Graduate

HIS 200 Methods and Theories of History

An overview of theories, methods, and philosophies concerning the nature and production of history. Topics vary with instructor.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marc Matera

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate history students and others by permission of instructor.

Quarter offered

Fall

HIS 201 Directed Research Colloquium

Having already prepared a bibliography and research prospectus in a graduate research seminar, students will undertake further research on their projects, write a 25–30 page research paper, and present their work to their fellow students.

Credits

5

Instructor

Eric Porter

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): history graduate research seminar. Enrollment is restricted to graduate history students.

HIS 202 Practicing World History

Because world history surfaces in curriculums at all educational levels, this seminar interrogates its value. Why do historians advocate world (and transnational) history? How do historians actually practice it? What are the pitfalls? Can global perspectives apply to localized subjects?

Credits

5

Instructor

Aims McGuinness

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 203 Global Decolonization

Focuses on the histories and theories of decolonization in the mid-to-late 20th century, particularly, interactions among anticolonial movements, how Cold War era antagonisms inflected the process of decolonization, and efforts to forge Afro-Asian unity and/or a nonalignment movement.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marc Matera

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 204A History of Gender Research Seminar

Introduction to theories and methods employed in gendered historical research. Readings are drawn from a range of chronological, national, and thematic fields and explore the intersection of gender analysis with such historical problems as the body and sexuality, modernity, national identity, and production/consumption.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marilyn Westerkamp

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 204B Approaches to Social and Cultural History

Graduate reading course focusing on both classic and contemporary approaches to social and cultural history. Readings induce: Bakhtin, Benjamin, Foucault, Auerbach, and Berlin, and a variety of more recent studies in social, cultural, and intellectual history. Course not limited to graduate students in History.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 204C Colonialism, Nationalism and Race Research Seminar

Research seminar introducing theories and methods of the comparative histories of race, ethnicity, colonialism, and nationalism.

Credits

5

Instructor

Juned Shaikh

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 204E Transnationalism, Borderlands, and History

Graduate seminar exploring the history of Canada-United States-Mexico borderlands. Approaches and arguments compare nation-state centered histories with narratives that construct the North American borderlands as places wrought from a multiplicity of overlapping indigenous, imperial, national, transnational, and global forces.

Credits

5

Instructor

Grace Delgado

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 205 Diaspora and World History

Examines the histories and historiography concerning diaspora. This area of study includes populations from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Students study the histories of diasporic populations, and the questions, theory, and methods that scholars use to approach the subject.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 206 Empire in World History

Introduces the study of empire (as opposed to nations, regions, or continents) as an approach to world history and to recent historiographical trends in the history of empires.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marc Matera

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students,

HIS 208 An Introduction to Digital Humanities

Critically examines how digital processes are changing scholarly practice and pedagogy in the humanities. Students experiment with how digital media can impact research and communication for textual scholars, museum professionals, archivists, librarians, public historians and educators.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Cross Listed Courses

LIT 232D

Instructor

Elaine Sullivan

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 210A Readings in U.S. History

Introduction to major themes and controversies in the interpretation of U.S. history. Readings cover both chronological eras and topical subjects, often in a comparative context: colonial and early national periods.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marilyn Westerkamp

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 210B Readings in U.S. History

Introduction to major themes and controversies in the interpretation of U.S. history. Readings cover both chronological eras and topical subjects, often in a comparative context: 19th century.

Credits

5

Instructor

David Brundage

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 211A Research Seminar in Early American History

First quarter of a two-quarter introduction to research in early American history (1550-1820). Readings include both historiographically definitive texts as well as recent scholarship reflecting the field's developments. Students complete analyses of historical sources, brief critical essays, and a significant research project. HIS 211A is not a prerequisite to HIS 211B.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marilyn Westerkamp, Gregory O'Malley

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 211B Research Seminar in Early American History

Second quarter of a two-quarter introduction to research in early American history (1550-1820). Readings include both historiographically definitive texts as well as recent scholarship reflecting the field's developments. Students complete analyses of historical sources, brief critical essays, and a significant research project. HIS 211A is not a prerequisite to HIS 211B.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marilyn Westerkamp, Gregory O'Malley

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 212A Citizenship in U.S. History

A reading-intensive graduate seminar in United States history that examines citizenship and its exclusions, grounded in race, gender, sexuality, age, and disability. This seminar also explores how forms of belonging intersected with evolving understandings of nationalism and sovereignty.

