EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1789
Emergence of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary mass political movements; European industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism; 20th-century world wars, the Great Depression, and Fascism.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Tiersten
CULPA: 45
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INTRO AFRICAN HIST:1700-PRESNT
INTR AFRICAN HIST:1700-PRESNT
Survey of African history from the 18th century to the contemporary period. We will explore six major themes in African History: Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World, Colonialism in Africa, the 1940s, Nationalism and Independence Movements, Post-Colonialism in Africa, and Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Abosede A George
CULPA: 14
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A History of Witchcraft and Magic in Eur
This lecture course examines the social, cultural, and legal history of witchcraft, magic, and the occult throughout European history. We will examine the values and attitudes that have influenced beliefs about witchcraft and the supernatural, both historically and in the present day, using both primary and secondary sources. This course will pay specific attention to the role of gender and sexuality in the history of witchcraft, as the vast majority of individuals charged in the witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were indeed women. We will also study accusations of witchcraft, breaking down the power dynamics and assumptions at play behind the witch trials, and the impacts of these trials on gender relations in European society. This class will track the intersections of magic and science throughout the early-modern period, and the reconciliation of belief systems during the Enlightenment. We will carry our analysis into the modern period, touching on Victorian spiritualism and mysticism, McCarthyism in the United States, and contemporary goddess worship. We will conclude the semester with an investigation into the role of witchcraft in discussions of gender, race, and sexuality in popular culture.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dale Booth
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Fascism in European History
FASCISM IN EURO HISTORY
What was Fascism? What kind of appeal did authoritarianism and dictatorship have in interwar Europe? How did the Fascist “New Order” challenge liberal democracies and why did it fail in World War II? What was the common denominator of Fascist movements across Europe, and in particular in Mussolini’s Italy, Salazar’s Portugal, Franco’s Spain, culminating in Nazi Germany?
This class examines the history of Fascism as an ideology, constellation of political movements, and authoritarian regimes that aimed at controlling the modernization of European societies in the interwar period. Thus, the course focuses in particular on the relationship between politics, science and society to investigate how Fascism envisioned the modernity of new technologies, new social norms, and new political norms. The class will also explore Fascism’s imperialist goals, such as the calls for national renewal, the engineering of a new race, and the creation of a new world order.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angelo Caglioti
h-index: 2 Info - 3 points
RACE, CLASS, AND POLITICS IN NEW YORK CI
RACE, CLASS, & POLITICS I
The objectives of this course are: to gain familiarity with the major themes of New York History since 1898, to learn to think historically, and to learn to think and write critically about arguments that underlie historical interpretation. We will also examine and analyze the systems and structures--of race and class--that have shaped life in New York, while seeking to understand how social groups have pursued change inside and outside of such structures
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew Vaz
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REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, 1763-1
How did thirteen diverse British colonies become a single boisterous but fragile new nation? Historians still disagree about the causes, motives, and meanings surrounding the founding of the United States of America. Major themes include the role of ideologies, material interests, global contexts, race, gender, and class.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew C Lipman
CULPA: 5
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FAMILIES LATIN AMERICA
Explores changing structures and meanings of family in Latin America from colonial period to present. Particular focus on enduring tensions between prescription and reality in family forms as well as the articulation of family with hierarchies of class, caste, and color in diverse Latin American societies.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nara Milanich
CULPA: 15
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LATIN AMERICA: MIGRATION, RACE, AND ETHN
LAT AMER: MIGRATION/RACE/
Examines immigrations to Latin America from Europe, Africa, and Asia and the resulting multiracial societies; and emigration from Latin America and the formation of Latino communities in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere. Analyzes the socioeconomic and discursive-cognitive construction of ethno-racial identities and hierarchies, and current debates about immigration and citizenship.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jose Moya
CULPA: 19
h-index: 18
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- 3 points
COLONIAL CITIES OF THE AMERICAS-DIS
COLONIAL CITIES OF THE AMER-DS
- R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
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Latin American Civilization II
This course is intended to offer a survey of the history of a complex and vast region through two centuries. In order to balance the specificity of particular histories and larger processes common to Latin America, units will often start with a general presentation of the main questions and will be followed by lectures devoted to specific countries, regions, or themes. We will look closely at the formation of class and ethnic identities, the struggle around state formation, and the links between Latin America and other regions of the world. We will stress the local dimension of these processes: the specific actors, institutions and experiences that shaped the diversity and commonalities of Latin American societies. The assignments, discussion sections, and lectures are intended to introduce students to the key conceptual problems and the most innovative historical research on the region and to encourage their own critical reading of Latin American history.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alfonso Salgado
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South Asian Diasporas
This course will familiarize students with major debates around questions in the study of diaspora and migration while providing a sense of their interlinkages with large scale socio-political processes such as the globalization of labor, the formation of social hierarchies, as well as movements for survival and belonging.
