| fullname quarter | Crs | Sec | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | 30603 | 01 | Slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome | Hawkins, Cameron | Classical Greece and Rome rank among the few civilizations in world history in which slavery permeated all aspects of society. In this course, we will explore slavery in ancient Greece and Rome in its social, cultural, and economic contexts. We will focus not only on evidence and problems specific to ancient history, but also on comparisons of slavery in the ancient world with slavery in more recent (and better documented) slave societies. |
| Winter | 30703 | 01 | Greek Science | Rigsby, Kent | The scientific enterprise of ancient Greece and Rome (sixth century B.C. to sixth A.D.). Readings from the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Hellenistic scientists, and the Roman and Christian encyclopedists. Weekly problem-oriented papers." |
| Winter | 32705 | 01 | Empire, Science and Environment 1492-1800 |
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. |
| Winter | 32900 | 01 | The Italian Renaissance | Gray, Hanna | This course concentrates on the political environment of Italy in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries and on the evolution of humanism its ways of thought and its related institutions during that age. Primary texts are emphasized. |
| Winter | 32903 | 01 | Religious War and Political change in Europe, 1550-1700 | Thomson, Erik | This course examines the religious wars that followed the Reformation and their effects upon political institutions, theories, and cultures. We will examine the causes of war, changes in the scope and nature of battle, the strains and shifts war provoked in early modern governance, debates over the morality and nature of politics, and the challenges of making peace. Students will develop a particular area of expertise that will serve as a test for broader models of early modern state-building. |
| Winter | 33002 | 01 | Protestant Reformation in Germany | Fasolt, Constantin | This course is designed to clarify and test the assumptions underlying the present state of knowledge about the Protestant Reformation. Its method consists of reading extensively in the historiography and reflecting intensively on the issues raised by that reading. So as to maintain a well-defined focus the course is largely limited to the Reformation in Germany. So as to develop a broad perspective the course is not limited to the most recent literature. We will begin with some of the most famous older interpretations (Hegel, Ranke, Engels, Troeltsch, Weber, Febvre). We will then go on to consider the redefinition of the historical agenda since the 1960's and the current state of our knowledge by reading the work of leading contemporary historians of the Reformation (e.g., Bernd Moeller, Thomas Brady, Heiko Oberman, Jean Delumeau, Peter Blickle, Heinz Schilling). The course will consist of a mixture of discussion and professorial commentary. |
| Winter | 33405 | 01 | New Approaches to L'Encyclopédie | Morrissey, Robert | No author better represents the Age of Enlightenment in all of its complexity than Denis Diderot; no work did more to spread the ideology of the Enlightenment than the Encyclopédie. Mobilizing many of the great -- and the not-so-great -- philosophes of the eighteenth-century, this monumental work that undertook to organize and transmit the totality of human knowledge is also a very subversive work. We will look at the Encyclypédie in its context and explore such issues as the techniques of reading it implies, its notions of what constitutes truth, and some of the implications of the collective, dialogical nature of the enterprise. Readings will include miscellaneous works by Diderot, a selection of texts by him and others drawn from the Encyclopédie texts of other philosophes. There will be an oral presentation and a research paper. All work is done in French but exceptions will be made for students from other departments. |
| Winter | 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. |
| Winter | 35204 | 01 | Econ/ Soc Hist of Euro, 1880-Pres | Craig, John | This course is a sequel to History 25203/35203, but the latter is not a prerequisite. It focuses on economic and social problems and debates identified with mature industrialization and the transition to a postindustrial and increasingly integrated Europe. Themes receiving particular attention include the crisis of the old rural order, international factor mobility (including migration), urbanization and "municipal socialism", the rise of the professions and the new middle class, the demographic and schooling transitions, the economic and social impact of business cycles, the world wars, and mass movements, the evolution and so-called crisis of the welfare state, and the social policies of the European Union. |
| Winter | 35600 | 01 | Contemporary Central Asia | Arik, Kagan | This course follows Turkish 243/343 "Introduction to the Turkic Peoples of Central Asia," with an emphasis on the current affairs of the modern nation-states of Central Asia. |
| Winter | 35604 | 01 | The Arab-Israeli Conflict and Regional Realities | Zelnicker, Shimshon | The course will offer a critical survey of the Arab-Israeli conflict, religious-cultural, historical as well as geo-political dimensions. The course will focus on the Israeli and Palestinian national structures, their internal dynamics and political realities (such as, the tension between competing secular and religious ideological visions) and will examine the impact of the changing international order on the evolution of the conflict. |
