fullname qtr yr	Crs	Sec	Title	Instructor	Description
Win 09	30803	01	Aristophanes' Athens	Hall, Jonathan	This course will focus on nine of Aristophanes plays in translation (Acharnians; Wasps; Clouds; Peace; Birds; Lysistrata; Thesmophoriazousai; Frogs; and Ploutos) in order to determine the value Old Comedy possesses for reconstructing sociohistorical structures, norms, expectations, and concerns. Among the topics to be addressed are the performative, ritual and political contexts of Attic comedy, the constituency of audiences, the relationship of comedy to satire, the use of dramatic stereotypes, freedom of speech, and the limits of dissent.
Win 09	32105	01	Adam Smith in Context	Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik	This course explores a number of central themes in Smith s thought, including trade, luxury, sensibility, natural law, and agriculture. We will read Smith s major works side by side with a number of familiar and unfamiliar texts drawn from the inventory of Smith s personal library. This experiment in historical immersion will also serve as an introduction to and critique of prevalent methodological currents in intellectual history, including the perspectives of Quentin Skinner and Reinhart Koselleck. A reading knowledge of French highly recommended.
Win 09	32902	01	Renaissance Humanism	Gray, Hanna	The course will concentrate on the development and varieties of Renaissance humanism from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, with special attention to the ways in which the humanists brought classical thought and ancient history to bear on their ideas of the good state and the reform of the social order.
Win 09	33303	01	Europe, 1930-pres	Geyer, Michael	This lecture course will provide an introduction to European History in the twentieth century. Topics covered will include: the causes, experiences, and effects of the First and Second World Wars, the wars of decolonization, the Cold War and conflict in the former Yugoslavia; transformations in society and economy, including the Depression, the making of the welfare state, changes in gender relations, the changing place of religious belief, and the consequences of post-colonial immigration; political contestation, particularly conflict between Left and Right in the 1930s, protests of workers, students and women in the 1960s and 1970s, and anti-globalization mobilization at the end of the 20th century; issues of national sovereignty, raised by the Europeanism, Bolshevism and Americanism as well as the changing relations between European metropoles and peripheries . A reflection on the state of Europe today will conclude the course.
Win 09	33601	01	History & the Russian Novel	Hellie, Richard	Each week, a lecture will present the historical, intellectual, and literary setting of each novel, followed by a discussion class on the novel of the week in the context of the earlier lecture. Depending upon availability, ten novels will be chosen from the following: Radishchev, Journey; Gogol, Dead Souls; Turgenev, Fathers and Sons; Dostoevskii, Crime and Punishment; Tolstoi, Anna Karenina; Belyi, Petersburg; Gladkov, Cement; Fadeev, The Rout; Sholokhov, Virgin Soil Upturned; Erenburg, The Thaw; Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle; Rybakov, Children of the Arbat.
Win 09	33703	01	Russian Intellectual History: 1830-1880	Steiner, Lina	This course will focus on the emergence and development of such pivotal intellectual movements as Slavophilism, Westernism, Organicism (pochvennichestvo), utopian socialism, as well as the idiosyncratic social and political theory of Aleksandr Herzen. No prior knowledge of Russian philosophy and history is required. Most readings are available in English translation. Discussion and papers are in English.
Win 09	34002	01	Russ Hist Peter the Great to 1917	Hellie, Richard	The course deals with Russia from the period of Peter the Great through the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution. Social history, law, economy, material culture, and historiography will be stressed. Grading will be based on a two-hour written final exam.
Win 09	35104	01	History and Philosophy of Biology	Richards, Robert	This lecture-discussion class will examine in an episodic fashion the basic biological ideas of the following theorists: the Hippocratics, Aristotle, Vesalius, William Harvey, Descartes, Buffon, Galvani and Volta (i.e., the spark of life), Bichat, Schleiden and Schwann (i.e. cell theory), Lamarck, Darwin, Mendel. The central questions of concern will be: what is life and how can it be experimentally and theoretically investigated?
Win 09	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.
Win 09	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, 600-1000. This course covers the period from roughly 1000 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).
