| fullname qtr yr | Crs | Sec | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spr 08 | 30502 | 01 | Empire and Enlightenment | Ando, Clifford | The European Enlightenments were a formative period in THE development of modern historiography. Theirs was also an age in which the expansionist impulse of European monarchies came under intense philosophical scrutiny, on moral, religious, cultural and economic grounds. We will chart a course through these debates by focusing in the first instance on Enlightenment histories of Rome, by Montesquieu, Robertson and Gibbon. We will consider, too, writings on law, history and international politics by Vico, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and others. |
| Spr 08 | 31702 | 01 | Byzantine Empire, 610-1025 | Kaegi, Walter | A lecture course, with limited discussion, of the principle developments with respect to government, society, and culture in the Middle Byzantine Period. Although a survey of event and changes, including external relations, many of the latest scholarly controversies will also receive scrutiny. No prerequisite. Readings will include some primary sources in translation and examples of modern scholarly interpretations. Final examination and a short paper. Graduate students may register for grade of R (audit) or P (Pass) instead of a letter grade, except for History graduate students taking this as a required course. |
| Spr 08 | 32104 | 01 | Colloq: Thinking/Acting Race in Europe | Auslander, Leora | This course will examine conceptions of race, forms of racism (including anti-Semitism), and anti-racist movements in France and the German lands from the late eighteenth century through the late twentieth. We will briefly consider eighteenth-century understandings of race before moving on to an analysis of the place of those understandings in the emancipation of both Jews and slaves during the French Revolution. Nineteenth-century topics will include: intersections of race and nation, abolitionism, French understandings of race in Algeria, new conceptions of racial difference in 19th century imperialism, and changes in anti-Semitism. Twentieth-century themes will include the meanings of race under the Third Reich and Vichy, decolonization and ostcolonial Europe, implications of Europeanification and German reunification for racial thinking, the new racism and anti-racist mobilizations. |
| Spr 08 | 32803 | 01 | Jews in Scandinavian Literature | Schwarz, J. & von Schnurbein, S | The course takes its starting point in the literary and physical attacks on Jews in Denmark in the first half of the 19th century and the exclusionary politics of the new-founded Norwegian state, which didn't permit Jews into the country after 1814. Both events sparked reactions by Scandinavian authors amongst them Hans Christian Andersen, M.A. Goldschmidt, and Henrik Wergeland. The course aims at tracing the situation of Jews in Scandinavia historically and focuses on literary representations of Jews and their function both in works of non-Jewish and Jewish authors in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Special attention will be given to the intersections between the categories of race, nation, religion, gender, and sexuality. |
| Spr 08 | 33407 | 01 | Comparative Kingship: Rulers in 12th Century Europe | Lyon, Jonathan | The purpose of this course is to examine the different forms that kingship took in the Latin Christian kingdoms of Europe during the twelfth century. In the first half of the course, we will read and discuss a broad range of primary and secondary sources that will give us the opportunity to analyze critically kingship in England, France and Germany (the Holy Roman Empire). In the second half of the course, we will broaden our discussion to consider how other kingdoms in Europe including Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Sicily, Aragon and Castile do and do not conform to more general models of 12th-century European kingship. |
| Spr 08 | 34105 | 01 | Law and History in Qing and Early Republic China | Young, Mary | This course is an introduction to the role of law in Chinese society during the Qing (1644-1911) and early republican (1912-circa 1926) periods. Topics include Chinese views on the nature and origins of law; crime and punishment; customs and codes; legal institutions, process, and personnel; and China s encounters with foreign law. What does Chinese law reveal about the nature of the Chinese state and local society, about the Chinese family and economy? Lectures and class discussions will emphasize primary sources in translation (legal manuals, codes, archival case materials, novels, and newspaper articles). Readings also will include materials drawn from secondary sources in Chinese law, history, anthropology, and sociology. No previous knowledge of law is presumed. |
| Spr 08 | 35003 | 01 | Intro to History of Science | Johns, Adrian | This course is the history of scientific issues in the law, and the history of the handling of scientific evidence and scientific expertise from around 1850 to the present day. |
| Spr 08 | 35300 | 01 | Amer Revolution, 1763-1789 |
Cook, Edward | This lecture and discussion course explores the background of the American Revolution and the problem of organizing a new nation. The first half of the course uses the theory of revolutionary stages to organize a framework for the events of the 1760s and 1770s, and the second half of the course examines the period of constitution-making (1776-1789) for evidence on the ways in which the Revolution was truly revolutionary. |
