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 | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Scott Sowerby | M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm | 15 |
| 101-7-22 Ukraine: Why Should We Care? | Major: European Minor: Europe, United States, Law and Crime |
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-24 Resisting the Nazis | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Benjamin Frommer | T/Th 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-7-26 History of Whiteness in the US | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Susan Pearson | T/Th 9:30– 10:50am | 15 |
| 101-7-28 Genghis Khan: History and Myth | Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia, Middle East |
Jonathan Brack | T/Th 9:30–10:50am | 30 |
| 101-7-30 The American Revolution at 250 | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Caitlin Fitz | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 20 |
| 200-0-20 Christianity in Modern History | Major: Europe Minor: European |
Edward Muir | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 30 |
| 200-0-22 Hamilton's America [LATINO 391-0-1] | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Caitlin Fitz / Geraldo Cadava |
M/W/F 10:00 – 10:50pm | 135 |
| 200-0-24 Thinking Globally [INTL_ST 201-0-1] | Major: Global Minor: N/A |
Lydia Barnett, Mark Hauser |
T/Th 11:00a-12:20p | 30 |
| 201-1-20 Europe in the Medieval and Early Modern World | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Alexandra Montero Peters |
T/Th 11:00–12:20pm | 90 |
| Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Michaela Kleber |
T/Th 11:00–12:20am | 45 | |
| Major: Global, Americas, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East, European Minor: 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 | Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Akin Ogundiran | M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm | 45 |
| 262-0-20 Pirates, Guns, and Empires | Major: Global, Americas, European, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East Minor: Europe; Latin America; Asia; Middle East; Africa; Economics and Labor; Law and Crime |
Scott Sowerby | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 224 |
| 274-0-20 Indo-Persian Lit as Global Lit: Love, Longing & Dissent | Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia, Middle East |
Rajeev Kinra | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 284-1-20 Ancient and Medieval Japan | Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Amy Stanley |
M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa, Science and Technology |
Helen Tilley |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 | |
| Major: Americas Minor: Latin America |
Paul Ramirez |
T/Th 3:30– 4:50pm | 15 | |
| Major: European, Asia/Middle East Minor: Europe |
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
M/W 11:00 – 12:20pm | 45 | |
| 300-0-22 Khans, Communists, and Oligarchs | Major: Asia/Middle East, European Minor: Europe, Asia |
Jeff Eden |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 300-0-26 Capitalism in the Middle East | Major: Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East Minor: Middle East, Economics and Labor, Environment |
Önder Eren Akgül |
T/Th 12:30–1:50pm | 30 |
| 300-0-28 Histories of the Trans Present [GNDR_ST 321-0-21] | Major: Americas, European Minor: Law and Crime, Science and Technology |
Zavier Nunn | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Shana Bernstein | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 30 | |
| 309-0-20 American Environmental History [ENVR_POL 309-0-20] | Major: Americas Minor: United States, Environment |
Keith Woodhouse | M/W 2:00-3:20p | 90 |
| Major: Americas Minor: United States, Science and Technology |
Ken Alder | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 45 | |
| 379-0-20 Biomedicine and World History [GBL_HLTH 309-0-1] | Major: Global Minor: Science and Technology |
Helen Tilley | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 90 |
| 388-0-20 The Mongol Empire | Major: European, Asia/Middle East Minor: Europe, Middle East, Asia |
Jonathan Brack |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 393-0-20 Race in the Middle Ages | Major: European, Africa/Middle East Minor: Europe, Middle East, Asia |
Alexandra Montero Peters | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 The Historian's Craft 1 | Major: Global Minor: By request |
Robin Bates |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-24 Shanghai: Modernity and Modernism/ OR 395-0-26 | Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Peter Carroll |
M/W 4:00-5:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-26 Byzantium: The Greek Empire of Rome | Major: European, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East Minor: Europe, Asia, Middle East |
Sergey Ivanov |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-20 An American Horror | Major: Americas Minor: United States, Law and Crime |
Kevin Boyle |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Nature and Empire | Major: Americas, European Minor: Europe, Environment |
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 | |
| Major: European |
Edward Muir |
T 9:30-12:15pm | 15 | |
