HIS 563/CEG 536: Intro to South Asian History (Spring 08)
This course will provide an advanced introduction to South Asian history and historiography from the early modern period to the present. We will cover major works on key themes, including precolonial...
View ArticleHIS 227: Islamic Civilization/Muslim Societies (Spring 08)
Popular perceptions and representations of Islam and Muslims are often founded on ignorance and outright prejudice. Fundamental to these understandings are narrow and highly politicized notions of...
View ArticleHIS 301.05: The World of the Indian Ocean (Fall 08)
Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the political and cultural...
View ArticleHIS 340: South Asia Before Colonialism (Fall 08)
The South Asia region – contemporary India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan – has been a crossroads of diverse people, ideas and commodities for millennia. This course covers key...
View ArticleHIS 348: Colonial South Asia (Spring 09)
Colonial South Asia comprised much of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and was dubbed ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the British Empire at its height. The Subcontinent’s status as the most...
View ArticleHIS 554: Law, Crime and the State (Spring 09)
This seminar takes legal systems and the criminalization of social groups as lenses on modern states’ techniques for disciplining populations, reproducing structures of privilege, and articulating...
View ArticleHIS 553-World Commodities and Historical Political Economy
This theme seminar, intended for aspiring Ph.D. students from any regional concentration, uses the burgeoning field of commodity history and the terrain of Latin American and global history to explore...
View ArticleHistory 532 — Gender, Religion and Modernity
This is one of the theme seminars in the Doctoral program of the Department of History. It is open to all doctoral students and MA students in the History program. All others, including MAT students,...
View ArticleHIS 653 — Transnationalizing History/Historicizing the Global
By now, it has become widely accepted that History (with a capital H) was deeply implicated in naturalizing the territorially delimited nation-state as one of the fundamental categories of historical...
View ArticleHistory 534 — Race and Nation-Making in the Americas
This course will examine the formation of racial, ethnic and national identities in different American contexts in the modern era. We will begin with broad synthetic approaches to the history of racial...
View ArticleHIS 542-Modern Latin American History (Graduate Field Seminar)
This Field Seminar introduces some major debates and literatures about Latin American history since 1820. It is designed for MA-level education students as well as MA students who plan to go on to a...
View ArticleHistory 532–History/Culture of Consumerism
This course will look at the history of “modern” consumption patterns with particular emphasis on gender identities. We will look at changing conceptions of “producers” (traditionally represented as...
View ArticleAmerican Politics & Diplomacy Since 1945
Course Objectives This course has two objectives. First, as with any history course, it seeks to make you a better reader, writer, and therefore thinker. You will learn how to read arguments based on...
View ArticleHIS 301.02: The World of the Indian Ocean (Fall 2010)
SBS N-318 Tu Th 2:20-3:40 Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the...
View ArticleHIS 347-J/AAS 347-J South Asia Before Colonialism (Spring 2011)
Mon, Wed 11:45-12:40 Recitations: Fri 11:45-12:40, Mon 10:40-11:35, Wed 2:20-3:15 The South Asia region – contemporary India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan – has been a...
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HIS 340-J: PACIFIC ISLANDS: HISTORIES OF PARADISE (Summer 2011)
Summer Session II (July 11 – August 18) TuTh 1:30-4:55 Tiki torches at a luau; hula dancers wearing coconut bras and grass skirts; surf boards floating atop crashing waves; warm welcomes of aloha....
View ArticleHIS 301.02: The World of the Indian Ocean (Fall 2011)
SBS N-310 Wednesdays 5:20-8:10 PM Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and...
View ArticleHIS 563/CEG 536: South Asian History Field Seminar/Introduction (Fall 2012)
This course will provide an advanced introduction to South Asian history and historiography from the early modern period to the present. We will cover major works on key themes, including precolonial...
View ArticleHIS 340.02: Postcolonial South Asia (Fall 2012)
The postcolonial nation-states of South Asia were created as independent entities following World War II, after almost two centuries of British colonial dominance. This course examines political,...
View ArticleHIS 441: Colonialism & Literary Representations [Colloquium in Global...
Thurs 2:30-5:20 During the last several centuries, the global imperial ambitions of Europe (and more recently, the US) have remade politics and culture across the world. This course considers people...
View ArticleHIS 227: Islamic Civilization/Muslim Societies (Spring 2013)
Tu Th 11:30AM-12:50PM Popular perceptions and representations of Islam and Muslims are often founded on ignorance and outright prejudice. Fundamental to these understandings are narrow and highly...
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HIS/AAS 340-J: CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA & THE SILK ROAD (SUMMER 2013)
Summer Session I (May 28 – July 4) TuTh 1:30-4:55 This course explores the significance of Central Asian peoples, goods, and places in historical perspective. Specifically, this course will investigate...
View ArticleHIS/AAS 347: South Asia Before Colonialism (Spring 2014)
The South Asia region–contemporary India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan–has been the crossroads of diverse people, ideas and commodities for millennia. This course covers key...
View ArticleHIS 301.01: The World of the Indian Ocean (Spring 2014)
Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the political and cultural...
View ArticleHIS 348: Colonial South Asia (Fall 2014)
Colonial South Asia comprised much of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and was dubbed ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the British Empire at its height. The Subcontinent’s status as the most...
View ArticleHIS 340.03-J: Cities & Global Connections (Fall 2014)
Cities have long served as connecting points between geographically dispersed places. Over the last couple of centuries, urban populations have grown more and more rapidly, and technologies of mobility...
View ArticleHIS 517: Mobilities & Connections [Graduate Theme Seminar] (Spring 2015)
This seminar examines expanding circuits of global mobility from the early modern period to the present, and considers methodological implications of taking mobilities and connections as object of...
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