ANCIENT GREEK HIST, 800-146 BC

A review of the history of the Greek world from the beginnings of Greek archaic culture around 800 B.C. through the classical and hellenistic periods to the definitive Roman conquest in 146 B.C. with concentration on political history, but attention also to social and cultural developments.Field(s): ANC

• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Billows
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ANC GREEK HIST 800-146 BC-DISC

• 0 points

Indigenous History of North America

Indigenous Hist of N Amer

This course is an introduction to the history of the Native peoples of North America.  Instruction will focus on the idea that indigenous people in North America possess a shared history in terms of being forced to respond to European colonization, and the emergence of the modern nation-state.  Native peoples, however, possess their own distinct histories and culture.  In this sense their histories are uniquely multi-faceted rather than the experience of a singular racial group.  Accordingly, this course will offer a wide-ranging survey of cultural encounters between the Native peoples of North America, European empires, colonies, and emergent modern nation-states taking into account the many different indigenous responses to colonization and settler colonialism.  This course will also move beyond the usual stories of Native-White relations that center either on narratives of conquest and assimilation, or stories of cultural persistence.  We will take on these issues, but we will also explore the significance of Native peoples to the historical development of modern North America.  This will necessarily entail an examination of race formation, and a study of the evolution of social structures and categories such as nation, tribe, citizenship, and sovereignty.

• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Witgen
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• 4 points

EARLY RUSSIAN HISTORY TO 1800

• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

EARLY RUSS HIST TO 1800-DISC

• Instructor: James B Nadel
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EVERYDAY COMMUNISM

This lecture course comparatively and transnationally investigates the twentieth-century communism as a modern civilization with global outreach. It looks at the world spread of communism as an ideology, everyday experience, and form of statehood in the Soviet Union, Europe, Asia (Mao’s China), and post-colonial Africa. With the exception of North America and Australia, communist regimes were established on all continents of the world. The course will study this historical process from the October Revolution (1917) to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986), which marked the demise of communist state. The stress is not just on state-building processes or Cold War politics, but primarily on social, gender, cultural and economic policies that shaped lived experiences of communism. We will closely investigate what was particular about communism as civilization: sexuality, materiality, faith, selfhood, cultural identity, collective, or class and property politics. We will explore the ways in which “ordinary people” experienced communism through violence (anti-imperial and anti-fascist warfare; forced industrialization) and as subjects of social policies (gender equality, family programs, employment, urban planning). By close investigation of visual, material and political representations of life under communism, the course demonstrates the variety of human experience outside the “West” and capitalist modernity in an era of  anti-imperial politics, Cold War, and decolonization, as well as current environmental crisis.

• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Malgorzata Mazurek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

DISC - Everyday Communism

DISCUSSION SECTION for HIST UN 2336 Everyday Communism

• Instructor: Ella M Coon
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• 0 points

Indigenous History of North America - DI

Indigenous Hist N Amer -

Required discussion section for Indigenous History of North America (HIST UN1488)

• Instructor: Wyatt Reynolds
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POLITICAL HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICA

POLI HIST OF CONTEMP AFRI

This course offers a survey of the poltiical history of contemporary Africa, with a focus on the states and societies south of the Sahara. The emphasis is on struggle and conflict—extending to war—and peace.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Mann
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

Political History of Contemporary Africa

Pol Hist of Contemporary

Discussion course for lecture UN2438 description below:

This course offers a survey of the political history of contemporary Africa, with a focus on the states and societies south of the Sahara.  The emphasis is on struggle and conflict - extending to war - and peace.

• Instructor: Kimaiyo Jepkoec Kimaiyo
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• 0 points

HEALTH INEQUALITY: MODERN US

Through assigned readings and a group research project, students will gain familiarity with a range of historical and social science problems at the intersection of ethnic/racial/sexual formations, technological networks, and health politics since the turn of the twentieth century. Topics to be examined will include, but will not be limited to, black women's health organization and care; HIV/AIDS politics, policy, and community response; benign neglect; urban renewal and gentrification; medical abuses and the legacy of Tuskegee; tuberculosis control; and environmental justice. There are no required qualifications for enrollment, although students will find the material more accessible if they have had previous coursework experience in United States history, pre-health professional (pre-med, pre-nursing, or pre-public health), African-American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, or American Studies.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
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• 4 points

DISC-HEALTH INEQUALITY: MODERN US

DISC-HEALTH INEQUALITY MO

Required DISCUSSION SECTION for HIST UN2523, History of Health Inequality in Modern US. Students must first register for main class.

• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 8:10 a.m.-9 a.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Autumn K Galindo
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• Instructor: Samuel J Niu
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• Instructor: Autumn K Galindo
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• Instructor: Samuel J Niu
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• Instructor: Heath M Rojas
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US LESBIAN & GAY HISTORY

This course explores the social, cultural, and political history of lesbians, gay men, and other socially constituted sexual and gender minorities, primarily in the twentieth century. Since the production and regulation of queer life has always been intimately linked to the production and policing of “normal” sexuality and gender, we will also pay attention to the shifting boundaries of normative sexuality, especially heterosexuality, as well as other developments in American history that shaped gay life, such as the Second World War, Cold War, urbanization, and the minority rights revolution. Themes include the emergence of homosexuality and heterosexuality as categories of experience and identity; the changing relationship between homosexuality and transgenderism; the development of diverse lesbian and gay subcultures and their representation in popular culture; the sources of antigay hostility; religion and sexual science; generational change and everyday life; AIDS; and gay, antigay, feminist, and queer movements.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: George Chauncey
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

US LGBT HIST-DISC

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HIST OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly K Phillips-Fein
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• 4 points

HIST OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK-DIS

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LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I

This course aims to give a portrait of the development of Latin America from the first contact with the Europeans to the creation of independent states. We will focus on society and interaction among the various ethnic and socio-economic groups at the level of daily life. For each class, students will have to read sections of a core text as well as a primary source, or document, from the period; before the end of every class there will be 15 minutes to discuss the document together. In addition, students will enroll in discussion sections held by TAs.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Caterina Pizzigoni
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

LATIN AMER CIVILIZATION I-DISC

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The Cold War in Latin America

This lecture offers a comprehensive view of the Cold War in Latin America and zooms in on those places and moments when it turned hot. It understands the Cold War as a complex and multi-layered conflict, which not only pitted two superpowers—the United States and the Soviet Union—against one another, but also two ideologies—capitalism and socialism—whose appeal cut across societies. In Latin America, the idea of socialist revolution attracted a diverse set of actors (workers, students, intellectuals, politicians, etc.) and posed a significant challenge to both capitalism and United States hegemony. We will probe what the Cold War meant to people across the region, paying particular attention to revolutionary and counterrevolutionary events in Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, and Nicaragua, all the while examining the diplomatic and cultural battles for the hearts and minds of Latin Americans.

• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfonso Salgado
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• 4 points

The Cold War in Latin America - DISC

DISC - The Cold War in La

Required discussion section for “The Cold War in Latin America” lecture (HIST UN2671)

• Instructor: Gabriel A Solis
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• 0 points

HISTORY OF THE MOD MIDDLE EAST

This course will cover the history of the Middle East from the 18th century until the present, examining the region ranging from Morocco to Iran and including the Ottoman Empire. It will focus on transformations in the states of the region, external intervention, and the emergence of modern nation-states, as well as aspects of social, economic, cultural and intellectual history of the region. Field(s): ME

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Rashid I Khalidi
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MOD MIDDLE EAST-DISC

• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ifadha Sifar
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• 0 points

African Economic History (1500-present)

By engaging with histories of development, quantitative economic history, and history of labor, this course provides an overview of the methodologies and questions pertaining to the economic history of African contexts from the 16th to the 21st century. Students will gain skills in archival analysis and data analysis of historical sources in order to understand how economic stratification and accumulation functioned in African states and societies from the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, through European conquest and colonialism, to the new imperatives of independence. Themes of the class will include a critical evaluation of slavery, conquest and capital, colonial violence, development and inequality in African contexts.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Thomas B Zuber
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• 4 points

African Economic History (1500-present)

African Economic History-

Required discussion section for lecture: African Economic History (1500-present) - HIST UN2757

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Unsettling Science

Unsettling Science invites students to do exactly that: ask big questions about science and interrupt preconceived ideas about what science is and who does it. This course is an introductory dive into the interplay between science, technology, health, environment, and society. By offering deep historical and contemporary perspectives, this course equips students with skills essential to critically exploring not only longstanding questions about the world but also urgent issues of our time. Unsettling Science will provide students with the critical and methodological tools to think creatively about local and global challenges and develop interventions. To do so, the course focuses on a series of fundamental questions that underpin the study of science and society from a variety of perspectives.

• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Madisson Whitman
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• 4 points

THE SECOND WORLD WAR

This course surveys some of the major historiographical debates surrounding the Second World War. It aims to provide student with an international perspective of the conflict that challenges conventional understandings of the war. In particular, we will examine the ideological, imperial, and strategic dimensions of the war in a global context. Students will also design, research, and write a substantial essay of 15-18 pages in length that makes use of both primary and secondary sources.

• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul T Chamberlin
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SEXUALITY AND THE CITY

The city has classically been represented as the site of sexual freedom, but also of sexual immorality and danger. This course explores the interrelated histories of sexuality and the city in the twentieth-century United States (especially New York) by exploring how urban conditions and processes shaped sexual practices, identities, communities, and ethics, and how sexual matters shaped urban processes, politics, and representation.

• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: George Chauncey
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Mobility and Identity in the Roman World

Mob & Identity in Roman W

This course considers how identity increased, limited, controlled, or otherwise shaped the mobility of individuals and groups in the Roman world, including women, slaves, freedpeople, and diaspora communities. We will identify the structures that produced differences in mobility and consider how such groups understood and represented themselves in a variety of media as possessing a specific, shared identity and community. The course will draw on a range of primary sources, including inscriptions and literary texts (both poetry and prose), and cover the period from the second century BCE to the third century CE.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sailakshmi Ramgopal
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP IN AMER HIST

This course explores the meaning of American citizenship in connection with the country’s immigration history. Topics include historic pathways to citizenship for migrants; barriers to citizenship including wealth, race, gender, beliefs and documentation; and critical issues such as colonialism, statelessness, dual nationality, and birthright citizenship. We will ask how have people become citizens and under what authority has that citizenship been granted? What are the historic barriers to citizenship and how have they shifted over time? What major questions remain unanswered by Congress and the Supreme Court regarding the rights of migrants to attain and retain American citizenship?

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica H Lee
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• 4 points

Ukraine in WW2

The current Russo-Ukrainian war has focused renewed attention on Ukraine’s experience during WW2. This course examines several topics that have remained controversial: the political situation on the eve of war, German and Soviet policies toward Ukraine, life under German and Soviet occupations, the ideology and actions of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, the role of the ‘Galicia’ Division, the Holocaust in Ukraine, and the Polish-Ukrainian conflict. Students are introduced to approaches by different scholars, to current debates in memory politics, and to representations of the war in literature and film.

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Myroslav Shkandrij
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• 4 points

Making Borders: Surveys, Space and Knowl

Drawing borders—around spaces, peoples, populations, property, and states—has been a major part of the creation of the modern world. Borders continue to be flashpoints of international conflict and sites of state violence. This class examines how borders have been constructed and produced at different historical moments, through imperial and international regimes, and in different places around the world. We’ll look at maps, surveys, censuses, plebiscites, passports, and international commissions to consider what borders are and the ways in which they can be manifested and shaped. We’ll reflect on how state officials and soldiers, as well as anthropologists, social scientists, and historians, have created borders in space and around aspects of social life. Borders are produced politically, but they are also literally made by particular technologies and made real through everyday acts and experiences. What techniques are involved in drawing borders, and how have these techniques shaped borders themselves? To put it crudely, how have decisions made in drawing a border affected what is later done at that border? Borders are more than lines on a map or territorial expressions: they bound the contours of political communities, they mark points of surveillance, and they help to create subjects and identities. Ultimately, this class aims to give students the historical skills to think about how borders and spaces are produced materially and politically, how knowledge about space is created and constructed, and how populations and resources are entangled within border regimes, through a range of concrete case studies. The use of these studies will open up further topics related to borders in fields such as legal history, the history of science, settler colonialism, and nationalism.

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel F Coggeshall
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• 4 points

Modern Southeast Asian History

This seminar explores the modern history of Southeast Asia, a diverse region of nearly a dozen nations that includes an extraordinary ethnic mix, all of the world’s major religions, and a broad spectrum of political systems. Considered one of the “main crossroads of the world,” we will explore
the region’s modern history, including western colonial conquest, resistance struggles for decolonization, differing modes of economic development, thorough-going revolutions, and inter-ethnic violence set against the backdrop of increasing globalization.

• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoang Vu
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• 4 points

Ukraine and Empire

Ukraine and Russia have been profoundly marked by the imperial experience, which has involved state expansion, cultural appropriation and assimilation. For three centuries leading cultural and political figures in Russia expressed attitudes toward Ukraine that today contribute to a “colonizing” mentality. This course looks at classic expressions of the imperial attitude, how it was challenged in Ukraine, and how it has resurfaced in the present war. Readings from historians are supplemented with source materials from creative literature, art, film, political propaganda and journalism.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Myroslav Shkandrij
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• 4 points

Marriage and Morals among the Victorians

Victorian Marriage and Mo

The second half of the 19th century saw a sharp debate in Britain over the terms and conditions of marriage and indeed of gender relations more generally.  This course will explore that debate, tracing its effects in law, politics, and personal life.  Topics include:  conflicts over legal and political rights (including suffrage); love, sex, and sociability; domestic violence, child custody, and the contest over male authority; the “problem” of prostitution; and utopian efforts to reimagine gender relations.  Students will read literary and polemical works by John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, Mona Caird, Bernard Shaw, Frances Power Cobbe, Cicely Hamilton and others, will evaluate historians’ arguments, and will develop their own research project.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COLUMBIA UNI & SLAVERY

In this course, students will write original, independent papers of around 25 pages, based on research in both primary and secondary sources, on an aspect of the relationship between Columbia College and its colonial predecessor Kings College, with the institution of slavery.

