Courses
The courses we teach are not just about memorizing facts or storylines: they are about understanding where those facts come from and how and why they are used to create the stories historians tell. Our courses will sharpen your skills, expand your mind, and teach you about the world even if you do not become a history major.
Fall 2023
Winter 2024
2023-24 Full Academic Year Class Schedule
Fall 2023
Course |
Concentration |
Instructor |
Day/Time |
Max |
| 101-7-20 History of Heaven | Europe, Asia/Middle East | David Shyovitz | T/Th 11:00 – 12:20 | 15 |
| 101-7-24 Scientific Lives | Americas, Europe | Ken Alder | T/Th 11-12:20pm | 15 |
| 102-7-20 Race and The American Presidency | Americas | Brett Gadsden | T/Th 2-3:20pm | 15 |
| 102-7-22 Asian American Lives and Memories | Asian/Middle East | Ji-Yeon Yuh | T/Th 2-3:20pm | 15 |
| 102-7-24 Native Americans in Film and TV | Americas | Doug Kiel | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 15 |
| 103-7-20 Conquest Cultures | Americas | Paul Ramirez | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 103-7-22 Climate Change and Civilizations | Global | Akinwumi Ogundiran | T/Th 11-12:20pm | 15 |
| African/ Middle East | Sean Hanretta | T/Th 3:30- 4:50pm | 15 | |
| Global | Lydia Barnett | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 15 | |
| 200-0-20 Race and Racism | Global | Brett Gadsden | M/W 2-3:20pm | 30 |
| 200-0-24 Age of Revolutions | European, Global, Americas | Robin Bates | T/Th 3:30 pm- 4:50 pm | 45 |
| 200-0-26 Leisure and Popular Culture in 20th Century Palestine/Israel | Middle East | Maayan Hilel | TTh 2pm-3:20pm | 15 |
| 201-2-20 Modern European History | European | Deborah Cohen | M/W/F 11:00 – 11:50am | 90 |
| 210-1-20 History of the United States, Precolonial to the Civil War | Americas | Caitlin Fitz | MWF 10:00 – 10:50am | 90 |
| 215-0-20 History of the American Family | Americas | Michaela Kleber | T/Th 11-12:20pm | 45 |
| 219-0-20 History of the Present | Americas,Global | Kathleen Belew & Lauren Stokes | M/W 3:30-4:50 pm | 116 |
| 250-2-20 Global History: The Modern World | Global African/Middle East, Asia/Middle East, Americas, European, Global | Daniel Immerwahr | MWF 2:00 – 2:50pm | 224 |
| 251-0-20 The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History | Global | Lydia Barnett | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50 | 90 |
| 254-0-20 Entrepreneurship: A Global History | Americas, European, Global | Deborah Cohen | M/W/F 2:00-2:50pm | 45 |
| 300-0-20 Native Nations and the U.S. Legal System | Americas | Doug Kiel | T/Th 9:30 – 10:50am | 45 |
| 300-0-22 Colonialism and Genocide: 20th Century Europe in Africa | European, African/Middle East | Stefan Ionescu | M/W 9:30 – 10:50am | 45 |
| 309-0-20 American Environmental History | Americas | Keith Woodhouse | T/Th 9:30 – 10:50 | 45 |
| 325-0-20 History of American Technology | Americas | Ken Alder | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 330-0-20 Medieval Sex | European | Dyan Elliott | T/Th 9:30–10:50pm | 45 |
| 345-1-20 History of Russia 800-1700 | Asian/ Middle East, European | Jeff Eden | M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm | 45 |
| 376-0-20 Global Environments and World History | Global | Helen Tilley | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 45 |
| 381-3-20 Modern China: Post-Mao Reforms, 1978-2016 | Asian, Middle East | Peter Carroll | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 385-1-20 Early Modern India | Asian, Middle East | Rajeev Kinra | M/W 2:00-3:20 | 45 |
| 393-0-20 Holocaust Memory | European, Global | Stefan Ionescu | M/W 3:30 – 4:50 | 15 |
| Global | Robin Bates | M/W 3:30-4:50 | 15 | |
| 393-0-26 Monsters and Marvels in Early Modern Europe | European | Haley Bowen | T/Th 3:30-4:50 | 15 |