|
Michaela Kleber |
T 2:00-5:00p | 15 | ||
| 450-2-20 African Field Seminar | Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Akin Ogundiran |
W 9:30-12:15pm | 15 |
| 481-0-20 Western Literature of Chinese History |
Peter Carroll |
M 6:00-9:00pm | 15 | |
| Major: Americas, European, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East |
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 | Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Ashish Koul | T/Th 3:30-4:20pm | 15 |
| 101-8-22 Wives, Witches, and Wenches | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Michaela Kleber | T/Th 3:30-4:20pm | 15 |
| 101-8-24 Voices of the Enslaved | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Leslie Harris | T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-8-26 Global Histories of Science | Major: Minor: |
Leon Juan F. | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-8-28 Okinawa: Histories, Cultures, Identities | Major: Asia/Middle East, Americas Minor: Asia, Middle East, United States |
Laura Hein | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm |
15 |
| 101-8-30 Deaths and Afterlives of Lumumba | Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Sean Hanretta | M/W 3:30–4:50pm | 15 |
| 200-0-20 Civil Rights, Black Power | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Brett Gadsden |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-22 Women's Sports: A Global History | Major: Global, Americas Minor: By request |
Caitlin Fitz |
M/W/F 11:00-11:50pm | 90 |
| Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Michaela Kleber |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 45 | |
| Major: Minor: |
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 | |
| 200-0-28 Drugs and Alcohol in Africa | Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Akin Ogundiran | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 45 |
| 201-2-20 Modern Europe |
Major: European Minor: Europe |
Holly Swenson | M/W 12:30 - 1:50p | 45 |
| 203-1-20 Jewish History I: 750-1492 | Major: Minor: |
David Shyovitz | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 211-0-20 American Wars | Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Michael Allen |
M/W/F 11am–11:50pm | 45 |
| Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Leslie Harris |
M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 | |
| Major: Gloal, Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 | |
| Major: Global Minor: Law and Crime |
Helen Tilley |
T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 | |
| 251-0-20 The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History | Major: Global Minor: Environment |
Lydia Barnett |
T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 45 |
| 253-0-20 Global History of Prisons and Camps | Major: Global Minor: Law and Crime |
Benjamin Frommer
|
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 90 |
| 263-0-20 Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World | Major: Americas, European Minor: Europe, United States |
Haley Bowen | M/W/F 10:00 – 10:50am | 90 |
| 292-0-20 Thieves and Collectors: Medieval Objects in Modern Hands | Major: Minor: |
Alexandra Montero Peters | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 15 |
| 300-0-20 Kleptocracy in Eurasia | Major: European, Asia/Middle East Minor: |
Jeff Eden | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Daniel Immerwahr | M/W/F 2:00-2:50pm | 135 | |
| 342-2-20 History of Modern France: Cinema and Society | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Tessie Liu |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 344-2-20 German History: Germany Since 1945 | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Lauren Stokes | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| 345-1-20 History of Russia: 800-1917 | Major: European, Asia/Middle East Minor: Europe, Asia |
Jeff Eden | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 352-0-20 A Global History of Death and Dying | Major: Global Minor: N/A |
Sean Hanretta | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 360-0-20 Tudor and Stuart Britain | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Scott Sowerby | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 393-0-20 Comparative Fascism | Major: Minor |
Lauren Stokes |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 Queer and Trans Histories of the Holocaust | Major: European Minor: Europe |
Zavier Nunn |
M/W 11:00–12:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-26 History of Vegetarianism |
Major: Minor: |
Lydia Barnett |
T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 15 |
| 395-0-20 Commodities and Culture in Atlantic Africa |
Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Akin Ogundiran |
M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Asian American Midwest: Race, Place, Memory |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-24 The Historian's Craft 2 |
Major: Global Minor: By request |
Robin Bates |
M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-26 Imperialism in Asia |
Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia, Middle East |
Melissa Macauley |
T 3:00-5:50pm | 15 |
|
Brett Gadsden |
W 2:00-4:50pm | 15 | ||
|
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 | ||
