HIS 101 E HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, I
MW 12:20pm-1:10pm
- MICHAEL BERNATH
THIS COURSE REQUIRES A DISCUSSION SECTION
The purpose of this course is twofold. First, it is designed to acquaint students with the narrative of American history from the time of European contact up through the end of the Civil War. We will examine the major events, trends, and historiographical issues surrounding the colonial period, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States, the origins and development of slavery, the Early Republic, the Antebellum years, and the Civil War. We will explore the American past from a variety of perspectives including aspects of its political, social, cultural, intellectual, religious, and economic history. Second, this course seeks to engage students in the practice of history directly, to help them understand the nature of historical interpretation and to see how historians construct their arguments. To this end, the reading for this course will focus mainly on the analysis of primary sources (materials written at the time). Students will learn to read sources critically and to construct reasoned arguments derived from and supported by the original documents themselves.
HIS 101 7D HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, I
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS 101 E
F 11:15am-12:05pm
- MICHAEL BERNATH
HIS 101 7E HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, I
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS 101 E
F 12:20pm-1:10pm
- MICHAEL BERNATH
HIS 122 R EAST ASIA, 1800-PRESENT
TR 2:00pm-3:00pm
- STEPHEN HALSEY
Do you want to learn how China and Japan developed two of the three largest economies in the world? To understand why China now has one of the largest populations on earth? To know why Beijing and Tokyo fought two bitter and bloody wars in the last hundred years and may do so again? Explore the history of the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region this fall in The Dragon and the Rising Sun. We will focus on the fascinating connections between two of the great powers, China and Japan, and the ways that this complex relationship has shaped the history of the Asia-Pacific region. This class is an integrative survey, which means that we will discuss topics ranging from geisha and poets to empires and revolutions to samurai warriors and atom bombs. The Dragon and the Rising Sun is an introductory course that assumes no prior knowledge of Asia or coursework in the field of history.
HIS 131 F EUROPE FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1600: AN EXPANDING WORLD
MW 1:25pm-2:15pm
- KARL GUNTHER
THIS COURSE REQUIRES A DISCUSSION SECTION
This course will survey approximately 2,000 years of European history, beginning with the emergence of city states in classical Greece and ending with the fragmentation of Christendom in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.
HIS 131 7F EUROPE FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1600: AN EXPANDING WORLD
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS 131 F
F 1:25pm-2:15pm
- KARL GUNTHER
HIS 131 7C EUROPE FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1600: AN EXPANDING WORLD
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS 131 F
F 10:10am-11:00am
- KARL GUNTHER
HIS 162 P MODERN LATIN AMERICA
TR 11:00am-12:15pm
- EDUARDO ELENA
This course offers an introduction to the history of modern Latin America from the early nineteenth-century struggles for national independence to the challenges of building inclusive democracies in the twenty-first century. No prior familiarity with Latin America or knowledge of the region’s history is required. Over the semester, students will consider the following types of questions: What do the diverse countries of the vast area that we now call “Latin America” have in common? How have different ideals of progress, modernization, justice, and freedom been applied over time in this region? Why has Latin America been such a major site for innovation in a variety of fields, including literature, science, music, sports, and the visual arts, among others? How do we make sense of the contrast between Latin America’s incredibly rich human and natural resources and its extreme levels of wealth inequality? How do Latin Americans of different backgrounds understand their ties to one another and their region’s connections to other parts of the world, including the United States?
HIS 200 D THE FRENCH EMPIRE
MWF 11:15am-12:05pm
TBA
HIS 201 D HISTORY OF AFRICA, I
MWF 11:15am-12:05pm
TBA
HIS 209 1T AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, I
T 6:00pm-8:45pmm
- DONALD SPIVEY
By signing on to this course you have made a commitment to participate fully in an intellectual journey of exploration and advancement through reading, listening, imbibing, writing, questioning, and, of critical importance, thinking for yourself about the African-American experience.
