| fullname qtr yr | Crs | Sec | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win 10 | 31101 | 01 | Science in Victorian Britain | Winter, Alison | This course examines developments in science and intellectual life in British society from the 1830s through the end of the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the use of original sources (both as readings and during class discussion). We will explore the status of science in public culture, the rise of specialization and professionalization, the status of "heterodox" or "alternative" scientific and medical practices, and a variety of specific intellectual developments and projects, including evolution, mathematical physics, and sociology. |
| Win 10 | 32204 | 01 | Modern Britain 1688-1990 | Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik |
Our focus in this survey will be the vexed question of Britain's modernity from James II to Margaret Thatcher. Why and how did this island nation evolve into a global empire? Through primary sources and case studies we will emphasize the connections between empire and industry with a particular stress on problematic topics such as political stability and taxation, the 1707 union with Scotland, the emergence of classical political economy, industrialization and class consciousness, free trade imperialism, women and the origins of the welfare state. Readings will include texts by John Brewer, E.P. Thompson and Nicoletta Gullace. |
| Win 10 | 32904 | 01 | Arendt:Texts on Jewishness, Palstine, Israel | Geyer, M. & Mendes Flohr, P | This is neither a course for the faint-hearted nor for the politically correct. Hannah Arendt s work is much admired and rightly so. But it is also extremely edgy and does not shy away from, shall we say, highly unpopular points of view. Besides, at times she is outright wrong and yet, some of her philosophically or historically more challenged expositions (such as Eichmann in Jerusalem) turn out to contain brilliant insights. In short, debating Hannah Arendt is not an easy task and it is particularly difficult when it comes to her Jewish Writings. We have in mind reading and discussing and in the course of it debating Arendt as many of Arendt s texts as possible. Inasmuch as Anti-Semitism is part of this complex, we will also discuss anti-Semitism, but the focus will be on Jews and Jewishness in the Diaspora, in Palestine, and in Israel. This course is primarily for advanced undergraduates and for beginning graduate students, who are willing to engage in sustained reading and are ready to participate in discussion. |
| Win 10 | 33004 | 01 | Montesquieu and the Enlightenment | Cheney, P & Morrissey, R | Montesquieu's eighteenth-century reputation rested upon a relatively small body of published work: the Lettres Persanes, the Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des romains et de leur decadence and finally De l'esprit des loix. Taken together, these works explore a set of themes that helped to shape the agenda for a pan-European Enlightenment. For Montesquieu, commerce, religion, moeurs (or customs), institutions, climate, geography and laws all stood in a delicate relation to one another which he attempted to understand through various types of literary and historical comparison, from the epistolary exchanges between Persia and Paris of the Lettres Persanes to the vast historical tableau of the Esprit des loix. The stylistic variety of Montesquieu's oeuvre reflects a set of social practices that emerged out of salons of Paris and a wider culture given over to polite conversation, as well as the spirit of a century devoted to political, social and aesthetic experimentation and improvement. Accordingly, we will examine Montesquieu's writing from the perspectives of historical context and literary form in order to better understand the Enlightenment. This course will culminate in a two-day conference, the second day of which will give students the opportunity to present their research papers to a wider audience. Readings in French. Class discussion and written work in French, or in English according to students' ability. |
| Win 10 | 35007 | 01 | Violations: Race, Eugencis and Crowds | Vaisman, Noa | How are mass violations of human rights thought up? What scientific theories and political doctrines have been invented and implemented to justify murder, mass rape, and incarceration? These questions serve as our starting point for the course where through exploration of different doctrines and theories we will learn how mass human rights violations were reasoned and justified. In the first part of the course we read both primary texts and secondary sources on central theories and ideologies that contributed to, or formed the foundations for, mass human rights violations. We ask questions such as: how has mass murder been shaped and informed by scientific understandings about the correct (i.e. valuable) genetic makeup in places like Nazi Germany? And, how has the torture of thousands been reasoned through doctrines that protect civilization and progress in places like Argentina? In the second part of the course we turn to look at the aftermath of genocide and killing and ask how individuals and groups explain away their participation in acts of human rights violations. What theories have developed to explain these acts after the event? Specifically, we will look at the work of psychologists and political scientists who have found ways (though not always satisfactory) to make sense of these acts and events. In the last part of the course we explore a number of mechanisms developed to redress the effects of violence and the violation of human rights. Specifically, we look at the question of reparation and how these have been negotiated in different cultural settings such as South Africa and Peru; and, we look at the growing demand for truth as a form of reparation for past wrongs. |
