EUROPEAN HISTORY 1500-1789

Political, economic, social, religious, and intellectual history of early modern Europe, including the Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, absolutism, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1865

INTRO AM HIST TO 1865

Themes include Native and colonial cultures and politics, the evolution of American political and economic institutions, relationships between religious and social movements, and connecting ideologies of race and gender with larger processes such as enslavement, dispossession, and industrialization.

• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Lipman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

HISTORY OF CAPITALISM

The aim of this course is to provide students with analytical tools to think critically and historically about the concept of capitalism. By studying how philosophers, economists, and political theorists have defined and described the concept of capitalism throughout its history, students will be provided with a set of terminologies and analytical frameworks that enable them to interrogate the various dimensions of capitalism.

• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carl Wennerlind
  CULPA: 30 Info
• 3 points

Global Environmental History

This class introduces students to the field of environmental history from a global perspective. Environmental history is the study of the relationship between nature and society over time. It deals with the material environment, cultural and scientific understandings of nature, and the politics of socio-economic use of natural resources. The class combines the study of classic texts that were foundational to the field with modern case studies from all over the world. It addresses questions of global relevance, such as: how did the environment shape human history? How did humans shape the natural environment? How are power relations of class, race and gender embedded in the environment we live in? The class welcomes students from the natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities. The goal of the course is to understand how the relationship between environment and society in history led to the current climate crisis.

 

• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelo Caglioti
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

PLTCS CRIME& POLICING IN U.S.

This course will examine the historical development of crime and the criminal justice system in the United States since the Civil War. The course will give particular focus to the interactions between conceptions of crime, normalcy and deviance, and the broader social and political context of policy making.

• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Vaz
  Info
• 3 points

UNITED STATES 1940-1975

Emphasis on foreign policies as they pertain to the Second World War, the atomic bomb, containment, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam. Also considers major social and intellectual trends, including the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and the recession of the 1970s.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Carnes
  CULPA: 50 Info
• 3 points

INTRO AFRICAN-AMERCN HISTORY

Major themes in African-American History: slave trade, slavery, resistance, segregation, the New Negro, Civil Rights, Black Power, challenges and manifestations of the contemporary Color Line.General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS).

• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Celia E Naylor
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

WORLD MIGRATION

Overview of human migration from pre-history to the present. Sessions on classical Rome; Jewish diaspora; Viking, Mongol, and Arab conquests; peopling of New World, European colonization, and African slavery; 19th-century European mass migration; Chinese and Indian diasporas; resurgence of global migration in last three decades, and current debates.

• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

Queer and Trans Histories of Europe sinc

Queer & Trans Histories

This seminar challenges students to consider “queer” and “trans” as categories of both experience and analysis in the historical record. We will first take on the theoretical framing of terms such as “queer” and “trans” and question their meaning and usefulness in a historical context. We will consider how we, as historians, can access the past so often rendered invisible in the archives. The course will also seek to understand dominant narratives of gender and sexuality in various periods and contexts in Europe, and then explore what it looked like when individuals and communities acted in ways that did not align with contemporary expectations.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE

The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.

• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

Water Histories: Society, Environment, a

WATER HISTORIES

This class explores the relationship between water and society in history. How did water shape human and environmental histories around the globe? On one hand, oceans and rivers affected the characteristics and resources of different civilizations. Throughout history, every community depended on access to water resources, developed local practices of water management, and produced cultural and scientific understandings of “water.” On the other hand, human attempts at regulating water flows aimed at controlling life itself, as water is essential for life. Hydro-power, before being a renewable source energy, required exerting political power over humans and nature alike.

Grounded in the interdisciplinary approach of the environmental humanities, this class will explore the politics of water management thanks to a wide range of case studies. Starting with the first environmental history of the Mediterranean in the early modern period, we will focus on the last two centuries to examine the roots of the current environmental crisis. By following the politics of water flows, the class will introduce students to key themes in global environmental history, such as the role of geography, climate, race, energy, labor, technology, cities, animals, diseases, and empires in the transformation of human societies. Finally, the class provides foundational historical knowledge to understand the importance of water in contemporary debates about environmental justice and climate change.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Angelo Caglioti
  h-index: 2 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY I

Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors. Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay. See Requirements for the Major for details.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Lipman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Anti-Apartheid Solidarity Movement

This course examines the struggle against South African apartheid with a particular focus on the global solidarity movement in the 20th century. The class will examine key turning points in the movement, its connection with broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles, gendered constructs of apartheid and feminist leadership in the movement, and the circulation of theories of racial capitalism. Students will understand how and why apartheid became a global concern. Students will work on a project using the primary source material available on the African Activist Archive Digital Project at Michigan State University.

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Premilla Nadasen
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GENDER,SEXUALITY,POWER,AFRICA

This course deals with the scholarship on gender and sexuality in African history. The central themes of the course will be changes and continuities in gender performance and the politics of gender and sexual difference within African societies, the social, political, and economic processes that have influenced gender and sexual identities, and the connections between gender, sexuality, inequality, and activism at local, national, continental, and global scales.

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Abosede A George
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GENDER& MIGRATN:GLOBAL PERSPC

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Sophomore Standing. Explores migration as a gendered process and what factors account for migratory differences by gender across place and time; including labor markets, education demographic and family structure, gender ideologies, religion, government regulations and legal status, and intrinsic aspects of the migratory flow itself.

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points