Art and knowledge in medieval Southern Italy
AS.010.601 (01)

The seminar examines the intersection of art and science in the region of southern Italy. Different from the situation in central and northern Italy, where the accumulation and distribution of knowledge was controlled by scholasticism and the papal court in Rome, the multicultural identity in southern Italy, created centers of learning more independent from the church. The geographical exposure and trade connections across the Eastern Mediterranean and northern Africa facilitated the import of scientific knowledge available in the Islamic World. We will focus on illuminated manuscripts connected with the medical school of Salerno, the first treatise on falconry authored by Emperor Frederik II, Peter of Eboli’s treatise on the thermal baths of Pozzuoli and his chronicle for Emperor Henry VI, and Hrabanus Maurus’ encyclopedia de natura. Moreover, we will investigate the importance of the first secular university, founded by the highly learned Frederik II, called the ‘predecessor of the anti-Christ’ for the education in the sciences and its ties to production of art works.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 8/12
• PosTag(s): HART-MED, GRLL-ENGL

An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Architecture and Patronage beyond the Imperial Court
AS.010.605 (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 seminar 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: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Rustem, Unver
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): HART-NW

Readings in Medieval Islamic Cultural History
AS.100.610 (01)

The seminar examines scholarship on central questions in medieval Islamic cultural history including historical writing; the history of education and scholarly cultures; cultural patronage and urban development.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: El-leithy, Tamer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Modern Japanese and Korean Histories
AS.100.613 (01)

A reading seminar on the interconnected histories and historiographies of Japan and Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kim, Hayang
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Early Modern France
AS.100.619 (01)

The second part of a two-semester sequence, this seminar examines the history of France and its empire from the seventeenth century to the French Revolution.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Kwass, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Reading Seminar in Atlantic History 1600-1800
AS.100.680 (01)

This reading seminar will highlight some of the major new works and wide-ranging genres in this lively, stimulating field.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Morgan, Philip
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

American Intellectual History
AS.100.700 (01)

Readings on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and transatlantic social theory.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Burgin, Angus
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

The Black World II
AS.100.708 (01)

The Black World Seminar considers the making and meaning of blackness between the 14th and 20th centuries and Africans and people of African descent’s impact on the making of the modern world, from the slave trade to the present. We explore, too, the historical forces which created blackness as a marker on the body and as a political and cultural identity.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 12:00PM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Connolly, Nathan D, Turner Bryson, Sasha
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Reformation Europe
AS.100.710 (01)

A course discussing major recent works of historiography on Reformation Europe, examining Lutheranism, Calvinism and Anabaptism; iconoclasm, visual, and print culture; urban, social, and gender history; demonology and witchcraft; and martyrology, tolerance and intolerance.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marshall, John W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Cultural Theory For Historians
AS.100.716 (01)

An examination of modern cultural theories, with emphasis on mass culture and consumerism. Authors include Simmel, Kracauer, Benjamin, Horkheimer, Adorno, Barthes, Debord, Bourdieu, and de Certeau.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Historical Writing in the Middle Ages
AS.100.728 (01)

This course investigates the basic techniques of writing history and the matters traditionally covered in medieval historical texts by reading a series of exemplary medieval historiographical works. This is period is preceded by a section on theoretical orientations to the study of history and historiography in order to provide the analytic tools for analyzing medieval texts.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Spiegel, Gabrielle M
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Reading Seminar: British and French North America and the Early United States in Atlantic Perspective
AS.100.730 (01)

Continuation of AS.100.729 for students conducting field exams.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Furstenberg, Francois
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Early Modern Britain and the Early Modern British Empire
AS.100.736 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Marshall, John W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Twentieth Century France and the French Empire
AS.100.744 (01)

We will read and discuss recent monographs and historiographical essays that emerge from and inform French history, with particular attention transnational, imperial, Mediterranean, international, and colonial frames and questions.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Shepard, Todd
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Modern American Seminar
AS.100.753 (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: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Gender History Workshop
AS.100.770 (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. Graduate students only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katie
• Room: Shaffer 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

The Seminar
AS.100.782 (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: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 4:00PM - 5:50PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/60
• PosTag(s): n/a

Seminar: Medieval Europe
AS.100.784 (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: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 5:50PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Seminar: Early Modern Europe
AS.100.786 (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: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 5:50PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

General Seminar: Modern Europe
AS.100.788 (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: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 5:50PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

General Seminar: America
AS.100.790 (01)

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

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 5:50PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 26/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

General Seminar: Africa
AS.100.794 (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: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: F 3:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

First Year Graduate Workshop
AS.100.798 (01)

First-year graduate workshop for History PhD candidates only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 12:00PM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Shepard, Todd
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Paquette, Gabriel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/3
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brooks, Jeffrey P
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Morgan, Philip
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (04)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lurtz, Casey
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/3
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Burgin, Angus
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (07)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Connolly, Nathan D
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (08)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Jones, Martha Suzanne
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (09)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (10)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (11)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (12)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (13)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kwass, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (14)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Turner Bryson, Sasha
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (15)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marshall, John W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (16)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (17)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moss, Kenneth
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (18)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rowe, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (19)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rowe, William T
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (20)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lester, Anne
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (21)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (22)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Shepard, Todd
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (23)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: El-leithy, Tamer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (24)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kim, Hayang
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (25)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Walters, Ronald
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (26)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Spiegel, Gabrielle M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (27)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kagan, Richard
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (28)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Furstenberg, Francois
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (29)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elizabeth
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.100.802 (30)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.100.804 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lurtz, Casey
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.100.804 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rowe, William T
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.100.804 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Burgin, Angus
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.100.804 (04)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brooks, Jeffrey P
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.100.804 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kwass, Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/2
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.100.804 (06)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elizabeth
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.100.804 (07)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Shepard, Todd
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Spring Practicum
AS.100.822 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Early Modern Iberia and its World
AS.140.682 (01)

This reading seminar will engage recent historical works on the early modern Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, with a particular emphasis on themes associated with science and religion.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 2:20PM
• Instructor: Portuondo, Maria M, Rowe, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Media Theory and Modernity
AS.360.612 (01)

This course will engage with 20th century critical theory and social inquiry that wrestles with the idea that new mediations have profoundly altered the character of human experience and subjectivity, and it will consider the questions that these theorists pose for our disciplines. How have modern subjectivity, gender, affect, reason, and politics been shaped by the technologies and structures of representation that mediate them? Among figures of interest: Marx, Freud, Eisenstein, Benjamin, Bakhtin, Adorno, Deleuze, Guy Debord, Haraway, Stuart Hall, Teresa de Lauretis, Kitterer, Sobchack, Berlant, Latour, Linda Williams, Ranciere, Orit Halpern.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 2:30PM
• Instructor: Eakin Moss, Anne, Moss, Kenneth
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Latin America in a Globalizing World
AS.360.623 (01)

An interdisciplinary seminar on Latin America’s role in global economic processes, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Participants will engage with scholarly texts as well as share written work.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Lurtz, Casey, Thornton, Christy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/25
• PosTag(s): n/a