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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 Yearly Course Schedule 2025-2026

Fall 2025

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

Course
Major Conc.
Minor Conc.
Instructor
Time
Enrollment
101-7-20 Gender and Sexuality in Modern England European Europe Scott Sowerby T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm 15
101-7-22 Ukraine: Why Should We Care? European Europe, United States, Law and Crime Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern M/W 3:30-4:50pm 15
101-7-24 Resisting the Nazis European Europe Benjamin Frommer T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm 15
101-7-26 History of Whiteness in the US Americas United States Susan Pearson T/Th 9:30– 10:50am 15
101-7-28 Genghis Khan: History and Myth Asia/Middle East Middle East, Asia Jonathan Brack T/Th 9:30–10:50am 30
101-7-30 The American Revolution at 250 Americas United States Caitlin Fitz T/Th 11:00-12:20pm 20
200-0-20 Christianity in Modern History European Europe Edward Muir T/Th 9:30-10:50am 30
200-0-22 Hamilton's America Americas United States

Caitlin Fitz / Geraldo Cadava

 M/W/F 10:00 – 10:50pm 135
201-1-20 Europe in the Medieval and Early Modern World European Europe

Alexandra Montero Peters

 T/Th 11:00–12:20pm 90

215-0-20 History of the American Family

 Americas United States

Michaela Kleber

 T/Th 11:00–12:20am 45

250-2-20 Global History: The Modern World

 Global, Americas, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East, European Europe, United States, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Economics and Labor, Environment

Robin Bates

 T/Th 2:00–3:20pm 135
255-1-20 African Civilizations Africa/Middle East Africa Akin Ogundiran M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm 45
262-0-20 Pirates, Guns, and Empires Global, Americas, European, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East Law and Crime, Economics and Labor Scott Sowerby T/Th 1:00 – 3:20pm 224
274-0-20 Indo-Persian Lit as Global Lit: Love, Longing & Dissent Rajeev Kinra M/W 2:00-3:20pm 45
284-1-20 Ancient and Medieval Japan Asia/Middle East Asia

Amy Stanley

 M/W 11:00-12:20pm 30

292-0-20 African Histories of Science

 Africa/Middle East

Helen Tilley

 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 15

292-0-22 Witches, Heretics, and Demons

 Americas Latin America

Paul Ramirez

 T/Th 3:30– 4:50pm 15

300-0-20 Life Under Communism

 European, Asia/Middle East Europe

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

 M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm 45
300-0-22 Khans, Communists, and Oligarchs Asia/Middle East, European Europe, Asia

Jeff Eden

 M/W 3:30-4:50pm 45
300-0-26 Capitalism in the Middle East Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East Middle East, Economics and Labor, Environment

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

305-0-20 American Immigration

 Americas United States Shana Bernstein M/W 11:00-12:20pm 30
309-0-20 American Environmental History Americas United States, Environment Keith Woodhouse M/W 9:30-10:50a 90

325-0-20 History of American Technology

 Americas United States, Science and Technology Ken Alder M/W 2:00-3:20pm 45
370-0-20 Music and Nation in Latin America Americas Latin America

Lina Britto

 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 45
379-0-20 Biomedicine and World History Global Science and Technology Helen Tilley M/W 11:00-12:20pm 90
388-0-20The Mongol Empire Asia/Middle East Europe, Middle East, Asia

Jonathan Brack

 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 30
393-0-20 Race in the Middle Ages European Europe 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 Asia

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 Europe, Asia, Middle East

Sergey Ivanov

 M/W 3:30-4:50pm 15
395-0-20 An American Horror Americas United States, Law and Crime

Kevin Boyle

 M/W 4:00-5:20pm 15
395-0-22 Nature and Empire Americas, European Europe, Environmental

Lydia Barnett

 T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 15
398-1-20 Thesis Seminar

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 Global

Amy Stanley

 Th 2:00-5:00pm 15

405-0-24 Microhistory

 European

Edward Muir

 T 9:30-12:15pm 15

410-1-20 US Field Seminar

 Americas

Michaela Kleber

 T 2:00-5:00p 15
450-2-20 African Field Seminar Africa/Middle East

Akin Ogundiran

 W 9:30-12:15pm 15
481-0-20 Western Literature of Chinese History

Peter Carroll

 M 6:00-9:00pm 15

492-0-20 Cold War Through Documents

 Americas, European, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East

Jeff Eden

 T 6:00-9:00pm 15

492-0-22 Migration

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 3:00-4:50pm 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
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
292-0-20 Thieves and Collectors: Medieval Objects in Modern Hands European Alexandra Montero Peters T/Th 11:00-12:20pm 15
300-0-20 Kleptocracy in Eurasia European, Asia/Middle East Jeff Eden T/Th 3:30-4:50pm 30

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
344-2-20 German History: Germany Since 1945 European Lauren Stokes  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

398-2-20 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

410-2-20 US Field Seminar

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
101-8-22 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
252-0-20 Global History of Refugees Global Lauren Stokes M/W 11:00-12:20pm 45
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
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
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
570-2-20 Research Seminar in History Kate Masur T 9:00-12:00pm 15