Credits

5

Instructor

Catherine Jones

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 212B Citizenship in United States History

A reading-intensive graduate seminar in United States history examining citizenship and its exclusions, grounded in race, gender, sexuality, age, and disability. The course also explores how forms of belonging intersected with evolving understandings of nationalism and sovereignty.

Credits

5

Instructor

Catherine Jones

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to history graduate students.

HIS 214 California History

Concerns the history and historiography of California from indigenous dominion to the present. Considers the distinctive ways in which California has led the nation and globe in economic, political, and social change, while remaining a multiethnic borderland.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 215A Topics in American History: U.S. Labor and Working Class History

Addresses topics in history of working people, the labor movement broadly defined, and political-economic change in the U.S. Topics include race, ethnic and gender dynamics, and U.S. labor and working-class history in global context.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 215B Visions of Progress

Explores the emergence of the welfare/regulatory state in the United States from the 1870s to World War I, examining different schools of historical thought about this period.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 215C U.S. Immigration and Ethnic History

Introduces key issues and debates in United States immigration and ethnic history. Topics include causes of immigration; constructions of race, gender and ethnicity; assimilation; transnationalism; and forces shaping immigration policy.

Credits

5

Instructor

David Brundage

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 216 Readings in the History of American Religions

Research in the history of religions in the United States. Addresses topics, such as the rise of evangelicalism; class, race, and religious diversity; gender and power; modernity; and civil religion through analyses of visual and literary texts, iconography, ritual, theology, and praxis.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marilyn Westerkamp

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 217 Critical Conversations in Native American History

Overview of key historical texts focusing on the Native American experience, with particular focus on scholarship that seeks to decolonize Western methodologies and research practices. Readings explore such topics as decolonization, indigenous identity, sovereignty, repatriation efforts, gender and sexuality, and historical memory. The format consists of discussions of readings. Students give oral presentations on the readings, and write book reviews and a final historiographical paper.

Credits

5

Instructor

Amy Lonetree

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 220 The Atlantic World, 1500-1800

Explores the economic, social, and cultural history of early America in terms of its Atlantic connections and intersection with the cultures of early modern Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Builds upon previous work in early America and early modern Europe, challenging students both to work comparatively and to break out of traditional geographic models.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marilyn Westerkamp

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 221 Empires and New Nations in the Americas

Compares the history of the colonial and 19th-century Americans through a world-history perspective. Focuses on the interrelated themes of indigenous histories, slavery and other forms of servitude, commodity production, and the meaning of equality and freedom in new nations.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 222 Global Sexualities--A Seminar in the Queering of Historiographies

Explores the history of sexuality covering diverse time periods, peoples, and regions. Examines methods and theories used in the study of sexuality. Readings draw from the Americas, Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Austro-Asia, as well as topics in queer and LGBTQ2 studies.

Credits

5

Instructor

Grace Delgado

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 225 Spanish Colonialism

Reading-intensive graduate seminar with emphasis on theoretical and historiographical questions regarding the field of Spanish colonialism in the Americas. Students encouraged to engage in discussions of comparative colonialisms.

Credits

5

Instructor

Maria Elena Diaz

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 227 Gender and Colonialism

Explores the relationship between colonialism and gender. Examines the construction of gender categories (in conjunction with race) in the context of colonial conquest and rule; contested definitions of motherhood, domesticity, and citizenship; and regulation of sexuality.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 229 Worlds of Labor in Asia

Introduces students to important debates in labor studies in Asia. Studies the relationship between labor, capitalism, and imperialism. Also interrogates the relevance or irrelevance of Asia as a concept from the standpoint of labor.

Credits

5

Instructor

Juned Shaikh

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 230A Readings in Late Imperial China

Survey of the major works on and historiographical controversies about Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) China.

Credits

5

Instructor

Minghui Hu

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 230B Engendering China

Reading seminar on the history of Chinese gender, focusing on the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1911) to the present. Topics include marriage and family, sexuality, work, the gendered language of politics, and major reform movements.

Credits

5

Instructor

Gail Hershatter

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 230C Readings in 20th-Century China

A survey of major Western-language works and historiographical controversies in Chinese history from 1900 to the present. Weekly readings emphasize particular social and political movements as well as long-term changes in urban and rural society.