| Win 10 | 35203 | 01 | Econ/ Soc Hist of Euro, 1700-1880 | Craig, John | This course examines the causes, characteristics, and effects -- economic, social, and otherwise -- of the "industrious" and industrial revolutions. The course reviews an array of unresolved debates, among them the so-called Brenner debate and the debates over proto-industrialization, the enclosure movements, the sources of technological innovation, path dependence and diffusion patterns within and across economies, the family economy, the standard of living, the formation of the middle and working classes, the consequences of literacy, and the voluntary iniatives and public policies addressing such social problems as poverty, disease, illegitimacy, and crime. The course is the first in a two-course sequence covering the economic and social history of Europe from 1700 to the present, but each course is free-standing -- students enrolled in this course are not required to take its sequel. |
| Win 10 | 35304 | 01 | Goethe: Literature, Science, Philosophy | Richards, Robert | This lecture-discussion course will examine Johann Wolfgang von Goethe s intellectual development, from the time he wrote Sorrows of a Young Werther through the final stages of Faust. Along the way, we will read a selection of Goethe s plays, poetry, and travel literature. We will also examine his scientific work, especially his theory of color and his morphological theories. On the philosophical side, we will discuss Goethe s coming to terms with Kant (especially the latter s third Critique) and his adoption of Schelling s transcendental idealism. The theme uniting the exploration of the various works of Goethe will be the unity of the artistic and scientific understanding of nature, especially as he exemplified that unity in the eternal feminine. German is not required, but helpful. |
| Win 10 | 35406 | 01 | History of Reading | Johns, Adrian | The act of reading is at once private and public. It is inscrutable silent, personal, and intimate; yet it is also a necessary and central element in all social and cultural change. Not least, our own knowledge as historians depends on it. The idea that the practice of reading is itself historical that it may change over time and according to context is therefore both exciting and unsettling. This course is devoted to exploring that idea in depth. We shall both attempt to trace a history of reading practices over the long term and assess critically the approaches that may be adopted to recovering such a history |
| Win 10 | 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 10 | 35902 | 01 | Hist of Israeli-Arab Conflict | Wasserstein, Bernard | This lecture course traces the development of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day. It examines the social and ideological roots of Zionism and Palestinian Arab nationalism, the growth of Arab-Jewish hostility in Palestine during the late Ottoman and British mandate periods, the involvement of the Arab states and the great powers, the five Arab-Israeli wars, the two intifadas, and the movement towards negotiated agreements between Israel and the Arab states and between Israel and the Palestinians. |
| Win 10 | 35903 | 01 | Persian Historical Texts | Woods, John | Need course description |
| Win 10 | 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 10 | 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. |
| Win 10 | 37010 | 01 | Politics of Reproduction in Historical Perspective | Stansell, Christine | For centuries, women s traditional authority over reproductive matters birth control, pregnancy and childbearing was little remarked upon. Yet in the twentieth century and especially in the last quarter century these female matters of birth control, abortion, and childbearing have moved to the center of national and international politics, the source of furious disputes and even violence. This course traces the history of these developments, beginning with the nineteenth century, focusing on the legalization of abortion and its aftermath in America, and studying subsequent battles over access to contraception, Roe v. Wade, reproductive health around the world, and who should be a mother. We will analyze the origins of the idea of reproductive rights in the women s movement and trace how it became an issue in presidential politics. The focus will be on the United States, but we will bring in comparisons from Europe, Africa, and South Asia. |
| Win 10 | 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. |
| Win 10 | 39302 | 01 | Human Rgts 2: History of Theory of Human Rights | Geyer, Michael | This interactive lecture course explores the intertwined historical evolution of the modern human rights regime, especially of the international human rights regime after 1945, and of humanitarianism and humanitarian politics & law. It provides a fairly systematic introduction into the history of human rights, so that at the end of the day you will know and may see in a new light -- key actors, key texts, and key events from the late 18th century to the present. It also explores the occasionally controversial contextualization of human rights and humanitarian movements, as for example in the discussion of the link between anti-slavery movement and imperial paternalism and racism. But above all, it is interested in answering the question why at any one point in history and at anyone place in the world, people thought they needed human rights and why they considered them to be so vital that they were ready to fight for them. We need to know why such a thin aspiration like the recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) at times generates thick applications and at other times produces a lot of hot air. Last but not lest, we need to know where we stand today. |
| Win 10 | 39800 | 01 | Archćology for Anc Historians | Hall, Jonathan | This course is intended to act not as an introduction to Classical archćology but as a methods course illuminating the potential contribution of material cultural evidence to ancient historians while at the same time alerting them to the possible misapplications. Theoretical reflections on the relationship between history and archaeology will be interspersed with specific case-studies from the Grćco-Roman. |