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karl Jacoby
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

The Seven Years War (1754-1763), Glob

THE SEVEN YEARS WAR

Prerequisites: History Majors Preferred This research seminar explores the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years’ War, arguably the first world war in modern history. Topics include the origins of the conflict in North America and in Europe, the relationship between imperial rivalry in the American colonies and the contest for supremacy in central Europe, the impact of the war on trade and settlement in South Asia, the West Indies, the Philippines, and West Africa, and the legacies of the conflict for British imperial expansion in India, North America, Senegal, and the southern Caribbean. During the second half of the semester, members of the seminar will devote the majority of their time to the research and writing of a substantial paper.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher L Brown
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Mass-Mediated Politics in Modern Latin A

Media and Politics in Lat

This advanced undergraduate seminar offers an introduction to the study of mass media and politics in Latin America from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Throughout the course, the students will get acquainted with some of the key concepts, problems, and methods through which historians and, to a lesser extent, communication scholars have probed the relationship between mass media and political power in the region. We will define and understand media broadly, but we will focus mainly on printed media, radio, and television. We will discuss both breaks and continuities between different media technologies, journalistic cultures, and political regimes. Knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese is welcome, but not mandatory.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfonso Salgado
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• 4 points

Mobilities in the Americas: An Urban and

This course will use “mobilities” as a category for historical analysis that captures the social, political, and economic aspects of urban transportation. We will think about mobilities as the social practices that produce the urban space and reproduce inequalities. The course covers different cities of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will include conversations on the “right to mobilities”, the role of private interests and the meanings of “public”, suburbanization, displacement, restrictions on movement, the political ecology of energy, and feminist approaches to commuting. We will create public history projects to spark a conversation with communities beyond academia.

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrei Guadarrama Dominguez
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• 4 points

Gender and Sexuality in Modern African H

Gender Sexuality Modern A

This seminar explores the history of gender, sexuality and family in African contexts in the 19th to 21st century. It probes the ways gender and sexuality have shaped and been shaped by historical processes, by unpacking the concepts of “gender” and “sexuality” and their relevance to African contexts. The course first investigates these changes by looking at gender and sexuality in African states of the early 19th century. It then analyzes the ways that colonial conquest and consolidation of colonial rule affected gender norms. Finally, it examines the debates about gender and sexuality in the postcolonial period and their legacies in the present. This seminar raises key questions about the transformation of gender roles and sexualities through the slave trade, colonial conquest and decolonization.

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas B Zuber
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• 4 points

THE MUGHAL MEMOIRS

The early sixteenth century rise of the Mughal authority in North India coincided with the arrival of the Portuguese in South India, the emergence of Safavid empire, and the dominance of the Ottoman empire. Within the first hundred years, even more claimants to imperial power in India – the British, the French, the Rajput, the Maratha – were engaged in political negotiations, resistance and accommodation with the Mughal. We will follow the course of the development of Mughal political thought, economic and environmental impact and courtly culture through to their official demise in 1857.

The first four emperors of Mughal India left various accounts for us. Babur (r. 1525–1530), the founder of the dynasty, wrote an autobiography. Memoirs of the second, Humayun (r. 1530–1556), were written by his sister, and others in his army. The third, Akbar (r. 1556–1605) was the subject of the most amazing regnal history-- written by his minister and aide Abu'l Fazl. His son Jahangir (r. 1605–1627), recorded his daily activities and thoughts in his own journal that was published by him. 

To best engage with this complex universe, we will use the semantic vocabulary of ‘seeing’. This course will delve into how Mughal emperors saw their world and how they narrated it. This course is almost exclusively focused on primary readings. We will read large portions of the texts written by the Mughal elite. We will read them to examine their treatment of sacral landscape, nature and environment, gender, social networks, power and violence, agency and interiority, performativity, usage of history and memory.

This focus on memoir and autobiographical writing would allow us to delve far deeply into the socio-cultural worlds of the Mughal then is possible via a perfunctory reading of secondary sources.

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Manan Ahmed
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel F Coggeshall
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• Instructor: Paul T Chamberlin
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Malgorzata Mazurek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

INDEP SEN THESIS HISTORY I

Instructor to be arranged by the student. A sophisticated research paper, of at least 25 to 30 pages, is written under the supervision of a faculty sponsor and then defended at a formal oral examination before the sponsor and a second faculty member. A research plan must be prepared prior to the term in which the course is taken and must be approved by both the sponsor and the director of undergraduate studies.

