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.
Tentative Yearly Course Schedule 2025-2026
Fall 2025
FYI: Courses for Fall are currently being updated - subject to change.
Course |
Concentration |
Instructor |
Time |
Enrollment |
| 101-7-20 Gender and Sexuality in Modern England | First-Year Seminar | Scott Sowerby | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 15 |
| 101-7-22 Ukraine: Why Should We Care? | First-Year Seminar | Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-24 Resisting the Nazis | First-Year Seminar | Benjamin Frommer | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-26 History of Whiteness in the US | First-Year Seminar | Susan Pearson | T/Th 9:30– 10:50am | 15 |
| 101-7-28 Genghis Khan: History and Myth | First-Year Seminar | Jonathan Brack | T/Th 9:30–10:50am | 30 |
| 101-7-30 The American Revolution at 250 | First-Year Seminar | Caitlin Fitz | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 20 |
| 200-0-20 Christianity in Modern History | European | Edward Muir | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 30 |
| 200-0-22 Hamilton's America | Americas |
Caitlin Fitz / Geraldo Cadava |
M/W/F 10:00 – 10:50pm | 135 |
| 201-1-20 Europe in the Medieval and Early Modern World | European |
Alexandra Montero Peters |
T/Th 11:00–12:20pm | 90 |
| Americas |
Michaela Kleber |
T/Th 11:00–12:20am | 45 | |
| Global, Americas, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East, European |
Robin Bates |
T/Th 2:00–3:20pm | 135 | |
| 255-1-20 African Civilizations | Africa/Middle East | Akin Ogundiran | M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm | 45 |
| 262-0-20 Pirates, Guns, and Empires | Global, European | Scott Sowerby | T/Th 1:00 – 3:20pm | 224 |
| 274-0-20 Indo-Persian Lit as Global Lit: Love, Longing & Dissent | Global, Asia/Middle East | Rajeev Kinra | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 284-1-20 Ancient and Medieval Japan | Asia/Middle East |
Amy Stanley |
M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| Africa/Middle East |
Helen Tilley |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 | |
|
Paul Ramirez |
T/Th 3:30– 4:50pm | 15 | ||
| European |
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm | 45 | |
| 300-0-22 Khans, Communists, and Oligarchs | Global, Asia/Middle East, European |
Jeff Eden |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 300-0-24 The Mongol Empire | Asia/Middle East |
Jonathan Brack |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 300-0-26 Capitalism in the Middle East | Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East |
Önder Eren Akgül |
T/Th 12:30–1:50pm | 30 |
| 300-0-28 Histories of the Trans Present | Zavier Nunn | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 | |
| Americas | Shana Bernstein | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 30 | |
| 309-0-20 American Environmental History | Americas | Keith Woodhouse | M/W 9:30-10:50a | 90 |
| Americas | Ken Alder | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 45 | |
| 370-0-20 Music and Nation in Latin America | Americas |
Lina Britto |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 379-0-20 Biomedicine and World History | Global | Helen Tilley | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 90 |
| 393-0-20 Race in the Middle Ages | European | Alexandra Montero Peters | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 The Historian's Craft 1 | Sander's Seminar |
Robin Bates |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-24 Shanghai: Modernity and Modernism | Asia/Middle East |
Peter Carroll |
M/W 4:00-5:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-26 Byzantium: The Greek Empire of Rome | European, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East |
Sergey Ivanov |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-20 An American Horror | Americas |
Kevin Boyle |
M/W 4:00-5:20pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Nature and Empire |
Lydia Barnett |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 | |
| 398-1-20 Thesis Seminar | Africa/Middle East, Americas, Asia/Middle East, European, Global |
Brett Gadsden |
W 2:00-4:50pm | 15 |
| 405-0-20 Mapping the Discipline |
Keith Woodhouse |
W 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-22 Agency |
Amy Stanley |
Th 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
|
Edward Muir |
T 9:30-12:15pm | 15 | ||
|
Michaela Kleber |
T 2:00-5:00p | 15 | ||
| 450-2-20 African Field Seminar |
Akin Ogundiran |
W 9:30-12:15pm | 15 | |
| 481-0-20 Western Literature of Chinese History |
Peter Carroll |
M 6:00-9:00pm | 15 | |
|
Jeff Eden |
T 6:00-9:00pm | 15 | ||
|
İpek Yosmaoğlu |
M 2:00-5:00pm | 15 |
Winter 2026
FYI: Courses for Winter are currently being updated - subject to change.
