fullname qtr yr	Crs	Sec	Title	Instructor	Description
Spr 10	30204	01	Women in Modern Africa	Jean-Baptiste, Rachel	This course surveys key themes and debates in twentieth century colonial and post-colonial African women s history. Exploring both women s history and the history of gender, this course examines shifting conceptualizations of woman in diverse case studies and historical contexts across the continent. Topics to be explored include sexuality, reproduction and health; public activism and political roles; work and economic activity; religion; and policy and the law. Course material will include analyzing historical monographs, fiction, material culture, as well as a service-learning component with Chicago-based community organizations that focus on advocacy in Africa.
Spr 10	30503	01	Greek and Roman Historiography	Hawkins, Cameron	This course will provide a survey of the most important historical writers of the Greek and Roman world. We will read extensive selections from their work in translation, and discuss both the development of historiography as a literary genre and the development of history as a discipline in the ancient world. Finally, we will consider the implications these findings hold for our ability to use the works of Greek and Roman historical writers in our own efforts to construct narratives of the past.
Spr 10	32001	01	Byzantium and Islam	Kaegi, Walter	This is a lecture and discussion course on selected Byzantine-Islamic experiences from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century through the midddle of the eleventh century. This is not a narrative survey. There is no single textbook. Topics will include diplomatic (political), military, economic, cultural, and religious relations that range from subtle influences and adaptations to open polemics. Readings will include modern scholarly interpretations as well as primary source readings in translation. No prerequisite. Final examination and short paper.
Spr 10	32405	01	Medieval Monasticism	Fulton, Rachel	This course focuses on the origins and development of monasticism as one of the central institutions of medieval Europe. Problems to be addressed include the appeal of asceticism in late antique society, the role of the monasteries in the collapse and preservation of European civilization, the social, economic and political impact of Benedictine monasticism on the development of western Europe, and the progressive reforms of this institution from Benedict to Francis.
Spr 10	33100	01	Renaissance East & West	Fleischer, Cornell	An examination of the Renaissance, c. 1400-1600, as a global rather than purely Western European phenomenon, with emphasis on comparison and interaction between Christendom and Islamdom.
Spr 10	33206	01	Europe in the Late Middle Ages	Lyon, Jonathan	This course is designed to provide students with an overview of major themes in the history of Western Europe between approximately 1000 and 1500 AD. Students will be introduced to a broad range of topics, including the Gregorian reform movement, the rise and decline of Papal Monarchy, the Crusades, urbanization, the development of universities, the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, and the growth of national monarchies. While this will principally be a lecture course, students will have the opportunity to analyze and discuss primary and secondary works during occasional classroom discussions.
Spr 10	33401	01	Genocide Euro Jews, 1933-1945	Wasserstein, Bernard	A lecture-discussion course which asks the following questions: What explanations can be offered for the mass murder of the Jews in Europe? Who were the perpetrators? What were the respective roles of the German police apparatus, of the German army, of the Nazi Party, of the state bureaucracy, of ordinary Germans? What were the responses of occupied populations in Europe, of neutral countries, of the Allies, and of Jews themselves? How have historical interpretations evolved over the past half-century?
Spr 10	33508	01	Religion & Politics in 16th Century Europe	Gray, Hanna	The course will focus on the interaction of religious controversy and political development in 16th century Europe, with attention also to the varieties of political thought that emerged in this time.
Spr 10	34206	01	Medicine and Culture in Modern East Asian	Burns, Susan	This course will focus on the cultural history of medicine in China, Japan, and Korea from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s. We will be concerned with tracing the circulation of new medical knowledge and understanding its cultural and social implications. Topics to be explored include the introduction of "Western medicine" and its impact for "traditional" medicine, the struggles over public health, gender, medicine, and modernity, consumer culture and medicine. No knowledge of an East Asian language is required, but those with reading skills will be encouraged to utilize them.
Spr 10	34704	01	Nativism and Nationalism in Japan	Burns, Susan	This course will examine the various forms of discourse which have addressed issues of Japanese identity. Topics to be examined include Nativism and Mito Learning, Japanese ethnography (minzokugaku), the Japanese romantic school, and Nihonjinron. Requirements: in class presentations, series of book reviews, research paper. The course can be taken by students without knowledge of Japanese, but graduate students working on Japan will be asked to read in Japanese.
