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.
Courses with numbers 100–299 are designed for first years and sophomores but are open to all undergraduate students. Advanced courses, with numbers 300–499, are generally designed for students who have completed introductory courses in the appropriate area while 500-level courses are reserved for the Senior Thesis (AS.100.507/AS.100.508) and Independent Studies (AS.100.535/AS.100.536). Courses that are 500-level are listed as Independent Academic Work (IAW) courses.
Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Location
Term
Course Details
AS.001.120 (01)
FYS: U.S. History of the Present
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Brann, Allon Yagoda
Gilman 413
Fall 2025
Which ideas, movements, problems, and conflicts define the contemporary United States—and where did they come from? In this First-Year Seminar, we’ll study the history of this country since the turn of the 21st century to try to answer those questions. Using a range of texts and visual media, we’ll investigate the history behind concepts like "the War on Terror," “the free market,” “identity politics,” “culture wars,” and "populism," and discuss the causes and consequences of the debates they provoked in this period. We’ll also assess what’s appealing and challenging about studying the very recent past and using it to interpret our present.
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FYS: U.S. History of the Present AS.001.120 (01)
Which ideas, movements, problems, and conflicts define the contemporary United States—and where did they come from? In this First-Year Seminar, we’ll study the history of this country since the turn of the 21st century to try to answer those questions. Using a range of texts and visual media, we’ll investigate the history behind concepts like "the War on Terror," “the free market,” “identity politics,” “culture wars,” and "populism," and discuss the causes and consequences of the debates they provoked in this period. We’ll also assess what’s appealing and challenging about studying the very recent past and using it to interpret our present.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Brann, Allon Yagoda
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): CES-ELECT
AS.001.232 (01)
FYS: German Thought, German Theater: Reason, Capital, Sex and Science
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Jelavich, Peter
Jenkins 102
Fall 2025
Over the past 250 years, Germany has produced some of the most influential currents of theory as well as drama. In this course, we will read and view plays and films that address developments in German thought and society from the Enlightenment to the present. We will ask: How effective are performances at transmitting ideas and values? How do they balance emotional involvement with intellectual understanding? These issues will be examined with respect to four themes: reason and enlightenment; capitalism; sexualities; and moral dilemmas raised by scientific discoveries.
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FYS: German Thought, German Theater: Reason, Capital, Sex and Science AS.001.232 (01)
Over the past 250 years, Germany has produced some of the most influential currents of theory as well as drama. In this course, we will read and view plays and films that address developments in German thought and society from the Enlightenment to the present. We will ask: How effective are performances at transmitting ideas and values? How do they balance emotional involvement with intellectual understanding? These issues will be examined with respect to four themes: reason and enlightenment; capitalism; sexualities; and moral dilemmas raised by scientific discoveries.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: Jenkins 102
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.256 (01)
FYS: Monuments and Memory in Asian History
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Gilman 308
Fall 2025
Sites like the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, and Angkor Wat conjure images that often have more to do with fantasy than fact. Modern monuments like Yasukuni Shrine and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial similarly evoke history, memory, and myth. Why (and how) were these monuments built? How have their meanings changed over time and why? What forces have transformed them into symbols of national identity and cultural otherness? This First-Year Seminar will explore the ritual, political, historical, and religious significance of monumental sites in Asia. We will also examine their more recent role as sites for political mobilization, as signifiers of cultural and national identities, and as commodities in global and local tourism.
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FYS: Monuments and Memory in Asian History AS.001.256 (01)
Sites like the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, and Angkor Wat conjure images that often have more to do with fantasy than fact. Modern monuments like Yasukuni Shrine and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial similarly evoke history, memory, and myth. Why (and how) were these monuments built? How have their meanings changed over time and why? What forces have transformed them into symbols of national identity and cultural otherness? This First-Year Seminar will explore the ritual, political, historical, and religious significance of monumental sites in Asia. We will also examine their more recent role as sites for political mobilization, as signifiers of cultural and national identities, and as commodities in global and local tourism.
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.273 (01)
FYS: The Long Civil Rights Movement in 20th-Century America
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Wright Rigueur, Leah M
SNF Agora 107
Fall 2025
This First-Year Seminar traces the development of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States over the course of the 20th Century. By exploring some of the major sites of conflict, activism, protest, opposition, and resistance in modern African American History, we will begin to complicate traditional understandings of Black freedom struggles in the United States. Why and how did African Americans mobilize and organize for their rights? How did they imagine citizenship, Black freedom, and equality within the United States? How did these events impact public life and public policy? What are the legacies of the movement? Students will analyze a broad range of primary and secondary source materials, including the writings of W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and more. Additionally, students will watch a series of civil rights films related to the broad themes of the course and will visit local museums and archives as part of a larger experiential component, to better understand the significance of the modern Civil Rights Movement on contemporary American society and culture.
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FYS: The Long Civil Rights Movement in 20th-Century America AS.001.273 (01)
This First-Year Seminar traces the development of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States over the course of the 20th Century. By exploring some of the major sites of conflict, activism, protest, opposition, and resistance in modern African American History, we will begin to complicate traditional understandings of Black freedom struggles in the United States. Why and how did African Americans mobilize and organize for their rights? How did they imagine citizenship, Black freedom, and equality within the United States? How did these events impact public life and public policy? What are the legacies of the movement? Students will analyze a broad range of primary and secondary source materials, including the writings of W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and more. Additionally, students will watch a series of civil rights films related to the broad themes of the course and will visit local museums and archives as part of a larger experiential component, to better understand the significance of the modern Civil Rights Movement on contemporary American society and culture.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Wright Rigueur, Leah M
Room: SNF Agora 107
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.276 (01)
FYS: Friends or Foes? US-European Relations since 1979
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Gilman 413
Fall 2025
This First-year Seminar offers students the opportunity to better understand current debates through the lens of key documents and controversies that illustrate shared interests and disagreements between the US and Europe since the pivotal year 1979. Topics include but are not limited to: NATO, arms limitations and reduction, the Polish Crisis, Chernobyl, Gorbachev, German unification, collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and the GWOT, the financial crisis of 2008-2012, Ukraine, the EU, the rise of China and climate change. The seminar includes a visit to the Delegation of the European Union in DC and other conversations with experts.
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FYS: Friends or Foes? US-European Relations since 1979 AS.001.276 (01)
This First-year Seminar offers students the opportunity to better understand current debates through the lens of key documents and controversies that illustrate shared interests and disagreements between the US and Europe since the pivotal year 1979. Topics include but are not limited to: NATO, arms limitations and reduction, the Polish Crisis, Chernobyl, Gorbachev, German unification, collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and the GWOT, the financial crisis of 2008-2012, Ukraine, the EU, the rise of China and climate change. The seminar includes a visit to the Delegation of the European Union in DC and other conversations with experts.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.358 (01)
The Art of Celebration in Early Modern Northern Europe
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Slater, Alexis Diane
Gilman 177
Fall 2025
The lavish feasts and dynamic jousts associated with medieval and Renaissance celebrations have long been subjects of fascination in popular culture and will be familiar to anyone who has watched House of the Dragon or attended a modern “Renaissance” fair. But what did these celebrations mean in their original context? This course aims to take “play” seriously by examining the wide-ranging material culture of courtly and civic festivities in Germany and the Netherlands from 1400 to 1600. The art created for festive events ranges from panel paintings and tapestries to table fountains and drinking vessels made of expensive and “exotic” materials. Artists were also responsible for the design and construction of ephemeral architecture for triumphal entries as well as the festival books that commemorated them. But these works did more than just facilitate fun; they were tools of communication that made arguments about issues such as social class, identity, and power. They also engaged with the geopolitical and intellectual developments of the period. There are drinking vessels, for instance, made of nautilus shells, Seychelles nuts, or bezoars, whose materials and construction offer insight into global exploration and European colonialism as well as medicinal practices. Automata, machines akin to premodern “robots,” frequently provided entertainment for guests at aristocratic banquets by showing off the latest technological developments. While the study of any historical event faces the daunting task of recuperating what has been lost to time, this rings especially true for the study of festivities. In this course, we turn to these celebrations’ artistic and material traces to illuminate the past. As object-based learning is an important component of this course, we will visit several local collections including the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington, and Johns Hopkins’ Special Collections.
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The Art of Celebration in Early Modern Northern Europe AS.010.358 (01)
The lavish feasts and dynamic jousts associated with medieval and Renaissance celebrations have long been subjects of fascination in popular culture and will be familiar to anyone who has watched House of the Dragon or attended a modern “Renaissance” fair. But what did these celebrations mean in their original context? This course aims to take “play” seriously by examining the wide-ranging material culture of courtly and civic festivities in Germany and the Netherlands from 1400 to 1600. The art created for festive events ranges from panel paintings and tapestries to table fountains and drinking vessels made of expensive and “exotic” materials. Artists were also responsible for the design and construction of ephemeral architecture for triumphal entries as well as the festival books that commemorated them. But these works did more than just facilitate fun; they were tools of communication that made arguments about issues such as social class, identity, and power. They also engaged with the geopolitical and intellectual developments of the period. There are drinking vessels, for instance, made of nautilus shells, Seychelles nuts, or bezoars, whose materials and construction offer insight into global exploration and European colonialism as well as medicinal practices. Automata, machines akin to premodern “robots,” frequently provided entertainment for guests at aristocratic banquets by showing off the latest technological developments. While the study of any historical event faces the daunting task of recuperating what has been lost to time, this rings especially true for the study of festivities. In this course, we turn to these celebrations’ artistic and material traces to illuminate the past. As object-based learning is an important component of this course, we will visit several local collections including the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington, and Johns Hopkins’ Special Collections.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Slater, Alexis Diane
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): HART-RENEM
AS.010.431 (01)
Obsessed with the Past: the Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Zchomelidse, Nino
Gilman 177
Fall 2025
In antiquity, Rome became the capital of an empire, its growing status reflected in its sophisticated urban planning, its architecture, and the arts. While an abundance of studies explores the revival of this glorious past in the Renaissance, this seminar discusses various ways of the reception of antiquity during the medieval period. We address the practice of using spolia in medieval architecture, the appropriation of ancient pagan buildings for the performance of Christian cult practices, the continuation of making (cult)images and their veneration, the meaning and specific visuality of Latin script (paleography and epigraphy) in later medieval art. We discuss the revival and systematic study of ancient knowledge (f. ex. medicine, astronomy, and the liberal arts), in complex allegorical murals. As we aim to reconstruct the art and architecture of medieval Rome, this course discusses ideas and concepts behind different forms of re-building and picturing the past, as they intersect with the self-referential character of a city that is obsessed with its own history.
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Obsessed with the Past: the Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome AS.010.431 (01)
In antiquity, Rome became the capital of an empire, its growing status reflected in its sophisticated urban planning, its architecture, and the arts. While an abundance of studies explores the revival of this glorious past in the Renaissance, this seminar discusses various ways of the reception of antiquity during the medieval period. We address the practice of using spolia in medieval architecture, the appropriation of ancient pagan buildings for the performance of Christian cult practices, the continuation of making (cult)images and their veneration, the meaning and specific visuality of Latin script (paleography and epigraphy) in later medieval art. We discuss the revival and systematic study of ancient knowledge (f. ex. medicine, astronomy, and the liberal arts), in complex allegorical murals. As we aim to reconstruct the art and architecture of medieval Rome, this course discusses ideas and concepts behind different forms of re-building and picturing the past, as they intersect with the self-referential character of a city that is obsessed with its own history.
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, HART-MED
AS.010.497 (01)
Reply-All: Letter-Writing in Art and History
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 177
Fall 2025
From embellished silver pens and abolitionist secretary desks to contemporary artists manipulating historical postcards and making fax collages, this course will explore the materiality, technologies, and aesthetics of written communications from the 18th century to the present. This research-centered course will engage directly with objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art collection, in preparation for an upcoming exhibition. Topics include the development of specific decorative arts and designs in conjunction with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century postal and bureaucratic history, letter-writing as a mode of resistance, strategic illegibility and asemic writing as a form of critical artistic practice, and the importance of mail art as conceptual and institutional critique. Includes hands-on work in the museum and class visits with BMA curator Dr. Leslie Cozzi.