Course |
Concentration |
Instructor |
Time |
Enrollment |
| 101-8-20 Islam and Gender | First-Year Seminar | Ashish Koul | T/Th 3:30-4:20pm | 15 |
| 101-8-22 Wives, Witches, and Wenches | First-Year Seminar | Michaela Kleber | T/Th 3:30-4:20pm | 15 |
| 101-8-24 Voices of the Enslaved | First-Year Seminar | Ipek Yosmaoglu | T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-8-26 TBD | First-Year Seminar | TBD | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 15 |
| 101-8-28 Okinawa: Histories, Cultures, Identities | First-Year Seminar | Laura Hein | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm |
15 |
| 101-8-30 Deaths and Afterlives of Lumumba | First-Year Seminar | Kate Masur | M/W 3:30–4:50pm | 15 |
| 200-0-20 Civil Rights, Black Power | Americas |
Brett Gadsden |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-22 Women's Sports: A Global History | Global |
Caitlin Fitz |
M/W/F 11:00-11:50pm | 90 |
|
200-0-24 Sex and The Body in Early America |
Americas |
Michaela Kleber |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
|
200-0-26 Jerusalem: History, Memory, Fantasy |
European |
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-28 Drugs and Alcohol in Africa | Africa/Middle East | Akin Ogundiran | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 45 |
| 203-1-20 Jewish History I: 750-1492 | European | David Shyovitz | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 210-2-20 History of the United States, Reconstruction to the Present | Americas | TBD | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 45 |
| 211-0-20 American Wars | Americas |
Michael Allen |
M/W/F 11am–11:50pm | 45 |
|
212-1-20 Intro to African American History 1700-1861 |
Americas |
Leslie Harris |
M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
|
216-0-20 Global Asians |
Global |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
|
248-0-20 Global Legal History |
Global |
Helen Tilley |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 251-0-20 The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History | Global |
Lydia Barnett |
T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 45 |
| 250-0-20 Global History of Refugees | Global |
Lauren Stokes |
M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 253-0-20 Global History of Prisons and Camps | Global |
Benjamin Frommer
|
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 90 |
| 263-0-20 Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World | European | Haley Bowen | M/W/F 10:00 – 10:50am | 90 |
|
300-0-20 Kleptocracy in Eurasia |
European, Asia/Middle East | Jeff Eden | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 292-0-20 Thieves and Collectors: Medieval Objects in Modern Hands | European | Alexandra Montero Peters | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 15 |
|
319-0-20 US Foreign Relations |
Americas | Daniel Immerwahr | M/W/F 2:00-2:50pm | 135 |
| 342-2-20 History of Modern France: Cinema and Society | European |
Tessie Liu |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 345-1-20 History of Russia: 800-1917 | Europe | Jeff Eden | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 352-0-20 A Global History of Death and Dying | Sean Hanretta | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 45 | |
| 360-0-20 Tudor and Stuart Britain | European | Scott Sowerby | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 393-0-20 Comparative Fascism | Europe |
Lauren Stokes |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 Queer and Trans Histories of the Holocaust | European |
Zavier Nunn |
M/W 11:00–12:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-24 TBD |
TBD |
TBD | 15 | |
| 393-0-26 History of Vegetarianism |
Lydia Barnett |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 15 | |
| 395-0-20 Commodities and Culture in Atlantic Africa | Africa/Middle East |
Akin Ogundiran |
M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Asian American Midwest: Race, Place, Memory | Americas |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-24 The Historian's Craft 2 | Sanders Seminar |
Robin Bates |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-26 Imperialism in Asia | Asia/Middle East |
Melissa Macauley |
T 3:00-5:50pm | 15 |
|
392-2-20 Thesis Seminar |
Africa/Middle East, Americas, Asia/Middle East, European, Global |
Brett Gadsden |
W 2:00-4:50pm | 15 |
|
405-0-20 Digital History |
Scott Sowerby |
W 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-24 Global Histories of Science |
Helen Tilley |
M 2:00 – 5:00pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-26 History of Disability |
Haley Bowen |
T 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
|
Susan Pearson |
T 9:00 – 12:00pm | 15 | ||
|
492-0-20 Laughter as a Historical Category |
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
T 6:00-9:00pm | 15 | |
|
560-0-20 Teaching History |
Paul Ramirez |
Th 10:00-12:00pm | 15 | |
|
570-1-20 Research Seminar in History |
Kate Masur |
T 9:00-12:00pm | 15 |
Spring 2026
FYI: Courses for Spring are currently being updated - subject to change.