• Instructor: Neslihan Senocak
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 2-4 points

WARS OF INDOCHINA

This course will analyze the wars for Vietnam in the Cold War era from a multitude of perspectives, vantage points, and mediums. Using the
 
award
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winning documentary
, The Vietnam War
, as the basis of the seminar, students will explore this violent period in Indochinese history that witnessed decolonization movements, revolutionary struggles, state and nation-building, superpower interventions, and devastating warfare. At the same time, the battles that unfolded in mainland Southeast Asia posed geostrategic challenges to former imperial powers and the superpowers of the Cold War era. The class will not only familiarize students with Vietnam's tumultuous history, it introduces the latest debates, newest research, and most recent documentary films on this oft-studied topic.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SLAVERY/ABOLITION-ATLANTC WRLD

This seminar investigates the experiences of slavery and freedom among African-descended people living and laboring in the various parts of the Atlantic World. The course will trace critical aspects of these two major, interconnected historical phenomena with an eye to how specific cases either manifested or troubled broader trends across various slaveholding societies. The first half of the course addresses the history of slavery and the second half pertains to experiences in emancipation. However, since the abolition of slavery occurs at different moments in various areas of the Atlantic World, the course will adhere to a more thematic and less chronological structure, in its examination of the multiple avenues to freedom available in various regions. Weekly units will approach major themes relevant to both slavery and emancipation, such as racial epistemologies among slaveowners/employers, labor regimes in slave and free societies, cultural innovations among slave and freed communities, gendered discourses and sexual relations within slave and free communities, and slaves’ and free people’s resistance to domination. The goal of this course is to broaden students’ comprehension of the history of slavery and freedom, and to promote an understanding of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas as creating both continuities and ruptures in the structure and practices of the various societies concerned.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Natasha J Lightfoot
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

E MEDIT IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE

This course presents a comparative study of the histories of Egypt, the Near East, Anatolia and the Aegean world in the period from c. 1500-1100 BC, when several of the states provide a rich set of textual and archaeological data. It will focus on the region as a system with numerous participants whose histories will be studied in an international context. The course is a seminar: students are asked to investigate a topic (e.g. diplomacy, kingship, aspects of the economy, etc.) in several of the states involved and present their research in class and as a paper.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marc Van de Mieroop
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RSRCH I

For students who want to do independent study of topics not covered by normal departmental offerings. The student must find a faculty sponsor and work out a plan of study; a copy should be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies.

• Instructor: Alfonso Salgado
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• 2-4 points

The Quantified State: How Democracy Incl

Numbers have become indispensable to how American know themselves and understand their society. Further, statistical reasoning plays an essential role in the government’s operations. Why have numbers come to play such an important role in modern America? How has numerical data and calculation enabled us to analyze, order, and control the world around us? The course offers a survey of quantification across various domains from politics to governance, crime, education, and economic development. Students will learn how to think critically about the power of quantitative arguments and the ways they are marshalled in specific contexts.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alma Steingart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

CRIME/PUNISHMENT/MIDDLE AGES

• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Neslihan Senocak
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MARGINS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY:

OTTOMAN-TURKISH TRADITION

Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Turkish and/or French is desirable but not mandatory. Students who cannot read Turkish but are interested in enrolling are still encouraged to contact the course instructors. This seminar aims to open a window onto historiographic traditions from overlooked contexts, with the argument that they broaden the field from much needed empirical and theoretical perspectives, while at the same time offer new venues to trigger critical thinking. Relying on their respective specialties, Professors Çelik and Şen will familiarize the students with the key works, trends, and names of the rigorous and essential scholarship in Ottoman-Turkish historiography that students of Ottoman-Turkish-Middle East history should be familiar with for their research and teaching. This exposure will also serve well history students in other areas in building comparative frameworks. Weekly discussion topics will range from economic and social history to history of science, urban history, and visual and literary culture, altogether coalescing into a multi-dimensional picture. Each week the instructors will present the major scholarly traditions and introduce key historians by intersecting them with the twentieth-century politico-cultural history. These presentations will be followed by the close discussion of assigned readings (mostly in English and to a limited extent in Turkish and French), with references to relevant historiographical traditions effective at the time on a global scale. Along the way, the students will be exposed to the work of legendary historians, among them Halil İnalcık and Ömer Lütfi Barkan, who examined exhaustive periods of Ottoman history, shifting from economic to social and cultural history and triangulating their arguments from different angles.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

THE BLACK SEA IN HISTORY

We are used to thinking of history in national terms, or at least in reference to major civilizations (“Western civilization,” “Near Eastern civilization,” etc.). In “real life,” however, interactions among people, linguistic communities, and cultures frequently cut across political divisions. Water - rivers, streams, seas - is often an invitation to settlement, commerce, and conquest. This course offers a look (inspired in part by Fernand Braudel's Mediterranean) at a body of water - the Black Sea - and the lands around it, in sweeping historical perspective. Focus is on those moments when the various civilizations and empires that originated and flourished around the Black Sea met and intersected in friendship or in enmity. We will look at ancient civilizations, Greek colonization, Byzantine-Slav interactions, the period of Ottoman dominance, Russian-Turkish rivalry, and decolonization and wars in the 19th and 20th centuries. We hope that we will be able to pay particular attention to questions of ecology, language, religion, and cultural interaction throughout.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Politics and Justice in Latin America th

LA through crime fiction

This seminar will use fiction to understand some of the most urgent problems of contemporary Latin American reality. We will read and discuss works of crime fiction from Latin America in the context of the history of crime and justice in the region. It will be an effort to understand those works both in the literary field, as a part of a popular genre of literature, and in their connections with everyday life, often expressed in the media. In other words, the seminar will be an exercise of reading in context, in a historical perspective but also relation to the expectations that readers and critics had about narratives that dealt with violence and the pursuit of justice.

• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

Truth from the Past: Introduction to the

Philosophy of History

Exploring philosophies of history from the ancient Greeks to the present.

• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Mazower
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Nationalism and Revolution in Modern Ire

Hist. Irish Nationalism

Nationalism is one of the most persistent, powerful and elusive forces in modern world history. This course examines it through a particularly compelling and accessible case study: Ireland. As both a subject of, and a partner in, British colonialism, Ireland straddled both the imperial and anti-imperial dimensions of nineteenth and twentieth-century nationalism. Ireland reveals nationalism’s complexities and ambiguities in an era in which large multinational empires, not nation-states, were frequently seen as fundamental units of political organization.

Through its relationship to the Catholic church, through the global Irish diaspora (especially, though not exclusively, in the US) and through its correspondence and cooperation with other struggles for ‘nationality’ in nineteenth-century Europe, modern Irish nationalism became a transnational phenomenon. As such, it can show us some of the ways in which growing global communication and interconnection can produce and reinforce national sentiment rather than undermining it.

Over a period from the late-eighteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, we will trace the diverse and often conflicting modes of nationalist politics and ideology in Ireland, encompassing controversies over sovereignty, empire, democracy, religion, trade, property, political violence and culture. In so doing, we will not only learn about the role of nationalism in Irish history, but seek to understand its broad conceptual relevance in modern politics.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: James Stafford
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• 4 points

The Philosophical Life

The history of philosophy is not only the story of how particular concepts and doctrines — regarding cosmology, metaphysics, mind, language, ethics, politics — developed in the past.  It also is the story of different conceptions of the philosophical life itself.  In recent decades historians and philosophers have become increasingly interested in this subject.  This seminar is devoted to examining different themes and episodes in this history, from antiquity to the present.  In the spring of 2022 we will focus on ideas about the philosophical life in classic modern thinkers, from Bacon to Kant.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Immigrant New York

This seminar explores the intersection of immigration, race, and politics in New York City, both from the perspective of history and in relation to contemporary realities.  In this course we will discuss the ways in which immigration has reshaped the cultural, economic, and political life of New York City both in the past as well as the present.  Readings will focus on the divergent groups who have settled in New York City, paying close attention to issues of gender, class, race, the role of labor markets, the law, and urban development.  At several points during the semester, the class will relocate to various locations in New York City, so that the class can meet those shaping the image of immigrant life in New York in places such as the Tenement Museum as well as leaders shaping immigrants’ lived experience of the city today.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Kobrin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

American Nuclear History, 1940s-1960s

Amer. Nuclear Hist, 1940s

This course looks at the role nuclear issues played in American history, politics and society from the instigation of the Manhattan project to the beginnings of arms control negotiations in the 1960s.  As well as looking at the political, diplomatic and moral issues raised by the development and possible use of nuclear weapons, the course will also cover the influence of nuclear fears on US culture, and the domestic political controversies and grass roots activism triggered by US nuclear policies, including in such areas as nuclear testing.  Classes will also feature discussion of contemporary documents from the period, as well as film clips.

• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Jones
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• 4 points

HIV and AIDS in Black America

Through a series of thematically-arranged secondary and primary source readings and research writing assignments, students in this seminar course will explore the public health, medical, political, and social histories of HIV and AIDS in Black American communities. The course’s chronological focus begins roughly two decades before the first recognition of the syndrome to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Thematically, the course will address several issues, including syndemic theory; stigma, homophobia and political marginalization; late capitalism and public health; the health effects of segregation; and mass incarceration. Please note that admission to this course is by application

Please note that students enrolling in this course must do so for a grade, and not on a pass/fail or audit basis.

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
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• 4 points

AMERICAN SOCIETY 1776-1861

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

OCCULT IN THE MUSLIM PAST

This seminar is designed to explore the rich but sorely understudied occult scientific lore in the pre-modern Islamic world. For over a millennium, from the seventh through even the twenty-first century, and spanning a broad geographical spectrum from the Nile to Oxus, different forms and praxis of occult scientific knowledge marked intellectual and political endeavors, everyday lives and customs, and faith-based matters of individuals constituting the so-called Islamicate world. However, despite the impressive array of textual, material, and visual sources coming down to us from the Muslim past, the topic has been severely marginalized under the post-Enlightenment definitions of scientific knowledge, which also shaped how the history of sciences in the Islamicate world was written in the last century. One of this seminar’s main objectives is to rehabilitate such biased perspectives through a grand tour of occult knowledge and practice appealed in the pre-modern Muslim world.

