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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.
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.100.681 (01)
Research Seminar in Atlantic History, 1600-1800
T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Pearsall, Sarah
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.719 (01)
Directed Readings in Early Modern British History
Marshall, John W
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
AS.100.653 (01)
Africa in the Twentieth Century
Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Gilman 305
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
AS.100.680 (01)
Reading Seminar in Early American History, c. 1500-1800
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pearsall, Sarah
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.631 (01)
Readings in Medieval History
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lester, Anne E.
Gilman 322
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
AS.100.634 (01)
The Haitian Revolution
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Kwass, Michael
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
AS.010.621 (01)
An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Architecture and Patronage beyond the Imperial Court
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 177
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
AS.100.700 (01)
American Intellectual History
W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Burgin, Angus
Gilman 305
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
AS.100.659 (01)
Black Radical Tradition and the Imaginary
W 11:30AM - 1:30PM
Makalani, Minkah
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.707 (01)
The Black World
T 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Johnson, Jessica Marie
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.647 (01)
Historical Methods
Th 11:30AM - 1:30PM
Connolly, Nathan D; Turner, Sasha
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.602 (01)
The French Revolution
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Mason, Laura
Gilman 305
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
AS.100.717 (01)
Directed Readings in Early Modern European Intellectual History
Marshall, John W
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
AS.100.757 (01)
Cultural Histories of Late Imperial China
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Gilman 330C
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
AS.100.769 (01)
Gender History Workshop
T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Staff
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.781 (01)
The Seminar
M 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Staff
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.762 (01)
History and Historiography of 19th France in Europe and the World
M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Shepard, Todd
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.783 (01)
Seminar: Medieval Europe
Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Staff
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.785 (01)
Seminar: Early Modern Europe
Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Staff
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.787 (01)
Seminar: Modern Europe
Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Staff
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.793 (01)
Seminar: African
F 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.795 (01)
Seminar: Asian
T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Staff
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.755 (01)
Modern American Seminar
W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Staff
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.801 (30)
Dissertation Research
Turner, Sasha
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
AS.100.805 (02)
Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
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
AS.100.801 (31)
Dissertation Research
Wright Rigueur, Leah M
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
AS.100.805 (01)
Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
Lester, Anne E.
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
AS.100.805 (05)
Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
Pearsall, Sarah
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
AS.100.805 (03)
Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
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
AS.100.805 (07)
Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
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
AS.100.805 (06)
Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
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
AS.100.805 (08)
Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
Rowe, William T
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
AS.100.797 (01)
First Year Graduate Workshop
M 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Lester, Anne E.
Gilman 308
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
AS.100.805 (09)
Fall History Teaching Assistant Practicum
Thornberry, Elizabeth
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
AS.360.610 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: The Dutch Americas
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hyman, Aaron M.
Gilman 177
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.
