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 Course Master Schedule 2024-2025
Spring 2025
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? | Tessie Liu | T/Th 2:30 – 3:20pm | 15 | |
| 101-8-22 Holocaust Testimonies | Benjamin Frommer | T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 | |
| 103-8-20 A Beginner's Guide to Forgery | Paul Gillingham | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 15 | |
| 103-8-22 Islam and Gender in the Modern World | Ashish Koul | T/Th 3:30–4:50pm | 15 | |
| 200-0-20 Business Disasters In Modern History | European, Economics and Labor | Holly Swenson | M/W 12:30–1:50pm | 30 |
| 200-0-22 Jews and Arabs in Palestine/The Land of Israel, 1880-1948 | European, Asia/Middle East | Maayan Hilel | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 20 |
| 200-0-24 Making the Modern Middle East | Asia/Middle East | Jessica Winegar | T/Th 2:00-3:20pm | 60 |
| 210-2-20 Modern US History | Americas |
Kevin Boyle |
M/W/F 1:00 – 1:50pm | 90 |
| 216-0-20 Global Asians | Asia/Middle East, Global |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
T/Th 2:00–3:20pm | 45 |
| Americas |
Geraldo Cadava |
T/Th 9:30–10:50am | 45 | |
| Global, Economics and Labor, Law and Crime |
Scott Sowerby |
T/Th 2:00–3:20pm | 224 | |
| 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 |
| European |
Haley Bowen |
M/W 3:30–4:50 pm | 15 | |
| 300-0-20 Thinking Machines: The History and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence | Americas, Science and Technology |
Benjamin Lindquist |
M/W 12:30–1:50pm | 30 |
| 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 |
| Asia/Middle East, Africa/Middle East |
Jonathan Brack |
M/W 10:00 – 10:50am | 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, Law and Crime |
Kate Masur, Joanna Grisinger |
T/Th 9:30–10:50am | 90 |
| 324-0-20 US Gay and Lesbian History | Americas |
Lane Fenrich
|
T/Th 2:00–3:20pm | 90 |
| 327-0-20 Histories of Violence | Americas, Law and Crime | Kathleen Belew | M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm | 90 |
| European | Ed Muir | M/W 9:30-10:50am | 30 | |
| 347-0-20 Christians and Jews | European, Asia/Middle East | David Shyovitz | T/Th 11:00-12:20pm | 30 |
| European | Ben Frommer | M/W 3:30-4:50pm | 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 | European | 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 | Sarah Cushman | M/W 12:30-1:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 Race and the American Midwest | Americas |
Doug Kiel |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 15 |
| 393-0-22 Pop Music, History, and the Nation | Asia/Middle East |
Kenan Sharpe |
T/Th 3:30-4:50pm | 20 |
| 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, Environmental |
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 | |
|
Rajeev Kinra |
T 2:00-4:50pm | 15 | ||
|
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 Europe Field Seminar |
Ed Muir |
T 9:30-12:20pm | 15 | |
|
Amy Stanley |
Th 2:00-4:50pm | 15 | ||
|
Paul Gillingham |
W 9:30-12:20pm | 15 | ||
|
Lina Britto |
F 2:00-4:50pm | 15 | ||
|
Keith Woodhouse |
F 10:00-12:50pm | 15 |
Winter 2025
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 |
| Americas |
Brett Gadsden |
T/Th 2:00–3:20pm | 45 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Americas, Asia/ Middle East |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
T/Th 2:00– 3:20pm | 30 | |
| Global, Law and Crime |
Helen Tilley |
M/W 2:00 – 3:20pm | 45 | |
| 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 |
| Asia/Middle East, Europe |
Jonathan Brack | T/Th 9:30-10:50am | 30 | |
| 300-0-22: Indigenous Peoples and US Law | Americas, Law and Crime | Doug Kiel | T/Th 2:00 – 3:20pm | 30 |
| 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 |
| Americas |
Michael Allen |
M/W 3:30 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
| 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 | |
|
Kate Masur |
W 9:00 – 11:50am | 15 | ||
|
Akin Ogundiran |
T 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | ||
|
Jonathan Brack |
M 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | ||
|
Melissa Macauley |
T 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | ||
| 492-0-22 Pacific World |
Ji-Yeon Yuh |
W 2:00 – 4:50pm | 15 | |
|
Henri Lauziere |
Th 2:00- 4:50pm | 20 | ||
| 570-1-20 Research Seminar in History |
Keith Woodhouse |
F 10:00 – 12:50pm | 15 |