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Reply-All: Letter-Writing in Art and History AS.010.497 (01)
From embellished silver pens and abolitionist secretary desks to contemporary artists manipulating historical postcards and making fax collages, this course will explore the materiality, technologies, and aesthetics of written communications from the 18th century to the present. This research-centered course will engage directly with objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art collection, in preparation for an upcoming exhibition. Topics include the development of specific decorative arts and designs in conjunction with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century postal and bureaucratic history, letter-writing as a mode of resistance, strategic illegibility and asemic writing as a form of critical artistic practice, and the importance of mail art as conceptual and institutional critique. Includes hands-on work in the museum and class visits with BMA curator Dr. Leslie Cozzi.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 1/5
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN, MSCH-HUM
AS.100.104 (01)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 132; Gilman 277
Fall 2025
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
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Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (01)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 132; Gilman 277
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (02)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 132; Gilman 277
Fall 2025
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
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Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (02)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 132; Gilman 277
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (03)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 132; Bloomberg 178
Fall 2025
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
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Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (03)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 132; Bloomberg 178
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (04)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 132; Gilman 305
Fall 2025
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
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Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (04)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 132; Gilman 305
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.106 (01)
History of the Global Cold War
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Hodson 316; Gilman 400
Fall 2025
The Cold War was a defining event of the 20th century. But what was it? Where did it take place? Who were the major contenders? And what were the consequences? This introductory course will examine the Cold War in a global context, looking beyond the United States and Europe. Students will learn about how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in relation to the fall of European empires, the process of decolonization, and the rise of U.S. global power. This course will introduce students to key themes and primary sources in the study of the Global Cold War, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc.
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History of the Global Cold War AS.100.106 (01)
The Cold War was a defining event of the 20th century. But what was it? Where did it take place? Who were the major contenders? And what were the consequences? This introductory course will examine the Cold War in a global context, looking beyond the United States and Europe. Students will learn about how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in relation to the fall of European empires, the process of decolonization, and the rise of U.S. global power. This course will introduce students to key themes and primary sources in the study of the Global Cold War, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
The Cold War was a defining event of the 20th century. But what was it? Where did it take place? Who were the major contenders? And what were the consequences? This introductory course will examine the Cold War in a global context, looking beyond the United States and Europe. Students will learn about how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in relation to the fall of European empires, the process of decolonization, and the rise of U.S. global power. This course will introduce students to key themes and primary sources in the study of the Global Cold War, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc.
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History of the Global Cold War AS.100.106 (02)
The Cold War was a defining event of the 20th century. But what was it? Where did it take place? Who were the major contenders? And what were the consequences? This introductory course will examine the Cold War in a global context, looking beyond the United States and Europe. Students will learn about how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in relation to the fall of European empires, the process of decolonization, and the rise of U.S. global power. This course will introduce students to key themes and primary sources in the study of the Global Cold War, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
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Introduction to the Middle East AS.100.118 (01)
Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Krieger 170; Greenhouse 113
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 2/12
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.118 (02)
Introduction to the Middle East
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Krieger 170; Gilman 400
Fall 2025
Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
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Introduction to the Middle East AS.100.118 (02)
Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Krieger 170; Gilman 400
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 10/12
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.118 (03)
Introduction to the Middle East
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Krieger 170; Gilman 77
Fall 2025
Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
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Introduction to the Middle East AS.100.118 (03)
Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Krieger 170; Gilman 77
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 7/12
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.118 (04)
Introduction to the Middle East
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Krieger 170; Gilman 10
Fall 2025
Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
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Introduction to the Middle East AS.100.118 (04)
Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Krieger 170; Gilman 10
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 9/12
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.125 (01)
The History of Gender and Sexuality on the Internet
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Gill Peterson, Jules
Gilman 413
Fall 2025
The growth of the internet and social media since the 1990s has been associated with an explosion of identities and a perception that younger generations have redefined gender and sexuality online. This course will introduce students to critically examining that premise. Topics will include the transgender history of Silicon Valley, the Tumblr era, the rise of queer and nonbinary influencers, and the redefinition of political engagement on social media.
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The History of Gender and Sexuality on the Internet AS.100.125 (01)
The growth of the internet and social media since the 1990s has been associated with an explosion of identities and a perception that younger generations have redefined gender and sexuality online. This course will introduce students to critically examining that premise. Topics will include the transgender history of Silicon Valley, the Tumblr era, the rise of queer and nonbinary influencers, and the redefinition of political engagement on social media.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Gill Peterson, Jules
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): HIST-US, CES-GI, CES-TI
AS.100.144 (01)
Shopaholics: Consumer Revolution and the Material World, 1600-1850
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Katz, Anna May
Gilman 119
Fall 2025
We live in a world of global consumption. This course introduces students to the birth of global consumer culture in the period from the 1600s through to the American, French and Haitian revolutions. These revolutions were themselves sold to consumers through “revolutionary things”, and this period witnessed the first major consumer boycotts against slave-produced goods. Students will examine the histories of many key commodities involved in the “consumer revolution”, including fashion items such as shoes, wigs, clothing and accessories. A significant portion of the course will examine addictive stimulants like sugar, coffee, tea and tobacco, globalized and imperial goods which became common for the first time in this period. We shall see how production of these goods involved new forms of racialized exploitation; simultaneously, we shall explore the diversity of people involved in the consumer revolution, studying the consumption of important new goods by people living in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. By the end of the class, students will understand how the emergence of mass consumption affected the global politics of race, gender and class, with especially important consequences for women and non-elite men. Students will examine objects lauded for their politeness, decorative appeal, and cultural importance such as porcelain tea sets, snuffboxes, and fans. Students will choose their own objects for a student presentation and research project.
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Shopaholics: Consumer Revolution and the Material World, 1600-1850 AS.100.144 (01)
We live in a world of global consumption. This course introduces students to the birth of global consumer culture in the period from the 1600s through to the American, French and Haitian revolutions. These revolutions were themselves sold to consumers through “revolutionary things”, and this period witnessed the first major consumer boycotts against slave-produced goods. Students will examine the histories of many key commodities involved in the “consumer revolution”, including fashion items such as shoes, wigs, clothing and accessories. A significant portion of the course will examine addictive stimulants like sugar, coffee, tea and tobacco, globalized and imperial goods which became common for the first time in this period. We shall see how production of these goods involved new forms of racialized exploitation; simultaneously, we shall explore the diversity of people involved in the consumer revolution, studying the consumption of important new goods by people living in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. By the end of the class, students will understand how the emergence of mass consumption affected the global politics of race, gender and class, with especially important consequences for women and non-elite men. Students will examine objects lauded for their politeness, decorative appeal, and cultural importance such as porcelain tea sets, snuffboxes, and fans. Students will choose their own objects for a student presentation and research project.
This course explores the origins and evolution of antisemitism, with focus on questions of historical continuity and rupture, comparison with other hatreds, and the politics of history.
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Antisemitism in Historical Perspective AS.100.226 (01)
This course explores the origins and evolution of antisemitism, with focus on questions of historical continuity and rupture, comparison with other hatreds, and the politics of history.
There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role within Europe and the world from the 18th century, through imperialism, WWI and WWII, the Cold War to German unification, the ‘Refugee Crisis’, the rise of the AfD, and EU politics today.
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History of Modern Germany AS.100.233 (01)
There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role within Europe and the world from the 18th century, through imperialism, WWI and WWII, the Cold War to German unification, the ‘Refugee Crisis’, the rise of the AfD, and EU politics today.
This course surveys the history of Jewish magic, mysticism, and secret traditions from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. We will explore the concept of sod (mystery) and its historical variations, examining how it evolved over time. Readings will include excerpts from foundational texts of Jewish esotericism, such as Sefer Yetzirah, the Bahir, and the Zohar. Additionally, we will discuss practical Kabbalah—including the preparation and use of amulets and charms—as well as beliefs surrounding demonic (and angelic) possession.
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History of Kabbalah AS.100.256 (01)
This course surveys the history of Jewish magic, mysticism, and secret traditions from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. We will explore the concept of sod (mystery) and its historical variations, examining how it evolved over time. Readings will include excerpts from foundational texts of Jewish esotericism, such as Sefer Yetzirah, the Bahir, and the Zohar. Additionally, we will discuss practical Kabbalah—including the preparation and use of amulets and charms—as well as beliefs surrounding demonic (and angelic) possession.
Days/Times: M 9:30AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 10/20
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.282 (01)
Race & Power in Modern South Africa
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Gilman 17; Gilman 119
Fall 2025
From 1948-1994, South Africa was governed under the system of apartheid, which denied political and civil rights to non-white citizens. This class traces the rise of apartheid in South Africa as well as the liberation struggle that eventually defeated it.
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Race & Power in Modern South Africa AS.100.282 (01)
From 1948-1994, South Africa was governed under the system of apartheid, which denied political and civil rights to non-white citizens. This class traces the rise of apartheid in South Africa as well as the liberation struggle that eventually defeated it.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
From 1948-1994, South Africa was governed under the system of apartheid, which denied political and civil rights to non-white citizens. This class traces the rise of apartheid in South Africa as well as the liberation struggle that eventually defeated it.
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Race & Power in Modern South Africa AS.100.282 (02)
From 1948-1994, South Africa was governed under the system of apartheid, which denied political and civil rights to non-white citizens. This class traces the rise of apartheid in South Africa as well as the liberation struggle that eventually defeated it.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
This course will survey the main methods of and approaches to history since the Ancient times till the present. We shall begin by asking “What is history?” and explicate the basic concepts such as “fact”, “event”, “source”, narrative”, “evidence”, etc. We shall inquire if history can teach lessons for the future, or, for that matter, any lessons at all. We shall explore the interactions of history and collective memory and discuss various social, political, and psychological uses and abuses of historical writing.
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Historical Methods, Archives and Interpretations AS.100.293 (01)
This course will survey the main methods of and approaches to history since the Ancient times till the present. We shall begin by asking “What is history?” and explicate the basic concepts such as “fact”, “event”, “source”, narrative”, “evidence”, etc. We shall inquire if history can teach lessons for the future, or, for that matter, any lessons at all. We shall explore the interactions of history and collective memory and discuss various social, political, and psychological uses and abuses of historical writing.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 15/30
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.329 (01)
Animals in Chinese and Japanese History
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Sampias, Wesley Jordan
Gilman 75
Fall 2025
Everyday, we all have encounters with animals: the mosquito that bites our arm, the rat that runs in front of us on the sidewalk, the dog that greets us upon our return home. These interactions are quotidian, but rarely reflected in the histories that we read. In this class, we will bring the animal back into the narratives that we tell by considering history from a multispecies perspective. Taking the examples of China and Japan, we will see how animals, both real and metaphoric, played a critical role in the political, economic, religious, and social lives of our historical, human, actors. We will see how the inclusion of animals in history bolsters and challenges history as it has been written and gain a deeper understanding of how our current mores regarding animals came to be. Our class will begin with a discussion of Japan and China in the 17th century and end with contemporary controversies surrounding Japanese whaling and shark fin soup. Throughout the course we will consider the ethical and philosophical ramifications of our inquiries like the agency of non-human animals. Designed for upper-level undergraduate students interested in the history of East Asia, prior knowledge of the region will be useful but is not required.
