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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 Master Schedule

2024-25 Full Academic Year Class Schedule   

Spring 2025

 FYI:  Courses for Spring are currently being updated - subject to change. 

Course
Concentration
Instructor
Time
Enrollment
101-8-20 Wild Boy of Aveyron Tessie Liu T/Th 9:30 – 3:20pm 15
103-8-20 A Beginner's Guide to Forgery Paul Gillingham T/Th 9:30 – 10:50am 15
103-8-22 Islam and Gender in the Modern World Ashish Koul T/Th 3:30–4:50pm 15
103-8-24 Are We Worse Thinkers Than Our Ancestors? Henri Lauziere T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm

15
200-0-20 Business Disasters In Modern History Holly Swenson M/W 12:30–1:50pm 30
210-2-20 Modern US History Americas

Kevin Boyle

 M/W/F 10:00 – 10:50pm 90
216-0-20 Global Asians Asia/Middle East, Global

Ji-Yeon Yuh

 T/Th 2:00–3:20am 45

218-0-20 Latino History

 Americas

Geraldo Cadava

 T/Th 9:30–10:50pm 45

262-0-20 Pirates, Guns, and Empires

 Global

Scott Sowerby

 T/Th 2:00–3:20pm 224
271-3-20 History of the Modern Middle East 1789-Present Asia/Middle East Henri Lauziere M/W/F 2:00 – 2:50pm 45
274-0-20 Indo-Persian Literature as Global Lit: Love, Longing & Dissent Asia/Middle East Rajeev Kinra M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm 30
282-0-20 Sino-American Relations in the Modern World Asia/Middle East Melissa Macauley M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm 45

292-0-22 Histories of Confinement

 European

Haley Bowen

 M/W 3:30–4:50 pm 15
300-0-20 Thinking Machines: The History and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Americas, Global

Benjamin Lindquist

 M/W 12:30–1:50pm 30

300-0-22 Cannabis: Global History

 Americas

Lina Britto

 T/Th 11:00– 12:20pm 45

300-0-24 Black Women's History: Slavery and Freedom in the 19th Century

 Americas

Leslie Harris

 M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm 30

300-0-26 Nomads in World History

 Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East

Jonathan Brack

 M/W 10:00 – 10:50pm 30
300-0-28 Histories of Medicine Across Asia Asia/Middle East

Shireen Hamza

 M/W 12:30–1:50pm 30
320-0-20 Fourteenth Amendment Americas

Kate Masur, Joanna Grisinger

 T/Th 11:00–12:20pm 90
324-0-20 Gay and Lesbian History Americas, Global

Lane Fenrich

 

 T/Th 2:00–3:20 90
327-0-20 Histories of Violence Americas Kathleen Belew T/Th 11:00 – 12:20am 90

333-0-20 The European Renaissance

 European Ed Muir M/W 9:30-10:50am 30
347-0-20 Christians and Jews Asia/Middle East, European David Shyovitz T/Th 11:00-12:20pm 30

349-0-20 The Holocaust

 European, Global Ben Frommer M/W 3:30-4:50 45
352-0-20 A Global History of Death and Dying Global

Sean Hanretta

 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 45
362-2-20 Modern British History Europe Claire Arnold M/W 12:30-1:50pm 30
367-0-20 History of Mexico Americas Paul Gillingham T/Th 11:00 – 12:20pm 30
393-0-20 Gender, Race, and The Holocaust European, Global Sarah Cushman M/W 3:30-4:50pm 15
393-0-22 Race and the American Midwest Americas

Doug Kiel

 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 15
393-0-24 Global Prisons

Ben Frommer

 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 15
395-0-20 Korean War Legacies Asia/Middle East

Ji-Yeon Yuh

 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 15
395-0-22 Depicting America Americas

Sarah Louise-Dawtry

 M/W 12:30–1:50pm 15
395-0-24 Energy and Environments: A Global History Global

Conrad Hirano

 M/W 12:30-1:50pm 15
395-0-26 U.S. Food History Americas

Mary Kate Robbett

 M/W 12:30-1:50pm 15
398-3-20 Thesis Seminar

Ken Alder

 M 2:00-4:50pm 15
405-0-20 Policing the Color Line: Violence, Race, and Racism

Kathleen Belew

 Th 2:00-4:50pm 15

405-0-24 Orientalism and its Discontents

Rajeev Kinra

 T 2:00-4:50pm 15

405-0-24 Intellectual and Social Histories of Religion

Sean Hanretta

 M 2:00-4:50pm 15
410-3-20 Field Seminar in American History

Brett Gadsden

 W 2:00-4:50pm 15
430-2-20 Early Modern Field Seminar

Ed Muir

 T 9:30-12:20pm 15

492-0-20 Early Modern and Modern Japan

Amy Stanley

 Th 2:00-4:50pm 15

492-0-24 Histories of Colombia

Lina Britto

 F 2:00-4:50pm 15

492-0-22 War and Peace in Mexico

Paul Gillingham

 W 9:30-12:20pm 15

570-2-20 Research Seminar in History

Keith Woodhouse

 F 10:00-12:50pm 15

 

Winter 2025

 FYI: Courses for Winter25 are currently being updated - subject to change.  See Fall 2024 Courses here.