Spr 10	35100	01	Gender in Hist of Sci/Med	Winter, Alison	FULL TITLE: "Gender in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine" An examination of how notions of masculinity and femininity have influenced the history of science, technology, and medicine since 1600. Topics will include study of the rise of women in scientific and medical institutions and of the ongoing debates about whether men and women have (or have had) different ways of understanding the natural world.
Spr 10	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.
Spr 10	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 10	35505	01	Sciences of Memory in 20th century	Winter, Alison	This course will examine a series of episodes in the history of the understanding of autobiographical memory, beginning with the emergence of academic psychology, and also psychoanalysis, in the late nineteenth century, and ending with the "memory wars" of the 1980s and 90s. The course will include an examination of the yoked history of beliefs about individual and "collective" memory, of the impact of memory therapies during the first and second World Wars, of the impact of innovations in brain surgery on beliefs about the physiological memory record and the neurophysiology of remembering, and the impact of the rise of forensic psychology on the popular, scientific, and legal understanding of memory.
Spr 10	35904	01	Islamic History and Society 3	Staff	Need course description
Spr 10	36103	01	Latin American Civ 3	Borges, Dain	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 10	36903	01	Love, Conjugality, and Capital: Intimacy in the Modern World	Majumdar, R. & Cole, J.	Are love and money necessarily opposed? Is arranged marriage primitive? Many would argue yes. It is widely accepted that in modern societies romantic love, the couple and the nuclear family are the correct ways to organize intimate life. But, like many other normative ideas, these too were the product of particular historical developments in post-enlightenment Europe. A look at societies in other parts of the world demonstrates all too often that modernity in the realm of love, intimacy and family had a different trajectory from the European one. To characterize marriage, love, and familial relationships as backward or retrograde on grounds of their difference with (normative) models prevalent in the west results in a fundamental misunderstanding of the variety of different ways that societies have forged intimate relations. This course surveys ideas and practices surrounding love, marriage, and capital in the modern world. Using a range of theoretical, historical, and anthropological readings as well as films the course will explore such questions as the emergence of companion marriage in Europe; arranged marriage, dowry, love and money. Case studies will be drawn primarily from Europe, India and Africa.
Spr 10	37900	01	Asian Wars of the 20th Century	Cumings, Bruce	This course examines the political, economic, social, cultural, racial, and military aspects of the major Asian wars of the 20th century: the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. At the beginning of the course we pay particular attention to just war doctrines, and then use two to three books for each war (along with several films) to examine alternative approaches to understanding the origins of these wars, their conduct and their consequences.
Spr 10	38603	01	The State in US History	Sparrow, James	Need course desciption
Spr 10	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 10	47601	01	Consumerism, Capitalism and Christianity in the United States	Brekus, Catherine	This course asks how Christianity has both shaped and reflected economic change from the 18th century to the present. Besides examining diverse Christian attitudes toward consumerism and capitalism, we will ask how economic developments have shaped understandings of God and the self. Students are required to write a 20-25 page research paper.
Spr 10	50203	01	History of Central Africa	Jean-Baptiste, Rachel	From the slave trade to the Heart of Darkness to genocide and rape in contemporary conflict, historical representations of Central Africa emphasize violence, chaos, and brutality. The course critically examines case studies of outbreaks of conflict from prehistory to the twentieth century to explore the complex history of this region. In exploring the shifting historical contexts of conflict, we examine transformations in the breakdown and reconfiguration of social, cultural and political forms. Themes include the construction of statehood and political power, religious expression, racial and ethnic identity, popular culture, as well as the colonial encounter and the history of sexuality. Course materials will focus on Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Gabon, and Rwanda.
Spr 10	53801	01	Colloq: The Production of Knowledge in Modern Europe	Goldstein, Jan	Surveying the period from the Enlightenment to the present day, this graduate colloquium will examine selected instances of intellectual production in modern Europe, situating them with respect to the social, political, and institutional factors that helped to shape them. We will begin with the case study of 19th-century France, including primary source readings from Comte, Zola, Durkheim and Bergson, and will go on to a sampling of the different methodological models for this kind of inquiry provided by the secondary literature on a variety of European countries. All reading will be in English and, while substantively focused on Europe, the course is intended to be of methodological interest to students of non-European countries as well.
