History 504P-00P: The Early Middle Ages

Burns; MAX:12

Paper-writing section taken after History 504 – Written permission of instructor required.

History 509: Family, Sex & Gender in Early Modern Europe

Strocchia; MAX:12

This course is an introduction to the history of family, sex, and gender in early modern Europe, circa 1350-1700. We will consider the complex interplay among family arrangements, property concerns, social and sexual practices, and the ideology and representation of gender in a number of different historical settings. Part of our agenda revolves around examining how issues attached to family, sex, and gender intersected with larger historical changes that distinguished this period, such as state formation, social discipline, religious reforms, and the transition to capitalism. Our readings and discussions will attend to both large-scale questions of historical structure and process, and to more intimate questions of personal experience, individual agency, and the meanings of gender for women and men. A secondary goal of the course is to acquaint students with some of the main methodologies and theoretical concerns developed by scholars working in this rapidly growing field.

Texts: May include: Judith Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600; Stanley Chojnacki, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice; Natalie Z. Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives; Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women; Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London; Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence; Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze; Guido Ruggiero, Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of The Renaissance; and various primary sources.

Particulars: Your grade in this course will be based in participation in class discussions, weekly online assignments, one short analytical review and a longer paper due at the end of the term.

History 510: 20th Century Europe & Problems of Historical Generations

Amdur; MAX:12

Content: This course emphasizes the social and cultural dimensions of the major upheavals of the twentieth century. “Generational” interpretations argue that age influences how people experience the crucial events of their lifetimes, and that shared experiences cause people of similar age to behave politically in similar ways, even years after the events themselves. While examining tumultuous events from the turn of the century to the contemporary era, we will consider how these events shaped generational consciousness, how issues of continuity and change can be interpreted generationally, and how generational identity intersects with such other forms of identity as gender, race, and class.

Texts: Prospective readings include the following: Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918; Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory; Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, 14-18: Understanding the Great War; Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Culture of Defeat; Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914; David L. Hoffmann, Stalinist Values; Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism; Robert Paxton, Vichy France; Old Guard and New Order; James Wilkinson, The Intellectual Resistance in Europe; Kristin Ross, May ’68 and its Afterlives; Robert D. English, Russia and the Idea of the West

Particulars: Requirements will include a brief written comment on each week’s reading assignment plus a longer historiographical essay on a topic of the student’s choice. No research paper will be assigned.

History 535P-00P: U.S. Foreign Relations in the 20 th Century

Harbutt; MAX:12

Paper-writing section taken after History 535 – Written permission of instructor required.

History 540: The English Colonies in America

Juricek; MAX:12

Content: History of the English colonies in North America from first explorations and settlements to final independence. An overview of the evolution of the basic structures – constitutional, political, economic, social and cultural – of early American life.

History 562R: Themes & Approaches – Latin American History: New Paradigms, Old Trends (Same as ANT 585/ILA 790)

Lesser; MAX:12

Content: Designed to provide course participants with the full sweep of Latin American history and historiography, this seminar will explore a series of thematic themes, arranged chronologically, spanning the region’s colonial and modern periods (1492-present). The themes will have been chosen to achieve two goals: to expose course participants to the basic narrative of Latin American history and to capture both old and new approaches to the region’s rich past. Analytical concerns revolve around the relationship between methodology and empirical conclusions and how scholars’ shifting intellectual and political agendas have led them to integrate different disciplinary approaches into the study of history.

Texts: We will read a combination of “canonical” and newer works in the field, generally at the rate of two monographs per week.

History 562P-00P: Themes & Approaches – Latin American History

Socolow/Gonzalez; MAX:12

Paper-writing section taken after History 562 – Written permission of instructor required.

History 566: African Historiography (Same as AFS 566)

Crais; MAX:6

Content: The primary goal of this seminar is to work towards a critical understanding of, and engagement with, how various publics have emerged around imagining the African past. We will explore the conceptual practices shaping historical production, the ways scholars have framed and reframed questions on and about the past. An important challenge will be to work towards envisioning unexpected questions, unanticipated histories. A secondary goal of the seminar is to prepare advanced students preparing for field exams and who anticipate researching and teaching about Africa. While focused especially on the past, the seminar is in essence interdisciplinary, though we will have occasion to consider what is meant, and what is left unsaid, by the word “discipline”.

History 567: Research Methods in African History (Same as AFS 567)

Mann; MAX:6

Content: This course is designed to train students in research methods used in studying African history and culture. It is intended to give students practical experience with challenges they will face designing and conducting effective research in Africa. In addition to reading books and articles that employ different methods, students will gain experience working with a range of sources: archival, oral, ethnographic, photographic, and possibly material.

Texts: Readings may include the following: Cooper, On the African Waterfront; White, Comforts of Home; More, Social Facts and Fabrications; Mann and Roberts, Law in Colonial Africa; Gordon, Picturing Bushmen; Marks, Not Either an Experimental Doll; Finnegan, Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts; Vansina, Oral Tradition as History; Berry, Fathers Work for their Sons; Bozzoli, Women of Phokeng.

Particulars: In addition to doing the readings and making oral presentations, each student will be expected to write a major research proposal in the course. If students have chosen dissertations topics, they will be encouraged to define proposals related to them.

