Tag: Race Ethnicity & Inequality (REI)
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This introductory-level course explores over 500 years of Latin American history from the rise and fall of the Aztec and Incan empires to modern challenges…
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, …
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 – 1:50 pm Dr. McLeod (AFST) This course is Cross-Listed with JUDC 1027. Beginning on the African continent, this course follows African captives across the…
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 pm – 1:50 pmDr. Nicholas McLeod This course is cross-listed with AFST 2014. This course surveys major themes in African American History from the…
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…
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30 am – 10:50 am Dr. Christopher Phillips This course takes an in-depth look at the national events and controversies that led to the American…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is the second of a two-semester sequence on the Civil War era. This course introduces students to the events and interpretations of the…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00-12:20 pm Dr. Margo Lambert This class provides students an opportunity to study the history of Native Americans, the interactions between indigenous peoples, and their…
Dr. Tracy Teslow 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…
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…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Dr. Wayne Durrill This course will explore music as an important part of the American historical experience. We will read…
Dr. Christopher Phillips 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…
Dr. 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 students to historiographic…
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…
Dr. Christopher Phillips 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…
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 America from the time of the Aztec…
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…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 – 1:50 pm Dr. Wayne Durrill This course will examine the origins and development of race-based chattel slavery in British North America and the…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:15 am – 12:10 pm Dr. Anne Steinert This course emphasizes major themes in urban history through the case of Cincinnati. The course will…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 am – 10:50 am Anthony Russomanno This course is an introduction to American immigration history, focusing on immigration to the United States in the 19th…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is an introduction to the life of Abraham Lincoln in the era of the Civil War. The purpose of this course is to…
Dr. Tracy Teslow This course examines the social construction of American identity in the United States through a study of sculpture, painting, photography, and emblematic imagery in their social, cultural, political, and scientific…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:15 am – 12:10 pm Dr. Tracy Teslow This course examines the way scientific concepts and practices have defined racial difference in the United…
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.
Dr. Robert Haug Punk emerged in the mid-1970s out of the New York and London music scenes as both a musical genre and a subculture that has endured…
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. Katherine Sorrels This course investigates the rise of the Nazi Party, the National Socialist seizure of power, and the policies of the Nazi state before and during…
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…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt- Alcantara We tend to imagine the Mexica (“Aztec”), Inkan, and Mayan empires as timeless ancient dynasties reigning for centuries over large areas of Latin America…
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 a basic…
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…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 1:25 – 2:20 pm Dr. Christopher Phillips This course will introduce students to the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings to…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm Dr. Wayne Durrill This course fulfills the History Major Capstone Requirement. This class will examine the South and its people, …
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…
Dr. Isaac Campos This course explores the history of the Cold War in Latin America, with particular emphasis on the way the Cold War altered relations between the United…
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…
Thursdays, 2:30 pm – 5:20 pm Dr. Christopher Phillips This is an undergraduate readings-based seminar on the Civil War era that pairs with the graduate-level seminar HIST 6121. …
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…