| Spr 08 | 35705 | 01 | Historical Sources and How to Exploit Them | Bauden, Frederic | This course will offer students the opportunity to examine a great variety of historical sources. The seminar has a two-fold aim: to show students how the scholar should approach such sources and to teach them how they should be used. Two main categories of (mostly handwritten) sources will be examined: 1) historiographic works representing various genres such as chronicles, annuls, biographical dictionaries, notebooks, diaries, and 2) documents, either official or private. The common link between these two categories is obviously the material medium: parchment or paper. With this in mind, epigraphy and numismatics will also be touched upon: these disciplines in fact require skills different from those implied by handwritten material. Several methods of approach, suitable for the various sources under consideration, will be developed during the seminar. |
| Spr 08 | 35904 | 01 | Islamic History and Socieyt 3 | Shissler, Holly | Need course description |
| Spr 08 | 36005 | 01 | Coll: Sources for the Study of Islamic History | Woods, John | This course is designed to acquaint the student with the basic problems and concepts as well as the sources and methodology for the study of premodern Islamic history. Sources will be read in English translation and the tools acquired will be applied to specific research projects to be submitted as term papers. Offered in alternate years. |
| Spr 08 | 36103 | 01 | Latin American Civ 3 | Kouri, Emilio | This sequence fulfills the common core requirement in civilization 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 pre-Columbian 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. |
| Spr 08 | 36500 | 01 | Hist of Mexico, 1876-pres | Katz, F. & Kourí, Emilio | 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. |
| Spr 08 | 36702 | 01 | Historical Introduction to Indian Cinema | Majumdar, Rochona | This is a survey of Indian cinema starting in the silent era, covering the early talkie and studio period, the rise of art and regional cinemas, up to the recent advent of "Bollywood." It explores the rise of cinema in India in the age of Empire and traces the many faces of the cinematic tradition in the country over a ninety year period. Often all Indian cinema is conflated with Bollywood. While that is a mistake, it is impossible to understand Bollywood, the most popular and globalized version of Indian cinema, without contextualizing it in a longer history of Indian film. |
| Spr 08 | 37400 | 01 | Race & Racism in Amer Hist | Holt, Thomas | This lecture course examines selected topics in the development of racism, drawing on both cross-national (the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean) and multiethnic (African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American) perspectives. Beginning with the premise that people of color in the Americas have both a common history of dispossession, discrimination, and oppression as well as strikingly different historical experiences, I hope to probe a number of assumptions and theories about race and racism in academic and popular thought. Two quizzes, midterm and final essay examinations required. |
| Spr 08 | 37403 | 01 | Af-American Lives & Times | Holt, Thomas | This colloquium will examine selected topics and issues in African-American history during a dynamic and critical decade, 1893 and 1903, that witnessed the redefinition of American national and sectional identities, social and labor relations, and race and gender relations. A principal premise of the course is that African American life and work was at the nexus of the birth of modern America, as reflected in labor and consumption, in transnational relations (especially Africa), in cultural expression(especially music and literature), and in the resistance or contestation to many of these developments. The course will focus on the Chicago World's Fair and the publication of Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk as seminal moments in the era. Our discussions will be framed by diverse primary materials, including visual and aural sources, juxtaposed with interpretations of the era by various historians. A principal goal of the course is that students gain a greater appreciation for interpreting historical processes through in-depth examination of the complex and multiple currents of an defined era-a slice of time--as well as skills in interpreting diverse primary sources. |
| Spr 08 | 37803 | 01 | Civil Rights History | Green, Adam | This course offers an intensive survey of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation struggles beginning in 1957, as a landmark episode in modern Civil Rights history. We will engage emerging and established literatures on the Central High story, African American movement activism, and the relationship of the Little Rock episode to both national movement and national political cultures, as well as selected primary sources. Besides evident thematic concerns (social activism, white backlash or conservative resistance, constitutional questions of governmental authority, horizons and limits of the ideology of the New South, the viability of racial liberalism in the 1950 s U.S., education as a terrain of social struggle) this class will also address the role of history and memory together in establishing how the Civil Rights Movement has been, and is, remembered. |
| Spr 08 | 38400 | 01 | Mod Amer Legal Hist | Novak, William | This course explores the role of law in history and of history in law through a survey of American legal developments from the Civil War to the present. It treats the law not as an autonomous process or science, but as a social phenomenon inextricably intertwined with other historical forces. This quarter will will examine the life of the law in America through the twentieth century, exploring the interrelationships between changes in legal institutions and doctrines and larger social processes like industrialism, reform, state building, social-welfare legislation, and civil rights struggle. We will be particularly concerned with the rise of a new American liberal legal order. |