Students who complete this course will learn how to:
1) Use and evaluate primary materials through critical reading and interpretation
2) Conduct close readings of key texts in multimedia formats (posters and ephemera, digital archives, art and cultural production, manifestos, etc.)
3) Evaluate divergent perspectives and representations by combining historical accounts with memory and personal narratives
4) Adopt methods of public outreach and neighborhood ethnography to understand the imprint of the past on the present
5) Present arguments cogently and logically in writing and speaking, including through collaborative learning and presentation
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
History of Globalization
Globalization emerged as a concept in the 1990s to describe the various supranational forces that shape the contemporary world. Its history, however, is much older, and it encompasses major historical developments such as the formation and global spread of empires, of trade and capitalism, slavery, and migratory movements, as well as environmental and ecological issues. Processes of globalization and deglobalization affect central categories with which to interpret social, political and economic dynamics such as sovereignty, hegemony, and inequality.
This course will offer students the critical instruments to discuss globalizing dynamics and how they have affected human societies historically. We will proceed both thematically and chronologically, to develop the analytical instruments to understand how various dimensions of globalization emerged and transformed over time, as well as the different interpretations that scholars have offered to interpret them.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Michele Alacevich
Info - 3 points
History of Global Economic Inequality
Hist of Global Econ Inequ
Economic inequality characterizes virtually every human society, informing deep social dynamics. And yet scholars and lay people alike hold vastly differing opinions about the effects that inequality has on the social fabric, and the need to combat it. The question of how wealth and income are distributed among the members of a national community as well as among nations has acquired center stage in analyses about fundamental issues such as the causes of the progress and decline of societies and the dynamics of globalization. Inequality issues are at the heart of discussions about international economic relations, transnational phenomena such as migrations and the domestic economic platforms of political parties.
This course will provide students with the critical instruments with which to analyze the main interpretations of economic inequality from the eighteenth century to the present. We will read and discuss authors who have addressed the question of inequality and distribution: how did they frame the issue? What visions of society emerged from their analyses? We will see how the concept of inequality has changed historically, how different dimensions (e.g., national and international) have appeared and disappeared, and how visions of national, international and global inequality inform debates about the foundational elements of the social compact.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Michele Alacevich
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Science, Environment and European Coloni
SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT & EU
Science and colonialism were driving forces in the making of the global and interconnected world where we live today. The history of “Western science” is deeply intertwined with Europe’s encounter with the world, as colonialism provided the laboratory for disciplines such as geography, natural history, medicine, and anthropology. The challenges and opportunities of new natural environments shaped the way Europeans explored, analyzed, and studied nature and society. The circulation of specimens, data, and scientific expertise made colonial governance possible. This course will introduce students to major themes regarding the relationship between science, colonial environments and European empires. Students will develop reading skills and will explore key topics in early and late modern European history, the history of science, and environmental history.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angelo Caglioti
h-index: 2 Info - 4 points
RESRCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY II
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.