Spr 10	56700	01	Coll: East Asia	Cumings, Bruce	This is a reading and discussion seminar on East Asia, meaning China, Korea and Japan. We will read eight or nine books during the term and will discuss them in class. The first two weeks will be taken up with broad approaches to history and comparative analysis, and the remaining books will represent theoretically-informed approaches to the modern history of Korea, China, and Japan. Each week one student will prepare a short critique of the week's reading to lead off our discussion and all students will be required to write an essay of 20-25 pages on some particular problem or conundrum that derives from the readings or the class discussions. This is not a research paper, but one in which a premium is placed on your ability to think through a problem that appears in the reading or comes out of our discussions. That paper is due on the last day of exam week in June. This colloquium is open to graduate students in history and East Asian studies, and to other graduate or advanced undergraduate students with the permission of the instructor.
Spr 10	58301	01	Advanced Ottoman Hist Texts	Fleischer, Cornell	Note: Formerly Hist 599 (a lat am field number); renumbered in 02-03 by jmb. 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. Knowledge of modern and Ottoman Turkish required.
Spr 10	59602	01	Colloq:Cultural Consequences of Colonization	Borges,D. & Mufwene, S.	This course will examine cultural change in the context of various paradigmatic cases of colonization across the centuries, ranging from Mediterranean Antiquity to the sixteenth century colonization in the Americas and late nineteenth-century imperialism's. We will examine artistic, linguistic, and religious changes, among others.
Spr 10	60401	01	Colloq: US Covert Operations in Latin Amer	Katz, Friedrich	Description pending.
Spr 10	62100	01	Coll: Subaltern Studies	Chakrabarty, Dipesh	A course examining historiographical and methodological contributions of Sublatern Studies and the controversies that have arisen therefrom.
Spr 10	64603	01	Coll: Marx III	Postone, Moishe	This course will undertake an intensive examination of Karl Marx's mature social theory. Although it will also consider the development of Marx's thoughts, the course will primarily focus on a close reading of Capital. That text will not be approached as a positive science of economics, but as an attempt to formulate a critical and reflective theory of social mediation that would be adequate to the character and dynamic of modern social life.
Spr 10	65101	01	Coll: Miscegenation & Mestizaje	Holt, Thomas	This course will explore the larger problem of race (its internal logic and functioning) by examining in historical perspective diverse ideas about and practices of race-mixing. Such ideas have ranged along a continuum framed by polar opposite positions: on one end, the idea, à la Gobineau, that biological and racial mixture led inevitability to social degeneration, and at the other end, the idea of racial mixture (cultural or biological) as sources of regeneration, hybridity, and sometimes even superiority. By deconstructing this tension, we will seek to expose different angles of vision on broader patterns of racial thinking, such as the tension between biology and culture, race and nation, etc. These issues will be approached from a comparative and cross-national perspective, drawing on the histories of Europe and the Americas and the experiences of different racialized groups. As a colloquium with limited enrollment, preference will be given to those with ongoing research projects relevant to course objectives.
Spr 10	65903	01	Topics in the History of Capitalism	Sewell, William
Spr 10	67200	01	Colloq:Writing the History of Human Rights	Bradley, Mark	The twentieth century saw the rise of a revolutionary global human rights culture in which the emergence of transnational norms, movements and institutions held out the promise of more fully realizing human dignity and welfare in a space that transcended the local and the national. Beginning at the turn of the century, and accelerating after 1945, rights talk exploded as states and peoples from a range of geographical, cultural and gendered perspectives sought to articulate and realize far-reaching transnational norms for individual and collective political, economic, social and cultural well-being. This course focuses on these often contested and contingent processes, exploring the emergent historical literature on the normative, advocative and juridical dimensions of global rights talk and practice with a particular focus on the ambiguous place of the United States in these developments.
Spr 10	90000	##	Rdg/Rsch: History Grad
Spr 10	90600	##	Oral Fields Preparation: History
Spr 10	97800	01	Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science	Richards, Robert
Spr 10	97900	01	Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences	Richards, Robert
Spr 10	99700	##	Thesis Preparation: History