| HISTORY (W19) | 290 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, GENDER & EMPIRE | PHILIP, K. |
| No detailed description available. |
| HISTORY (W19) | 200 HISTORY OF ARCHIVES | RAPHAEL, R. |
| This course offers an introduction to a new and burgeoning subfield of historical scholarship: the history of archives. Rather than seeing archives as neutral and unproblematic sources of historical facts, scholars in this subfield have made the archive itself the subject of enquiry. They pose questions about the selection, arrangement, preservation, and retention of archival materials, questions that provide insight both into the societies and institutions that created surviving archival collections and into the conclusions contemporary scholars can draw from them. Readings will include theoretical explorations of the nature of archives, reflections by practicing historians on the nature of archival work, and specific case studies that engage a wider set of issues, including gender, the colonial/ post-colonial archive, and the history of knowledge. |
| HISTORY (W19) | 298 EXPER GROUP STUDY | LEHMANN, M. |
| No detailed description available. |
| HISTORY (W19) | 240 DECOLONIZATION & THE GLOBAL IMAGINARY | SCHIELDS, C. |
| How did actors engaged in the global decolonization movements of the twentieth century imagine the world and seek to refashion its dominant political formations? What do these past imaginaries offer to our postcolonial present? To answer these questions, this course explores the multivalent meanings of decolonization as an historical event, an enduring political project and a form of radical praxis. Focusing especially on the political imaginaries of the Black Atlantic world, we will highlight concepts and methods germane to the study of world history. These include but are not limited to: methodological nationalism and its limits, epistemological and ontological challenges to putatively European understandings of reason, sovereignty and humanity, and critical consideration of archives and research methods. |
| HISTORY (W19) | 230 DECOLONIZATION | SCHIELDS, C. |
| How did actors engaged in the global decolonization movements of the twentieth century imagine the world and seek to refashion its dominant political formations? What do these past imaginaries offer to our postcolonial present? To answer these questions, this course explores the multivalent meanings of decolonization as an historical event, an enduring political project and a form of radical praxis. Focusing especially on the political imaginaries of the Black Atlantic world, we will highlight concepts and methods germane to the study of world history. These include but are not limited to: methodological nationalism and its limits, epistemological and ontological challenges to putatively European understandings of reason, sovereignty and humanity, and critical consideration of archives and research methods. |
| HISTORY (W19) | 204A 2ND YEAR RESRCH SEM | BERBERIAN, H. |
| Two-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students. Taken during the second year of the Ph.D. program; not required for M.A. students. Includes review of current state of the literature and practical experience in conducting research and writing a research paper. |
| HISTORY (W19) | 260 20TH CENTURY US | HIGHSMITH, A. |
| This graduate seminar offers an introduction to the history and historiography of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course explores key themes, debates, interpretations, and modes of historical inquiry in the field of modern U.S. history with particular emphases on race, gender, sexuality, and political economy. Students are required to read approximately one book and one scholarly article per week, engage in thoughtful discussions of course materials, and complete several written assignments, including a final historiographical paper on a topic of their choosing. |
| HISTORY (W19) | 202B 1ST YEAR RESRCH SEM | ROBERTSON, J. |
| This course is the second part in a two-quarter sequence, normally required of all first-year graduate students in the department. In this quarter, students will build on the research they conducted in the first part of the sequence to produce a research paper of publishable quality. Throughout, we will discuss how to craft historical arguments, create an authorial voice, and successfully approach the writing, editing, and publishing process. |
| HISTORY (W19) | 250 19TH CENTURY LATAM | BORUCKI, A. |
| No detailed description available. |
