Category: 5001 & Above Undergrad/Grad Level Courses
Wednesdays, 3:00 – 5:50 PM Dr. Man Bun Kwan Capstone research course for history majors that culminates in a significant historical research project. Projects can include an essay…
This course examines the history and impact of religious belief on American society from the colonial era to the present. Organized as an investigation of major figures, developments, …
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…
Dr. Katherine Sorrels Holocaust history is challenging both because it raises difficult questions and because the literature is vast, complicated, and contentious. Yet this challenging scholarship offers a special opportunity…
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….
Mondays, 3:00 – 6:00 pm Dr. Rebecca Wingo This course offers a practical orientation to and exploration of various fields encompassed under the rubric “public history ” approached…
Human rights are everywhere. We see them as affirming the core values of human life nurturing, civil and political engagement, demanding basic standards of living, and guarding against illiberal oppression….
Dr. Christopher Phillips This is an undergraduate readings-based seminar on the Civil War era that pairs with the graduate-level seminar HIST 6121. This will immerse students in the…
This course explores the emergence and management of international refugee crises produced by war, persecution, political upheavals, and natural disasters since the late nineteenth century. This is a…
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 analyses the development of American cities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. With a mix of environmental and urban history techniques, the class addresses both…
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…
This course seeks to better understand the multiple shifting meanings and uses of race in the United States. We will explore how race has been defined by whom…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is a seminar devoted to analysis of the historical literature on Abraham Lincoln in the era of the Civil War. The purpose of…
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…