Credits

5

Instructor

Gail Hershatter

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 231 Historicizing the People's Republic of China

An overview of the scholarly literature on the People's Republic of China. Readings include works by historians as well as by social scientists. Students consider what kinds of questions historians have and can ask.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 238A Research Methods: China

An introduction for graduate students to the use of major research tools and sources in Chinese history since 1600, with a focus on 20th-century materials. Students complete a series of bibliographical exercises and prepare a research prospectus.

Credits

5

Instructor

Gail Hershatter

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 238B Research Methods: China

Building on the research and bibliographic skills developed in course 228A, students develop a research topic and write a paper of 20-30 pages using primary sources as appropriate in English, Chinese, and/or Japanese.

Credits

5

Instructor

Gail Hershatter

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 242 Readings in Modern Japan

A graduate course intended to give students a fundamental understanding of the major themes in the study of modern Japanese history. Central themes include modernity and modernization, colonialism, postwar recovery, gender, race, and nationalism.

Credits

5

Instructor

Alan Christy

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 243 Transnational Japan

Examines how Japanese history has been forged across, outside, and beyond the boundaries of the modern nation-state of Japan. Considers how Japan has transformed the world. Students debate how the world made Japan and how Japan re-made the world.

Credits

5

Instructor

Noriko Aso

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Fall

HIS 244 Gender and Japanese History

Examines—through primary and secondary sources—constructions of gender (masculine, feminine, and transgender) in Japanese society over the past several centuries, focusing on the modern era.

Credits

5

Instructor

Noriko Aso

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 251A Readings in Modern European History: Environment and Technology

Introduces major themes and problems in recent historiographical trends in environmental history and the history of technology. Examines the role of environment and technology in the making of Europe and European societies' engagement with the world.

Credits

5

Instructor

Nathaniel Deutsch

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 251B Readings in Modern European History: Empire

The history of empire has emerged as one of the most influential and fastest growing areas of inquiry within the field of modern European history. This course introduces students to recent debates and trends in imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marc Matera

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 252 Republicanism and Its Discontents: Universal Projects and Particular Discriminations

Focuses on the histories and theories of republicanism and liberalism by investigating the tension between universal ideologies and discriminatory practices. Focuses on France and the United States, but Algeria, Syria, and Turkey will also be covered.

Credits

5

Instructor

Muriam Davis

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 255 Religion and Modernity

Examines the significance of religion and secularism in the modern period. How did modernity and the concept of the secular transform various religions and how, in turn, did these religions help to create modernity.

Credits

5

Instructor

Nathaniel Deutsch

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 257 Shtetl: Eastern European Jewish Life

For several centuries, the shtetl functioned as the center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Alternately mythologized and pathologized, the shtetl continues to exist as an imaginary space that defines and distorts the historical image of Eastern European Jewish life. Students cannot receive credit for this course and HIS 196M.

Credits

5

Instructor

Nathaniel Deutsch

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 260 History and the Spatial Turn: Making Space, Place, and Geography in History

Explores the making of space, place, and geography in a body of recent historical work. Explores key theoretical work interrogating the significance of space as a critical element of social theory and historical consideration. Proceeds through three thematic units: questions of colonial economy in South Asia; spaces of empires and its end in the Eastern Mediterranean; and histories of infrastructure.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jennifer Derr

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 261 The Contours of the New Middle East History

Explores the history and historiography of the modern Middle East through recent historical scholarship. Examines the new theoretical approaches that frame inquiries into the region's history and how contemporary historians are reinterpreting familiar questions and themes.

Credits

5

Instructor

Muriam Davis

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 265 History of the Body

A multidisciplinary history of the body from late antiquity to the present. Topics include: medical and religious constructions; the raced, gendered, and sexualized body; adornment and performance markers; power and control through the body; body parts; and the body's permeability.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marilyn Westerkamp

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 280A History Graduate Proseminar: Teaching Pedagogy

Devoted to professionalism and socialization of history graduate students. Includes formal and informal meetings with faculty and other graduate students. Topics include TAships, designing course syllabi, pedagogy, teaching technologies, and teaching in different venues.

Credits

2

Instructor

Marc Matera

Requirements

This course is required for first-year students; however, it is open to all other graduate students as needed. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students .

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 280B History Graduate Proseminar: Research Presentations and Grant Writing

Devoted to professionalism and socialization of history graduate students. Topics include discussion of researching grants; effective CV writing; successful grant applications and publication proposals; and conference paper and panel proposals. Required for first-year graduate students; however, open to all history graduate students as needed.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

This course is required for first-year students; however, it is open to all other graduate students as needed. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students .