The course this semester focuses on the themes of “African retention” and “Black self-assertion” as we examine the history of people of African descent in the United States from African roots through the emergence of the Jim Crow era. Special attention is given to such topics as the African connection, resistance, the slave trade and slavery, the black experience in colonial New England, black abolitionism, the Civil War, African-American leaders, and the historical roots of African-American culture including music, religion, dance, literature, and food.
The reading list is intellectually exciting and engaging unless you are brain dead. The format of the course consists of lectures with designated periods for class discussion of the readings. Lectures are supplemented with images and recordings from the instructor’s vast collection. Examinations will focus on readings and material covered in lectures. Hence, class attendance is mandatory and expected.
The student’s grade for the course will be based on (1) Four book analyses of three pages each (12.5% each; 50%); (2) Participation in class discussion of required readings will count for extra credit; (3) No midterm examination; (4) A comprehensive in-class essay final examination (50%) based upon lectures, documentaries, and readings.
A service-learning project (off campus) may be done in lieu of two (2) of the book analyses or for extra credit. More on this option in class.
The learning outcome goals of this course are to advance the students’ understanding of the African-American experience and contribution to the United States of America, enhance cognitive, analytical, and critical thinking ability, and improve overall writing and verbal communication skills.
HIS 228 O HOLY WAR AND TOLERATION IN WESTERN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
TR 9:30am-10:45am
- HUGH THOMAS
This course explores changing attitudes to war, particularly holy war, in the three major Western religious traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The course extends from the Ancient Near East to the present. We will be exploring such issues as Just War, the meaning(s) of Jihad, the Crusades, Christian Wars of Religion, the Enlightenment, religious movements devoted to peace, and the recent revival of religious war. Classes will include a combination of lecture and discussion of primary texts, ranging from extracts from the Bible and the Qur’an to very recent works discussing religion and war. The grade will be based on tests, class participation, and short written assignments.
HIS 229 R GLOBAL CONSUMER SOCIETY
TR 2:00pm-3:15pm
- EDUARDO ELENA
In the United States we are surrounded today with a seemingly limitless variety of consumer goods, and we are offered constant reminders of the increasingly globalized nature of modern life. Too often, however, such commentary reflects a shocking lack of historical understanding about the origins and evolution of contemporary consumer society. This course offers a new perspective on these transformations by exploring the historical relationship between consumption and globalization. Spanning an arc from the early modern era to the present, the course explores the impact of innovations in global trade, industry, and commercial culture on everyday life in multiple societies. The lectures and readings focus on cases studies in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa that reveal underlying convergences and divergences worldwide as well as the unresolved social, ethical, and environmental problems associated with the rise of mass consumption.
HIS 271 JK RECENT US HISTORY
MW 5:05Ppm-6:20pm
- max fraser
In this course, students will be introduced to the major developments in American political history over the last half-century, providing them a rich framework for understanding and discussing some of the more hotly debated issues in today’s political landscape. Topics will include the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s; the late Cold War; the rise of the New Right; the culture wars of the 1990s and the emergence of a “neoliberal consensus”; 9/11 and the wars in the Middle East; and the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
HIS 272 Q HAWAII AND ITS PACIFIC WORLDS
TR 12:30pm-1:45pm
- MARTIN NESVIG
On the surface this is a class about surfing. But to understand surfing is to study the history of Hawai’i and of the sport which Hawai’ians developed and created surfing. This course traces the early history of ancient Hawai’i, when navigating migrants traveled between Polynesia and Hawai’i until they ceased contact. Traditional Hawai’i was governed by complex social and ritual systems, bound by the concept of kapu, or taboo. The class analyzes the process by which Hawai’i went from being a united kingdom to missionary outpost and target of pineapple plantations, to a U.S. territory which specifically disenfranchised native Hawai’ians to the near suppression of surfing. The resulting Hawai’ian Renaissance reshaped images of Hawai’i and surfing found willing converts in California. Other topics include the history of surfing styles and competition, comparative surf breaks and shore cultures, California dreamin, the feeling you get when you hear the Eagles; beach bums; professional surf competitions and O’ahu North Shore culture; spam and plate lunch; the broader Pacific world; castaways; fur traders; tuna and canning industry; fisherman.