| Win 10 | 40301 | 01 | Growth and Institutions in the Economy of the Ancient World | Bresson A. & Velde, F. | The purpose of this course is to explore how far the tools of economic analysis can take us towards an understanding of the ancient world. Economic analysis (broadly construed to include the transaction costs approach as well as game theory) can help organize our understanding of events and institutions. The course, which will cover the period 500BCE-500CE, will focus on the question of growth in the ancient Mediterranean world. It will be pitched so as to attract participants interested in economics in general and specifically in the economy of the ancient world. We will keep technicalities (historical or economic) from hindering dialogue across disciplines, without sacrificing rigor. |
| Win 10 | 46100 | 01 | Zapatista Social 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. |
| Win 10 | 46400 | 01 | Intellectuals in Lat Amer | Borges, Dain | This course will examine the lives and thoughts of intellectuals in Latin America and the Caribbean. We will emphasize the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A central question will be the transformation of the institutions and roles of a "lettered" class in Latin American cities, from the colonial period to the present. We will analyze social thought in many kinds of work, ranging from science to literature, from texts to performances. |
| Win 10 | 46802 | 01 | Politics of Black Culture | Holt, Thomas | Cultural issues in both the broad and narrower sense have been central to political debates and mobilizations among and about African Americans in the 20th century. This course will explore the roots of this preoccupation as manifested at the dawn of the 20th century, through the observations of W.E.B. Du Bois and other Black intellectuals and critical events like the Chicago World's Fair and the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Win 10 | 49100 | 01 | Haitian Rev & Human Rights, 1790-2004 | Saville, Julie | This course explores the Haitian revolution as critical to the examination of slave emancipation, colonialism, comparative revolutions, post-emancipation peasantries, ideologies of race and nation, and postcolonial governance and sovereignty. Course readings draw on historical, anthropological, and political studies, selected published documents, and historical fiction. |
| Win 10 | 50003 | 01 | Colloq:Race and Ethnicity in 20th century African History | Jean-Baptiste, Rachel | This course explores shifting constructions of racial and ethnic identity and how these ideas have shaped societies, politics, and cultures in colonial and post-colonial Africa. We will draw on case studies from varied regions on the continent, of Africans traveling globally, and across the African diaspora. This course traces theorizations and lived expressions of race and ethnicity and their imbrication with categories of difference such as gender and socio-economic status. In doing so, we explore transformations in ideas about citizenship, nationality, and statehood; popular culture; and sexual politics. Topics include: miscegenation, métissage, and colonial encounters; negritude, Pan Africanism, decolonization, and the construction of blackness ; and meanings and deployments of the concept of tribe. |
| Win 10 | 5xx | 01 | Confirm Title | Hevia, James | Need course description |
| Win 10 | 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). |
| Win 10 | 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. |
| Win 10 | 64602 | 01 | Coll: Marx II | 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. |
| Win 10 | 70504 | 01 | Sem:Early Rome 2 | Hall, J. & Hawkins, C. | The second quarter is mainly for graduate students writing a seminar paper. |
| Win 10 | 74202 | 01 | Sem:The Politics of Everyday Life | Auslander, A & Fitzpatrick, S. | Full Title Sem:The Politics of Everyday Life: Material Culture and the Built Environment East and West The fall term may, however, be taken as a free-standing colloquium. There is no language requirement for the fall. Those planning to write a research paper in the winter quarter are expected to be able to efficiently conduct research in the languages needed for their area of specialty. The course is open to non-history students and students from other disciplines are welcome. |
| Win 10 | 74802 | 01 | Sem: Euro/Colonialism/Globalism 2 | Austen, Ralph | The second quarter will be devoted to the completion of a major research paper and readings of collectively selected texts. |
| Win 10 | 76002 | 01 | Sem: Mod Chinese Hist | 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 seminar meets every week to discuss the progress of each student s paper. |
| Win 10 | 76602 | 01 | Sem: Japanese Hist 2 | Ketelaar, James | In the second quarter, we focus on research topics for students writing the seminar paper. |
| Win 10 | 79102 | 01 | Sem: Topics in Lat Amer Hist 2 | Tenorio, Mauricio | The second quarter is mainly for graduate students writing a History seminar paper. |
| Win 10 | 79702 | 01 | Sem:US-Mexican Borderlands, 1530-1848 | Gutierrez, Ramon | During the winter quarter, or the second half of the course, the seminar will begin with each student presenting their research paper topic, the historiography, the methods to be employed, and the primary sources that will be used to produce a forty-page research paper. Student may work with Spanish, English, French, Russian, or indigenous language primary sources, and requires no advanced knowledge of the area s history. |
| Win 10 | 83602 | 01 | Sem: Urbanisms 2 | Green, Adam | This is the second quarter of a two-quarter research seminar. Following completion of the first quarter, students should be sufficiently advanced in their writing on this topic, and well-read urban history and studies, to embark on research projects required for progress within the department. |
| Win 10 | 90000 | ## | Rdg/Rsch: History Grad | staff | |
| Win 10 | 90600 | ## | Oral Fields Preparation: History | staff | |
| Win 10 | 97800 | 01 | Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science | Richards, Robert | |
| Win 10 | 97900 | 01 | Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences | Richards, Robert | |
| Win 10 | 99700 | ## | Thesis Preparation: History | staff |