Category: 3001 & Above: Upper-Level Electives
Dr. Jason Krupar: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm; Dr. Shailaja Paik: Online Synchronous, Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays This small seminar is required of all History…
Spring 2023; MW 2:30 – 3:50 PM Dr. Sigrun Haude This course will concentrate on pivotal events or turning points in the history of Christianity that have had…
Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 am – 12:20 pm Dr. Sigrun Haude This course concentrates on pivotal events or turning points in the history of Christianity that has had…
Mondays & Wednesdays 11:15 am -12:10 pm Online Synchronous + Fridays Online Asynchronous Dr. Erika Gasser This course focuses on the Salem/Essex County, Massachusetts witchcraft trials in 1692….
Dr. Robert Haug This course examines the period of conflict between the Latin West and the Islamic World known as the Crusades. The majority of the class focuses…
This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses in “Colonial America” have traditionally followed the beginnings and development of…
Online – Asynchronous Dr. Joseph Takougang (AFST) This class is Cross-listed with AFST 3006. This course discusses the various forces that helped in shaping the history and life…
Spring 2023; T/TH 2:00 – 3:30 PM Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course focuses on the central role played by women, sex, gender, and race in the conquest and colonization of Latin…
This course explores the history of the American Revolution, examining questions and issues such as the history of democracy and social groups in the revolution and the creation…
This course examines the history of the American West as a place and as an idea in American popular culture, memory, and imagination. In both geography and in meaning, the West…
This course considers the relationships between technological change, engineering professionalism, and racial identity/politics within the context of American development. The methods used by scholars to explain the intersections of…
T/Th 12:30 – 1:50PM Dr. Wayne Durrill This course will examine the origins and development of race-based chattel slavery in British North America and the United States, the…
This course examines the interactions between technological developments, scientific advancements, and global competition within the context of the Cold War. The class considers the efforts made by the superpowers…
Dr. Jason Krupar This class provides students an opportunity to study the history of global technological and engineering failures. It considers the intertwining social, economic, and political issues…
This class provides students an opportunity to study the development of invention, technology, and engineering in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It considers the…
This course considers the relationships between government policies, technological change, scientific discovery, and the experience of war by examining the policies and technologies generated during the American Civil War….
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays 10:10 am -11:15 am Dr. Anne Steinert This course emphasizes major themes in urban history through the case of Cincinnati. The course will examine…
Dr. Stephen Porter This course investigates the major ideologies, movements, and laws from the 17th through 19th centuries that gave shape to the “Atlantic World “, helped to define…
Dr. Stephen Porter This course explores the intersections between international human rights and U.S. foreign relations, broadly construed, focusing primarily on developments since World War I, to create…
This class explores the rationales and excuses used to justify why the United States has gone to war over the span of two centuries. Exploring the various moral…
Dr. Shailaja Paik This course deals with key topics of Indian political and social history from 1885 to 1947 including Indian nationalist responses to colonialism, socio-religious reform and revival…
Spring 2023; T/TH 9:30 – 10:50 AM Dr. Wayne Durrill The History of American Capitalism will cover all economic activity in the United States from about 1600 to…
This course focuses on the spaces, places, and things in the American past which are both markers of cultural change, and also a means of constituting the social, economic, and…
This course is an introduction to American immigration history, focusing on immigration to the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Special attention will be paid to the…
This course traces the experiences of African American women against the backdrop of the triple perils of racism, sexism, and classism they have faced in American history. It examines not…
Dr. Robert Haug This course examines the history of Afghanistan and Central Asia from ancient times to the present. We will explore the ways in which different empires…
This course focuses on the movements of people of African descent in search of freedom from racist systems of oppression around the world – specifically, colonialism, segregation, and apartheid. The course…
T/Th 9:30 – 10:50AM Dr. Willard Sunderland This course will examine the Soviet experience in World War II, paying close attention to the political, military, social, cultural, and…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 am -10:50 am Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is an introduction to the life of Abraham Lincoln in the era of the Civil War….
This course will examine the struggle of African-Americans to achieve equality and civil rights from the beginning of the “Jim Crow” era through to the present with emphasis…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores a turbulent and transformative period in English and British history from about 1485 to 1689. This period includes the renaissance, reformation,…
Spring 2023; T/TH 3:30 – 4:50 PM Dr. Tracy Teslow This class will examine the thinking and practices that lie behind collecting and exhibiting artifacts of history, science, and culture….
