Sample Oral Fields Reading Lists

Below are sample oral fields reading lists in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Feel free to download and use as you need. Contact Kelly Pollock to submit additional lists or if you have any problems downloading.

NOTE: The content of each reading list is determined by the individual professor and student at a particular moment in time. The following lists have been voluntarily provided by students to help future students in shaping their exams. These reading lists should NOT be considered definitive field lists for future exams. Nor should you assume that this list represents all possibilities for formulations of exams. Please consult with your examiners to develop reading lists appropriate to your exams.

Africa | Ancient | Britain | Byzantine | Caribbean and Atlantic World
Early Modern Europe | East Asia | Europe | Gender/Sexuality | History of Science | InternationalLatin America | Medieval | Middle East/Islam | Modern Jewish | Race | Religion
Russia | South Asia | United States | Theory

  Field  Professor  Exam Date 
Africa [Top of Page]    
       
Ancient [Top of Page]    
  Greek History Hall Winter 2007 (antic.)
  Greek History Hall February 2002
  Roman History Saller Winter 2007 (antic.)
  Roman History Saller February 2002
  Roman History Saller April 2001
       
Britain [Top of Page]    
  British History Pincus October 1994
  Early Modern Britain Brewer March 2002
  Early Modern Britain Pincus August 2004
  Early Modern Britain Pincus August 2003
  Early Modern Britain Pincus May 2002
  Early Modern Britain Pincus March 2002
  Modern Britain Brewer December 2001
  Modern Britain Larkin August 2004
  Modern Britain and Ireland Larkin October 1994
  Modern Ireland Larkin October 1996
  Victorian Britain Larkin March 2002
       
Byzantine [Top of Page]    
       
Caribbean and Atlantic World [Top of Page]    
  Atlantic World Republicanism, 1750-1850 Sewell May 2001
  Atlantic World, 1700-1888 Saville March 2005
  Gender, Labor, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1750-1940 Stanley March 2002
  Labor, Race, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1600-1900 Saville October 1998
  Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1888 Saville June 2006
       
Early Modern Europe [Top of Page]    
  Ancien Regime France Lucas June 1992
  Early Modern Europe Fasolt August 2003
  Early Modern Europe, 900-1789 Fasolt December 2005
  Early Modern Europe, 1300-1700 Fasolt May 2002
  Early Modern Europe, 1400-1750 Fasolt November 2005
  Europe, 1300-1700 Fasolt August 2004
  Europe, 1500-1800 Pincus May 1995
  The Formation of Europe, 1000-1700 Fasolt December 2005
  Spain, 1400-1700 Herzog May 1999
       
East Asia [Top of Page]    
China Modern China Duara February 2006
  Modern Chinese History, 1840-1949 Duara January 2004
Japan Japanese History Since 1600 Ketelaar January 2004
  Japanese Intellectual History Najita November 2001
  Modern Japan Ketelaar February 2006
  Modern Japanese History Ketelaar March 2001
  The Role of Religion in Everyday Life and Religion in Japan Ketelaar November 2001
  Women's History in Japan Field March 2001
Korea Modern Korea Cumings April 2005
  Modern Korean History Cumings November 2001
       
Europe [Top of Page]    
  Central Europe Boyer April 2006
  Central Europe, 1800-present Boyer December 2004
  Central Europe: Habsburg Empire, 1648-1918 Boyer May 2002
 

Eastern Europe 1848-1995

 Geyer April 2007
  Europe (Spain and Portugal): Religion, Nationalism, and Historiography Herzog April 2001
  Europe and the Long Twentieth Century Geyer April 2005
  Europe, 1800-present Geyer December 2004
  European Colonialism 1650-1965 Auslander June 2001
  European History Auslander April 2007
  European History Geyer July 2000
  European History: Rebellions and Revolutions, 1789-1989 Auslander December 2005
  European Social History Auslander May 2001
  France, 1750-1945 Goldstein May 2005
  France, 1789-1848 Sewell December 2005
  France in the Long Nineteenth Century Goldstein October 1996
  German and Central European History Boyer December 2003
  Germany and Modern Europe Geyer May 2001
  German History, 1800-1989 Geyer December 2005
  History of European Expansion: Commerce, Capitalism, and Empire Austen August 2003
  Marxism and Critical Theory Postone February 2006
 