Win 09	35901	01	Radical Islamic Pieties, 1200-1600	Fleischer, Cornell	Course examines responses to the Mongol destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in 1258 and the background to formation of regional Muslim empires. Topics include the opening of confessional boundaries; Ibn Arabi, Ibn Taymiyya, and Ibn Khaldun; the development of alternative spiritualities, mysticism, and messianism in the fifteenth century; transconfessionalism, antinomianism, and the articulation of sacral sovereignties in the sixteenth century. Readings will be in English, though some acquaintance with primary languages (Arabic, French, German, Greek, Latin, Spanish, or Turkish) is desirable.
Win 09	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.
Win 09	36304	01	Literature and Society in Brazil	Borges, Dain	This course surveys the relations between literature and society in Brazil, with an emphasis on the institution of the novel in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The nineteenth-century Brazilian novel, like the Russian novel, was an arena in which intellectuals debated, publicized and perhaps even discovered social questions. We will examine ways in which fiction has been used and misused as a historical document of slavery and the rise of capitalism, of race relations, of patronage and autonomy, and of marriage, sex and love. We will read works in translation by Manuel Antonio de Almeida, José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Aluísio de Azevedo and others.
Win 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.
Win 09	36502	01	Freedom & Slavery in Brazil	Borges, Dain	This course will explore social change in Brazil, with a focus on the lived experience of slavery and emancipation in the nineteenth century. It will also introduce methods of historical research. Students will write papers based on a wide variety of primary documents: accounts by foreign travelers; diaries; wills and testaments; deeds of manumission; the 1872 national census and earlier surveys; records of the Atlantic slave trade; writings by abolitionists; art and photographs.
Win 09	38502	01	Beginning After the End: Reconstruction in Post-Catastrophic Societies	Stansell, Christine	In the twentieth century, political violence has led to mass disasters with increasing frequency. This course examines how people rebuild and reorganize families, communities, and nations after disasters which decimated their societies beyond recognition; and how outsiders aid workers, relief organizations, armies, observers have helped and how they ve hindered. The course addresses questions of human rights, justice, politics, social bonds, memory, policy and international relations in a historical framework. We will begin by considering Jewish survivors after World War II. We will then examine the two catastrophes of genocidal violence and their aftermaths: Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge murdered one-quarter of the population in 1975-78; and Rwanda, where Hutu extremists set off a genocidal campaign that killed 800,000 people, the majority of them Tutsi, in 1994.
Win 09	39302	01	Human Rgts 2: History of Theory of Human Rights	Sparrow, J & Geyer, M	This course is concerned with the theory and the historical evolution of the modern human rights regime and especially the international human rights regime after 1945. 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.
Win 09	50002	01	Colloq: Africa and the Slave Trade	Osborn, Emily	Full Title: Colloq: Africa in the Era of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade This graduate course explores major historiographic debates in precolonial African history from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries. We will examine the intertwined political, religious and economic systems at work in the continent antecedent to European contact. Then we will investigate the emergence of the slave trade and consider its operation and ramifications. Themes of study include: the uses and limitations of oral, archaeological, and textual sources of history; Christianity, Islam, and state-craft; definitions and practices of slavery; the relationship of gender, warfare, and enslavement; cultural transformations, creations and recreations; the making of the Atlantic World.
Win 09	60402	01	Colloq: Old Regime France	Cheney, Paul	This course is intended to give students of France, and more generally early modern Europe, a grounding in the history of the long eighteenth century. There were many "old regimes" in France--social, political, economic, juridical and cultural, to name just a few. We will examine how the absolutist state coped with, and in some cases stimulated, changes in these spheres from the 1680s until the final unraveling of 1788-89. We fill focus particular attention upon: economic transformations (or lack thereof) in agriculture, manufacturing and overseas trade; the ambivalent relationship between the Enlightenment and the state; the evolving relationship between elites; the rise of the public sphere. Comparative questions will be asked, and students studying other geographic areas are very welcome in this course. Primary readings will all be in English, with suggested readings in French.