| Winter | 35804 | 01 | Islamic History and Society 2 | Woods, John | This course is the continuation of Islamic History and Society 1 and presumes a familiarity of early Islamic history, 600-1100. This course covers the period from roughly 1050 to 1750 and deals with, among other topics, the coming of the steppe people (Turks and Mongols), the Mongol successor states, and the rise of the great early modern Islamic states (Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals). |
| Winter | 35805 | 01 | Israeli Polictics and Society | Zelnicker, Shimshon | The course is an introduction to Israeli politics and civil society since the formation of the State to date. The course will focus on the cultural background and history of the founding of the State of Israel and its political culture. It will pay special attention to the structure of Israeli civil society as a complex dialectical configuration of secular and religious communities; attention will also be paid to the challenge of integrating the Muslim and Christian minorities into Israeli civil society. The course will also examine the political institutions ranging from political parties, elections, and the structure of government. It will also explore the changes in the political culture of the country and the rise of post-Zionism as a potent force in recent years. |
| Winter | 36102 | 01 | Latin American Civ 2 | Tenorio, Mauricio | 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. |
| Winter | 36106 | 01 | Tropical Commodities in Latin America | Kourí, Emilio | This colloquium explores selected aspects of the social, economic, and cultural history of tropical export commodities from Latin America-- e.g., coffee, bananas, sugar, tobacco, henequen, rubber, vanilla, and cocaine. Topics include land, labor, capital, markets, transport, geopolitics, power, taste, and consumption. |
| Winter | 36504 | 01 | Construction of Latin America | Myers, Jorge | Full Title: The Construction of Latin America: Cultural History and the Definitions of Latin America's Continental Identity. A survey of a series of classic texts in the "cultural history" of Latin America, as this was defined during the middle decades of the twentieth century, with the purpose of examining the manner in which this corpus contributed to an affirmation and definition of "Latin Americanness" in terms that were neither biological and racial -- as in the Positivist era-- nor militant and politicized -- as in the period following the Cuban Revolution. |
| Winter | 37300 | 01 | Af-Am Hist since 1877 | Holt, Thomas | This course explores in a comparative framework the historical forces that shaped the work, culture, and political struggles of African-American people in the United States from the end of American Reconstruction to the present. |
| Winter | 37604 | 01 | Asian Americans and the Legacies of War | 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. |
| Winter | 38300 | 01 | Early 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 colonial era to the Civil War. It treats the law not as an autonomous process or science, but as a social phenomenon inextricably intertwined with other historical forces. This quarter, we will examine the life of the law in antebellum America by exploring the interrelationships between changes in legal institutions and doctrines and larger social processes like migration, revolution, constitution-making, economic transformation, social regulation, and civil war. |
| Winter | 39302 | 01 | Human Rgts 2: Hist & Theory | Novak, William | This course is concerned with the theory and the historical evolution of the modern human rights regime. It discusses the emergence of a modern "human rights" culture as a product of the formation and expansion of the system of nation-states and the concurrent rise of value-driven social mobilizations. It juxtaposes these Western origins with competing non-Western systems of thought and practices on rights. The course proceeds to discuss human rights in two prevailing modalities. First, it explores rights as protection of the body and personhood and the modern, Western notion of individualism entailed therein. Second, it inquires into rights as they affect groups (such as ethnicities, and potentially, transnational corporations) or states. |
| Winter | 39408 | 01 | Human Rights in Mexico | Gzesh, Susan | This course will examine human rights in Mexico from the early 20th century to the present. It begins with the notion of rights created in the post-revolutionary Constitution of 1917, through the consolidation of the relationship between the individual, sectors of society, and the state in the Cardenas period. The course will examine the role of Mexico in the formation of international and regional human rights agreements as well as Mexico s role as a country of refuge for political exiles. The second half of the course will focus on two contemporary case studies. In the area of civil and political rights, it will examine the 1968 massacre of students in Mexico City. In the area of economic, social, and cultural rights, it will examine either agrarian reform and right to land in west-central Mexico or the situation of indigenous peoples in southern Mexico. A reading knowledge of Spanish and good oral comprehension, and at least one course on Latin American history or culture are required. |
