Category: Race, Ethnicity, & Inequality (REI)
Online Asynchronous 05/30/2023 – 07/02/2023: Shepherd Aaron Ellis 07/03/2023 – 08/05/2023: Diamond Crowder This course explores the settlement and expansion of the American colonies as a pluralistic society…
Online Asynchronous 05/08/2023 – 06/21/2023: Austin Hall 06/22/2023 – 08/05/2023 : Alysha Federkeil This course is the second part of a two-semester sequence that surveys U.S. history from…
Online Asynchronous 07/03/2023 – 08/05/2023: Daniel Farrell This course is an introductory survey of world history from approximately 1450 to the present. In this roughly five hundred-year period, the…
Spring 2023; Online Asynchronous Anthony Russomanno This course explores the settlement and expansion of the American colonies as a pluralistic society in which attempts at inclusion were challenged…
Lecture Mondays & Wednesdays, 10:10 am – 11:05 am + Discussion Sections (time and days vary) Dr. Wayne Durrill This course explores the settlement and expansion of the…
Spring 2023; MW 10:10 – 11:05 AM + Discussion Sections Dr. Anne Steinert This course is the second part of a two-semester sequence that surveys U.S. history from…
Online Asynchronous Instructor TBA This course is the second part of a two-semester sequence that surveys U.S. history from the end of Reconstruction through the late 20th century….
Spring 2023; Ansynchronous Online This course investigates the origins, development, and interactions of world cultures from ancient times to roughly 1500 AD. Key topics considered in the course…
Lecture Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:15-12:10 + Discussion Sections (time varies) Dr. Robert Haug This course investigates the origins, development, and interactions of world cultures from ancient times to…
Online Asynchronous Instructor TBA This course is an introductory survey of world history from approximately 1450 to the present. In this roughly five hundred-year period, the world has been…
Spring 2023; T/TH 11:20- 12:20 PM Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This introductory-level course explores over 500 years of Latin American history from the rise and fall of the Aztec…
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am- 12:20 pm Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This introductory-level course explores over 500 years of Latin American history from the rise and fall of the…
This course explores 10 of the greatest moments of sociopolitical movement and institutional change in American History. The Civil War, twentieth-century labor movements, women’s suffrage, anti-globalization, gay rights, …
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11:15 am – 12:20 pm Instructor TBA (AFST) This course is Cross-Listed with JUDC 1027. Beginning on the African continent, this course follows African captives…
Spring 2023; This course is cross-listed with AFST 2014. This course surveys major themes in African American History from the start of the Civil War through Reconstruction’s “long…
Dr. Shailaja Paik This course explores the anti-colonial nationalist movement of India with a specific focus on M.K. Gandhi, a major political activist and thinker of our times. It…
This course will investigate the rise of the Nazi Party, Hitler’s seizure of power, and the policies of the Nazi state before and during the Second World War. The course…
This course takes an in-depth look at the national events and controversies that led to the American Civil War, the most tumultuous era and momentous event in our…
Spring 2023; MWF 1:25-2:20 PM Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is the second of a two-semester sequence on the Civil War era. This course introduces students to the…
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 am- 10:50 am Dr. Jason Krupar This class provides students an opportunity to study the history of Native Americans, the interactions between indigenous peoples,…
Online Synchronous; Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:00 pm -7:20 pm Dr. Casey Huegel This mixed lecture and discussion course examines the development of American environmentalism in the twentieth century….
This mixed lecture and discussion course will examine the construction and consequences of race and ethnicity in American history. Through an exploration of controversies, debates, and critical events in American…
This course will introduce students to the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings to the conclusion of the American Civil War. The region’s history was…
This class will examine the South and its people, black and white, as well as its institutions, political ideology, and ultimately, its meaning in the early American continuum from the end of…
Spring 2023; T/TH 12:30 – 1:50 PM Dr. Wayne Durrill This course will explore music as an important part of the American historical experience. We will read about…
Dr. Erika Gasser This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses about “Colonial America” have traditionally followed…
T/Th 11:00AM – 12:20PMDr. Mark Raider This course offers a thematic and inquiry-based approach to the history of American show business, referred to colloquially as “showbiz.” While introducing…
This class is cross-listed with WGS 2077 & URBN 2077. This course will introduce students to the rich and varied history of LGBTQ people and movements in American…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores the origins, sources, and nature of the so-called modern ‘western legal tradition’ from the fall of Rome to the formation of…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 & 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…
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…
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. 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…
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…
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…
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…
Dr. Maura O’Connor This course examines the history of the British Empire from the settlements of the seventeenth century to the end of the empire in the second…
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. Isaac Campos This course examines the business, culture, policy, legal, and public health implications of drugs and the broader category of addiction since 1980. Over the course of the semester, we…
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…
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…