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Animals in Chinese and Japanese History AS.100.329 (01)
Everyday, we all have encounters with animals: the mosquito that bites our arm, the rat that runs in front of us on the sidewalk, the dog that greets us upon our return home. These interactions are quotidian, but rarely reflected in the histories that we read. In this class, we will bring the animal back into the narratives that we tell by considering history from a multispecies perspective. Taking the examples of China and Japan, we will see how animals, both real and metaphoric, played a critical role in the political, economic, religious, and social lives of our historical, human, actors. We will see how the inclusion of animals in history bolsters and challenges history as it has been written and gain a deeper understanding of how our current mores regarding animals came to be. Our class will begin with a discussion of Japan and China in the 17th century and end with contemporary controversies surrounding Japanese whaling and shark fin soup. Throughout the course we will consider the ethical and philosophical ramifications of our inquiries like the agency of non-human animals. Designed for upper-level undergraduate students interested in the history of East Asia, prior knowledge of the region will be useful but is not required.
The focus will be on Soviet-American interactions, Cold-War Cultures, and the impact on both societies.
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Soviet-American Cold War AS.100.346 (01)
The focus will be on Soviet-American interactions, Cold-War Cultures, and the impact on both societies.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Schmelz, Peter John
Room: Gilman 75
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.347 (01)
Early Modern China
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Rowe, William T
Gilman 55
Fall 2025
The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries.
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Early Modern China AS.100.347 (01)
The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 22/40
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.373 (01)
Crime, Punishment, Felony and Freedom: Law and Society in Premodern England, 1066 to 1688
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Lester, Anne E.
Hodson 313
Fall 2025
This course explores the development of English law and the English legal tradition from the Norman Conquest through the English Revolution (ca. 1066-1688). We will begin by tracing the impact of the Norman Conquest of England and examine the origins and development of English legal and political institutions such as kingship, the common law, the evolution of legal procedure, and the court and jury system, ideas of franchise, treason and the emergence of Parliament. We will also consider how English law constructs legal categories including aliens, women, heirs, traitors as well as the legal framework for the emergence of the English Church under the Tudors. When applicable the implications of these institutions for developments in the contemporary American and British legal systems will be addressed.
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Crime, Punishment, Felony and Freedom: Law and Society in Premodern England, 1066 to 1688 AS.100.373 (01)
This course explores the development of English law and the English legal tradition from the Norman Conquest through the English Revolution (ca. 1066-1688). We will begin by tracing the impact of the Norman Conquest of England and examine the origins and development of English legal and political institutions such as kingship, the common law, the evolution of legal procedure, and the court and jury system, ideas of franchise, treason and the emergence of Parliament. We will also consider how English law constructs legal categories including aliens, women, heirs, traitors as well as the legal framework for the emergence of the English Church under the Tudors. When applicable the implications of these institutions for developments in the contemporary American and British legal systems will be addressed.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
Room: Hodson 313
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 2/25
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, CES-LSO, CES-PD
AS.100.422 (01)
Society & Social Change in 18th Century China
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rowe, William T
Gilman 277
Fall 2025
What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era?
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Society & Social Change in 18th Century China AS.100.422 (01)
What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era?
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: Gilman 277
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.426 (01)
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 308
Fall 2025
Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe AS.100.426 (01)
Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/19
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.429 (01)
Witchcraft and Conflict in Early America
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pearsall, Sarah
Gilman 400
Fall 2025
“They Say I am a witch,” declared one woman in seventeenth-century North America. Trials and fights over accusations of witchcraft provide rich material for an examination of early American power dynamics. This class will explore moments of such accusations. The class will culminate in a final project on a witchcraft case in early America.
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Witchcraft and Conflict in Early America AS.100.429 (01)
“They Say I am a witch,” declared one woman in seventeenth-century North America. Trials and fights over accusations of witchcraft provide rich material for an examination of early American power dynamics. This class will explore moments of such accusations. The class will culminate in a final project on a witchcraft case in early America.
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
Room: Gilman 400
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/16
PosTag(s): HIST-US, MSCH-HUM
AS.100.444 (01)
Historiography of the Maghreb, 1939 to the Present
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Shepard, Todd
Bloomberg 172
Fall 2025
We will explore key texts in the historiography of post-1939 North Africa as well as key recent publications, in French as well as in English.
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Historiography of the Maghreb, 1939 to the Present AS.100.444 (01)
We will explore key texts in the historiography of post-1939 North Africa as well as key recent publications, in French as well as in English.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Shepard, Todd
Room: Bloomberg 172
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.445 (01)
Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marshall, John W
Krieger 308
Fall 2025
This seminar-style course will focus on discussing British and American political thought from the "Age of Revolutions", a period also of many critiques of Empire and of many works of Antislavery. Readings include Paine's Common Sense and Rights of Man, the Declaration of Rights, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers; works by Smith, Burke, and Wollstonecraft; and antislavery works by Cugoano, Equiano, Rush, Wesley, and Wilberforce.
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Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights AS.100.445 (01)
This seminar-style course will focus on discussing British and American political thought from the "Age of Revolutions", a period also of many critiques of Empire and of many works of Antislavery. Readings include Paine's Common Sense and Rights of Man, the Declaration of Rights, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers; works by Smith, Burke, and Wollstonecraft; and antislavery works by Cugoano, Equiano, Rush, Wesley, and Wilberforce.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Krieger 308
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/19
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, CES-LSO, CES-RI
AS.100.507 (01)
Senior Honors Thesis
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Furstenberg, Francois
Bloomberg 172
Fall 2025
The Senior Honors Seminar is a coordinating seminar for senior history majors who are writing senior honors theses and wish to graduate with departmental honors. We will discuss the organization of your historical research projects and help you prepare for writing your senior thesis based on that research. This is an interactive class that helps make the most of your senior thesis experience!
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Senior Honors Thesis AS.100.507 (01)
The Senior Honors Seminar is a coordinating seminar for senior history majors who are writing senior honors theses and wish to graduate with departmental honors. We will discuss the organization of your historical research projects and help you prepare for writing your senior thesis based on that research. This is an interactive class that helps make the most of your senior thesis experience!
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Furstenberg, Francois
Room: Bloomberg 172
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.535 (01)
Independent Study
Burgin, Angus
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (01)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Instructor: Burgin, Angus
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AS.100.535 (02)
Independent Study
Celenza, Chris S.
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (02)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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AS.100.535 (03)
Independent Study
Connolly, Nathan D
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (03)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Instructor: Connolly, Nathan D
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AS.100.535 (04)
Independent Study
Furstenberg, Francois
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (04)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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AS.100.535 (05)
Independent Study
Gill Peterson, Jules
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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AS.100.535 (06)
Independent Study
Gondola, Didier Didier
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study
Hyman, Louis
Fall 2025
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Independent Study
Jackson, Lawrence P
Fall 2025
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Jelavich, Peter
Fall 2025
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Johnson, Jessica Marie
Fall 2025
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Jones, Martha Suzanne
Fall 2025
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Kwass, Michael
Fall 2025
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Lester, Anne E.
Fall 2025
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Lim, Julian
Fall 2025
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Loeffler, James
Fall 2025
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Luis, Diego Javier
Fall 2025
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Lurtz, Casey Marina
Fall 2025
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Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Fall 2025
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Makalani, Minkah
Fall 2025
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Marshall, John W
Fall 2025
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Mason, Laura
Fall 2025
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Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Fall 2025
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Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Fall 2025
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Pearsall, Sarah
Fall 2025
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Rowe, Erin
Fall 2025
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Rowe, William T
Fall 2025
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Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.535 (29)
Independent Study
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (29)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.535 (30)
Independent Study
Shepard, Todd
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (30)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Shepard, Todd
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.535 (31)
Independent Study
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (31)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.535 (32)
Independent Study
Turner, Sasha
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (32)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Turner, Sasha
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.535 (33)
Independent Study
Wright Rigueur, Leah M
Fall 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.535 (33)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Wright Rigueur, Leah M
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.105 (01)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Hackerman B 17; Krieger 300
Fall 2025
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
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History of Medicine AS.140.105 (01)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Hackerman B 17; Krieger 300
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (02)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed; Staff
Hackerman B 17; Gilman 119
Fall 2025
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
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History of Medicine AS.140.105 (02)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed; Staff
Room: Hackerman B 17; Gilman 119
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 1/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (03)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Hackerman B 17; Gilman 119
Fall 2025
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
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History of Medicine AS.140.105 (03)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Hackerman B 17; Gilman 119
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 2/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.211.171 (01)
Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Hodson 305
Fall 2025
Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English.
No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.
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Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present AS.211.171 (01)
Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English.
No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Room: Hodson 305
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.171 (02)
Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Hodson 305
Fall 2025
Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English.
No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.
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Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present AS.211.171 (02)
Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English.
No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Room: Hodson 305
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.213.364 (01)
Truth and Lies in the Languages of Politics
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Frey, Christiane
Gilman 479
Fall 2025
Fake facts, conspiracy theories, outright lies: have we entered a new era of “post-truth”? Some claim that deception has always been a part of political processes, that objectivity is an illusion, that every “fact” is made, formed, fashioned, constructed (“fact” comes from the same Latin root as “fiction”). Others insist that without a distinction between truth and lie, all politics is a farce, and look to fact-checking and evidence for guidance. Who is right? And what assumptions are at the basis of this perhaps overly-simple binarism? In order to get a grasp on these questions, we will explore the theme and the concept of lying in literature, philosophy, and current media, with an emphasis on political language. We will read literary texts by Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, the much-discussed GDR novel “Jacob the Liar,” political philosophy by Plato, Machiavelli, Kant, Nietzsche (“On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”), Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Nina Schick’s 2020 exposé “Deep Fakes: The Coming Infocalypse.” We will apply what we learn from these readings to fake news and social media in order to develop new skills of dealing with manipulative language. Taught in English (with the option of a section in German).
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Truth and Lies in the Languages of Politics AS.213.364 (01)
Fake facts, conspiracy theories, outright lies: have we entered a new era of “post-truth”? Some claim that deception has always been a part of political processes, that objectivity is an illusion, that every “fact” is made, formed, fashioned, constructed (“fact” comes from the same Latin root as “fiction”). Others insist that without a distinction between truth and lie, all politics is a farce, and look to fact-checking and evidence for guidance. Who is right? And what assumptions are at the basis of this perhaps overly-simple binarism? In order to get a grasp on these questions, we will explore the theme and the concept of lying in literature, philosophy, and current media, with an emphasis on political language. We will read literary texts by Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, the much-discussed GDR novel “Jacob the Liar,” political philosophy by Plato, Machiavelli, Kant, Nietzsche (“On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”), Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Nina Schick’s 2020 exposé “Deep Fakes: The Coming Infocalypse.” We will apply what we learn from these readings to fake news and social media in order to develop new skills of dealing with manipulative language. Taught in English (with the option of a section in German).
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Frey, Christiane
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/14
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.213.364 (02)
Truth and Lies in the Languages of Politics
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Frey, Christiane
Gilman 479
Fall 2025
(German language section of this course.) Fake facts, conspiracy theories, outright lies: have we entered a new era of “post-truth”? Some claim that deception has always been a part of political processes, that objectivity is an illusion, that every “fact” is made, formed, fashioned, constructed (“fact” comes from the same Latin root as “fiction”). Others insist that without a distinction between truth and lie, all politics is a farce, and look to fact-checking and evidence for guidance. Who is right? And what assumptions are at the basis of this perhaps overly-simple binarism? In order to get a grasp on these questions, we will explore the theme and the concept of lying in literature, philosophy, and current media, with an emphasis on political language. We will read literary texts by Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, the much-discussed GDR novel “Jacob the Liar,” political philosophy by Plato, Machiavelli, Kant, Nietzsche (“On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”), Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Nina Schick’s 2020 exposé “Deep Fakes: The Coming Infocalypse.” We will apply what we learn from these readings to fake news and social media in order to develop new skills of dealing with manipulative language.