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Instructor:
Andrew C Lipman
CULPA: 5
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Urban Histories of Britain, 1600-1900
In this course we will explore the social and cultural landscape of urban Britain throughout seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Specifically, we will look to the urban centers of London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. This period saw large-scale urbanization across Britain and with this urbanization came dramatic changes in the social, cultural, political, and economic spheres. We will map the socio-spatial intricacies of seventeenth-century London, question the notion of an “urban renaissance” in the eighteenth century, and trace the explosion of rapid industrialization in nineteenth-century Manchester. In doing so, we will examine how questions of class, race, gender, sexuality, and nationality played out within the urban landscape. A portion of the course will be dedicated to the development of student research projects.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dale Booth
Info - 4 points
Mass-Mediated Politics in Modern Latin A
Mass-Med Politics Mod Lat
This undergraduate seminar offers an introduction to the study of mass media and politics in Latin America from the early 19th to the early 21st century. Throughout the course, the students will get acquainted with some of the key concepts, problems, and methods through which historians and 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 largely on printed media and, to a lesser extent, radio, cinema, and television. We will discuss both breaks and continuities between different media technologies, journalistic cultures, and political regimes. Knowledge of Spanish is welcome, but not mandatory.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alfonso Salgado
Info - 4 points
Lagos: From the Pepperfarm to the Megaci
Lagos: Pepperfarm to Mega
Lagos: The City Is…
the unofficial capital of Nigeria
the go-slow capital of the world
Rem Koolhaas’ planning mystery
George Packer’s mega-city nightmare
Above all, as social scientist Margaret Peil once said, Lagos: The city is the people. At last count, over 15 million people to be (in)exact which makes Lagos the second most densely populated city in Africa. How does a city like Lagos come into being? What are its origins? What is its history in regional, continental, and global context? How does it ‘work’ and what work does it do for our understandings of cities, urbanization, urbanism, colonialism, globalization, trans-nationalism, and the spatial factor in Africanist historical analyses? This course examines the many Lagoses that have existed over time, in space, and in the imagination from the city’s origins to the 21st century. This is a reading, writing, viewing, and listening intensive course. We will be reading scholarly, policy-oriented, and popular sources on Lagos as well as screening films and audio recordings that feature Lagos in order to learn about the social, cultural, and intellectual history of this West African mega-city.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Abosede A George
CULPA: 14
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RACE/RACISM/ANTIRACISM: STUDIES IN GLOBA
RACE/RACISM/ANTIRACISM: STUDIES IN GLOBAL THOUGHT
Recent protests against racial violence erupting across the United States have demanded that the United States address systemic injustice entrenched in its national history. The Black Lives Matter movement has extended still further, inciting communities across the globe to raise their voices against discrimination and inequality.
Rather than viewing the United States— and the north Atlantic, more generally— through an exceptionalist lens, this seminar draws on the strong transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement and the compelling responses of global communities across distinct demographics and colonial histories to decenter the historical origins of race thinking and provincialize its conceptual centrality as a first step in understanding its reach and relevance as a global signifier of “difference” today.
How might we develop critical studies of race and racism that are truly global and extend beyond the historical experience of the North Atlantic, and North America in particular? Might we consider the concept history of race, commonly associated with the Atlantic World and plantation slavery as a form of historical difference proximate to other practices of social hierarchy and distinction across the modern world? How can scholarship that addresses questions of black vitality, fugitivity and Afropessimism engage productively and rigorously with questions of colonial servitude and postcolonial sovereignty that emanates from anticaste thought, ideas of Islamic universality, Pan-Africanism, or heterodox Marxisms?
An exercise in comparative thinking, this seminar will function as an interstitial home for intellectual engagements in both the Global South and North, excavating linkages between injustices perpetrated through divisions of race, caste, and minority status, as well as the conceptual innovations born from struggles against them. We are explicitly focused on the relationship between worldmaking and concept formation. Questions of historical comparison and conceptual convergence are important. So, too the forms of sociopolitical solidarity and political utopias that have arisen as a consequence of struggles against enslavement and imperialism.
Every seminar session will open with a twenty-minute discussion about political and social historical contexts. However, this is a course focused on the close and careful reading of ideas and concepts in a manner si
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 4 points
Feast/Famine: Food Environment China
FEAST/FAMINE CHINA
Food has always been a central concern in Chinese politics, religion, medicine, and culture. This course takes an ecological approach to the provision, preparation, and consumption of food in Chinese history, from the Neolithic times to the post-socialist era today. In examining Chinese approaches to soil fertility, healthy diet, and culinary pleasures, we explore alternative food systems for a more sustainable future.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dorothy Ko
CULPA: 16
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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.
- W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jose Moya
CULPA: 19
h-index: 18
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- 4 points