Course |
Concentration |
Instructor |
Time |
Enrollment |
| 101-8-20 The Wild Child: Are Humans Not Animals? | First-Year Seminar | Tessie Liu | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 101-9-22 TBD | First-Year Seminar | Geraldo Cadava | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-8-24 Conquest Cultures | First-Year Seminar | Paul Ramirez | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 200-0-20 Slavery in US History and Culture | Americas | Leslie Harris | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-24 The Transformation of American Childhood | Americas | Kathleen Belew | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-26 Global Cities | Global | Peter Carroll | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 45 |
| 200-0-28 Global Tech | Global | Aguillar Torres | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 45 |
| 200-0-30 Age of Revolutions | Robin Bates | T/Th 2:00-3:20 | 135 | |
| 221-0-20 Famous American Trials | Americas | Joanna Grisinger | T/Th 12:30-1:50pm | 135 |
| 250-1-20 Global History: Early Modern to Modern Transition | Global, Americas, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East, European | Haley Bowen | M/W/F 11:30-11:50a | 135 |
| 255-3-20 Modern Africa | Africa/Middle East | Sean Hanretta | M/W/F 2:00-2:50pm | 45 |
| 260-2-20 History of Modern Latin America | Americas | Paul Gillingham | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 284-2-20 Early Modern Japan | Asia/Middle East | Amy Stanley | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 292-0-20 Early Modern Religious Women | European | Haley Bowen | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 300-0-20 South Asians in the World | Asia/Middle East | Ashish Koul | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 300-0-22 Jewish Environmental History | European | David Shyovitz | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 303-2-30 American Women's History since 1865 | Americas | Kate Masur | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 304-0-20 The Vietnam Wars | Michael Allen | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 45 | |
| 324-0-20 US Gay and Lesbian History | Americas | Lane Fenrich | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 90 |
| 340-0-20 Gender, War and Revolution in the 20th Century | Tessie Liu | M/W/F 1:00-1:50pm | 30 | |
| 343-0-20 Modern Italy | European | Edward Muir | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 30 |
| 344-2-20 German History: Germany Since 1945 | European | Lauren Stokes | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 349-0-20 The Holocaust | European | Ed Westermann | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 353-0-20 History of Capitalism, 1500-1850 | Robin Bates | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 45 | |
| 366-0-20 Latin America in the Independence Era | Americas | Paul Ramirez | T/Th 12:30-1:50pm | 30 |
| 381-2-20 Modern China: The Twentieth Century | Asia/Middle East | Melissa Macauley | M/W/F 11:00-11:50am | 45 |
| 393-0-20 People Lost to History | Edward Muir | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 15 | |
| 393-0-22 What is Anti-Semitism? | David Shyovitz | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 15 | |
| 393-0-24 African History through Literature and Film | Africa/Middle East | Sean Hanretta | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-26 Gender, Race, and the Holocaust | European | Sarah Cushman | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-20 The Modern American Presidency | Americas | Michael Allen | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Xi's 'New Era': China Today | Asia/Middle East | Peter Carroll | M/W 4:00-5:20pm | 15 |
| 395-0-24 TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | 15 |
| 395-0-26 TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | 15 |
| 395-0-28 TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | 15 |
| 393-3-20 Thesis Seminar | Brett Gadsden | W 2:00-4:50pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-20 Pacific Worlds: Theory and Interpretation | Ji-Yeon Yuh | W 9:00-12:00pm | 15 | |
| 405-0-20 Revolution | Paul Gillingham | W 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
| 410-3-20 US Field Seminar | Kathleen Belew | T 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
| 430-3-20 Field Seminar in Modern European History | Lauren Stokes | W 9:00-12:00pm | 15 | |
| 492-0-20 African American History to 1865 | Leslie Harris | W 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
| 492-0-22 Cultures of War | Ed Westermann | Th 2:00-5:00pm | 15 | |
| 570-1-20 Research Seminar in History | Kate Masur | T 9:00-12:00pm | 15 |