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Truth and Lies in the Languages of Politics AS.213.364 (02)
(German language section of this course.) Fake facts, conspiracy theories, outright lies: have we entered a new era of “post-truth”? Some claim that deception has always been a part of political processes, that objectivity is an illusion, that every “fact” is made, formed, fashioned, constructed (“fact” comes from the same Latin root as “fiction”). Others insist that without a distinction between truth and lie, all politics is a farce, and look to fact-checking and evidence for guidance. Who is right? And what assumptions are at the basis of this perhaps overly-simple binarism? In order to get a grasp on these questions, we will explore the theme and the concept of lying in literature, philosophy, and current media, with an emphasis on political language. We will read literary texts by Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, the much-discussed GDR novel “Jacob the Liar,” political philosophy by Plato, Machiavelli, Kant, Nietzsche (“On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”), Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Nina Schick’s 2020 exposé “Deep Fakes: The Coming Infocalypse.” We will apply what we learn from these readings to fake news and social media in order to develop new skills of dealing with manipulative language.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Frey, Christiane
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/3
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.214.479 (01)
Dante Visits the Afterlife
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Saiber, Arielle
Gilman 119
Fall 2025
One of the greatest works of literature of all times, the Divine Comedy leads us down into the torture-pits of Hell, up the steep mountain terrain of Purgatory, through the “virtual” space of Paradise, and then back to where we began: our own earthly lives. We accompany Dante on his journey, building along the way knowledge of medieval Italian history, literature, philosophy, politics, and religion. The course also focuses on the arts of reading deeply, asking questions of a text, and interpreting literary and scholarly works through discussion and critical writing. Conducted in English. For undergraduate students only.
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Dante Visits the Afterlife AS.214.479 (01)
One of the greatest works of literature of all times, the Divine Comedy leads us down into the torture-pits of Hell, up the steep mountain terrain of Purgatory, through the “virtual” space of Paradise, and then back to where we began: our own earthly lives. We accompany Dante on his journey, building along the way knowledge of medieval Italian history, literature, philosophy, politics, and religion. The course also focuses on the arts of reading deeply, asking questions of a text, and interpreting literary and scholarly works through discussion and critical writing. Conducted in English. For undergraduate students only.
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 7/30
PosTag(s): MLL-PITAL
AS.362.112 (01)
Introduction to Africana Studies
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Jackson, Lawrence P
Gilman 219
Fall 2025
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa. We will explore, too, how such people have lived, spoken, written, and produced art about colonialism and enslavement, gender and mobility, violence and pleasure. This course will be thematically organized and invite you to center your own stories about black people within your understanding of the modern world and its making.
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Introduction to Africana Studies AS.362.112 (01)
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa. We will explore, too, how such people have lived, spoken, written, and produced art about colonialism and enslavement, gender and mobility, violence and pleasure. This course will be thematically organized and invite you to center your own stories about black people within your understanding of the modern world and its making.
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
Room: Gilman 219
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): CES-ELECT, CES-RI
AS.363.201 (01)
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 400
Fall 2025
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.
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Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality AS.363.201 (01)
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 400
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.389.140 (01)
Antiquity and Its Afterlives: Books, Art, and Culture from Ancient Greece and Rome to the Modern Era
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Havens, Earle A; Michalek, Martin William
BLC 2043
Fall 2025
This course explores the surviving “objects” of the ancient Greco-Roman world, and the histories of their excavation, organization, and preservation in museum and library collections. From ancient objects and sculptures, ancient Greek papyri, scrolls, and late-antique and medieval books, to the revival of Greek and Roman traditions in the Renaissance and Enlightenment, we will learn how these objects help shape and transform our understanding of the ancient world over two millennia, up to the formation of the great antiquities museums of the modern era. This hands-on course will take advantage of ancient objects and texts in Baltimore, at the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as the Archaeology Museum at JHU and the rare book and manuscript collections of the Sheridan Libraries at JHU.
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Antiquity and Its Afterlives: Books, Art, and Culture from Ancient Greece and Rome to the Modern Era AS.389.140 (01)
This course explores the surviving “objects” of the ancient Greco-Roman world, and the histories of their excavation, organization, and preservation in museum and library collections. From ancient objects and sculptures, ancient Greek papyri, scrolls, and late-antique and medieval books, to the revival of Greek and Roman traditions in the Renaissance and Enlightenment, we will learn how these objects help shape and transform our understanding of the ancient world over two millennia, up to the formation of the great antiquities museums of the modern era. This hands-on course will take advantage of ancient objects and texts in Baltimore, at the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as the Archaeology Museum at JHU and the rare book and manuscript collections of the Sheridan Libraries at JHU.
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Havens, Earle A; Michalek, Martin William
Room: BLC 2043
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): MLL-ENGL
AS.389.201 (01)
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Gilman 17
Fall 2025
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered.
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Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present AS.389.201 (01)
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered.
Digital media play an increasingly significant role in museums from how museums share and narrate their collections online to the use of AI to catalog things and create metadata about them. This class explores critically how digital tools work to tell stories and invites students to unpack the resulting museum narratives. Students will learn by doing, creating a digital exhibit of five museum objects using Omeka and later transforming their exhibits by creating data of their own design to tell a new story about their objects. This new narrative will apply critical perspectives considered in the course such as, but not limited to, repatriation, critical cataloging, and geo-politics.
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Data and the Digital in Museums AS.389.313 (01)
Digital media play an increasingly significant role in museums from how museums share and narrate their collections online to the use of AI to catalog things and create metadata about them. This class explores critically how digital tools work to tell stories and invites students to unpack the resulting museum narratives. Students will learn by doing, creating a digital exhibit of five museum objects using Omeka and later transforming their exhibits by creating data of their own design to tell a new story about their objects. This new narrative will apply critical perspectives considered in the course such as, but not limited to, repatriation, critical cataloging, and geo-politics.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: McGinn, Emily
Room: BLC 4040
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 8/15
PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE
AS.040.420 (04)
Classics Research Lab: Race in Antiquity Project (RAP)
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pandey, Nandini
Greenhouse 000
Spring 2025
How did ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Carthage) understand and represent their own and others’ identities and ethnic differences? How did notions and practices around race, citizenship, and immigration evolve from antiquity to the present? How have culture and politics informed artistic, literary, and museum representations of ethnic ‘others’ over time, along with the historical development of ethnography, biological science, and pseudo-sciences of race? What role did “Classics” (the study of Greco-Roman cultures) play in modern colonialism, racecraft, and inequality? And what role can it play in unmaking their legacies, through the ongoing Black Classicism movement, the practice of Critical Race Theory, and the development of more global and interconnective approaches to premodern cultures? RAP provides an opportunity for Hopkins undergraduates and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to engage in project-based research toward building an open-access, grant-winning educational resource (OER) on “Race in Antiquity.” Participants learn, share, and practice advanced research methods; examine and discuss the history and modern implications of the teaching and study of their fields; test-drive and collaboratively edit OER pilot materials; and create new content based on their own research, for eventual digital publication.
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Classics Research Lab: Race in Antiquity Project (RAP) AS.040.420 (04)
How did ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Carthage) understand and represent their own and others’ identities and ethnic differences? How did notions and practices around race, citizenship, and immigration evolve from antiquity to the present? How have culture and politics informed artistic, literary, and museum representations of ethnic ‘others’ over time, along with the historical development of ethnography, biological science, and pseudo-sciences of race? What role did “Classics” (the study of Greco-Roman cultures) play in modern colonialism, racecraft, and inequality? And what role can it play in unmaking their legacies, through the ongoing Black Classicism movement, the practice of Critical Race Theory, and the development of more global and interconnective approaches to premodern cultures? RAP provides an opportunity for Hopkins undergraduates and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to engage in project-based research toward building an open-access, grant-winning educational resource (OER) on “Race in Antiquity.” Participants learn, share, and practice advanced research methods; examine and discuss the history and modern implications of the teaching and study of their fields; test-drive and collaboratively edit OER pilot materials; and create new content based on their own research, for eventual digital publication.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
Room: Greenhouse 000
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE
AS.010.359 (01)
The Symbolic Mosque: A Political History of Islamic Architecture
MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Kim Korkmaz, Christine Ji-eun
Gilman 177
Spring 2025
From the 2008 Swiss referendum banning minarets and the opposition of the 2010 proposed construction of a mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks in New York City to the more recent reconversion of the Hagia Sophia in 2020, the mosque in modern times has incited significant controversy and sentiments of hostility among various political and religious groups. The mosque as a political battleground, however, has a much longer history, and the coopting of religious buildings and architectural elements as visual symbols deserves a more comprehensive historical analysis. With a focus on the Ottoman context, this seminar will explore the political dimensions of mosque architecture since the fifteenth century and will examine its transformations both visually and symbolically across spatiotemporal contexts. The historical investigation into the symbolic significance of the mosque and Islamic architecture in the first half of this course will lead to a broader discussion in the second half about the role of architectures of nationalism in politics and diplomacy starting from the nineteenth century until today. By focusing on the mosque itself as a symbol, this course aims to spark dialogue and reflection on the role of religious monuments in contemporary political encounters across different geographic contexts. This course encourages a multi- and inter-disciplinary approach to Islamic art and architecture by incorporating readings and topics from a variety of fields, such as cultural theory, political history, anthropology, and heritage studies. Case studies covered by this course include the Persianate and Byzantine influences in early Ottoman mosques, the establishment and continuation of the classical Ottoman architectural style of the sixteenth century, neo-Mamluk mosques in Egypt and the creation of architectural identities in Ottoman Arab lands, architectural afterlives of Ottoman heritage in modern Greece, and the use of neo-Ottoman architecture by
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The Symbolic Mosque: A Political History of Islamic Architecture AS.010.359 (01)
From the 2008 Swiss referendum banning minarets and the opposition of the 2010 proposed construction of a mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks in New York City to the more recent reconversion of the Hagia Sophia in 2020, the mosque in modern times has incited significant controversy and sentiments of hostility among various political and religious groups. The mosque as a political battleground, however, has a much longer history, and the coopting of religious buildings and architectural elements as visual symbols deserves a more comprehensive historical analysis. With a focus on the Ottoman context, this seminar will explore the political dimensions of mosque architecture since the fifteenth century and will examine its transformations both visually and symbolically across spatiotemporal contexts. The historical investigation into the symbolic significance of the mosque and Islamic architecture in the first half of this course will lead to a broader discussion in the second half about the role of architectures of nationalism in politics and diplomacy starting from the nineteenth century until today. By focusing on the mosque itself as a symbol, this course aims to spark dialogue and reflection on the role of religious monuments in contemporary political encounters across different geographic contexts. This course encourages a multi- and inter-disciplinary approach to Islamic art and architecture by incorporating readings and topics from a variety of fields, such as cultural theory, political history, anthropology, and heritage studies. Case studies covered by this course include the Persianate and Byzantine influences in early Ottoman mosques, the establishment and continuation of the classical Ottoman architectural style of the sixteenth century, neo-Mamluk mosques in Egypt and the creation of architectural identities in Ottoman Arab lands, architectural afterlives of Ottoman heritage in modern Greece, and the use of neo-Ottoman architecture by
Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Kim Korkmaz, Christine Ji-eun
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 11/18
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN, HART-RENEM, ARCH-RELATE
AS.100.103 (01)
Early Modern Europe & the Wider World
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Loiselle, Ken
Krieger 302
Spring 2025
This survey course examines the history of Europe from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Topics to be examined include the Reformations and religious wars, curiosity, contact and conquest of non-European lands, the rise of modern bureaucratic states, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a political criterion, the new science, as well as expanding literacy and consumption.
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Early Modern Europe & the Wider World AS.100.103 (01)
This survey course examines the history of Europe from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Topics to be examined include the Reformations and religious wars, curiosity, contact and conquest of non-European lands, the rise of modern bureaucratic states, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a political criterion, the new science, as well as expanding literacy and consumption.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
Room: Krieger 302
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 8/25
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.129 (01)
Introduction to Modern Jewish History
MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Loeffler, James
Gilman 55; Gilman 308
Spring 2025
Jewish history 1750-present in Europe, the Near East, the US, Israel; the challenges of modernity and new forms of Jewish life and conflict from Enlightenment and emancipation, Hasidism, Reform and Orthodox Judaism to capitalism and socialism; empire, nationalism and Zionism; the Holocaust. Extensive attention to US Jewry and State of Israel.
