Graduate Courses

The courses listed below are provided by the JHU Public Course Search. This listing provides a snapshot of immediately available courses and may not be complete. A selection of current class syllabi for the semester can be found on the course syllabi page.

Course registration information can be found on the Student Information Services (SIS) website.

Courses numbered 600–799 are seminars, either general or in special fields. They are designed to give doctoral candidates, according to their individual needs and capacities, training in historical methods; introduction to bibliography; direction for individual reading; and supervision in research, exposition, and interpretation in the preparation of papers and dissertations. Each candidate for an advanced degree will take one seminar in a special field and one general seminar every semester. They are offered every year.

Column one has the course number and section. Other columns show the course title, days offered, instructor's name, room number, if the course is cross-referenced with another program, and a option to view additional course information in a pop-up window.

Research Seminar in Atlantic History, 1600-1800
AS.100.681 (01)

Writing workshop for graduate students at all stages presenting work in progress. Discussion of theories, methods, and challenges of graduate student writing.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
  • Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/8
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Readings in Early Modern British History
AS.100.719 (01)

Directed Readings in Early Modern British History.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Marshall, John W
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/6
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Africa in the Twentieth Century
AS.100.653 (01)

Graduate reading seminar in Modern African history.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
  • Room: Gilman 305
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Reading Seminar in Early American History, c. 1500-1800
AS.100.680 (01)

Colonization and settlement in the Americas brought people from all kinds of places together. This course will explore those contacts, and how they shaped the American experience. The focus is on new books in early American history.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/10
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Readings in Medieval History
AS.100.631 (01)

Readings in Medieval History examines major historiographical and methodological developments in the history of the medieval world. Weekly readings and meetings will offer the opportunity to read comparatively and thematically often in preparation for a field in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean World. Some major themes include: Heresy and holiness; gender and social relationships; franchise, manumission and serfdom; identity and difference; persecution and power; reform and the medieval church; materiality, movement and translation; law and sovereignty; learning and cultural production; and environmental and climate history.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
  • Room: Gilman 322
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 2/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

The Haitian Revolution
AS.100.634 (01)

This seminar examines the origins, course, and legacies of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), the most radical movement of the Age of Revolutions. It explores the colonial background, the overthrow of slavery, the founding of an independent nation, and the aftermath of revolution in the nineteenth century.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
  • Instructor: Kwass, Michael
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Architecture and Patronage beyond the Imperial Court
AS.010.621 (01)

The established historiography of Ottoman architecture is dominated by the patronage of the sultans and their elites, particularly as it shaped the empire’s third and final capital, Istanbul. While this focus on the “center” and its leadership reflects the Ottoman state’s own hierarchical structure, it also obscures the larger network of places and people that enabled the imperial system to develop and acquire meaning in the first place. This course will explore Ottoman architecture and its patronage from the perspective of these neglected regions and actors, covering such examples as Christian vassal states along the empire’s European borders, Arab lands with existing traditions of Islamic art, the curious persistence of Gothic models in the former Crusader kingdom of Cyprus, and the distinctive architectural practices of non-Muslim minorities within Istanbul itself. Drawn primarily from the early modern and modern periods, our case studies will be treated not as imitations of or deviations from the metropolitan mainstream, but as vital expressions of Ottoman culture that assertively engaged with, and themselves contributed to, the better-known strategies of the sultan’s court. We will also go beyond issues of architecture and patronage and consider these buildings as lived spaces whose associated objects, furnishings, and social and ceremonial activities were no less constitutive of the empire’s diverse architectural landscape.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Rustem, Unver
  • Room: Gilman 177
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/8
  • PosTag(s): n/a

American Intellectual History
AS.100.700 (01)

Readings on the intellectual history of the United States in a transnational context since the late nineteenth century.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Burgin, Angus
  • Room: Gilman 305
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/9
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Black Radical Tradition and the Imaginary
AS.100.659 (01)

This course considers how black intellectuals have envisioned alternatives to imperialism, racial oppression, and coloniality. It considers the role of imagination in Black Radical thought and how it has shaped political, theoretical, and epistemological questions that animate the black world.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: W 11:30AM - 1:30PM
  • Instructor: Makalani, Minkah
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

The Black World
AS.100.707 (01)

This course explores the practice of writing and reading the history of African Americans and the wider African Diaspora. Participants will share written work and do close readings of primary and secondary texts exploring the black experience in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: T 12:00PM - 2:00PM
  • Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Historical Methods
AS.100.647 (01)

This seminar introduces History doctoral students to archival methods and other scholarly approaches critical to the development of History as an academic discipline over the past two centuries. More broadly, the course prepares students to analyze and to pose the kinds of far-reaching and complex questions that sit at the heart of any dissertation or monographic study. This course is for History graduate students only.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: Th 11:30AM - 1:30PM
  • Instructor: Connolly, Nathan D; Turner, Sasha
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 6/18
  • PosTag(s): n/a

The French Revolution
AS.100.602 (01)