|
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
T 6:00-9:00pm | 15 | ||
|
Paul Ramirez |
Th 10:00-12:00pm | 15 | ||
|
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? |
Major: Minor: |
Tessie Liu | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 101-8-22 TBD |
Major: Minor: |
Geraldo Cadava | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 101-8-24 Conquest Cultures |
Major: Minor: |
Paul Ramirez | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 200-0-20 Slavery in US History and Culture |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Leslie Harris | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-24 The Transformation of American Childhood |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Kathleen Belew | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 200-0-26 Global Cities |
Major: Global Minor: |
Peter Carroll | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 45 |
| 200-0-28 Global Tech |
Major: Global Minor: Science and Technology |
Aguillar Torres | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 45 |
| 200-0-30 Medieval Hindustan |
Major: Minor |
Aisha Valiulla | M/W 12:30 - 1:50p | 30 |
| 221-0-20 Famous American Trials |
Major: Americas Minor: Law and Crime |
Joanna Grisinger | T/Th 12:30-1:50pm | 135 |
| 250-1-20 Global History: Early Modern to Modern Transition |
Major: Americas, European, Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East, Global Minor: Europe, United States, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Economics and Labor, Environment |
Haley Bowen | M/W/F 11:30-11:50a | 135 |
| 252-0-20 Global History of Refugees |
Major: Global Minor: Law and Crime |
Lauren Stokes | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 45 |
| 255-3-20 Modern Africa |
Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Sean Hanretta | M/W/F 2:00-2:50pm | 45 |
| 260-2-20 History of Modern Latin America |
Major: Americas Minor: Latin America |
Paul Gillingham | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 264-0-20 Age of Revolutions |
Major: Global, European, Americas Minor: Europe, United States, Latin America, Economics and Labor |
Robin Bates | T/Th 2:00-3:20 | 135 |
| 284-2 Early Modern Japan |
Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Amy Stanley | M/W 11:00-12:20p | 30 |
| 292-0-20 Early Modern Religious Women |
Major: European Minor: Europe |
Haley Bowen | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 300-0-20 South Asians in the World |
Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Ashish Koul | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 300-0-22 Jewish Environmental History |
Major: European Minor: Environment |
David Shyovitz | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 30 |
| 303-2-30 American Women's History since 1865 |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Kate Masur | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 304-0-20 Asian American Women's History |
Major: Americas Minor: |
Ji-Yeon Yuh | M/W 12:30 - 1:50p | 30 |
| 321-0-20 The Vietnam Wars |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Michael Allen | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 45 |
| 324-0-20 US Gay and Lesbian History |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Lane Fenrich | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 90 |
| 340-0-20 Gender, War and Revolution in the 20th Century |
Major: Minor: |
Tessie Liu | M/W/F 1:00-1:50pm | 30 |
| 343-0-20 Modern Italy |
Major: European Minor: Europe |
Edward Muir | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 30 |
| 349-0-20 The Holocaust |
Major: European Minor: Europe |
Ed Westermann | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 45 |
| 353-0-20 History of Capitalism, 1500-1850 |
Major: Europe Minor: Europe, Economics and Labor, Environmental |
Robin Bates | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 45 |
| 362-3-20 Modern Britain |
Major: European Minor: Europe |
Holly Swenson | M/W 12:30p-1:50p | 45 |
| 366-0-20 Latin America in the Independence Era |
Major: Americas Minor: Latin America |
Paul Ramirez | T/Th 12:30-1:50pm | 30 |
| 381-2-20 Modern China: The Twentieth Century |
Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asian |
Melissa Macauley | M/W/F 11:00-11:50am | 45 |
| 393-0-20 People Lost to History |
Major: Minor: |
Edward Muir | M/W 11:00-12:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 What is Anti-Semitism? |
Major: Minor: |
David Shyovitz | M/W 2:00-3:20pm | 15 |
| 393-0-24 African History through Literature and Film |
Major: Africa/Middle East Minor: Africa |
Sean Hanretta | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-26 Gender, Race, and the Holocaust |
Major: European Minor: Europe |
Sarah Cushman | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-20 The Modern American Presidency |
Major: Americas Minor: United States |
Michael Allen | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 395-0-22 Xi's 'New Era': China Today |
Major: Asia/Middle East Minor: Asia |
Peter Carroll | M/W 4:00-5:20pm | 15 |
| 395-0-24 Medieval Islamic Worlds |
Major: Minor: |
Aisha Valiulla | M/W 9:30-10:50a | 15 |
| 395-0-26 Climate and Culture | 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 |