| Spr 08 | 38501 | 01 | Historiography of Asian Amer Studies | Mah, Theresa | Asian American studies is a dynamic field with a forty year history. In recent years, scholarship on Asian Americans has undergone enormous growth and change, much of it reflecting the shifting demographics of Asians in the United States well as theoretical developments in the various academic disciplines that contribute to the field. This course is meant to be both an introduction to the field as well as an opportunity to critically examine the present state of Asian American scholarship and its future direction. During the quarter, we will familiarize ourselves with some of the classic texts in Asian American studies, identifying various approaches and debates, while also carefully considering historical contexts in which the works were written. Readings will alternate between historical narrative and theoretical works meant to provide the tools with which to think about how historical narratives are written. While tracing the development of the field from its founding in the late 1960s to the present, the course will also trace the 150 year history of Asians in the United States and encourage thoughtful discussion on related topics such as race, representation, immigration, gender, class, identity, community and politics. |
| Spr 08 | 41101 | 01 | Everyday Life in the Socialist China | Eyferth, Jacob | This graduate course will examine the vast and elusive realm of the everyday in post-1949 China, with special attention paid to the 1950s and 1960s a time in which many aspects of everyday life were rapidly transformed. In the first few weeks, we will review different approaches to the everyday, ranging from early twentieth-century theories (Simmel, Benjamin, Elias) to recent feminists critiques of everyday life, studies of everyday technology, practitioners of Alltagsgeschichte, etc. In the second part of the course, we will look at different aspects of the everyday in the early PRC, including work routines, leisure and play, domestic life and consumption, and everyday strategies of coping with political and economic change. Rather than trying to conceptualize modernity through everyday life, as much recent work has done, we will focus on the concrete, the experiential, and the mundane. Readings will be in English and Chinese, and students are encouraged to use primary sources for their essays. Alternative assignments can be found for students without reading knowledge of modern Chinese. |
| Spr 08 | 42102 | 01 | Statistical Surveys & Government during the Great Depression | Didier, Emmanuel | The New Deal is famous for having been the first period when the Federal Administration began intervening in the economy. Lots of ink has flowed about the fact that, in reality, the movement began earlier, with Hoover s presidency in particular, and even before. But what has been very seldom noticed is that prior to any intervention, any Government needed tools to know about the state of the society it was intervening on, and couldn t without them. This lecture is about one of the most famous tools that have been developed during this period within and for the federal administration: namely random sample surveys. We will aim at showing how this statistical technique, often thought of as a mere technique of description, was (and still is) a tool of action, especially in the hand of the Government. |
| Spr 08 | 42401 | 01 | Lives of the Mind | Datson, Lorraine | Since Greek and Roman antiquity, to dedicate oneself to thinking has been more than a job or even a vocation: it has been a way of life. To be a philosopher, a poet, a scholar, or a scientist involved a training of the body and the senses as well as the mind and often dictated choices between celibacy or marriage, solitude or sociability, civic engagement or detachment. Life and works were intimately intertwined, even in the modern period; ethos and epistemology often fused, especially in the sciences. This seminar surveys selected models for the life of the mind in historical context, from ancient times to the twentieth century. Readings will include: Plato, Symposium; the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries; Charles Darwin, Autobiography; Max Weber, Science as Vocation. |
| Spr 08 | 42901 | 01 | Vienna and Its Empire: The Habsburg Monarchy and Austrian Rep, 1740-1955 | Boyer, John | This colloquium will give students in modern European history a systematic overview of major interpretive problems in Hapsburg and Austrian history from 1740 to 1955. We will consider issues such as the competing historiographical narratives about the fate of the Empire; reform absolutism and eighteenth-century communities in the Empire; 1848 in Vienna and in the Empire; the Empire during the constitutional crises of the 1860s; Liberalism, nationalism, and the political culture of the post-1867 Dualism; mass politics in the Empire after 1890; fin de siècle culture in Vienna; the social history of World War I and the collapse of the Empire; the Revolution of 1918 and the reasons behind the ultimate failure of the First Republic; and Authoritarianism, Nazism, and post-war Reconstruction. |