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Introduction to Modern Jewish History AS.100.129 (01)
Jewish history 1750-present in Europe, the Near East, the US, Israel; the challenges of modernity and new forms of Jewish life and conflict from Enlightenment and emancipation, Hasidism, Reform and Orthodox Judaism to capitalism and socialism; empire, nationalism and Zionism; the Holocaust. Extensive attention to US Jewry and State of Israel.
Jewish history 1750-present in Europe, the Near East, the US, Israel; the challenges of modernity and new forms of Jewish life and conflict from Enlightenment and emancipation, Hasidism, Reform and Orthodox Judaism to capitalism and socialism; empire, nationalism and Zionism; the Holocaust. Extensive attention to US Jewry and State of Israel.
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Introduction to Modern Jewish History AS.100.129 (02)
Jewish history 1750-present in Europe, the Near East, the US, Israel; the challenges of modernity and new forms of Jewish life and conflict from Enlightenment and emancipation, Hasidism, Reform and Orthodox Judaism to capitalism and socialism; empire, nationalism and Zionism; the Holocaust. Extensive attention to US Jewry and State of Israel.
Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
This course is an introduction to Japan’s history from 1800 to the present with emphasis on the influences of an increasing global circulation of ideas and people. Topics include the emperor system, family and gender, imperialism, World War II, the postwar economy, and global J-pop.
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Japan in the World AS.100.165 (01)
This course is an introduction to Japan’s history from 1800 to the present with emphasis on the influences of an increasing global circulation of ideas and people. Topics include the emperor system, family and gender, imperialism, World War II, the postwar economy, and global J-pop.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Kim, Yumi
Room:
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL, CDS-EWC
AS.010.291 (01)
The Art of Ancient Greek Medicine
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Stager, Jennifer
Gilman 177
Spring 2025
This course analyzes the role of artists and the visual arts in shaping ancient Greek medicine and the afterlife of these ideas. Grounded in the visual arts, we will explore class, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they intersect with developments in ancient medicine and later interpretations of this history. Includes excursions to local museums.
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The Art of Ancient Greek Medicine AS.010.291 (01)
This course analyzes the role of artists and the visual arts in shaping ancient Greek medicine and the afterlife of these ideas. Grounded in the visual arts, we will explore class, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they intersect with developments in ancient medicine and later interpretations of this history. Includes excursions to local museums.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH, MSCH-HUM
AS.010.369 (01)
The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Weiss, Daniel H
Gilman 177
Spring 2025
This course will explore the American art museum as a distinctive cultural and political idea. Tracing its origins to the ancient world, the American art museum was descended more immediately from institutions created during the European Enlightenment, but differing with regard to overall mission and civic purpose. This course will explore the various roles played by museums in American society, focusing on programmatic content, organizational design, funding and operating practices, and the particular issues that have arisen in recent years in the areas of cultural property restitution, collection development, special exhibitions, governance and funding, and the larger question of civic purpose.
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The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose AS.010.369 (01)
This course will explore the American art museum as a distinctive cultural and political idea. Tracing its origins to the ancient world, the American art museum was descended more immediately from institutions created during the European Enlightenment, but differing with regard to overall mission and civic purpose. This course will explore the various roles played by museums in American society, focusing on programmatic content, organizational design, funding and operating practices, and the particular issues that have arisen in recent years in the areas of cultural property restitution, collection development, special exhibitions, governance and funding, and the larger question of civic purpose.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Weiss, Daniel H
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN, ARCH-RELATE
AS.010.402 (01)
Mobility & Migration of the Artist in Early Modern Europe
Th 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Yeager-Crasselt, Lara
Gilman 177
Spring 2025
How did artists define their identity in the era before fixed “nationalities” and setgeographies? This course investigates the art and personalities of the many Netherlandishpainters, sculptors, printmakers, and craftsmen who moved and migrated across early modern Europe, finding work and fortune in cities from Rome to London, and Madrid to Stockholm. Their mobility, as the Florentine merchant Lodovico Guicciardini remarked in1567, was “something no less wonderful than honorable.” But the reasons behind the unprecedented migrations of Dutch and Flemish artists from the Low Countries from c.1550 to 1700 were complex and varied. Many artists were driven by the political andreligious turmoil of the Eighty Years’ War with Spain, while others sought economic and professional opportunities abroad. While some artists undertook short-term migrations, others left their native soil permanently. How did artists adjust to new cultures, languages,and religious traditions? What strategies did they use to succeed in their new homes? And how did their mobility ultimately affect their artistic practice? Taking a wide and critical view, the course provides a framework for examining the full range of motivations, how artists navigated new artistic, cultural, social, and religious contexts, and how artistic identity itself emerges from a relationship to place beyond one’s own.
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Mobility & Migration of the Artist in Early Modern Europe AS.010.402 (01)
How did artists define their identity in the era before fixed “nationalities” and setgeographies? This course investigates the art and personalities of the many Netherlandishpainters, sculptors, printmakers, and craftsmen who moved and migrated across early modern Europe, finding work and fortune in cities from Rome to London, and Madrid to Stockholm. Their mobility, as the Florentine merchant Lodovico Guicciardini remarked in1567, was “something no less wonderful than honorable.” But the reasons behind the unprecedented migrations of Dutch and Flemish artists from the Low Countries from c.1550 to 1700 were complex and varied. Many artists were driven by the political andreligious turmoil of the Eighty Years’ War with Spain, while others sought economic and professional opportunities abroad. While some artists undertook short-term migrations, others left their native soil permanently. How did artists adjust to new cultures, languages,and religious traditions? What strategies did they use to succeed in their new homes? And how did their mobility ultimately affect their artistic practice? Taking a wide and critical view, the course provides a framework for examining the full range of motivations, how artists navigated new artistic, cultural, social, and religious contexts, and how artistic identity itself emerges from a relationship to place beyond one’s own.
Days/Times: Th 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Yeager-Crasselt, Lara
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/11
PosTag(s): HART-RENEM
AS.100.165 (02)
Japan in the World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Kim, Yumi
Spring 2025
This course is an introduction to Japan’s history from 1800 to the present with emphasis on the influences of an increasing global circulation of ideas and people. Topics include the emperor system, family and gender, imperialism, World War II, the postwar economy, and global J-pop.
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Japan in the World AS.100.165 (02)
This course is an introduction to Japan’s history from 1800 to the present with emphasis on the influences of an increasing global circulation of ideas and people. Topics include the emperor system, family and gender, imperialism, World War II, the postwar economy, and global J-pop.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Kim, Yumi
Room:
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL, CDS-EWC
AS.100.170 (01)
Chinese Cultural Revolution
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Gilman 55; Gilman 75
Spring 2025
The Cultural Revolution was Mao Zedong’s last attempt to transform Chinese society spiritually and structurally. The events of this period were marked by social upheaval, personal vendettas, violence, massive youth movements, and extreme ideological pressure. What were the causes of the Cultural Revolution? How was it experienced and how is it remembered? To what extent are its reverberations felt in contemporary Chinese society, politics, and literature? How have subsequent events affected our understanding of the Cultural Revolution decade? This course will explore the Cultural Revolution from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the relationship between events in China from 1966-1976, and their subsequent interpretation as history and in historical memory in China and beyond.
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Chinese Cultural Revolution AS.100.170 (01)
The Cultural Revolution was Mao Zedong’s last attempt to transform Chinese society spiritually and structurally. The events of this period were marked by social upheaval, personal vendettas, violence, massive youth movements, and extreme ideological pressure. What were the causes of the Cultural Revolution? How was it experienced and how is it remembered? To what extent are its reverberations felt in contemporary Chinese society, politics, and literature? How have subsequent events affected our understanding of the Cultural Revolution decade? This course will explore the Cultural Revolution from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the relationship between events in China from 1966-1976, and their subsequent interpretation as history and in historical memory in China and beyond.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Room: Gilman 55; Gilman 75
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.348 (01)
20th-Century China
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Rowe, William T
Gilman 55
Spring 2025
Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976.
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20th-Century China AS.100.348 (01)
Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 9/30
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.170 (02)
Chinese Cultural Revolution
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Gilman 55; Gilman 55
Spring 2025
The Cultural Revolution was Mao Zedong’s last attempt to transform Chinese society spiritually and structurally. The events of this period were marked by social upheaval, personal vendettas, violence, massive youth movements, and extreme ideological pressure. What were the causes of the Cultural Revolution? How was it experienced and how is it remembered? To what extent are its reverberations felt in contemporary Chinese society, politics, and literature? How have subsequent events affected our understanding of the Cultural Revolution decade? This course will explore the Cultural Revolution from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the relationship between events in China from 1966-1976, and their subsequent interpretation as history and in historical memory in China and beyond.
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Chinese Cultural Revolution AS.100.170 (02)
The Cultural Revolution was Mao Zedong’s last attempt to transform Chinese society spiritually and structurally. The events of this period were marked by social upheaval, personal vendettas, violence, massive youth movements, and extreme ideological pressure. What were the causes of the Cultural Revolution? How was it experienced and how is it remembered? To what extent are its reverberations felt in contemporary Chinese society, politics, and literature? How have subsequent events affected our understanding of the Cultural Revolution decade? This course will explore the Cultural Revolution from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the relationship between events in China from 1966-1976, and their subsequent interpretation as history and in historical memory in China and beyond.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Room: Gilman 55; Gilman 55
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.203 (01)
The American Revolution in History and Memory
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Grindon, Blake
Hodson 316; Hodson 315
Spring 2025
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution questions about the legacy and meaning of the revolutionary era circulate among both professional historians and the American public: How revolutionary was the American Revolution, and for whom? What did the diverse population of North America in the 1770s—including free and enslaved people of African descent, Native Americans, as well white women and men in the thirteen colonies—make of the political rupture between Britain and America? What type of nation did the founders envision and how does that continue to shape the United States today? How has the American Revolution been remembered and memorialized at different times in American history? In this course we will read current scholarship on the American Revolution and also visit museum and cultural sites to explore both the events of the American Revolution and their ongoing memorialization while exploring answers to these questions.
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The American Revolution in History and Memory AS.100.203 (01)
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution questions about the legacy and meaning of the revolutionary era circulate among both professional historians and the American public: How revolutionary was the American Revolution, and for whom? What did the diverse population of North America in the 1770s—including free and enslaved people of African descent, Native Americans, as well white women and men in the thirteen colonies—make of the political rupture between Britain and America? What type of nation did the founders envision and how does that continue to shape the United States today? How has the American Revolution been remembered and memorialized at different times in American history? In this course we will read current scholarship on the American Revolution and also visit museum and cultural sites to explore both the events of the American Revolution and their ongoing memorialization while exploring answers to these questions.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Grindon, Blake
Room: Hodson 316; Hodson 315
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 13/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.220 (01)
"Bad Feminism": Exclusion and Essentialism
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Klassen, Magdalene Ruth
Gilman 400
Spring 2025
This course introduces students to major debates and controversies within the feminist movement in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1850 to the present. From colonial and eugenic women’s movements to anti-trans and carceral feminism, the contents and assessments of this course ask you to consider a pressing question in contemporary feminism: how do we reckon with the reality that many feminists have excluded and continue to exclude people from the liberatory futures they imagine? Together we will analyze the value and limits of historical context and evaluate the relationship between past and present controversies within the feminist movement. Employing critical feminist concepts such as intersectionality and positionality, we will consider what it means for people (including ourselves) to be “products of their time.” By doing historical research in newspaper databases, we will evaluate how feminist claims about “sisterhood” have changed over time.