| 395-0-20 The Black Death | European, Global | Dyan Elliott | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Podcasting the History of Science | Global | Shireen Hamza | T/Th 12:30 – 1:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-24 Refugees/Migration/Exile: Digital Storytelling | Michelle Medina | W 2:00-4:30pm | 10 | |
| 398-1-1 Thesis Seminar | Caitlin Fitz | M 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-20 Oral History | Ji-Yeon Yuh | W 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-26 Mapping the Discipline | Sarah Maza | T 9:30 – 12:20pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-28 Global Migration | Lauren Stokes | Th 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-30 History of the Modern Global City | Peter Carroll | W 3:00 – 5:50pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-32 Orientalism and its Discontents | Rajeev Kinra | T 2:00-4:50pm | 15 | |
| 410-1-20 General Field Seminar in American History | Michaela Kleber | T 2pm-4:50pm | 15 | |
| MENA 411-0-22 Approaches and Perspective in MENA Studies | Ipek Yosmaoglu | W 3pm- 5:50pm | 15 | |
| 492-0-20 African American History to 1865 | Leslie Harris | F 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 492-0-24 Global Histories of Science, Medicine, and Technology | Helen Tilley | F 2:00 – 4:50 | 15 | |
| 492-0-26 Early Modern Empires | Akin Ogundiran | W 9:30am -12:20pm | 15 | |
| 560-0-20 Teaching History | Jeff Eden | T 9:30-12:20pm | 15 | |
| 585-0-20 U.S. Dissertators Workshop | Kevin Boyle | TBD |
Winter 2024
|
102-8-20 Wives, Witches, and Wenches: The Women of Early America |
Americas | Michaela Kleber | T/Th 3:30- 4:50pm | 15 |
| 102-8-22 The Romantic Computer | Americas, European | Benjamin Lindquist | M/W 11:00am-12:20pm | 15 |
| 103-8-20 Contemporary Latin America in Historical Perspective | Americas | Lina Britto | T/Th 3:30- 4:50pm | 15 |
| 103-8-22 Laws, Empires, and Global History | Global | Helen Tilley | M/W 2:00- 3:20pm | 15 |
| 103-8-24 Okinawa: Histories, Cultures, Identities | Asian/Middle Eastern | Laura Hein | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 103-8-26 A Beginner's Guide to Forgery | Global | Paul Gillingham | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 200-0-20 Sex and the Body in Early Americas | Americas | Michaela Kleber | T/Th 11:00am- 12:20 pm | 45 |
| 200-0-30 Global Queer Activism | Global | Martha Robinson-Rhodes | 11:00am-12:20pm | 30 |
| 200-0-32 Christianity in Modern History | European | Edward Muir | T/Th 9:30 -10:50am | 30 |
| 200-0-34 History of Witchcraft | Americas, European | Haley Bowen | M/W/F 10:00-10:50am | 30 |
| 200-0-38 The Holocaust, and its Memory in Israel | European, Asian/ Middle East | Maayan Hilel | M/W 12:30- 1:50pm | 20 |
| 200-0-40 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict-Competing Narratives | Asian/ Middle East | Maayan Hilel | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 20 |
| 203-1-20 Jewish History 750-1492 | European, Asian/ Middle East | David Shyovitz | T/Th 11:00- 12:20pm | 45 |
| 212-2-22 African American History from Emancipation to the Civil Rights Movement | Americas | Brett Gadsden | T/Th 2-3:20pm | 45 |
| 250-1-22 Global History 1 | African/Middle East, Asian/Middle East, Americas, European, Global | Rajeev Kinra | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 135 |
| 253-0-20 A Global History of Prisons and Camps | Global | Ben Frommer | T/Th 3:30- 4:50pm | 80 |
| 260-2-20 History of Modern Latin America | Americas | Paul Gillingham | T/Th 9:30- 10:50am | 45 |
| 281-0-20 Chinese Civilization | Asian/Middle East | Peter Carroll | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 45 |
| 286-0-20 WWII in Asia | Asian/ Middle East | Laura Hein | MWF 10:00-10:50am | 45 |