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 280C History Graduate Proseminar: Job Market

Devoted to professionalism and socialization of history graduate students. Includes formal and informal meetings with faculty and other graduate students. Topics include researching position; preparing a CV and the job-application letter; preparing for an interview; practice interview; preparing a job talk and/or teaching presentation; and practice job talk.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

This course is required for first-year students; however, it is open to all other graduate students as needed. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students .

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 283 Foreign Language Preparation

Independent study course in which history graduate student reads selected texts to fulfill foreign language requirement. Student meets with instructor to discuss readings, deepening his knowledge of the foreign language. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

HIS 284 Qualifying Examination Preparation

Independent study course designed to help students prepare for qualifying exams. Students meet on regular basis with one or more members of qualifying examination committee to monitor preparation for exam. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

HIS 285 Readings in Research Field

Independent study focusing on selected texts or authors in history or historical theory. Students meet on regular basis with instructor to discuss readings and deepen their knowledge of a particular author or historical theory. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

HIS 285B Readings in Research Field

Independent study focusing on selected texts or authors in history or historical theory. Students meet on regular basis with instructor to discuss readings. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 286 Research Colloquium on Colonialism, Nationalism, and Race

Acquaints students with the department's thematic research clusters in their field to coordinate training in historical research. Students meet on a regular basis with a faculty member of a particular cluster to discuss most important readings in the field. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

HIS 287 Research Colloquium on Gender

Acquaints students with the department's thematic research clusters in their field to coordinate training in historical research. Students meet on a regular basis with a faculty member of this cluster to discuss most important readings in their field. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

HIS 288 Teaching Assistant Preparation

Independent study designed to help history graduate students prepare to teach in an area of history outside their specialization. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

HIS 289 History Colloquium

Independent study designed to foster departmental and cross-disciplinary participation in campus talks, colloquia, conferences, and events. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

HIS 294M Literati, Samurai, and Yangban: A Comparative History of State

Critically examines the formation of political elites in East Asia. Compares literati in Ming and Qing China; samurai in Tokugawa, Japan; and yangban in Joeson, Korea. Each group occupied specific roles and functions in their state and society but differed in scale and character. Students cannot receive credit for this course and HIS 194M.

Credits

5

Instructor

Minghui Hu

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

HIS 297A Independent Study

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 297B Independent Study

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

10

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 297C Independent Study

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

15

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 299A Thesis Research

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 299B Thesis Research

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

10

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 299C Thesis Research

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

15

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Cross-listed courses that are managed by another department are listed at the bottom.

Cross-listed Courses

ANTH 110O Postcolonial Britain and France

Transdisciplinary examination of the politics and culture of postcolonial Britain and France. Topics include: immigration from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean; racism and antiracism; minority difference and citizenship practices; and the emergence of Islam as a major category of identity and difference.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

HIS 181A

Instructor

Mayanthi Fernando

General Education Code

CC

JWST 185N The Holocaust in a Digital World

Explores how digital tools change the way we know about the Holocaust by (1) critically understanding and analyzing digital representations of the Holocaust and (2) using and developing digital skills to engage with stories about the Holocaust.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

HIS 185N

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to Jewish studies and history majors and minors during first-pass enrollment; open to all students at the start of second-pass enrollment.

General Education Code

PR-E

LIT 141B Classical Chinese Culture and Literature, 10th Century B.C.E. through Sixth Century C.E

Survey of writing and culture from the 10th century B.C.E. through the sixth century C.E., focusing on poetry, philosophical and historical writing, supernatural fiction, Buddhist/Taoist texts in contexts of fragmentation, empire building, dynastic collapse, rebellion, eremitism, and courtly society. Critical approach designations: Geographies, Histories. Distribution requirements: Global, Poetry, Pre-1750.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

HIS 141A

Instructor

Christopher Connery

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Winter

LIT 141C Classical Chinese Culture and Literature, Sixth Century through 16th Century

Survey of writing and culture from the Tang through early Ming dynasties (sixth century C.E. through 16th century C.E.). Themes include literary, religious, and philosophical innovation; courtly life; cultural contacts with non-Chinese people; and transformations of state and society. Critical approach designations: Geographies, Histories. Distribution requirements: Global, Poetry, Pre-1750.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

HIS 141B

Instructor

Christopher Connery

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Spring