Course
Concentration
Instructor
Time
Enrollment
101-8-20 Reinventing Paris, 1600-Present Haley Bowen M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm 15
101-8-22 Ukraine: Why Should We Care? Yohanan Petrovsky-
Shtern		 T/Th 9:30 – 10:50am 15
101-8-24 What is Genocide? Ipek Yosmaoglu T/Th 3:30–4:50pm 15
102-8-20 Race and The American Presidency Brett Gadsden M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm

15
102-8-22 Sex, Pregnancy, Law, and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America Kate Masur M/W 3:30–4:50pm 15
200-0-20 Women's Sports: A Global History Americas, Global

Caitlin Fitz

 M/W/F 11:00 – 11:50pm 45
200-0-26 Drugs and Alcohol in Africa Africa/Middle
East

Akinwumi Ogundiran

 T/Th 9:30–10:50am 45

200-0-28 Civil Rights, Black Power

 Americas

Brett Gadsden

 T/Th 2:00–3:20pm 45

200-0-30 The 1990s: Berlin Wall to 9/11

 Global, Americas

Kathleen Belew

 M/W 11:00–12:20pm 45
200-0-32 Europe's Islamic Empire Asia/ Middle East Ipek Yosmaoglu M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm 30
200-0-34 The Holocaust and Its Memory In Israel Maayan Hilel T/Th 11:00 – 12:20pm 15
200-0-36 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Competing Narratives Maayan Hilel T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm 15

201-2-20 Europe in the Modern World

 Europe

Claire Arnold

 M/W 3:30–4:50 pm 45
211-0-20 American Wars Americas

Michael Allen

 M/W 11am–12:20pm 45

214-2-20 Intro to Asian American History

 Americas, Asia/
Middle East

Ji-Yeon Yuh

 T/Th 2:00– 3:20pm 30

248-0-20 Global Legal History

 Global

Helen Tilley

 M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm 45

250-2-20 Global History: The Modern World

 Africa/Middle
East, Asia/Middle East,
Americas, Europe,
Global

Robin Bates

 M/W 12:30 – 1:50pm 135
253-0-20 Global History of Prisons and Camps Global

Ben Frommer

 T/Th 3:30–4:50pm 90
255-3-20 Modern Africa Africa/Middle
East

Sean Hanretta

 M/W/F 4:00–4:50pm 45
263-0-20 Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World Americas, European

Haley Bowen

 

 M/W/F 10:00–10:50 90
292-0-20 Deaths and Afterlives of Lumumba Africa/Middle East Sean Hanretta M/W/F 10:00 – 10:50am 15

300-0-20 The Mongol Empire

 Asia/Middle
East, Europe		 Jonathan Brack T/Th 9:30-10:50am 30
300-0-22: Indigenous Peoples and US Law Americas Doug Kiel T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm 30

300-0-24 Cold War Mirrors

 Americas,
Asia/Middle East,
Europe		 Jeff Eden T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm 30
309-0-20 American Environmental History Americas

Keith Woodhouse

 M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm 45
337-0-22 History of Modern Europe Europe Joel Mokyr T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm 20
341-0-20 Paris as World City: Capitalism and Desire Europe,
Americas		 Tessie Liu T/Th 11:00 – 12:20pm 30
345-3-20 Russia in the
Age of Putin		 Europe,
Asia/Middle East		 Jeff Eden T/Th 9:30 – 10:50am 45
351-0-20 Europe in the
Age of Total War 1789-
1945		 Europe

Robin Bates

 T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm 45
374-0-20 The Arabian
Peninsula Since The 18th Century		 Asia/Middle East

Henri Lauziere

 M/W/F 2:00–2:50pm 30
381-2-20 20th Century
China		 Americas

Peter Carroll

 M/W 12:30–1:50pm 30
385-1-20 Early Modern
India		 Asia/Middle East

Rajeev Kinra

 M/W 2:00–3:20pm 30
393-0-20 American
Vigilante		 Americas

Kathleen Belew

 M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm 15
393-0-22 Voices of the
Enslaved		 Americas

Leslie Harris

 T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm 15
393-0-24 Empires,
Borderlands, and
Nationalisms		 Asia/Middle East

Ashish Koul

 T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm 15
393-0-26 Pirates and Prostitutes Asia/Middle East, Global

Haydon Cherry

 T/Th 3:30-4:50 15

395-0-20 The Establishment and its Critics

 Americas

Michael Allen

 M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm 15

395-0-24 The Historian's Craft 2

 Global

Robin Bates

 M/W 3:30–4:50pm 15
398-2-20 Thesis Seminar

Ken Alder

 M 2:00 – 4:50pm 15
405-0-20 First Books

Scott Sowerby

 Th 2:00 – 4:50pm 15

410-2-20 United States Field Seminar

Kate Masur

 W 9:00 – 11:50am 15

465-0-20 History Without Documents

Akin Ogundiran

 T 2:00 – 4:50pm 15

405-0-24 Comparative Empires

Jonathan Brack

 M 2:00 – 4:50pm 15

492-0-20 China and Southeast Asia

Melissa Macauley

 T 2:00 – 4:50pm 15
492-0-22 Pacific World

Ji-Yeon Yuh

 W 2:00 – 4:50pm 15

560-0-20 Teaching History

Henri Lauziere

 Th 2:00- 4:50pm 20
570-1-20 Research Seminar in History

Keith Woodhouse

 F 10:00 – 12:50pm 15

 