| 292-0-22 Tricksters and Charlatans | European, Asian/Middle East, Africa/Middle East | Jonathan Brock | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 15 |
| 292-0-28 Great Trials in History | European | Edward Muir | M/W 11:00 - 12:20pm | 15 |
| 292-0-30 Jewish Refugees in the 20th Century | European | Stefan Ionescu | M/W 3:30- 4:50pm | 15 |
| 300-0-32: History and Theory of Information | Global | Daniel Immerwahr & Aaron Shaw | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 90 |
| 300-0-38 South Asians in the World | Asian/ Middle East | Ashish Koul | 11:00 – 12:20pm | 45 |
| 300-0-40 Khans, Communists, and Oligarchs | European, Asian/Middle Eastern | Jeff Eden | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 300-0-42 The Mongol Empire | Asian/Middle East | Jonathan Brack | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 305-0-1 American Immigration | Americas | Shana Bernstein | M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm | 30 |
| 319-0-20 U.S. Foreign Relations | Americas | Daniel Immerwahr | 11:00 – 11:50am | 217 |
| 327-0-20 Histories of Violence | Americas | Kathleen Belew | M/W 9:30- 10:50am | 45 |
| 337-0-22 History of Modern Europe | European | Joel Mokyr | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 20 |
| 349-0-20 History of the Holocaust | European | Stefan Ionescu | M/W 9:30 – 10:50pm | 45 |
| 352-0-20 Global History of Death and Dying | European | Sean Hanretta | T/Th 9:30 – 10:50am | 45 |
| 370-0-20 Music and Nation in Latin America | Americas | Lina Britto | T/Th 11:00 – 12:20pm | 45 |
| 379-0-20 Biomedicine and World History | Global | Helen Tilley | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 135 |
|
393-0-30 Revolutionizing Gender and Sex [May be taken as 395] |
Asian/Middle East | Peter Carroll | M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-32 The 1947 Partition of India | Asian/Middle East | Ashish Koul | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-34 What is Anti-Semitism? | European, Americas, Asian/Middle East | David Shyovitz | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-36 Soviet History Through Film | Asian/Middle East, European | Jeff Eden | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-20 The World That Fossil Fuels Made | Americas | Keith Woodhouse | M/W 3:00 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-24 Indiana Jones in Historical Context | Americas, European, Asian/Middle East | Rajeev Kinra | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-26 The Historian's Craft 2 | Global | Robin Bates | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-34 The 1930's and Now | Americas, European | Deborah Cohen | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50 | 15 |
| 398-2-22 Thesis Seminar | Caitlin Fitz | M 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-26 Sexual Knowledges | Tessie Liu | T 2:00 – 4:50 | 15 | |
| 410-2-22 Field Seminar in American History | Susan Pearson | Th 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 430-3-20 Modern Europe Field Seminar | Ben Frommer | M 9:00 – 11:50am | 15 | |
| 450-1-20 Field Seminar in African History | Sean Hanretta | F 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 481-0-20 Western Literature of Chinese History | Melissa Macauley | T 3:00-5:50pm | 15 | |
| 492-0-24 African American History since 1865 | Brett Gadsden | F 2–4:50pm | 15 | |
| 492-0-28 Atlantic Histories | Paul Ramirez | W 5:00 – 7:50pm | 15 | |
| 492-0-30 Indigenous AntiColonialism in "America" | Doug Kiel | M 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 570-1-22 Research Seminar in History | Kathleen Belew | F 9:00 – 11:50am | 15 | |
| 585-0-20 U.S. Dissertators Workshop | Kevin Boyle | TBD | 15 |