| Winter | 46100 | 01 | Zapatista Soc Movements, Old & New | Kourí, Emilio | This colloquium explores the historical connections, parallels, and differences between the Morelos-based rebel movement led by Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the Chiapas rebellion that began in 1994 under the banner of Zapatismo. Topics include political and economic origins; social bases; ideology and goals; organization and strategy; alliances and enemies; citizenship, community, and democracy; race, culture, and the Indian question; myth, memory, and history; and the struggle for the future of rural Mexico. |
| Winter | 50101 | 01 | History of Sexuality in Modern Africa | Jean-Baptiste, Rachel | The course examines transformations in how African societies conceptualized sexuality over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Changes in practices and conceptions of sexuality took place within the historical contexts of the Atlantic World, colonial conquest and rule, the transition to independent African nations and socio-political change in contemporary Africa. The course will examine how individuals, societies, and states debated sexual norms and deviancy through the following themes: marriage; sex work; youth and popular culture; gender identity and homosexuality; health, disease, and reproduction; travel and migration; and the local and global politics of AIDS. Course content includes case studies from West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as transnational migration. Course materials include written, oral, and visual sources. |
| Winter | 50201 | 01 | Colonial African History | Osborn, Emily | This graduate course introduces students to major debates in colonial African history. Readings in political, economic, social and cultural history illuminate the enduring concerns as well as the intellectual shifts that have shaped interpretations of the European colonial occupation of Africa. The course begins with a comparative analysis of the contradictory nature of the colonial project by considering European ideologies and the politics that drove the conquest and occupation. The course then considers African responses to the colonial occupation, paying particular attention to the histories and historiographies of resistance. Specific themes to be covered include: colonial state-craft and hegemony; hygienic obsessions and colonial constructions of race and gender; colonial intermediaries, judicial systems, and the invention of tradition ; the World Wars and the creation of a blood debt linking colony and metropole. |
| Winter | 52401 | 01 | Empires in Asia | Hevia, James | This course will explore changes in the historiography of the British empire in the postwar era. Its main focus will be on the new imperial history, the impact of social and cultural history on the study of empire, and their relation to earlier forms of interpretation. |
| Winter | 56300 | 01 | Coll: Modern China 1 | Alitto, Guy | This course includes reading, written analysis, and discussion of secondary literature dealing with major topics in the history of modern China. The emphasis is on historiographic analysis. |
| Winter | 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. |
| Winter | 60301 | 01 | Coll: Political and Cultural Histories of the Americas 19th & 20th century | Tenorio, Mauricio | Blending the new approaches to the political, legal, and cultural histories-with a strong "Atlantic" content--, especially of the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, Argentina, and Brazil, the seminar seeks to find a common matrix of political thought and practices-beyond the conventional racial, national, and civilizational difference (such as the Anglo vs. the Latin word, the Mediterranean vs. the Individualistis ethos). The seminar focus especially on two vital periods in the Americas-the revolutionary moment between 1770s and the 1820s to the 1930s. Students will be expected to read books on U.S., Latin American, and European histories as something more than U.S., Latin American and European histories. Command of Spanish, Portuguese or French, though not required, would be strongly recommended. |
| Winter | 61801 | 01 | Postcolonial Theory and Beyond | Chakrabarty, D & Gandhi, L. | This course intercepts postcolonial theory at an important moment in its disciplinary mutation. In recent years critics and commentators both within the field and hostile to it appear increasingly at one in their dramatization of a certain theoretical "exhaustion" with questions hitherto raised under the banner of postcolonialism. What are the reasons for this new critical ennui? What relation does it bear to earlier critiques of the field? What, if any, are the (epistemological and political) costs of giving full credence to this recent version of anti-postcolonialism? To what extent may we map a future for postcolonial theory? In our readings and discussions we will review crucial and canonical moments in the gestation of the field (Bhabha, Spivak), canvass some recent critiques (Hardt and Negri, Badiou), and review some new directions(cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, ethics). |