History 582A: Social Science and Quantitative Techniques

Socolow; MAX:12

Content: The course is planned to give graduate students an introduction to the use of social science methodology in historical research. The course will focus on three interrelated aspects of quantification and history: 1) the theory and logic of research design; 2) statistical analysis; and 3) the use of the computer. In addition, specific applications of quantitative methods in social history, economic history and historical demography will be discussed. The course can be used by students majoring in American history as a partial substitute for a second foreign language.

History 583: Introduction to Advanced Historical Study

Pandey/Crespino; MAX:12

Content: The goals of this course are (1) to introduce students to the influential paradigms that, though often tracing back to earlier scholarship, continue to animate and shape historical research and writing today; (2) to make students more aware of assumptions and preconceptions that precede hours in the archives and at the writing table; and (3) to introduce some conceptual milestones in history and cognate disciplines and understand how their practitioners have wrestled with questions of research, analysis, interpretation and presentation.

History 585-000: Special Topics in History Disease, History & Culture (Same as ILA 790)

Kushner; MAX:6

SEE ILA

History 585-001: Special Topics in History: Research Design (Same as ILA 790/ANT 585/SPAN 597)

Karp/Kratz; MAX:3

SEE ILA

History 585: Special Topics in History: Passing in America (Same as ILA 790)

Prude: MAX:4

Content: What does it mean for people to transform themselves in a society that has historically celebrated continuing improvement and self-(re)invention, on the one hand, and authenticity and sincerity, on the other? What kinds of transitions and reformulations have been understood as permissible or even admirable and what kinds judged inappropriate, transgressive, misleading: "passing" in the pejorative sense of the term? Where has the authority for these understandings and judgments rested? And how have these estimates changed over time? Our seminar will examine these and related questions as they unfolded in America during the 18th-20th centuries. Particular focus will be given to movements (both encouraged and criticized) across the boundaries of class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Materials for the course will be drawn from texts (primary and secondary, fiction and nonfiction), images, and movies.

History 585: Special Topics in History: Issues in Israeli National Security (Same as JS 730)

Tal; MAX:5

Content: National security is a prime issue in Israel, and it was so since it existence. Being established in war, leaving in hostile environment, Israel had to deal with issues pertaining to its national security with the highest priority. The course will focus on several issues pertaining to Israel’s national security, bringing together military, diplomatic and social issues. We’ll study the ideas that provided the basis for the development of Israel’s national security policy,  build up of the IDF and the development of military strategy that were aimed to accomplish the goals of Israel’s national security policy; the role of diplomacy in the shaping and conduct of Israel’s national security policy; the pursuit of peace and the conduct of wars; military – civic relations in Israel; Israel and the non- conventional threats- nuclear and low- intensity conflicts.

History 585-003: Special Topics in History: From Simmel to Adorno (Same as ILA 790/CPLT 751/PHIL 789)

Goodstein; MAX:4

SEE ILA

History 585: Special Topics in History: South Asian History Research Seminar

Pandey/Lal; MAX:12

Content: This course will examine research problems and projects relating to current historiographical and historical debates on South Asia. The prescribed readings will take into account the particular research concerns of students (and faculty) participating in the seminar.

History 585: Special Topics in History: The Historian and Practices of Visual Representation (MESAS 570R)

Juneja; MAX:10

SEE MESAS

History 585P:  Seminar Papers

Faculty

Paper-writing section taken after History 585 – Written permission of instructor required.

History 596R: Special Studies

Faculty

Written Permission of Instructor Required

Content: Attendance in an undergraduate course with satisfactory completion of those course requirements as well as additional graduate-level assignments as required by instructor.

History 597R: Directed Reading

Faculty

Written Permission of Instructor Required

History 599R: Research

Faculty

MUST BE TAKEN S/U

Content: Variable credit.  For M.A.-level students.

History 786A: Introduction to College Teaching

Payne:MAX:15

MUST BE TAKEN S/U

Content:  This course is designed to prepare graduate students in the history department for the challenges of teaching. The sessions of the course will look at discrete aspects of teaching and various methods of pedagogy. The vast majority of sessions will be devoted to discussing and critiquing the brief assignments prepared for the class. The course requirements are the prompt and diligent completions of these assignments (and active discussion of them), which will help you to understand and master the tasks that you will face as a teacher and strategies to juggle these responsibilities while maintaining a hectic research and professional agenda. We will also establish a learnlink or blackboard (depending on which medium the class is most comfortable with) discussion list to share suggestions, transmit assignments to each other, and probe issues of interest. Remember, this class is offered primarily to offer resources for your use. The efficacy of these resources will depend greatly on the commitment, nay passion, with which you explore them.

Text: Gross Davis, Tools for Teaching

History 786B: Introduction to College Teaching

Faculty

Written permission of instructor required; MUST BE TAKEN S/U

Content: The student works with a member of the department in conducting a course, including giving an occasional lecture or leading a discussion group. This course must be taken S/U.

History 799R: Advanced Research

Faculty

MUST BE TAKEN S/U

Content: Variable credit (1 to 12 hours).  Designed to give doctoral students opportunity for individual research on their dissertation subjects.  Credit for this course will normally be given only after completion of 32 hours of work in 500-level courses in the doctoral program.