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"Bad Feminism": Exclusion and Essentialism AS.100.220 (01)
This course introduces students to major debates and controversies within the feminist movement in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1850 to the present. From colonial and eugenic women’s movements to anti-trans and carceral feminism, the contents and assessments of this course ask you to consider a pressing question in contemporary feminism: how do we reckon with the reality that many feminists have excluded and continue to exclude people from the liberatory futures they imagine? Together we will analyze the value and limits of historical context and evaluate the relationship between past and present controversies within the feminist movement. Employing critical feminist concepts such as intersectionality and positionality, we will consider what it means for people (including ourselves) to be “products of their time.” By doing historical research in newspaper databases, we will evaluate how feminist claims about “sisterhood” have changed over time.
In this course we will explore the history of conservative ideas and their impact on American society from the late-19th century to the present. We will evaluate the successes and failures of conservative thinkers, activists, and movements in shaping policy and culture amidst major transformations in American life. In doing so, we will also investigate relationships and conflicts among a range of formations on the political right, including traditionalists, libertarians, the New Right, neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, neoliberals, and post-liberals. Some basic familiarity with modern U.S. history is recommended, but not required, to take this course.
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U.S. Conservatism AS.100.244 (01)
In this course we will explore the history of conservative ideas and their impact on American society from the late-19th century to the present. We will evaluate the successes and failures of conservative thinkers, activists, and movements in shaping policy and culture amidst major transformations in American life. In doing so, we will also investigate relationships and conflicts among a range of formations on the political right, including traditionalists, libertarians, the New Right, neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, neoliberals, and post-liberals. Some basic familiarity with modern U.S. history is recommended, but not required, to take this course.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Brann, Allon Yagoda
Room: Hodson 313
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, CES-LSO
AS.100.283 (01)
Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 55; Krieger 180
Spring 2025
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
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Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present AS.100.283 (01)
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 55; Krieger 180
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.283 (02)
Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 55; Gilman 300
Spring 2025
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
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Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present AS.100.283 (02)
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 55; Gilman 300
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 19/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.270 (01)
Europe since 1945
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Hodson 316
Spring 2025
This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as the bipolar world order, the creation of the European welfare state, Europe’s volatile relations with the US and the Soviet Union/ Russia, decolonization, 1989 and neoliberalism, racism, and the emergence of the European Union. Expect to spend 25% of class time in group work, where we discuss the assigned academic literature, movies, documentaries, textual and visual primary sources.
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Europe since 1945 AS.100.270 (01)
This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as the bipolar world order, the creation of the European welfare state, Europe’s volatile relations with the US and the Soviet Union/ Russia, decolonization, 1989 and neoliberalism, racism, and the emergence of the European Union. Expect to spend 25% of class time in group work, where we discuss the assigned academic literature, movies, documentaries, textual and visual primary sources.
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (01)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Burgin, Angus
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.203 (02)
The American Revolution in History and Memory
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Grindon, Blake
Hodson 316; Krieger 302
Spring 2025
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution questions about the legacy and meaning of the revolutionary era circulate among both professional historians and the American public: How revolutionary was the American Revolution, and for whom? What did the diverse population of North America in the 1770s—including free and enslaved people of African descent, Native Americans, as well white women and men in the thirteen colonies—make of the political rupture between Britain and America? What type of nation did the founders envision and how does that continue to shape the United States today? How has the American Revolution been remembered and memorialized at different times in American history? In this course we will read current scholarship on the American Revolution and also visit museum and cultural sites to explore both the events of the American Revolution and their ongoing memorialization while exploring answers to these questions.
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The American Revolution in History and Memory AS.100.203 (02)
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution questions about the legacy and meaning of the revolutionary era circulate among both professional historians and the American public: How revolutionary was the American Revolution, and for whom? What did the diverse population of North America in the 1770s—including free and enslaved people of African descent, Native Americans, as well white women and men in the thirteen colonies—make of the political rupture between Britain and America? What type of nation did the founders envision and how does that continue to shape the United States today? How has the American Revolution been remembered and memorialized at different times in American history? In this course we will read current scholarship on the American Revolution and also visit museum and cultural sites to explore both the events of the American Revolution and their ongoing memorialization while exploring answers to these questions.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Grindon, Blake
Room: Hodson 316; Krieger 302
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 11/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.536 (02)
Independent Study
Celenza, Chris S.
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (02)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Celenza, Chris S.
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (03)
Independent Study
Connolly, Nathan D
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (03)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Connolly, Nathan D
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.508 (01)
Senior Honors Thesis
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Furstenberg, Francois
Gilman 308
Spring 2025
This seminar is required for senior history majors who are writing senior honors theses and wish to graduate with departmental honors.
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Senior Honors Thesis AS.100.508 (01)
This seminar is required for senior history majors who are writing senior honors theses and wish to graduate with departmental honors.
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Furstenberg, Francois
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.332 (01)
Early Asian Latin America
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Luis, Diego Javier
Gilman 130G
Spring 2025
From 1565 to 1815, the Manila galleons sailed between Spanish colonies in the Philippines and Mexico. Thousands of free and enslaved Asians from all over coastal Asia disembarked these ships at Acapulco and, within decades, could be found throughout Mexico, Central America, and Peru. A second and larger migratory wave of Chinese and South Asian contract laborers arrived in the Caribbean and South America during the nineteenth century. This course examines these two waves and their entanglements to chart the trajectories of the earliest Asian diasporas in the Americas. In the evaluation of these topics, we will pay close attention to racialization, cross-cultural exchange, lived experience, and unfree labor.
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Early Asian Latin America AS.100.332 (01)
From 1565 to 1815, the Manila galleons sailed between Spanish colonies in the Philippines and Mexico. Thousands of free and enslaved Asians from all over coastal Asia disembarked these ships at Acapulco and, within decades, could be found throughout Mexico, Central America, and Peru. A second and larger migratory wave of Chinese and South Asian contract laborers arrived in the Caribbean and South America during the nineteenth century. This course examines these two waves and their entanglements to chart the trajectories of the earliest Asian diasporas in the Americas. In the evaluation of these topics, we will pay close attention to racialization, cross-cultural exchange, lived experience, and unfree labor.
This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports constructed, reinforced, and challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview JHU alumni and former athletes who made a career out of sports.
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Sports History of the Cold War AS.100.386 (01)
This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports constructed, reinforced, and challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview JHU alumni and former athletes who made a career out of sports.
Experiential Research Lab: Religious tolerance and confessional conflict in early modern East-Central Europe
W 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Gilman 313
Spring 2025
This course will explore the history of religious tolerance, conflict, and dissent in Poland, Bohemia, and Moravia. The Bohemian Reformation (1436) created an unprecedented environment for the flourishing of various religious groups in the Czech lands. The Polish General Charter of Jewish Liberties (1264) granted religious and legal autonomy to Jews, while the Warsaw Confederation (1573) guaranteed freedom of worship to all free persons within Poland-Lithuania. We will study the legislation that provided liberties and protection from persecution to members of different religious communities.
We will also examine the relationships between these communities, investigating how their close proximity influenced shared or contested geographical spaces, such as places of worship and cemeteries, competition for resources, and efforts to establish religiously homogeneous “towns” or districts. Our study will include buildings, artworks, and artifacts created by these communities, tracing mutual influences and patterns of representation.
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Experiential Research Lab: Religious tolerance and confessional conflict in early modern East-Central Europe AS.100.384 (02)
This course will explore the history of religious tolerance, conflict, and dissent in Poland, Bohemia, and Moravia. The Bohemian Reformation (1436) created an unprecedented environment for the flourishing of various religious groups in the Czech lands. The Polish General Charter of Jewish Liberties (1264) granted religious and legal autonomy to Jews, while the Warsaw Confederation (1573) guaranteed freedom of worship to all free persons within Poland-Lithuania. We will study the legislation that provided liberties and protection from persecution to members of different religious communities.
We will also examine the relationships between these communities, investigating how their close proximity influenced shared or contested geographical spaces, such as places of worship and cemeteries, competition for resources, and efforts to establish religiously homogeneous “towns” or districts. Our study will include buildings, artworks, and artifacts created by these communities, tracing mutual influences and patterns of representation.
Days/Times: W 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Gilman 313
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/10
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.388 (01)
Practicing Historical Research
MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Gilman 377
Spring 2025
Students work in close collaboration with a faculty member to produce an individual research project. The course is designed for history majors in conjunctions with AS.100.293, and it is recommended, although not required, that the AS.100.293 be taken first.
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Practicing Historical Research AS.100.388 (01)
Students work in close collaboration with a faculty member to produce an individual research project. The course is designed for history majors in conjunctions with AS.100.293, and it is recommended, although not required, that the AS.100.293 be taken first.
Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Gilman 377
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 10/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.413 (01)
London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 308
Spring 2025
Seminar-style class analyzing the social, cultural, gender, religious, economic, and political history of London from Shakespeare's time through revolutions, plague, fire, and commercial, colonial, and industrial expansion.
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London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city AS.100.413 (01)
Seminar-style class analyzing the social, cultural, gender, religious, economic, and political history of London from Shakespeare's time through revolutions, plague, fire, and commercial, colonial, and industrial expansion.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/24
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, CES-CC
AS.100.406 (01)
Public History and Engaged Research
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Plaster, Joseph
Mergenthaler 431
Spring 2025
How do we interpret history for and with broad public audiences? This class introduces students to public history and community-engaged research, emphasizing collaborative knowledge production between academic and non-academic publics. Case studies include virtual reality experiments, walking tours, exhibitions, public art and performance, activist oral history, and community mapping. Students receive training in oral history and podcasting, benefit from guest speakers, and explore methods such as participatory action research, indigenous research methodologies, and shared authority.
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Public History and Engaged Research AS.100.406 (01)
How do we interpret history for and with broad public audiences? This class introduces students to public history and community-engaged research, emphasizing collaborative knowledge production between academic and non-academic publics. Case studies include virtual reality experiments, walking tours, exhibitions, public art and performance, activist oral history, and community mapping. Students receive training in oral history and podcasting, benefit from guest speakers, and explore methods such as participatory action research, indigenous research methodologies, and shared authority.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Plaster, Joseph
Room: Mergenthaler 431
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.425 (91DC)
Research Seminar: Global Migrations
W 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Lim, Julian
555 Penn 632
Spring 2025
This course builds students’ research, writing, and analytical skills by guiding them through an independent research project in a collaborative classroom environment.
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Research Seminar: Global Migrations AS.100.425 (91DC)
This course builds students’ research, writing, and analytical skills by guiding them through an independent research project in a collaborative classroom environment.
Days/Times: W 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Lim, Julian
Room: 555 Penn 632
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 8/17
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.482 (01)
Historiography of Modern China
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rowe, William T
Gilman 381
Spring 2025
How has the history of modern China been told by Chinese, Western, and Japanese historians and social thinkers, and how did this affect popular attitudes and government policies toward China?
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Historiography of Modern China AS.100.482 (01)
How has the history of modern China been told by Chinese, Western, and Japanese historians and social thinkers, and how did this affect popular attitudes and government policies toward China?
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.433 (01)
Free Speech and Censorship in the United States
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Jelavich, Peter
Bloomberg 178
Spring 2025
This undergraduate research seminar examines laws, practices, and debates pertaining to censorship from the eighteenth century to the present. Issues include political speech, obscenity and pornography, and racist hate speech. In addition to discussing common readings, each student will choose a censorship case or issue to research, present to the class, and analyze in a final essay.