This course will engage the rich historiography of the French Revolution. We will focus on recent scholarship to examine such themes as: the nature of revolution and popular activism; violence & trauma; constitutionalism; citizenship, democracy, and social rights; the revolution after Thermidor and why the republic collapsed.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
  • Instructor: Mason, Laura
  • Room: Gilman 305
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Readings in Early Modern European Intellectual History
AS.100.717 (01)

Directed Readings in Early Modern European Intellectual History.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Marshall, John W
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/6
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Cultural Histories of Late Imperial China
AS.100.757 (01)

This reading seminar will introduce graduate students and advanced undergraduates (by permission) to recent studies of Late Imperial and Republican China that can (by various standards) be classified as works of cultural history.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
  • Room: Gilman 330C
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/10
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Gender History Workshop
AS.100.769 (01)

Workshop for presentation of works-in-progress on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality, including drafts of dissertation chapters, research papers, talks, and proposals. Students in disciplines other than history are welcome.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 6/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

The Seminar
AS.100.781 (01)

This course features presentations from invited speakers. Q&A, with an emphasis on critical thinking, intellectual discussions, and written and oral presentations. Course may not meet weekly.

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:30PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 18/50
  • PosTag(s): n/a

History and Historiography of 19th France in Europe and the World
AS.100.762 (01)

We will read and discuss recent work on nineteenth-century France, the French-dominated empire, and other “French” histories.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
  • Instructor: Shepard, Todd
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Seminar: Medieval Europe
AS.100.783 (01)

A graduate workshop in which graduate students, faculty, and invited speakers present their latest research results in Medieval European History. Q&A, with an emphasis on critical thinking, intellectual discussions, and written and oral presentations. Course may not meet weekly.

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Seminar: Early Modern Europe
AS.100.785 (01)

A graduate workshop in which graduate students, faculty, and invited speakers present their latest research results in Early Modern European History. Q&A, with an emphasis on critical thinking, intellectual discussions, and written and oral presentations. Course may not meet weekly.

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 11/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Seminar: Modern Europe
AS.100.787 (01)

A graduate workshop in which graduate students, faculty, and invited speakers present their latest research results in Modern European History. Q&A, with an emphasis on critical thinking, intellectual discussions, and written and oral presentations. Course may not meet weekly.

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/10
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Seminar: African
AS.100.793 (01)

A seminar series in which graduate students, faculty, and invited speakers present their latest research results in African History. Q&A, with an emphasis on critical thinking, intellectual discussions, and written and oral presentations. Course may not meet weekly.

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: F 3:00PM - 4:30PM
  • Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 7/10
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Seminar: Asian
AS.100.795 (01)

A seminar series in which graduate students, faculty, and invited speakers present their latest research results in Asian History. Q&A, with an emphasis on critical thinking, intellectual discussions, and written and oral presentations. Course may not meet weekly.

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/10
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Modern American Seminar
AS.100.755 (01)

A graduate workshop in which graduate students, faculty, and invited speakers present their latest research results in 20th century history. Q&A, with an emphasis on critical thinking, intellectual discussions, and written and oral presentations. Course may not meet weekly.

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 11/20
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.801 (30)

Graduate dissertation research with their advisor.

  • Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Turner, Sasha
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
AS.100.805 (02)

Fall practicum for History TA enrollment only (register under the faculty member’s section for which you will serve as a fall TA).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.801 (31)

Graduate dissertation research with their advisor.

  • Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Wright Rigueur, Leah M
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
AS.100.805 (01)

Fall practicum for History TA enrollment only (register under the faculty member’s section for which you will serve as a fall TA).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
AS.100.805 (05)

Fall practicum for History TA enrollment only (register under the faculty member’s section for which you will serve as a fall TA).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
AS.100.805 (03)

Fall practicum for History TA enrollment only (register under the faculty member’s section for which you will serve as a fall TA).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
AS.100.805 (07)

Fall practicum for History TA enrollment only (register under the faculty member’s section for which you will serve as a fall TA).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
AS.100.805 (06)

Fall practicum for History TA enrollment only (register under the faculty member’s section for which you will serve as a fall TA).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
AS.100.805 (08)

Fall practicum for History TA enrollment only (register under the faculty member’s section for which you will serve as a fall TA).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Rowe, William T
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

First Year Graduate Workshop
AS.100.797 (01)

The graduate workshop allows students, both the first-year cohort and all the graduate students in the department(s) as a group, to meet to discuss themes, topics, concerns, approaches, ideas, methods, and insights together and thus to build a sense of community, cohesiveness, and cooperation within the program and the department as a whole. This course is for History graduate students only.