Over the semester, by relying on a set of secondary studies and translated primary sources, we will revisit the question of the marginalization of Islamicate occult sciences, explore the actors’ definitions and discussions about the epistemic value of these sciences, trace their social and political implications in everyday life and imperial politics, and examine the key textual, technical, and material aspects of the occult tradition. In several of our sessions, we will have hands-on practice to better familiarize ourselves with the instructed techniques and methods in different branches of occult sciences. We will also regularly visit the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library to view texts and materials available in our collection.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tunc Sen
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• 4 points

History of the Arctic and Its Climate

Hist of Arctic and Its Cl

The Arctic currently is in the middle of scientific inquiry and international politics. This fuels the interest in the history of this internationally constructed region. The Arctic is important not just because it is home to the iconic polar animals and four million people, but also because the presence of sea ice is crucial for the planet’s climate in the age of the Anthropocene. How do we write the history of the Arctic?  This course surveys the transformations of this space over the last millennium, paying special attention to the driving roles played by climate and by human interventions.  Controversies around the medieval warm period, the Little Ice Age, the “warming of the Arctic” of the 1930s, as well as Global Warming, are discussed in connection with human exploration, exploitation, and scientific study. The course will introduce students to approaches in climate and environmental history, the history of the use of biological and mineral resources, animal history, and the history of transnational connections in the Arctic, especially during the Cold War, including the history of Arctic science and technology. It also touches upon such significant subjects as race and gender in polar exploration and reflections on Arctic ice in media and culture, including in Indigenous cultures.  The course in a form of a seminar provides an interdisciplinary milieu for students with different backgrounds: science, especially climate science and sustainable development, history, political science, international relations, and others. Instructor web page 
https://harriman.columbia.edu/person/julia-lajus/

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Lajus
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• 4 points

INTRO TO THE HIST OF EMOTIONS

• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 4 points

RES SKILLS/MTHDS-INT/WRLD HIST

In the first semester a series of workshops will introduce the field of international history and various research skills and methods such as conceptualization of research projects and use of oral sources. The fall sessions will also show the digital resources available at Columbia and how students can deploy them in their individual projects. In the second semester students will apply the skills acquired in the fall as they develop their proposal for the Master's thesis, which is to be completed next year at the LSE. The proposal identifies a significant historical question, the relevant primary and secondary sources, an appropriate methodology, what preliminary research has been done and what remains to be done. Students will present their work-in-progress.

• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Line Lillevik
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• 2 points

Perspectives on International and World

Persptvs on Int'l & World

This course gives students the opportunity to design their own curriculum: To attend lectures, conferences and workshops on historical topics related to their individual interests throughout Columbia University. Students may attend events of their choice, and are especially encouraged to attend those sponsored by the History Department (www.history.columbia.edu). (The Center for International History - cih.columbia.edu - and the Heyman Center for the Humanities - heymancenter.org/events/ - also have impressive calendars of events, often featuring historians.) The goal of this mini-course is to encourage students to take advantage of the many intellectual opportunities throughout the University, to gain exposure to a variety of approaches to history, and at the same time assist them in focusing on a particular area for their thesis topic.

• Instructor: Line Lillevik
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• 1-3 points

GRADUATE LECTURE

HIST OF MOD MIDDLE EAST

HIST 6998 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate History lecture provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 1000 or 2000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.

• Instructor: Rashid I Khalidi
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR

EAST MEDITERR LATE BRONZE AGE

HIST 6999 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate History seminar provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 3000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.

• Instructor: Marc Van de Mieroop
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR

Ukraine in WW2

HIST 6999 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate History seminar provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 3000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.

• Instructor: Myroslav Shkandrij
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• 4 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR

Ukraine and Empire

HIST 6999 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate History seminar provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 3000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.

• Instructor: Myroslav Shkandrij
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• 4 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR

Tocqueville: Democratic Mind

HIST 6999 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate History seminar provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 3000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.

• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TURNS IN THE BRITISH F

This course examines major historiographical shifts in the Modern British field from the 1950s to the present. “Modern Britain” is conceived here as Britain from the eighteenth century to the present. We will look at how historians engaged in turn with: “high politics”, social history, gender, the state, the linguistic/cultural turn, Foucault, the “new imperial history”, transnational history, personality and emotions, multiculturalism and “race,” and the rise of neoliberalism.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

READING GERMAN HISTORY

• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam Tooze
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

19TH C U.S. HISTORY

This course offers a graduate level introduction to the literature of nineteenth century U.S. history. It uses a reading list of recently published and classic texts to help students map the critical questions and debates that have shaped the field. The list is designed to represent key methodological developments, including in gender and transnational histories. Taken as a whole, the course seeks to situate the United States within the nineteenth century world and to identify the broad set of historical forces that worked to define it. The course is designed to serve as an introduction to graduate study in American history, as preparation for Ph.D. field exams, and as a place to explore potential dissertation topics.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