Win 09	61000	01	Coll: Intro to Soviet Historical Srces	Fitzpatrick, Sheila	The purpose of this course is to train graduate students who will be undertaking research in Sovietand 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.
Win 09	62602	01	Colloq: Modern US Political History	Dailey, Jane	A graduate reading course in American political history since Reconstruction.
Win 09	63101	01	Coll: US Soc Hist: Catholics & Americans	Conzen, Kathleen	This graduate colloquium will focus on recent historiography exploring the implications of Catholics as Americans for central narratives of American history. Readings will range in focus from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century; among the topics addressed will be immigration and ethnic formation, settlement systems, church-state relations, nativism, slavery and the Civil War, citizenship and models of political participation, ideology and public culture, welfare, race relations, transnational ties.
Win 09	64100	01	Religion in Colonial America	Brekus, Catherine	This course is a survey of American religious history from the founding of the colonies to the American Revolution. Topics include Puritanism, revivalism, slavery, gender, and Native American religion. Requirements: two short papers (two to three pages each) on the weekly readings, and a final fifteen-page review essay. All students are also required to lead class discussion once during the quarter.
Win 09	65300	01	Coll: Crit Theory & 20th Cen 1	Postone, Moishe	Critical theory the ensemble of approaches developed by theorists of the Frankfurt School, and critically extended by Habermas and others is arguably one of the richest and most powerful attempts to formulate a social and historical theory adequate to the twentieth century. Eschewing conventional disciplinary boundaries and orthodox Marxist understandings of social life, critical theory sought to grasp the large-scale transformations of the twentieth century by synthesizing various dimensions of modernity political, social, economic, cultural, legal, aesthetic, psychological systematically and intrinsically, rather than eclectically and extrinsically. These theorists rejecting the notion of a social-scientific standpoint independent of its social and historical context, by insisting on epistemological self-reflection as a condition of an adequate historical/social theory. This two-quarter colloquium considers this tradition in depth, the theoretical difficulties it encountered, and some possible theoretical responses to the dilemmas of critical theory. We begin by examining the "first generation" theorists of the Frankfurt School, focusing on works by Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Adorno; the second quarter will concentrate on later works by Adorno, as well as the theoretical trajectory of Habermas.
Win 09	73302	01	Sem: East European and Russian Hist 2	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.
Win 09	73602	01	Sem: Protestant Reformation 2	Fasolt, Constantin	In the second part of a the seminar, you turn the research started in autumn into a seminar essay that will satisfy the standards of professional historical scholarship. We will continue to meet on an ad-hoc basis in order to discuss the progress of your research and writing.
Win 09	73702	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.
Win 09	75602	01	Sem: Mod Korean Hist 2	Cumings, Bruce	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.
Win 09	76002	01	Sem: Mod Chinese Hist/Doc Sources 2	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.
Win 09	76502	01	Sem: Modern Japanese History 2	Burns, Susan	Reading and research in modern Japanese history, which culminates in a major seminar paper at the end of winter term.
Win 09	78202	01	Sem: Ottoman World/Suleyman 2	Fleischer, Cornell	In the second quarter, we focus on research topics for students writing the seminar paper.
Win 09	78202	01	Sem: Ottoman World/Suleyman 2	Fleischer, Cornell	In the second quarter, we focus on research topics for students writing the seminar paper.
Win 09	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.
Win 09	79202	01	Sem: Latin American History 2	Kouri, Emilio	Students write the seminar paper in the winter quarter.
Win 09	83602	01	Sem: Urbanisms 2	Green, Adam	Need course description
Win 09	84302	01	Sem Rsch: The Politics of Reproduction in Historical Perspective 2	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.
Win 09	86702	01	Sem: International Hist 2	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.
Win 09	90000	##	Rdg/Rsch: History Grad	staff
Win 09	90600	##	Oral Fields Preparation: History	staff
Win 09	97800	01	Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science
Win 09	97900	01	Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences	Richards, Robert
Win 09	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.
Win 09	99700	##	Thesis Preparation: History	staff
Win 09	99800	##	Tching Eurpn Hist-UG Colleges	Staff
Win 09	99900	##	Apprenticeship: Teaching History	Staff