Intro to the Study of History

HIST-H601 with Professor Pergher

• Tuesday, 4:45p - 6:45p

Intro to the Study of History

HIST-H601 with Professor Sahin

• Tuesday, 4:45p - 6:45p

The new historiography of genocide

HIST-H620 with Professor Roseman

Genocide is a new concept, invented in 1943. The scholarship on it is even newer, and the field took off only in the 1990s. Historians joined political scientists and anthropologists only after a delay. But in recent years, they have turned the field upside down – rethinking the relationship between the Holocaust and genocide, contesting genocide’s modernity, and challenging even the concept as such. Reading this remarkable new work alongside a few classics, the course encourages students to think comparatively, to ask how historical approaches differ from other disciplines, and explore whether genocide is a distinctive societal phenomenon or just a post-war legal-political construct that misleads as much as it reveals.

• Tuesday, 7:15p - 9:15p

US Visual Culture

HIST-H650 with Professor Caddoo

This readings-based colloquium introduces graduate students to legal, social, cultural, and economic histories of US visual culture with a particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our examination of visual culture includes performance, sculpture, print culture, the built environment, cartography, photography, and motion pictures. We will also investigate “ways of seeing,” and how they have changed through time. The themes of our course readings and discussions are organized, for the most part, chronologically but we will also attend to questions of historiography and methodology as we consider the possibilities, limitations, and implications of viewing history through the interdisciplinary field of visual culture.

• Tuesday, 7:15p - 9:15p

Oral History

HIST-H699 with Professor James

• Thursday, 7:15p - 9:15p

Archival Silences, Histories of Gender

HIST-H699 with Professor Knott

Taking its lead in particular from Black feminist thinkers, this course aims to explore new recuperative feminist historiography, including emergent streams from economic history and intellectual history to trans history and digital history; to identify a feminist canon stretching from Hortense Spillers, Joan Scott and Eve Sedgwick to Imani Perry, that is of use to historians; and to bring forward the remarkable range of methodologies, techniques and forms of interpretation required to give a history to gender, from counting differently to presencing to critical fabulation. These aims often turn on the problem of archival silence and the potential for redress.

• Thursday, 4:45p - 6:45p

The US and South Africa (cluster)

HIST-H699 with Professor Lichtenstein

• Wednesday, 4:10p - 6:10p

Empire and Resistance: Language, Race, Latinidad

HIST-H699 with Professor Nieto-Phillips

In 1492, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija presciently advised Queen Isabella that “language is the perfect instrument of empire.” Language, culture and other tools of geopolitical power in the Western Hemisphere will be the focus of our readings, discussions, and writing assignments. Spanning five centuries, we will explore ideologies of language, race, and identity in Latin America and the United States, to situate Latinx history within the arc of empire and resistance.

• Monday, 4:10p - 6:10p

Global Legal History

HIST-H699 with Professor Wang

• Monday, 4:10p - 6:10p

The Antonine Age

HIST-H605/705 with Professor Elliott

Edward Gibbon said that the period between the accession of Nerva until the death of Marcus Aurelius was the ‘most happy and prosperous’ period in human history. While indeed the Nerva-Antonine dynasty was politically stable, the period witnessed a great many social, cultural, economic and environmental transitions and transformations. Our class explores the extent to which the events and actors of the Antonine Age brought pivotal and permanent change to the Roman World.

• Wednesday, 7:00p - 9:00p