| Winter | 62702 | 01 | Racial Justice in the American City | Green, Adam | Surveys of scholarship on racial justice in cities too often simplify the meaning of race and justice, in order not to distract from the insurgent accomplishments of those movements concerned. This class will instead stress the contingency of these terms, so as to present social action in multiple forms (resistance, oppression, movement, empowerment, survival), commensurate in complexity with twentieth century urban communities themselves. Key themes may include: electoral activism and urban regimes; new approaches to residential segregation; labor consciousness as foundation of anti-racist activism; the enduring nexus of law, enforcement, violence and abuse; the struggle for dignity within urban religion; contradictions of home and family over time; the importance of environment to notions of quality of life; relations with strangers at all points along the color line; and, finally, the degree to which urban racial movements seek not only situated redress, but also comprehensive fairness in city life and form. Students taking this class can expect to come away with an overview of recent and classic books in this field, with ways to sophisticate conception of race, justice, cities and their correlation, and with encouragement toward formulating ambitious projects of urbanist research. |
| Winter | 63001 | 01 | Coll: US Social Hist & Biography | Conzen, K. & Grossman, J. | This colloquium explores the juncture of two genres, social history and biography, in the interpretation of American history. Focusing on the potentials and problems of biography in constructing useable social history and broader synthesis, readings include biographies with intellectual roots in social history, as well as social histories that illuminate life stories. While the focus is on the American experience, the interpretive and methodological agenda has broader historical scope. |
| Winter | 63401 | 01 | Coll: Studies of Slavery | Saville, Julie | The colloquium considers the implications of changing historiographical conceptions of power and authority as reflected in recent studies of early modern trans-Atlantic slavery and selected other forms of servile labor. Initial readings not only sketch the contours of the re-invention and revitalization of early modern slave systems during Atlantic expansion. More central to the theme of the colloquium, the authors also reflect on the implications of slavery for approaches to the writing of history. The studies have been selected because of their authors explicit (if somewhat differently conceived) interests in the implications of early modern slavery s material and symbolic, institutional and practical aspects for approaches to historical explanation. Simply put, the studies probe slavery as an institution no less than a presence. Coming to terms with a historical phenomenon that is simultaneously of global influence and grounded and reproduced in daily practice, that has been linked to profound transformations of political economy no less than personal consciousness, that has been as central to justifications of modernity as to its critiques has required re-thinking of conventions of historical analysis. |
| Winter | 71104 | 01 | Sem: State & Subject in Roman Empire 2 | Hawkins, C. & Ando, C. | This course will examine the effects of imperial government on provincial societies in the Roman empire, in social, cultural, legal and economic terms. We will devote particular attention to recent theoretical work on empire and state formation, as well as to problems of evidence in ancient history. These embrace both access and interpretation--what kinds of evidence are there, and where may they be found; how are they interpreted, individually and in aggregate. |
| Winter | 73802 | 01 | Sem: Race, Racism, Anti-racism in Euro 2 | Auslander, Leora | Writing seminar paper |
| Winter | 74802 | 01 | Sem: Euro/Colonialsm/Globalsm 2 | Austen, Ralph | The second quarter will be devoted to the completion of a major research paper and readings of collectively selected texts. |
| Winter | 76602 | 01 | Sem: Japanese Hist 2 | Ketelaar, James | In the second quarter, we focus on research topics for students writing the seminar paper. |
| Winter | 78202 | 01 | Sem: Ottoman World/Suleyman 2 | Fleischer, Cornell | In the second quarter, we focus on research topics for students writing the seminar paper. |
| Winter | 78602 | 01 | Sem: Iran and Central Asia 2 | Woods, John | In the second quarter will be devoted to the preparation of a major research paper. |
| Winter | 79202 | 01 | Sem: Lat Am Cultural Hist 2 | Borges, Dain | Students write the seminar paper in the winter quarter. |
| Winter | 82002 | 01 | Sem: Soviet History 2 | Fitzpatrick, Sheila | Only for students with Russian language skills. Research and writing of seminar paper. |
| Winter | 83102 | 02 | Sem: US Social History 2 | Conzen, Kathleen | Students write the seminar paper in the winter quarter. |
| Winter | 83402 | 01 | Sem: Topics in Mod Amer Political Hist 2 | Dailey, Jane | A continuation of Topics in Modern American History 1 |
| Winter | 90000 | ## | Rdg/Rsch: History Grad | staff | |
| Winter | 90600 | ## | Oral Fields Preparation: History | staff | |
| Winter | 97800 | 01 | Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science | ||
| Winter | 97900 | 01 | Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences | Richards, Robert | |
| Winter | 99002 | 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. |
| Winter | 99700 | ## | Thesis Preparation: History | staff | |
| Winter | 99800 | ## | Tching Eurpn Hist-UG Colleges | Staff | |
| Winter | 99900 | ## | Apprenticeship: Teaching History | Staff |