Fall 2024

Course
Concentration
Instructor
Time
Enrollment
101-7-20 Inventing the Samurai Amy Stanley T/Th 11:00-12:20pm 15
101-7-22 Silk Road Empires Jeff Eden T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 15
102-7-20 A Social, Political, and Non-Technical History of the Internet Keith Woodhouse T/Th 9:30-10:50am 15
102-7-22 First Generations: Higher Ed in Modern America: A Social and Emotional History Michael Allen T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm 15
102-7-24 Native Americans in Film and TV Doug Kiel M/W 11:00-12:20pm 15
103-7-20 Watching Narcos  Lina Britto T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 15
103-7-22 Climate Change and Civilizations Akin Ogundiran M/W 9:30-10:50pm 15
103-7-24 The Dragon & Snow Lion: Nation and Nationalism in China and Tibet Peter Carroll M/W 4:00- 5:20pm 15
200-0-20 Jerusalem: History, Memory, Fantasy Asia/Middle East Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern M/W 11-12:20pm 45
200-0-22 Red Power: Indigenous Resistance in the US and Canada Americas Doug Kiel M/W 2:00 - 3:20pm 45
200-0-24 History of the Black World Americas Kennetta Perry M/W 9:30-10-50am 30
201-1-20 Europe in the Medieval and Early Modern World Europe Ed Muir M/W 9:30-10:50am 30
220-0-20 History of the Future Global, Americas, Europe Ken Alder T/Th 11:00 – 12:20pm 90
221-0-20 Famous American Trials Americas Joanna Grisinger T/Th 12:30-1:50pm 135
250-1-20 Global History 1 Africa/Middle East, Asia/Middle East, Americas, Europe, Global Haley Bowen T/Th 11:00 – 12:20pm 135
255-1-20 Background to African Civ. and Culture: Origins to 17th C. Africa/ Middle East Akin Ogundiran M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm 30
261-0-20 Sex After Shakespeare Europe Scott Sowerby T/Th 2:00-3:20pm 135
284-2-20 Early Modern Japan Asia/Middle East Amy Stanley M/W 11:00-12:20pm 30
286-0-20 The Second World War in Asia Asia/Middle East Laura Hein M/W/F 10:00-10:50am 45
300-0-20 South Asians in the World Asia/Middle East Ashish Koul T/Th 9:30 – 10:50am 30
305-0-1 American Immigration Americas Shana Bernstein M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm 30
315-3-20 United States Since 1968 Americas Michael Allen T/Th 9:30-10:50am 30
317-1-20 US 19th Century Cultural History Americas Susan Pearson T/Th 9:30–10:50am 30
330-0-20 Medieval Sex Europe Dyan Elliott T/Th 11:00–12:20pm 30
345-2-20 The Soviet Union Asian/ Middle East, Europe Jeff Eden T/Th 9:30 – 10:50am 45
354-0-20 History of Socialism Europe, Global Robin Bates T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm 45
379-0-20 Biomedicine in World History Global Helen Tilley M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm 60
381-1-20 Qing China Asia/Middle East Peter Carroll M/W 12:30-1:50pm 30
386-2-20 Southeast Asia in Age of Empire Asia/Middle East Haydon Cherry T/Th 2:00-3:20pm 30
393-0-22 The Historian's Craft 1 Global Robin Bates M/W 3:30-4:50pm 15
393-0-24 Computing: A Global History Global Benjamin Lindquist M/W 12:30-1:50pm 15
393-0-28 Illness and Disability in History Global, Asia/Middle East, Europe, Africa/ Middle East, Americas Shireen Hamza M/W 12:30-1:50pm 15
395-0-20 An American Horror Americas Kevin Boyle M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm 15
395-0-22 Finding People Lost in History Americas, Europe Ed Muir M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm 15
395-0-24 Jews and Muslims: Intertwined Worlds Africa/ Middle East, Asia/ Middle East Jonathan Brack T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 15
398-1-20 Thesis Seminar Ken Alder M 2:00 – 4:50pm 15
405-0-20 Global Legal History Helen Tilley Th 2:00 – 4:50pm 15
405-0-22 Body in Time Dyan Elliott M 2:00 – 4:50pm 15
405-0-24 Mapping the Discipline Laura Hein W 2:00 – 4:50pm 15
405-0-26 Public History Daniel Greene F 2:00-4:50pm 15
405-0-28 Understanding Marx Haydon Cherry T 6:00-8:50pm 15
410-1-20 United States Field Seminar Caitlin Fitz M 9:30 – 12:20pm 15
481-3-20 20th Century China Field Seminar Peter Carroll M 5:30 – 8:20pm 15
492-0-20 US Women's and Gender History Susan Pearson T 2:00 – 4:50pm 15