  • Credits: 2.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: M 12:00PM - 1:30PM
  • Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
  • Room: Gilman 308
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
AS.100.805 (09)

Fall practicum for History TA enrollment only (register under the faculty member’s section for which you will serve as a fall TA).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Humanities Research Lab: The Dutch Americas
AS.360.610 (01)

The Dutch East India Company, or VOC, is historically and art historically well documented and firmly understood. But the Dutch also had significant holdings to the west via the Dutch West India Company, or WIC. They operated and held outposts in the present-day United States (New York/New Amsterdam), Caribbean (Surinam, Curaçao, Bonaire), Latin America (Brazil), and West Africa. Despite the abundance of materials associated with the WIC from this wide geography, these have been scarcely assessed by art historians, and a defined and comprehensive corpus has never been assembled. This class will act as a research lab in which to do so. In research teams, students will map artworks and objects created from that broad, transnational cultural ambit—categories that might include maps, landscape paintings, still life paintings featuring American flora and fauna, botanical illustrations, plantation architecture, luxury objects made from precious raw materials gathered in the Americas, the urban environment of slavery—and develop individual research questions around them. The class will run with a partner lab in the form of a course led by Professor Stephanie Porras at Tulane University. The course will feature speakers; and there is potential for funded travel to conduct research. We will start at the ground level; no previous knowledge about the field is required. Students from all disciplines are welcome.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Graduate
  • Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Hyman, Aaron M.
  • Room: Gilman 177
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Course # (Section) Title Day/Times Instructor Room PosTag(s) Info
AS.100.681 (01)Research Seminar in Atlantic History, 1600-1800T 4:00PM - 6:00PMPearsall, SarahGilman 308
AS.100.719 (01)Directed Readings in Early Modern British HistoryMarshall, John W 
AS.100.653 (01)Africa in the Twentieth CenturyTh 2:00PM - 4:00PMThornberry, ElizabethGilman 305
AS.100.680 (01)Reading Seminar in Early American History, c. 1500-1800W 1:30PM - 4:00PMPearsall, SarahGilman 308
AS.100.631 (01)Readings in Medieval HistoryW 1:30PM - 4:00PMLester, Anne E.Gilman 322
AS.100.634 (01)The Haitian RevolutionW 3:00PM - 5:30PMKwass, Michael 
AS.010.621 (01)An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Architecture and Patronage beyond the Imperial CourtTh 1:30PM - 4:00PMRustem, UnverGilman 177
AS.100.700 (01)American Intellectual HistoryW 2:00PM - 4:00PMBurgin, AngusGilman 305
AS.100.659 (01)Black Radical Tradition and the ImaginaryW 11:30AM - 1:30PMMakalani, MinkahGilman 308
AS.100.707 (01)The Black WorldT 12:00PM - 2:00PMJohnson, Jessica MarieGilman 308
AS.100.647 (01)Historical MethodsTh 11:30AM - 1:30PMConnolly, Nathan D; Turner, SashaGilman 308
AS.100.602 (01)The French RevolutionT 3:00PM - 5:30PMMason, LauraGilman 305
AS.100.717 (01)Directed Readings in Early Modern European Intellectual HistoryMarshall, John W 
AS.100.757 (01)Cultural Histories of Late Imperial ChinaT 1:30PM - 4:00PMMeyer-Fong, TobieGilman 330C
AS.100.769 (01)Gender History WorkshopT 2:00PM - 4:00PMStaffGilman 308
AS.100.781 (01)The SeminarM 3:00PM - 4:30PMStaffGilman 308
AS.100.762 (01)History and Historiography of 19th France in Europe and the WorldM 10:00AM - 12:00PMShepard, ToddGilman 308
AS.100.783 (01)Seminar: Medieval EuropeTh 4:00PM - 6:00PMStaffGilman 308
AS.100.785 (01)Seminar: Early Modern EuropeTh 4:00PM - 6:00PMStaffGilman 308
AS.100.787 (01)Seminar: Modern EuropeTh 4:00PM - 6:00PMStaffGilman 308
AS.100.793 (01)Seminar: AfricanF 3:00PM - 4:30PMThornberry, ElizabethGilman 308
AS.100.795 (01)Seminar: AsianT 10:00AM - 12:00PMStaffGilman 308
AS.100.755 (01)Modern American SeminarW 4:00PM - 6:00PMStaffGilman 308
AS.100.801 (30)Dissertation ResearchTurner, Sasha 
AS.100.805 (02)Fall History Teaching Assistant PracticumHindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne 
AS.100.801 (31)Dissertation ResearchWright Rigueur, Leah M 
AS.100.805 (01)Fall History Teaching Assistant PracticumLester, Anne E. 
AS.100.805 (05)Fall History Teaching Assistant PracticumPearsall, Sarah 
AS.100.805 (03)Fall History Teaching Assistant PracticumHarms, Victoria Elisabeth 
AS.100.805 (07)Fall History Teaching Assistant PracticumNoor, Rao Mohsin Ali 
AS.100.805 (06)Fall History Teaching Assistant PracticumMaciejko, Pawel Tadeusz 
AS.100.805 (08)Fall History Teaching Assistant PracticumRowe, William T 
AS.100.797 (01)First Year Graduate WorkshopM 12:00PM - 1:30PMLester, Anne E.Gilman 308
AS.100.805 (09)Fall History Teaching Assistant PracticumThornberry, Elizabeth 
AS.360.610 (01)Humanities Research Lab: The Dutch AmericasM 1:30PM - 4:00PMHyman, Aaron M.Gilman 177