Modern Europe, 1789 to Present

 Wasserstein May 2007
  Modern Europe, 1815-1933 Geyer December 2005
  Modern European History Goldstein January 2004
  Modern European History Geyer December 2003
  Modern European Intellectual History Postone June 2001
  Modern France, Old Regime to Third Republic Goldstein June 2006
  Modern French Economy Auslander April 2005
  Modern French History Auslander September 2004
  Modern Germany 1800-1990 Geyer June 2001
  Modern Germany, 1806/1815-Present Geyer November 2005
  Modern Italian History, 1848-1945 Cardoza (Loyola-Chicago) April 2001
  Nineteenth-Century Interpretations and Explanations of the French Revolution Sewell April 1998
  Practice, Culture, and Social Change Sewell November 2001
       
Gender/Sexuality [Top of Page]    
  Comparative Histories of Sexuality Chauncey February 2005
  Gender, Labor, and Politics in the Atlantic World, 1750-1940 Stanley March 2002
  U. S. Gender History Stanley September 2001
  U.S. Women's History Stansell December 2007
  Women's History in Japan Field March 2001
       
History of Science [Top of Page]    
  History of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis Goldstein May 2002
       
International [Top of Page]    
 

20th-Century International History: Challenges and Transformations to the Global Order

 Cumings May 2007
  Globalization and the Study of History Sassen January 2004
  History of Modern War Geyer May 2007
  International/Cold War History Cumings April 2007
  International History Geyer April 2006
  International History Geyer May 2002
  International History, 1939-present Yaqub March 2004
  Pacific World Ngai September 2001
       
Latin America [Top of Page]    
  20th Century Revolutions: Nicaragua, Mexico, and Cuba Katz April 2004
  Chicano History: Latinos in the United States Kouri April 2004
  Latin America, 1400-1700 Cummins May 1999
  Colonial Latin America Borges April 2007
  Latin America, 1492-2005 Borges June 2005
  Latin America Since 1820 Katz April 1998
  Latin America Since 1920 Lomnitz May 2001
  Latin America To 1920 Herzog May 2001
  Mexico, 1810-1945 Kouri June 2005
  Mexico: Development of Modern Political Thought in the National Period Lomnitz April 1998
  Mexico: History and Historiography Kouri May 2006
  Mexico and Peru, 1800-1900 Katz May 1999
  Modern Latin America Kouri April 2007
  Problems in Latin American Political History Borges May 2006
  Race and Racism in Post-Emancipation Societies Holt March 2002
  Youth Subcultures Lomnitz April 2004
       
Medieval Europe [Top of Page]    
  Later Middle Ages in Europe Bartlett June 1992
  Medieval Europe, 300-900 Fulton April 2001
  Medieval Europe, 300-1000 Fulton February 2002
  Medieval Europe, 900-1300 McGinn April 2001
  Medieval Spirituality, 1000-1400 Fulton May 2002
       
Middle East/Islam [Top of Page]    
  Islamic Middle East, 600-1150 Donner May 2004
  Islamic Middle East, 1150-1700 Woods May 2004
  Modern Middle East 1700-2000 Shissler May 2004
       
Modern Jewish [Top of Page]    
  Modern Jewish History Postone December 2003
  Modern Jewish Thought Mendes-Flohr December 2003
       
Race [Top of Page]    
  African-American History: Early Colonial Period to Civil Rights Era Holt December 2007
  African American History from the Colonial Period to the Present Holt February 2003
  African-American History, Colonial Period-Present Thomas April 2001
  Chicano History: Latinos in the United States Kouri April 2004
  Labor, Race, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1600-1900 Saville October 1998
  Race and Racism in Post-Emancipation Societies Holt March 2002
  Race in the American Literary Imagination, 1775 to 1965 Stewart February 2003
  Race Theory Holt April 2001
       
Religion [Top of Page]    
  Europe (Spain and Portugal): Religion, Nationalism, and Historiography Herzog April 2001
  Modern Christianity Brekus December 2007
  Religion and American Culture Brekus April 2007
  The Role of Religion in Everyday Life and Religion in Japan Ketelaar November 2001
       