| Spr 08 | 44901 | 01 | Anthropology of History | Palmie, Stephan | Anthropologists have long been concerned with the temporal dimension of human culture and sociality, but, until fairly recently (and with significant exceptions), have rarely gone beyond processual modeling. This has dramatically changed. Anthropologists have played a prominent role in the so-called historic turn in the social sciences , acknowledging and theorizing the historical subjectivity's and historical agency of the ethnographic other , but also problematizing the historicity of the ethnographic endeavor itself. The last decades have not only seen a proliferation of empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated historical ethnography's, but also a decisive move towards ethnography's of the historical imagination. Taking its point of departure from a concise introduction to the genealogy of the trope of historicity in anthropological discourse, this course aims to explore the possibilities of an anthropology of historical consciousness, discourse and praxis i.e. the ways in which human groups select, represent, give meaning to, and strategically manipulate constructions of the past. In this, our discussion will not just focus on non-western forms of historical knowledge, but include the analysis of western disciplined historiography as a culturally and historically specific form of promulgating conceptions of the past and its relation to the present. |
| Spr 08 | 46901 | 01 | Science and Society in 19th-Century India | Arnold, David | Given recent scholarship about the nature and purposes of 'colonial science' in India, can we still use this contentious term to describe a wide range of scientific practices and their relationship with Indian society under colonial rule? This course examines India in the 19th century and the evolution of some of the leading areas of scientific activity (including botany, medicine, geology, astronomy and ethnography): it asks why some sciences received more attention than other and considers how far they were tired to the material and ideological objectives of British colonial rule. It assess the place of Indian participation in scientific activity, the impact of western science on indigenous societies, and the extent to which 'colonial science' differed from 'metropolitan science'. |
| Spr 08 | 50001 | 01 | Gender and Colonialism | Jean-Baptiste, Rachel | This course takes a comparative approach towards examining how colonial encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries involved struggles over how societies lived and defined gender roles. The first part of the course examines key works of post-colonial theory that have influenced how social and cultural historians conceptualize the history of colonialism. The second sequence examines fundamental works of gender theory and historiography. The final sequence focuses on historical case studies drawn from Africa, the Americas, and South Asia. Linking theory and historiography, the course examines how conceptions and practices of gender intersected with those of race, health, sexuality, and governance. Course content includes written and visual sources. |
| Spr 08 | 52901 | 01 | Nationalism & Transnationalism in East Central Europe | Zahra, Tara | This course explores recent literature on nationalism and transnationalism in Modern Europe. While focusing mainly on issues regarding the rise of nation-states out of multinational empires in Central and Eastern Europe, the course also looks eastward and westward, using comparative examples drawn from the history of the Soviet Union and France. After surveying some of the classic histories and theories of nationalism in Europe, the course will examine recent efforts to challenge nationalist categories and narratives through a "transnational" approach to European history. |
| Spr 08 | 57703 | 01 | Sem: Important Things | Over a free lunch, we talk about the latest literature in history and philosophy of science. | |
| Spr 08 | 59501 | 01 | Coll: Topics in Brazil & Amazonia | Lee, Kittiya | This seminar will introduce students to Brazil and Amazonia through scholarship produced in the field of history, mainly, but also anthropology, archaeology, musicology and literary studies. [the rest stays as it is in the proofs] Class meetings are organized according to three objectives. First, students will gain familiarity with the general history of the two regions by reading about demographic, social, cultural, environmental, economic and political changes in the pre-Columbian, colonial, empire and national eras. Second, students will engage in critical and comparative discussion and evaluation of the trends and methodologies employed by scholars. Third, students will submit original work demonstrating the practical applications of their study of Brazil and Amazonia. Reading skills in Portuguese suggested. |
| Spr 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. |
| Spr 08 | 60600 | 01 | Medieval Biblical Exegesis | Pick, Lucy | This course examines the theories, methodologies, goals and practices of medieval biblical exegesis from its patristic origins to the time of the friars. We will consider the contexts in which exegesis was practiced (monasteries, cathedral schools, universities). We will also look at some of the varied places where the fruits of exegetical work can be found, in polemic, in liturgy, and in artistic creation as well as in traditional biblical commentaries and treatises. |
| Spr 08 | 60801 | 01 | Coll: Political Econ and Invention of Society, c1680-1780 | Cheney, Paul | Political economy grew out of the commercial revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and accordingly became a central object of concern among the major states of Europe. Concurrently, the rise of commerce helped to nurture the idea of a civil society independent of, and in some sense prior to, the state and its claims to authority over individuals and society at large. Political economy emerged almost simultaneously, then, as an instrumentalist discourse by and about the state, and a critical discourse that advanced the most radical claims of the Enlightenment. Paradoxically, these strands were not always in contradiction with one another. We will consider such eighteenth-century authors as Mandeville, Smith, Steuart, Turgot, Montesquieu, Melon, Hume, Quesnay, Rousseau and Law. Primary texts will provide the framework for our discussion, but important secondary sources will also be considered. |