American Social Movements From Cap-Ha t

This graduate seminar encourages students to take up the challenge of doing historical work on social movements from the late 18th century until the present. During the past two decades, mobilization from different points in the political spectrum, including the Occupy Movement, the Movement for Black Lives, and right-wing movements, among other impactful mobilizations, has vividly illustrated the impact of social movements on the shaping of political struggles. Moreover, activists in these movements have served as knowledge producers that have defined, sharpened, and propagandized understandings of exploitation, displacement, and justice in the past and present. This course invites students to explore the impact of social movements within a national and transnational context. Although the class will begin in with the period of slave resistance during the era of the Haitian Revolution, the bulk of the seminar will focus on 20th century movements. Abolitionism serves as a framing device for the course, given its historic importance in the ending slavery and its current iteration as an objective for many of the movements to be explored throughout the semester. Moreover, the seminar also examines how right-wing movements have co-opted and transformed the tactics and strategies of progressive movements. The central questions of the course are: what is/was a social movement? How can historians document and historicize their emergence and impact? How have historians sought to engage with these movements, including those that promote authoritarian rule? How can activist scholars harness their research and expertise in the interests of progressive social transformation? In our age of resurgent xenophobic nationalisms and crisis for liberal conceptions of democratic governance, the need for innovative historical research on social movements is as urgent as ever.

• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Frank Guridy
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Indigenous History of North America

This course is an introduction to the history of the Native peoples of North America.  Instruction will focus on the idea that indigenous people in North America possess a shared history in terms of being forced to respond to European colonization, and to the emergence of the modern nation-state.  Native peoples, however, possess their own distinct histories and culture.  In this sense, their histories are uniquely multi-faceted rather than the experience of a singular racial or ethnic group.  Accordingly, this course will offer a wide-ranging survey of the Indigenous history of North America with a particular focus on the encounters between the Native peoples or nations of this continent and the European empires, colonies, and emergent modern nation-states attempting colonize their homelands. This course will also move beyond the usual stories of Native-White relations that center either on narratives of conquest and assimilation, or stories of cultural persistence in the face of a dominant Euro-American culture.  We will take on these issues, but we will also explore the significance and the centrality of Native peoples to the historical development of modern North America.  Rather than thinking along a continuum of conquest and resistance we will explore Indigenous history through the lens of survivance, the active presence and continuance of Native stories, cultural adaptation, and history making. This will necessarily entail an examination of race formation, and a study of the evolution of social structures and political and social categories such as nation, tribe, citizenship, and sovereignty which continue to define and shape the lives of Native peoples in the present day.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Michael Witgen
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• 4 points

Brazilian Historiography through Brazili

Brazilian HIstoriography

This graduate-level course examines the study of Brazilian history from the first contact between the Portuguese colonizers and the region’s Indigenous inhabitants to the present, in its hemispheric, Atlantic, and global contexts.  We will be reading works of history that were produced by authors who themselves are from Brazil, giving us the chance to reflect on the formation of Brazil’s immensely rich, distinctive historiographical traditions. Throughout the semester, we will be reading and discussing scholarship that familiarizes students with major themes in the study of Brazilian history and the country’s intellectual traditions and mutual influences in other parts of the world; this scholarship also raises questions, implicitly and sometimes explicitly, about what it means to examine a nation’s past, and about what distinguishes the postcolonial period from earlier moments (and what calls such conventional watersheds as independence and other political transitions into question). Our readings and in-class discussions broadly survey the entire sweep of Brazilian history. We will, however, take advantage of the recent florescence and global influence of Brazilian historiography in such subfields as: the study of slavery and post-abolition society; innovative approaches to labor history; studies of authoritarianism and dictatorship; nineteenth- and twentieth-century liberalisms; citizenship and exclusion; human rights and justice; divided cities and urban shantytowns; and the critical study of historical memory and patrimony. Over the course of the semester, our coursework will be accompanied by a series of optional academic and cultural events related to Brazilian history on our campus at Columbia and in the New York City area.

This course is primarily designed for doctoral students, but those enrolled in MA programs or in the professional schools may register with the instructor’s permission. All required readings will be in English, and there are no prerequisites.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy E Chazkel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Historical Method and Craft

This course is designed to introduce all first-year graduate students in History to major books and problems of the discipline. It aims to familiarize them with historical writings on periods and places outside their own prospective specialties. This course is open to Ph.D. students in the department of History ONLY.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

APPROACHES TO INTL/GLOBAL HIST

How do international and global perspectives shape and conceptualization, research, and writing of history? Topics include approaches to comparative history and transnational processes, the relationship of local, regional, national, and global scales of analysis, and the problem of periodization when considered on a world scale.

• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Jones
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• Instructor: Adam Tooze
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MED SOCIETIES & INSTITUTNS I

• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam Kosto
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points