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Free Speech and Censorship in the United States AS.100.433 (01)
This undergraduate research seminar examines laws, practices, and debates pertaining to censorship from the eighteenth century to the present. Issues include political speech, obscenity and pornography, and racist hate speech. In addition to discussing common readings, each student will choose a censorship case or issue to research, present to the class, and analyze in a final essay.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: Bloomberg 178
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): HIST-US, CES-LSO, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.536 (04)
Independent Study
Furstenberg, Francois
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (04)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Furstenberg, Francois
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (05)
Independent Study
Gill Peterson, Jules
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (05)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Gill Peterson, Jules
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.486 (01)
Jim Crow in America
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Connolly, Nathan D
Gilman 186
Spring 2025
This course explores the history, politics, and culture of legalized racial segregation in the United State between the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries – a regime commonly known as “Jim Crow.”
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Jim Crow in America AS.100.486 (01)
This course explores the history, politics, and culture of legalized racial segregation in the United State between the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries – a regime commonly known as “Jim Crow.”
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Connolly, Nathan D
Room: Gilman 186
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, CES-LSO, CES-RI
AS.100.536 (06)
Independent Study
Gondola, Didier Didier
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (06)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Gondola, Didier Didier
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (09)
Independent Study
Hyman, Louis
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (09)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Hyman, Louis
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (08)
Independent Study
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (08)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (07)
Independent Study
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (07)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (11)
Independent Study
Jelavich, Peter
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (11)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (10)
Independent Study
Jackson, Lawrence P
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (10)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (15)
Independent Study
Kwass, Michael
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (15)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Kwass, Michael
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (13)
Independent Study
Jones, Martha Suzanne
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (13)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Jones, Martha Suzanne
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (12)
Independent Study
Johnson, Jessica Marie
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (12)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (18)
Independent Study
Loeffler, James
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (18)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Loeffler, James
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (20)
Independent Study
Lurtz, Casey Marina
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (20)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (23)
Independent Study
Marshall, John W
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (23)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (25)
Independent Study
Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (25)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (26)
Independent Study
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (26)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (19)
Independent Study
Luis, Diego Javier
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (19)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Luis, Diego Javier
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (14)
Independent Study
Kim, Yumi
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
×
Independent Study AS.100.536 (14)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Kim, Yumi
Room:
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (30)
Independent Study
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (30)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (21)
Independent Study
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (21)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (29)
Independent Study
Rowe, William T
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (29)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (17)
Independent Study
Lim, Julian
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (17)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Lim, Julian
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (24)
Independent Study
Mason, Laura
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (24)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Mason, Laura
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (22)
Independent Study
Makalani, Minkah
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (22)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Makalani, Minkah
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (27)
Independent Study
Pearsall, Sarah
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (27)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (16)
Independent Study
Lester, Anne E.
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (16)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (28)
Independent Study
Rowe, Erin
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (28)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Rowe, Erin
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (31)
Independent Study
Shepard, Todd
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (31)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Shepard, Todd
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (33)
Independent Study
Turner, Sasha
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (33)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Turner, Sasha
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.536 (34)
Independent Study
Wright Rigueur, Leah M
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (34)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Wright Rigueur, Leah M
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.310.327 (01)
Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Jiang, Jin
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2025
This interdisciplinary survey course considers questions related to women and gender in Chinese society. Taking a long historical view, the course examines ideologies, social institutions, and literary representations of women and gender in traditional society and their modern transformation. Specific topics to be explored include the concept of Yin and Yang, Confucian gender ideology and the family, sex and sexuality, marriage and concubinage, footbinding, and calls for women's liberation in the context of twentieth-century Chinese revolutions. The course will end with an examination of the relationship between social media and gender politics as seen through the Chinese MeToo movement. Students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of primary sources including historical, literary, and visual materials.
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Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo AS.310.327 (01)
This interdisciplinary survey course considers questions related to women and gender in Chinese society. Taking a long historical view, the course examines ideologies, social institutions, and literary representations of women and gender in traditional society and their modern transformation. Specific topics to be explored include the concept of Yin and Yang, Confucian gender ideology and the family, sex and sexuality, marriage and concubinage, footbinding, and calls for women's liberation in the context of twentieth-century Chinese revolutions. The course will end with an examination of the relationship between social media and gender politics as seen through the Chinese MeToo movement. Students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of primary sources including historical, literary, and visual materials.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.100.536 (32)
Independent Study
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Spring 2025
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
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Independent Study AS.100.536 (32)
Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.213.325 (01)
Revolution, Power, and Poetic Justice: From Peasant Revolts to Workers Revolts in Literature and Phi
WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Tobias, Rochelle
Spring 2025
Political thinkers from Ernst Bloch and Carl Schmitt to Reinhard Koselleck and Theodor W. Adorno have long been drawn to Heinrich von Kleist’s novella “Michael Kohlhaas” because of the questions it raises about what a just political order would be when, in the context of this story, only the threat of violence enables the powerless to be heard. The novella takes place in the latter half of the sixteenth century as the feudal era is coming to an end, and Kohlhaas’s struggle to rectify the damage done to his property reveals the vulnerability of the then emerging merchant class to the still unchecked power of the nobility. Yet Kohlhaas’s response to the situation proves to be as arbitrary as the injustice he faces, and the only solution the novella can find for this impasse is a fairy tale that embodies—in all senses of the phrase—poetic justice. This course will examine the novella in its historical context (Reformation, doctrine of natural law, Prussian land reform) and with an eye toward modern thought on state violence, terror, liberalism, and the power of art. All texts and discussion in English.
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Revolution, Power, and Poetic Justice: From Peasant Revolts to Workers Revolts in Literature and Phi AS.213.325 (01)
Political thinkers from Ernst Bloch and Carl Schmitt to Reinhard Koselleck and Theodor W. Adorno have long been drawn to Heinrich von Kleist’s novella “Michael Kohlhaas” because of the questions it raises about what a just political order would be when, in the context of this story, only the threat of violence enables the powerless to be heard. The novella takes place in the latter half of the sixteenth century as the feudal era is coming to an end, and Kohlhaas’s struggle to rectify the damage done to his property reveals the vulnerability of the then emerging merchant class to the still unchecked power of the nobility. Yet Kohlhaas’s response to the situation proves to be as arbitrary as the injustice he faces, and the only solution the novella can find for this impasse is a fairy tale that embodies—in all senses of the phrase—poetic justice. This course will examine the novella in its historical context (Reformation, doctrine of natural law, Prussian land reform) and with an eye toward modern thought on state violence, terror, liberalism, and the power of art. All texts and discussion in English.
Days/Times: WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): MLL-GERM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.130.136 (01)
History of Hasidism
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Katz, David
Smokler Center Library
Spring 2025
Although it appears to be a relic of pre-modern Judaism, Hasidism is a phenomenon of the modern era of Jewish history. This course surveys the political and social history of the Hasidic movement over the course of the last three centuries. Students will also explore basic features of Hasidic culture and thought in their historical development. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies.
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History of Hasidism AS.130.136 (01)
Although it appears to be a relic of pre-modern Judaism, Hasidism is a phenomenon of the modern era of Jewish history. This course surveys the political and social history of the Hasidic movement over the course of the last three centuries. Students will also explore basic features of Hasidic culture and thought in their historical development. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Katz, David
Room: Smokler Center Library
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 7/19
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.213.425 (01)
From Peasant Revolts to Artistic Revolts: Heinrich von Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas"
WF 10:00AM - 11:15AM
Tobias, Rochelle
Gilman 404
Spring 2025
Who has a monopoly on violence? What is the relation of the individual to the state? Is there a right to resistance? Who determines what is just or unjust, arbitrary or rational? Is there a power peculiar to art? We will consider these perennial questions of political theory through a careful examination of Heinrich von Kleist’s novella Michael Kohlhaas (1810) and theoretical works by Martin Luther, Hobbes, Rousseau, & Marx.
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From Peasant Revolts to Artistic Revolts: Heinrich von Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" AS.213.425 (01)
Who has a monopoly on violence? What is the relation of the individual to the state? Is there a right to resistance? Who determines what is just or unjust, arbitrary or rational? Is there a power peculiar to art? We will consider these perennial questions of political theory through a careful examination of Heinrich von Kleist’s novella Michael Kohlhaas (1810) and theoretical works by Martin Luther, Hobbes, Rousseau, & Marx.
Days/Times: WF 10:00AM - 11:15AM
Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
Room: Gilman 404
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.420 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Lurtz, Casey Marina
Bloomberg 172
Spring 2025
Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.
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Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico AS.360.420 (01)
Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
Room: Bloomberg 172
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.360.306 (01)
Computational Intelligence for the Humanities
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Maryland 114
Spring 2025
This course introduces substantial machine learning methods of particular relevance to humanistic scholarship. Areas covered include standard models for classification, regression, and topic modeling, before turning to the array of open-source pretrained deep neural models, and the common mechanisms for employing them. Students are expected to have a level of programming experience equivalent to that gained from AS.360.304, Gateway Computing, AS.250.205, or Harvard’s CS50 for Python. Students will come away with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different machine learning models, the ability to discuss them in relation to human intelligence and to make informed decisions of when and how to employ them, and an array of related technical knowledge.
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Computational Intelligence for the Humanities AS.360.306 (01)
This course introduces substantial machine learning methods of particular relevance to humanistic scholarship. Areas covered include standard models for classification, regression, and topic modeling, before turning to the array of open-source pretrained deep neural models, and the common mechanisms for employing them. Students are expected to have a level of programming experience equivalent to that gained from AS.360.304, Gateway Computing, AS.250.205, or Harvard’s CS50 for Python. Students will come away with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different machine learning models, the ability to discuss them in relation to human intelligence and to make informed decisions of when and how to employ them, and an array of related technical knowledge.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Room: Maryland 114
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): COGS-COMPCG, MSCH-HUM
AS.310.331 (01)
Islam in Asia
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Henning, Stefan
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2025
You will learn about the efforts of ordinary, non-elite Muslims to shape the relation between their communities and the state as well as to (where applicable) the non-Muslim majority through collective organizing over the last forty years. We will read and discuss books by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists studying Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
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Islam in Asia AS.310.331 (01)
You will learn about the efforts of ordinary, non-elite Muslims to shape the relation between their communities and the state as well as to (where applicable) the non-Muslim majority through collective organizing over the last forty years. We will read and discuss books by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists studying Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Henning, Stefan
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): CES-ELECT, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.360.305 (01)
Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
Krieger 304
Spring 2025
This course introduces basic computational techniques in the context of empirical humanistic scholarship. Topics covered include the command-line, basic Python programming, and experimental design. While illustrative examples are drawn from humanistic domains, the primary focus is on methods: those with specific domains in mind should be aware that such applied research is welcome and exciting, but will largely be their responsibility beyond the confines of the course. Students will come away with tangible understanding of how to cast simple humanistic questions as empirical hypotheses, ground and test these hypotheses computationally, and justify the choices made while doing so. No previous programming experience is required.
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Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities AS.360.305 (01)
This course introduces basic computational techniques in the context of empirical humanistic scholarship. Topics covered include the command-line, basic Python programming, and experimental design. While illustrative examples are drawn from humanistic domains, the primary focus is on methods: those with specific domains in mind should be aware that such applied research is welcome and exciting, but will largely be their responsibility beyond the confines of the course. Students will come away with tangible understanding of how to cast simple humanistic questions as empirical hypotheses, ground and test these hypotheses computationally, and justify the choices made while doing so. No previous programming experience is required.
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
Room: Krieger 304
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.310.329 (01)
Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Henning, Stefan
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2025
We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
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Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan AS.310.329 (01)
We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Henning, Stefan
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.363.254 (01)
Trans Studies
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Amin, Kadji
Bloomberg 276
Spring 2025
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to key issues in Trans Studies. Topics may include: contemporary trans politics, trans medicalization, indigenous and non-Western forms of gender variance, US trans history across class and race, and trans global governance. We will focus on how institutions, such as policing and medicine, and world-historical forces, such as capitalism, colonialism, and Atlantic slavery, have shaped trans history and politics.