| Spr 08 | 61000 | 01 | Coll: Intro to Soviet Historical Sources | Fitzpatrick, Sheila | The purpose of this course is to train graduate students who will be undertaking research in Soviet and modern Russian history in the use of archival and published sources (both the "traditional" range of Soviet primary sources, i.e. those published and available the Soviet period, and those that have become available in the post-Soviet period. While the soviet period 1917-1964, is the main focus of attention, this may be extended either forward or backward, according to the research interests of class participants. Reading knowledge of Russian is required. Although there is no research paper, students will be asked to write three five-page written reports on particular type of sources in the course of the quarter, and there will be weekly exercises involving location and use of source materials in the Regenstein Library and oral reports in class on findings. |
| Spr 08 | 62101 | 01 | Caste in Indian History | Chakrabarty, Dipesh | This course will look at changing understandin and politics of caste in pre-modern, colonial and postcolonial India. |
| Spr 08 | 64001 | 01 | Coll: Slavery, Antislavery and Empire | Saville, Julie | This course locates key developments in the social and cultural history of the United States during a long 19th-century within the context of the expansion of trans-Atlantic colonial empires. Readings consider domestic and international linkages in the revitalization and expansion of plantation slavery, the conquest, displacement, and rule over Amerindian peoples during western expansion, the domestic and foreign implications of antislavery, and varying ideological, political, and social connections between post-emancipation reconstruction's of work, daily life, citizenship, and international order. |
| Spr 08 | 64101 | 01 | Enlightenment & Revolution in America | Slauter, Eric | Do books cause revolutions, and if so, how? This colloquium explores the impact of ideas on social realities in the revolutionary era. Primary and secondary readings in law, literature, history, politics, religion, science, and the fine arts help us raise and respond to some of the most important questions of recent criticism and historiography: What did Enlightenment mean in a colonial context, and how successfully were universal norms institutionalized in particular settings? Was mass mobilization the result of mass consumption, and if not, what combination of material and ideological forces shaped American independence, the formation of the United States, and the creation of a national identity and culture? Was the founding period an age of reason or an age of feeling, a moment of secularization or of increasing religiousity, a time of individual or of collective liberties? How did the transition from monarchy to republic inform new notions of gender and race, and what difference did it make to the lives of ordinary women and men, to the rich and the poor, and to American Indians, to European Americans, and to Africans and African-Americans? Contemporaries sometimes imagined that everything had been transformed, but what, and who, was ultimately left behind? One in-class presentation and a final research paper. Open to PhD and Law School students only. Permission of instructor required for Law School students. |
| Spr 08 | 64102 | 01 | Gender Relations in Historical Perspective: the United States, 1865-1980 |
Stansell, Christine | This course will examine how relations between men and women have shaped, and been shaped by, political, social and 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. |
| Spr 08 | 64401 | 01 | Racial Theories of Religious Difference in 15th Century Spain | Nirenberg, David | The mass conversion of Jews to Christianity in fifteenth-century Spain produced a sharp debate about what it meant to be a Christian or a Jew. Theories about the biological reproduction of religious and cultural differences played an important part in these debates, eventually producing an idealogy of purity of blood. In this course we will read a number of the principal treatises articulating such theories, both contextualizing them within the fifteen century debates and comparing them to more modern theories of race. Although English translations of some of these treatises will be provided, students will ideally have reading knowledge of either Spanish or Latin. |
| Spr 08 | 69900 | 01 | Coll: Historiography | Ketelaar, J. & Stanley, A. | The aim of the course is to introduce major theoretical approaches used by professional historians and to locate the unique role of the historical discipline within the social sciences and humanities. Students would be expected to gain a critical understanding of different schools of history (Annales, the "new" social and cultural histories, etc.), of historic methods and approaches to studying history (oral, economic, ethnographic, etc.), and of theories and theorists relevant to historians. |
| Spr 08 | 90000 | ## | Rdg/Rsch: History Grad | ||
| Spr 08 | 90600 | ## | Oral Fields Preparation: History | ||
| Spr 08 | 97800 | 01 | Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science | ||
| Spr 08 | 97900 | 01 | Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences | Richards, Robert | |
| Spr 08 | 99003 | 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. |
| Spr 08 | 99700 | ## | Thesis Preparation: History | ||
| Spr 08 | 99800 | ## | Tching Eurpn Hist-UG Colleges | Staff | |
| Spr 08 | 99900 | ## | Apprenticeship: Teaching History | Staff |