Russia [Top of Page]    
  Modern Russia and Soviet History, 1861-1964 Fitzpatrick April 2006
  Russia, 1914-1964 Fitzpatrick December 2004
 

Russian and Soviet History: 1861-1982

 Fitzpatrick April 2007
  Russia and the Soviet Union, 1860s to 1960s Fitzpatrick May 2005
  Russian History Hellie September 2004
  Russian History 800-1917 Hellie July 2000
  Russian History, Stone Age to Revolution Hellie March 2004
  Russian History to 1917 Hellie January 2004
  Soviet History Fitzpatrick September 2004
  Soviet History Fitzpatrick May 2001
  Soviet History Fitzpatrick March 2001
  Soviet History Fitzpatrick July 2000
  Soviet History, 1917-1964 Fitzpatrick March 2004
  Soviet History, 1917-1964 Fitzpatrick January 2004
       
South Asia [Top of Page]    
  Popular Culture in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengal Seeley April 2005
       
United States [Top of Page]    
US-Colonial Colonial and Early National U.S. History Cook March 2005
  Colonial America Cook March 2002
US-19th Century 19th-Century Comparative Frontier History: Canada, Australia, and the US Conzen April 2005
  19th-Century U.S. History Stanley December 2007
  19th-Century U.S. History  Stanley April 2007
  19th-Century U.S. History Stanley February 2005
  19th-Century U.S. History Stanley May 2004
  19th-Century U.S. History Stanley May 2002
  19th-Century U.S. Social History Kaestle December 1996
  19th-Century U.S. Social and Cultural History Stanley February 1997
  Nineteenth-Century U.S. History Conzen March 2005
  Nineteenth-Century U.S. Social and Cultural History Stanley April 2005
  Nineteenth-Century U.S. Social and Cultural History Stanley February 2005
US-20th Century 20th-Century U.S. History Chauncey May 2004
  20th-Century U.S. History Chauncey February 2003
  20th-Century U.S. History Chauncey September 2001
  20th-Century U.S. History Chauncey April 2001
  20th-Century U.S. History Dailey December 2007
  20th-Century U.S. History Harris May 2002
  20th-Century U.S. Political History Karl December 1996
  Twentieth-Century U.S. Social and Cultural History Chauncey April 2005
  20th-Century U.S. Social and Cultural History Chauncey February 1997
  Market Economy in 20th Century US History Sparrow April 2005
  Race and Racism in Post-Emancipation Societies Holt March 2002
  Social Politics in the 20th Century  Sparrow April 2007
  Twentieth-Century United States Sparrow February 2005
US-General Unknown Chauncey Unknown
  African-American History: Early Colonial Period to Civil Rights Era Holt December 2007
  African American History from the Colonial Period to the Present Holt February 2003
  African-American History, Colonial Period-Present Thomas April 2001
  Chicano History: Latinos in the United States Kouri April 2004
  Comparative Labor and Political Economy Stanley December 2007
  Immigration to the United States, 1880-1930 Ngai June 2005
  Perspectives in Labor History Ngai February 2005
  Religion and American Culture  Brekus April 2007
  U. S. Gender History Stanley September 2001
  U.S. Women's History Stansell December 2007
  The West in United States History, 1776-1940 Conzen October 1998
       
Theory [Top of Page]    
  Colonial and Postcolonial Histories Chakrabarty April 2005
  Comparative Histories of Sexuality Chauncey February 2005
  Comparative Labor and Political Economy Stanley December 2007
  Contact History Lomnitz April 2005
  Culture, Practice, and Social Change Sewell March 2002
  Film Theory Gunning April 2005
  Globalization and the Study of History Sassen January 2004
  Marxism and Critical Theory Postone February 2006
  Practice, Culture, Social Change Sewell November 2001
  Race in the American Literary Imagination, 1775 to 1965 Stewart February 2003
  Race Theory Holt April 2001
  Social Theory (Sociology of Knowledge) Glaeser May 2006
  Social Theory Sewell May 2004
  Social Theory Sewell May 2005
  Social Theory Sewell June 2006
  Theories of Capitalism and its Overcoming Postone December 2005
  Theories of History: Politics, Economy, Society Sewell November 2005

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