United States in the construction of international political, economic and cultural order since World War II. While particular attention is devoted to examining the origins, shifting character and end of the Cold War in an international perspective, the course also aims to broaden the lines of inquiry that have traditionally informed the study of American foreign relations. It will do so by considering the nature of transnational linkages between peoples, economies and ideas; the perspectives of state and non-state actors; and the ways in which culture and ideology at home and abroad shaped American perceptions and policies in the world. Weekly readings and discussions will introduce critical primary source materials as well as important interpretative approaches to key issues in post-1945 American international history.
Aut 08	38601	01	Family & Community in Early America	Cook, Edward	This colloquium will explore a series of topics around the experience of living in local and family settings, from settlement to the early nineteenth century. We will try to understand both the social and economic processes that shaped modes and standards of life and the values that informed peoples' lives. Discussion with some lecture.
Aut 08	39303	01	Human Rgts 3	Gzesh, Susan	This course examines the main features of the contemporary human rights system. It covers the major international treaties, and the mechanisms international, regional, and national established to implement them. We also discuss the uses and limitations of the international treaty system, and the relationship between international obligations and domestic implementation. Problems of rights implementation are related to issues of evidence, professional ethics, and political feasibility. Legal and medical concepts are applied to topics such as torture, political repression, war crimes and genocide, refugees, women s rights, children's rights, violations of human rights within the United States, and medical ethics.
Aut 08	54501	01	Colloq: Modernism: A Global History	Geyer, Michael	Modernism is a genuinely global artistic, cultural, and political phenomenon, except that there is absolutely no agreement on what exactly it is. We will spend some time defining the beast, but for the most part we will try to get a grip on three aspects: The issue of artistic avant-gardes; sexual politics and the new woman; developmentalism as social and economic engineering. The way I imagine this course that for each of the three issues we will have one session focusing on the general (or theoretical) dimensions, a second session of a historical case, and a third session with student contributions from their regional specialization. (Michael Geyer)
Aut 08	58800	01	Coll: Ottoman Historical Texts	Fleischer, Cornell	Based on selected readings from major Ottoman chronicles from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the course provides an introduction to the use of primary narrative materials and an overview of the development and range of Ottoman historical writing.
Aut 08	60302	01	Coll: Immigration and Assimilation in American Life	Gutierrez, Ramon	This course explores the history of immigration in what is now the United States, starting with the colonial origins of Spanish, French, Dutch and English settlements, the importation of African slaves, and the massive waves of immigrants that arrived in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Additionally, we will study the adaptation of these immigrants, exploring the validity of the concept of assimilation, comparing and contrasting the experiences of the "Old" and "New" immigrants based on their race, religion, and class standing.
Aut 08	63603	01	Colloq: American Slavery & Antislavery	Stanley, Amy	Need course description
Aut 08	69900	01	Colloq: Historiography	Tenorio, M & Saville, J	This course is designed as a forum to grasp intellectual issues across the historical discipline and balance the tendency towards specialization in the profession. While the course may be most helpful for graduate students in history early in their career, it is also open to more senior students and those interested in history outside the department. A ten-week course can hardly do justice to debates on the nature of history and the nuances of writing history. Thus this course is selective by necessity, representing the interests of the two instructors-who represent very different fields within the discipline. The class is basically structured around discussion of the assigned materials, but each session will be introduced by a short lecture.
Aut 08	73301	01	Sem: East European and Russian Hist 1	Zahra, Tara	Full Course Title: Sem: East European and Russian History: Unsettled Europe This two-quarter seminar will explore the history of displacement and migration in twentieth century Europe, focusing on France, Germany, East Central Europe, and the Soviet Union. Readings in the first quarter will explore themes such as immigration, internal migration and displacement, wartime and postwar refugees, Displaced Persons, forced and voluntary labor migration, the rise of international humanitarian organizations and NGOs, ethnic cleansing, and post-colonial migrations. Readings for the fall quarter will all be in English. Students planning to specialize in French, German, East Central European, or Russian history will, however, be required to use the appropriate languages in their Winter quarter seminar papers. Enrollment permitting, the Fall quarter may be taken alone. The Fall quarter is, however, a prerequisite for the Winter.
Aut 08	73601	01	Sem: Protestant Reformation 1	Fasolt, Constantin	This two-quarter seminar introduces graduate students to the historical interpretation of the Protestant Reformation and prepares them to conduct original research in the field. The course focuses on, but is not strictly limited to, the Reformation in German. We do three things in autumn. (1) Take an intensive look at the exisiting historigraphy and identify critical issues confronting historians of the Reformation today. The history of the Reformation continues to be governed by terms and values largely laid down during the Reformation itself, which are none the less effective for operating in a concealed and implicit manner. To make their effects visible and subject to critical analysis, we will take a long view of the historigoraphy, beginning with a survey of classical interpretations offered since the nineteenth century by philosophers, historians, and social scientists (Hegel, Ranke, Engels, Troeltsch, Weber, Febvre, Elias). Then, we turn to current debates in the professional literature by historians: Heiko Oberman, Bernd Moeller, Thomas Brady, and others. (2) We read several of Luther's writings in English translation. Our purpose is not to focus on Lutheran teaching, but to seek, through close reading, the fundamental principles by which the Refomation broke with preceding patterns of thought and action, and possibly pointed the way towards the future development of European thought. (3) To begin thinking about a research topic. Early on, you should identify possible leads in the sources and the secondary literature, and report regulary to the seminar (orally and in writing) on your on-going library research. You will be expected to keep in close contact with me and to meet certain deadlines for submitting outlines and research propoals. This will allow you to develop a topic that interests you, but one that is delimited, related to current scholarship, and manageable for you, given the available time and resources.