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 pm -3:20 pm Dr. Tracy Teslow This course examines the social construction of American identity in the United States through a study of sculpture, painting, photography,…
M/W/F 11:15AM – 12:10PMDr. Tracy Teslow This course examines the way scientific concepts and practices have defined racial difference in the United States. Spanning the 19th and 20th…
The purpose of this class is to introduce students to the causes, events, and consequences of World War I, or the Great War as contemporaries called it, and how…
This course charts the origins, development, and impact of World War II. We will begin with an examination of the causes of the war and then progress to the actual…
This course focuses on the Cold War from its World War II origins to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among the important issues to be covered are…
Power, Politics, & Persuasion Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores the history of Renaissance Europe through the lens of Power, Politics, and Persuasion. Throughout the course, we…
Dr. Willard Sunderland This course explores the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy as a guide for examining Russian history in the late imperial period, including questions related…
Dr. Willard Sunderland This course examines Russian history during the life and reign of Peter the Great (1672-1725). It investigates fundamental questions of continuity and change set against…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays 1:25 pm – 2:20 pm Dr. Mark Raider This course examines William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596) in historical perspective. It explores…
This course will examine all major aspects of the American experience in Vietnam beginning with initial involvement during the early years of the Cold War, direct American intervention…
The course examines the forces, events, and demographic movements that shaped the development of racially isolated low-income African American communities in American cities in the 20th century; starting in…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:15 am – 12:10 pm Dr. Man Bun Kwan This course focuses on the history of China from neolithic times down to the 12th century. How…
Online Synchronous Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm Dr. Elizabeth Frierson This class will focus on the history of World War I and the world, in…
T/Th 11:00AM – 12:20PM Dr. Maura O’Connor This course examines the historical, cultural, and economic histories of the rise and expansion of financial and global capitalism through the…
The goal of this course is to examine the causes, events, and consequences of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II; an event known historically as the…
This course will introduce students to a variety of propaganda films made during World War II. The class will focus on Germany, Britain, and the United States; the three nations…
Spring 2023; MWF 11:15 – 12: 20 PM Dr. Man Bun Kwan This course examines China’s modern experience. Considered “modern” by the 12th century, the country was condemned…
Explores the history of immigration, race, and citizenship in the United States through multidisciplinary frameworks, examining how distinct disciplinary approaches yield different understandings.
This course explores the rise of protest movements that emerged from the 1960s through the early 2000s that self-consciously embraced an international framework, often operating on a transnational scale.
Spring 2023; MWF 11:15 – 12:20 PM Dr. Jason Krupar This course provides students an opportunity to examine the interactions of technology and society from the 18th century…
Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the social, economic, sexual, religious, and political aspects of women’s lives in European history from 1600-1850; placing women’s experience into a range of broad historiographical…
This course offers students in the Honors Program and other high-achieving undergraduates the opportunity to study focused historical topics that include analysis and understanding of issues arising from…
This course offers students in the Honors Program and other high-achieving undergraduates the opportunity to study focused historical topics that incorporate social and ethical reasoning from an historical…
This course concerns itself with the political, social, economic, and artistic history of Ohio from prehistory to the present. This course will illuminate national trends through the lens of local history….
Dr. Longfield Karr This class examines the institution, meaning, and historical significance of the development of the rule of law and due process by critically examining some of…
This course studies gender as a category of historical analysis in the modern Middle East and North Africa (1650-present). Students will read a wide range of primary and…
Dr. Mark Raider This course investigates the history and culture of Israeli society since the establishment of the state in 1948 until the present. We will pay close…
Dr. Robert Haug This exploration of World History is based on the popular podcast and book, The History of the World in 100 Objects, a project that told…
Mondays & Wednesdays 2:30 pm – 3:35 pm + Fridays Online Asynchronous Dr. Robert Haug Punk emerged in the mid-1970s out of the New York and London music…
Dr. Shailaja Paik This course will explore the transformations of intimate life as well as of political culture in South Asia during the last two hundred years through…
Dr. Shailaja Paik To explore women in South Asia, particularly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. We will study traditional topics like patriarchy, marriage and family, gender and sexuality, and also explore…
“Change is neither good or bad, it simply is ” Don Drapper once said in the critically acclaimed television show Mad Men. Over the last twenty years, the…
Dr. Sigrun Haude The course explores the roots of the reformations, their theological and religious profiles , and their social, political, economic, and cultural underpinnings. It evaluates these movements in the context…
Dr. Robert Haug For many, Medieval history is European history. It is the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, roughly 500-1500, popularly misunderstood as…
Online – Asynchronous Dr. Katherine Sorrels This course investigates the rise of the Nazi Party, the National Socialist seizure of power, and the policies of the Nazi state…
Since the last few decades of the 20th century the disability rights movement and the field of disability studies have forcefully critiqued the legal social and cultural concepts…
This course offers students the opportunity to apply digital history methods to focused historical topics. The topics will vary from year to year and will be determined by…
Every term; By Permission Only Contact Dr. Rebecca Wingo Internships provide students with practical professional experience, under the guidance of specialists, in an institution whose purposes and activities…
Dr. Maura O’Connor This course will examine how Britain made the modern world and how the modern world made Britain, particularly in the decades that followed the Second…
Through the decades leading to the Civil War, African Americans and other opponents of slavery increasingly acted in secret to help runaways to safety in violation of Federal…
Dr. Stephen Porter Explores the historical roots of contemporary international refugee crises global migration, and the role played by American people, institutions, politics, and culture in these affairs….