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Trans Studies AS.363.254 (01)
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to key issues in Trans Studies. Topics may include: contemporary trans politics, trans medicalization, indigenous and non-Western forms of gender variance, US trans history across class and race, and trans global governance. We will focus on how institutions, such as policing and medicine, and world-historical forces, such as capitalism, colonialism, and Atlantic slavery, have shaped trans history and politics.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Amin, Kadji
Room: Bloomberg 276
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.362.112 (01)
Introduction to Africana Studies
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Makalani, Minkah
Gilman 381
Spring 2025
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa.
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Introduction to Africana Studies AS.362.112 (01)
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa.
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Makalani, Minkah
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): CES-ELECT, CES-RI
AS.100.103 (21)
Early Modern Europe & the Wider World
TTh 1:00PM - 4:30PM
Loiselle, Ken
Gilman 308
Summer 2025
This introductory course surveys the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic period. Topics to be covered include European encounters in the Americas, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the subsequent religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rise of centralizing states and popular resistance to expanding government, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment as well as the origins, process and legacies of the French Revolution.
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Early Modern Europe & the Wider World AS.100.103 (21)
This introductory course surveys the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic period. Topics to be covered include European encounters in the Americas, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the subsequent religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rise of centralizing states and popular resistance to expanding government, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment as well as the origins, process and legacies of the French Revolution.
Days/Times: TTh 1:00PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE
AS.389.314 (01)
Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Dean, Gabrielle
BLC 5017
Spring 2025
This course addresses the historic role of the African American cemetery as sacred and political space, with important links to other Black institutions. Operating in partnership with Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, owned and operated by the Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, we will visit the cemetery and related locations in Baltimore throughout the semester. Our collective goal is to research and share stories that further the interests of these important and vulnerable sites.
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Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories AS.389.314 (01)
This course addresses the historic role of the African American cemetery as sacred and political space, with important links to other Black institutions. Operating in partnership with Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, owned and operated by the Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, we will visit the cemetery and related locations in Baltimore throughout the semester. Our collective goal is to research and share stories that further the interests of these important and vulnerable sites.
Oral History: Recording Voices Today for the Archives of Tomorrow
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Roome, Kristine
Gilman 75
Spring 2025
Oral Histories are a means by which history is both generated and preserved. Talking to and recording people in their own voices is immensely valuable, but also brings challenges. This course equips students with the ideas, theoretical framework and methods of making and interpreting oral histories and provides hands-on experience researching, designing and creating an archival record of our time to professional standards. Our project focuses on Baltimore's Confederate monuments. We will interview key stakeholders in debates that led to their removal and in ongoing conversations about what to do with them now.
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Oral History: Recording Voices Today for the Archives of Tomorrow AS.389.305 (01)
Oral Histories are a means by which history is both generated and preserved. Talking to and recording people in their own voices is immensely valuable, but also brings challenges. This course equips students with the ideas, theoretical framework and methods of making and interpreting oral histories and provides hands-on experience researching, designing and creating an archival record of our time to professional standards. Our project focuses on Baltimore's Confederate monuments. We will interview key stakeholders in debates that led to their removal and in ongoing conversations about what to do with them now.
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Roome, Kristine
Room: Gilman 75
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, CDS-SSMC
AS.100.124 (82)
For My Ghosts: Haunting in Edwidge Danticat’s Worldmaking
MWF 9:00AM - 11:40AM
Webb, Nadejda Isha
Summer 2025
How has haunting, marked by presence and absence, shaped famed Haitian author Edwidge Danticat’s worldmaking? As we investigate texts including The Farming of Bones (1998), The Dew Breaker (2004), and Claire of the Sea Light (2013), we will dissect multivalent iterations of hauntings and their connections to other critical themes in Danticat’s oeuvre, including nation-building, diaspora, colonization and migration.
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For My Ghosts: Haunting in Edwidge Danticat’s Worldmaking AS.100.124 (82)
How has haunting, marked by presence and absence, shaped famed Haitian author Edwidge Danticat’s worldmaking? As we investigate texts including The Farming of Bones (1998), The Dew Breaker (2004), and Claire of the Sea Light (2013), we will dissect multivalent iterations of hauntings and their connections to other critical themes in Danticat’s oeuvre, including nation-building, diaspora, colonization and migration.
Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 11:40AM
Instructor: Webb, Nadejda Isha
Room:
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM
AS.100.385 (82)
Experiential Research Lab: Study Abroad
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Summer 2025
This course will explore the history of religious tolerance, conflict, and dissent in Poland, Bohemia, and Moravia. The Bohemian Reformation (1436) created an unprecedented environment for the flourishing of various religious groups in the Czech lands. The Polish General Charter of Jewish Liberties (1264) granted religious and legal autonomy to Jews, while the Warsaw Confederation (1573) guaranteed freedom of worship to all free persons within Poland-Lithuania. We will study the legislation that provided liberties and protection from persecution to members of different religious communities.
We will also examine the relationships between these communities, investigating how their close proximity influenced shared or contested geographical spaces, such as places of worship and cemeteries, competition for resources, and efforts to establish religiously homogeneous “towns” or districts. Our study will include buildings, artworks, and artifacts created by these communities, tracing mutual influences and patterns of representation.
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Experiential Research Lab: Study Abroad AS.100.385 (82)
This course will explore the history of religious tolerance, conflict, and dissent in Poland, Bohemia, and Moravia. The Bohemian Reformation (1436) created an unprecedented environment for the flourishing of various religious groups in the Czech lands. The Polish General Charter of Jewish Liberties (1264) granted religious and legal autonomy to Jews, while the Warsaw Confederation (1573) guaranteed freedom of worship to all free persons within Poland-Lithuania. We will study the legislation that provided liberties and protection from persecution to members of different religious communities.
We will also examine the relationships between these communities, investigating how their close proximity influenced shared or contested geographical spaces, such as places of worship and cemeteries, competition for resources, and efforts to establish religiously homogeneous “towns” or districts. Our study will include buildings, artworks, and artifacts created by these communities, tracing mutual influences and patterns of representation.
Days/Times:
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room:
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/10
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.122 (01)
Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880)
MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Gilman 305; Gilman 305
Fall 2025
Explore the social and political changes that have transformed the African continent in the modern era, with a focus on the rise and fall of colonialism, the relation between Africa and the world in the post-colonial era, and effect of colonialism and its aftermath on African household structures and gender roles.
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Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880) AS.100.122 (01)
Explore the social and political changes that have transformed the African continent in the modern era, with a focus on the rise and fall of colonialism, the relation between Africa and the world in the post-colonial era, and effect of colonialism and its aftermath on African household structures and gender roles.
Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
Room: Gilman 305; Gilman 305
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA
AS.100.395 (01)
History of Global Development
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lurtz, Casey Marina
Smokler Center 213
Fall 2025
This course explores development as an ideology and a practice. From colonialism to the Cold War to contemporary NGOs, we will interrogate the history of our attempts to improve the world. This iteration of the course will have a particular focus on the intersections between development and the environment. Graduate students welcome.
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History of Global Development AS.100.395 (01)
This course explores development as an ideology and a practice. From colonialism to the Cold War to contemporary NGOs, we will interrogate the history of our attempts to improve the world. This iteration of the course will have a particular focus on the intersections between development and the environment. Graduate students welcome.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
Room: Smokler Center 213
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, CES-LE, CES-PD, MSCH-HUM
AS.360.420 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Lurtz, Casey Marina
Gilman 308
Fall 2025
Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.
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Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico AS.360.420 (01)
Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, MSCH-HUM
AS.100.122 (02)
Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880)
MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Fall 2025
Explore the social and political changes that have transformed the African continent in the modern era, with a focus on the rise and fall of colonialism, the relation between Africa and the world in the post-colonial era, and effect of colonialism and its aftermath on African household structures and gender roles.
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Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880) AS.100.122 (02)
Explore the social and political changes that have transformed the African continent in the modern era, with a focus on the rise and fall of colonialism, the relation between Africa and the world in the post-colonial era, and effect of colonialism and its aftermath on African household structures and gender roles.
Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA
AS.100.407 (01)
Freedom and Unfreedom in the Premodern World, 500BCE-1000CE (Part 1)
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lester, Anne E.
Fall 2025
What did it mean to be free in the premodern world? What did it mean to be a serf or enslaved? How was freedom and unfreedom experienced differently based on gender, geography, religion and space? This two-semester course will explore the social history of slavery, freedom, and ‘unfreedom,’ that is, constraints placed on individuals and groups and the structuring role of such constraints. We will consider together an array of source materials spanning law codes, personal narratives, manumission cases, chronicles, histories, and hagiography, but also including a close examination of non-written sources. How did practices of slavery and unfreedom during the Greek and Roman periods come to shape an understanding of those categories in Europe and the Islamic world by ca. 1000CE? What role did trade and the movement of people play in this transition? Are slavery and empire intimately connected? An emphasis is also given to how scholars have written about slavery, manumission, and freedom in the past and how power, difference, and ideals of freedom have been theorized over time. This seminar meets once a week. Students should be prepared to discuss course materials and will be asked to keep a reading journal as well as notes from class discussion.
This is the first of a two-semester sequence. Part I: the Ancient and Medieval Period (ca. 500BCE-1000CE); Part II (to be taught in the spring of 2026): the Medieval and Early Modern World (ca. 1000-1500CE)
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Freedom and Unfreedom in the Premodern World, 500BCE-1000CE (Part 1) AS.100.407 (01)
What did it mean to be free in the premodern world? What did it mean to be a serf or enslaved? How was freedom and unfreedom experienced differently based on gender, geography, religion and space? This two-semester course will explore the social history of slavery, freedom, and ‘unfreedom,’ that is, constraints placed on individuals and groups and the structuring role of such constraints. We will consider together an array of source materials spanning law codes, personal narratives, manumission cases, chronicles, histories, and hagiography, but also including a close examination of non-written sources. How did practices of slavery and unfreedom during the Greek and Roman periods come to shape an understanding of those categories in Europe and the Islamic world by ca. 1000CE? What role did trade and the movement of people play in this transition? Are slavery and empire intimately connected? An emphasis is also given to how scholars have written about slavery, manumission, and freedom in the past and how power, difference, and ideals of freedom have been theorized over time. This seminar meets once a week. Students should be prepared to discuss course materials and will be asked to keep a reading journal as well as notes from class discussion.
This is the first of a two-semester sequence. Part I: the Ancient and Medieval Period (ca. 500BCE-1000CE); Part II (to be taught in the spring of 2026): the Medieval and Early Modern World (ca. 1000-1500CE)
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
Room:
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, CES-LE, CES-LSO, CES-PD
AS.363.333 (01)
Poetics and Politics of Sex: The Queer/Trans Underground ?
Th 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Amin, Kadji
Fall 2025
What does it mean that until relatively recently, the center of queer/trans culture was the underground – a metaphorical space of illegality – and what are the political possibilities of such illegality? This seminar will consider how Black/trans fugitivity and interracial sex, trans identity theft and forgery, black market hormones and silicone injections, sex work, and mood-altering drugs defined same-sex desiring and gender-variant cultures during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far from being a lawless place, we will analyze how life in the underground, including stints in prison, concretely shaped gender and sexual possibilities, subcultural codes of conduct, and practices of community-making.
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Poetics and Politics of Sex: The Queer/Trans Underground ? AS.363.333 (01)
What does it mean that until relatively recently, the center of queer/trans culture was the underground – a metaphorical space of illegality – and what are the political possibilities of such illegality? This seminar will consider how Black/trans fugitivity and interracial sex, trans identity theft and forgery, black market hormones and silicone injections, sex work, and mood-altering drugs defined same-sex desiring and gender-variant cultures during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far from being a lawless place, we will analyze how life in the underground, including stints in prison, concretely shaped gender and sexual possibilities, subcultural codes of conduct, and practices of community-making.
Days/Times: Th 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Amin, Kadji
Room:
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.201 (02)
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Gill Peterson, Jules
Fall 2025
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.
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Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality AS.363.201 (02)
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.