Aut 08	73701	01	Sem: Religion, Politics, and Civil Society	Goldstein, J & Boyer, J	Full Title: Religion, Politics, and Civil Society in France and Central Europe, 1740-1970 The general theme of the seminar this year is the relationship between religion and civil society in France and Central Europe from the mid 18th to the late 20th centuries. We will use this broad theme to explore a variety of important issues in modern European history, including the relationship between church and state; the relationship between religion and science; the contribution of religious consciousness to the construction of class, gender, and national identities; and the role played by religious movements in the creation of a liberal, adversarial political system and the formation of a bourgeois public sphere.
Aut 08	75601	01	Sem: Mod Korean Hist 1	Cumings, Bruce	By modern, we mean Korea since its "opening" in 1876. We read about one book per week in the autumn. Before each session, one student will write a 3-4 page paper on the reading, with another student commenting on it. In the winter, students present the subject, method, and rationale for a significant research paper. Papers should be about forty pages and based in primary materials; ideally this means Korean materials, but ability to read scholarly materials in Korean, Japanese, or Chinese is not a requirement for taking the seminar. Students may also choose a comparative and theoretical approach, examining some problems in modern Korean history in the light of similar problems elsewhere, or through the vision of a body of theory.
Aut 08	76001	01	Sem: Mod Chinese Hist/Doc Sources 1	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 seminary meets every week to discuss the progress of each student s paper.
Aut 08	76501	01	Sem: Modern Japanese History 1	Burns, Susan	Reading and research in modern Japanese history, which culminates in a major seminar paper at the end of winter term.
Aut 08	78201	01	Sem: Ottoman World/Suleyman 1	Fleischer, Cornell	FULL TITLE: "The Ottoman World in the Age of Suleyman the Magnificent" The course focuses on the formation of the Ottoman polity as an imperial entity following the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and up to the end of the sixteenth century. Taking as its thematic center point the ideological, social, cultural, and administrative changes introduced by Sultan Suleyman (1520-1566), the seminar also provides a survey of the institutions of his most extensive of early modern Muslim empires. Themes of particular significance are the changing relationship of religion and state, the development of imperial culture, the rule of law, rivalry with contemporary Christian and Muslim powers, and the transition from universal to regional empire. Reading knowledge of at least one European language recommended.
Aut 08	78601	01	Sem: Iran and Central Asia 1	Woods, John	The first quarter will take the form of a colloquium on the sources for and the literature on the political, social, economic, technological, and cultural history of Western and Central Asia from 900 to 1750. Specific topics will vary and focus on the Turks and the Islamic world, the Mongol universal empire, the age of Timur and the Turkmens, and the development of the "Gunpowder Empires". The second quarter will be devoted to the preparation of a major research paper.
Aut 08	79201	01	Sem: Latin American History 1	Kouri, Emilio	The first half of a research seminar covering debates and methods in Latin American history. Topics vary from year to year.
Aut 08	83601	01	Sem: Urbanisms 1	Green, Adam	Need Course description
Aut 08	84301	01	Sem Rsch: The Politics of Reproduction in Historical Perspective 1	Stansell, Christine	A two-quarter course designed to prepare for and then write a substantial historical research paper. The course is focused on United States history in the 19th and 20th centuries, but we will touch upon European examples. Topics will include contraception, abortion, marriage, fertility and demographics, eugenics, the uses and abuses of motherhood, marriage the uses of the heterosexual/homosexual divide, and reproduction as tied to national ideologies.
Aut 08	86701	01	Sem: International Hist 1	Bradley, Mark	In this two-quarter seminar, autumn term is devoted to reading and discussions, and the winter term, to student research papers. The reading includes various approaches to international history, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. We pay particular attention to the theoretical underpinnings, explicit or implicit, of recent books in international history and international relations including works that focus on high policy and states as well as those that examine non-state actors and transnational forces.
Aut 08	90000	##	Rdg/Rsch: History Grad	Arr
Aut 08	90600	##	Oral Fields Preparation: History	Arr
Aut 08	97800	01	Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science
Aut 08	97900	01	Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences	Richards, Robert
Aut 08	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 08	99700	##	Thesis Preparation: History	Arr
Aut 08	99800	##	Tching Eurpn Hist-UG Colleges	Arr
Aut 08	99900	##	Apprenticeship: Teaching History	Arr