Dr. Isaac Campos This course explores the history of the Cold War in Latin America with particular emphasis on the relationship between the United States and the region…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara People in the U.S. often think of African slavery as a North American story. But the vast majority of enslaved Africans went to Latin America, ten…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Dr. Brianna Leavitt- Alcantara We tend to imagine the Mexica (“Aztec”), Inkan, and Mayan empires as timeless ancient dynasties reigning…
M/W/F 10:10 – 11:05AM Dr. Jeffrey Zalar This lecture and discussion course addresses the Napoleonic age in Europe from Napoleon’s First Italian Campaign in 1796 to the Congress…
Spring 2023; Dr. Holly McGee It is impossible to understand the true history of this nation, or place into proper context the current racial crisis in society, without…
This course offers students the opportunity to study focused historical topics based on the research interests of department faculty. The topics will vary from year to year and…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr Although Human Rights issues continue to be debated and contested, the longer history and intellectual tradition of Human Rights is often unexamined and even…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr We live in a world increasingly dominated by science and technology and we often assume that each can provide us with objective principles to…
Dr. Erika A Gasser This course focuses on the trades in three commodities, each of which played a central role in the economic, social, and military development of the…
Dr. Erika Gasser Drawing upon primary and secondary sources, literature, and images, this course explores how women and men negotiated social and cultural identities in early modern Britain, colonial British North…
Spring 2023; MWF 10:10 – 11:05 AM Dr. Christopher Phillips This course will introduce students to the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings to the…
Spring 2023; T/TH 11:00 – 12:20 PM Dr. Robert Haug This course examines the history of the Abbasid Caliphate, rulers of the Islamic world from 750 to 1258….
Dr. Jason Krupar This course examines the technological development of nuclear weapons from the interwar period to the post-Cold War era. The class considers the historiography of the…
Dr. Isaac Campos This course will explore the history of intoxicants in the Americas within a comparative global perspective. Primarily the course will explore the political, economic, and cultural forces…
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm Dr. Isaac Campos This course explores the history of the Cold War in Latin America, with particular emphasis on the way…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course examines the development of the Spanish Inquisition from its medieval roots to its early nineteenth-century demise. The focus of the course is both…
Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the conflicting ideas and realities that brought about the great conflicts of early modern Europe, in particular, the Thirty Years War. The…
Tuesdays 2:00 pm – 4:50 pm Dr. Maura O’Connor This seminar will examine the relationship between decolonization and the history of Europe and America’s engagement with neoliberalism and…
Dr. Shailaja Paik This course investigates how colonial and post-colonial encounters have shaped gender, sexuality, race, class, caste, nationalism, and imperialism in South Asia. Students will consider the various…
Dr. Shailaja Paik To explore women in South Asia, particularly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. We will study traditional topics like patriarchy, marriage and family, gender and sexuality, but also explore…
This course focuses on the debate over how to understand and do world history and study the process of globalization. Interdisciplinary readings are drawn from Anthropology and Sociology,…
T/Th 4:00 -6:50 PMDr. Willard Sunderland This course explores the production of varieties of knowledge, the technologies involved in their production, and the ways in which culture mediates…
Dr. Willard Sunderland This course explores the history of the Russian Empire from its founding in the sixteenth century up to the period of the Russian Revolution and…
Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the conflicting ideas and realities that brought about the great conflicts of early modern Europe, in particular, the Thirty Years War. The course…
Dr. Robert Haug History is told by those who could write and those who could archive. This has meant that the dominant historical narratives have been those told…
Dr. Elizabeth Frierson In this combined undergraduate and graduate discussion-based course, we will study the political, intellectual, and social history and historiography of the Ottoman Empire from its founding…