HIS 303 P LATINX HISTORY
TR 11:00am-12:15pm
- MICHAEL BUSTAMANTE
History of Latinx/Hispanic peoples, cultures, and communities in the United States, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Paying attention to interrelated trajectories of social/economic exclusion, immigration policy and contested identity formation, this course maps the heterogeneous mosaic of Latin American diasporas in the United States.
HIS 313 B BOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND
MWF 9:05am-9:55am
- SUMITA CHATTERJEE
This course studies themes in Indian society through the lens of Indian cinema – both Bollywood and the regional film industry. The course consists of five modules each lasting between two to three weeks. Module one will situate and frame the entire semester’s readings with a discussion of a brief history of Bollywood and regional cinema, their respective reach, influence, and limits in framing and critiquing societal and cultural norms. Each subsequent module will open to lecture and discussion with the screening of a Bollywood film (often an excerpt), regional cinema or a documentary. The important themes that will be covered in the modules will relate to a) the significance, centrality, fluidity and perversion of caste in Indian society and its relative invisibility in film; b) the multiple cinematic and popular representations and framing of the religious epic - the Ramayana. Using multiple visual and textual narratives of the Ramayana we will discuss the place of myths in the construction of politics and society; c) issues of gender and sexuality - studying the shaping of celluloid goddesses and real lives of women, consumption of sex, queering of it and its depiction in film and reception in society; d) Colonial and post-colonial engagement with modernity in India – through the lens of the nation state and its women, as well as the nation and its “others”: identity politics based on religious exclusivity, communal and secular anxieties in modern India; and e) Diaspora identities and cultural appropriation of Bollywood cinematic frames and references outside India. Students will earn a writing credit.
HIS 325 Q EARLY MIDDLE AGES: EUROPE
TR 12:30pm-1:45pm
- HUGH THOMAS
This course covers the history of Western Europe from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire to the beginning of the Crusades. There will also be some coverage of Byzantium and the Islamic world. Topics will include the loss and survival of Roman culture, the barbarians, the Carolingian Empire, the Vikings, the spread of Christianity, and relations with the emerging Islamic empire. There will be a main textbook and four or five other books containing sources written in the period. Grades will be based on class participation, midterm, final, and papers.
HIS 328 GH REFORMATION EUROPE
MW 3:35pm-4:50pm
- KARL GUNTHER
This course is about the Reformation, the most transformative event in European history between the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Industrial Revolution. New forms of Christianity developed in the early decades of the sixteenth century, overthrowing beliefs, practices, and institutions that had defined life in Europe for centuries. Christianity was an all-encompassing public way of life during this period of history — not simply a “religion,” as it is in Europe and North America today — so these developments had revolutionary consequences in all aspects of life. The existence of a revolution of this magnitude and scope raises a series of fascinating questions. What was it all about? Why did it happen? How could it happen and how did it spread? What was it like to live through it? Why did it appeal to some people and take root in some places, but horrify others and fail to win adherents elsewhere? What problems did it create and how did people try to solve them? What were its immediate and long-lasting consequences? And when did it end (if it ever ended)?
HIS 333 C ENGLAND AND EMPIRE
MWF 10:10am-11:00am
- PHILIP HARLING
Britain’s 19th century was a century of superlatives: The world’s wealthiest nation; the world’s most urban
society; the world’s largest empire. It was also a century of stark contrasts: extreme wealth vs. dire poverty;
relative peace in Britain vs. chronic imperial warfare; slowly democratizing government “at home” vs.
authoritarian rule in the Empire; the promise of emancipation from the inequalities of the past vs. the
persistence of hierarchy (on the bases of class, race, and gender). We’ll explore these superlatives and
contrasts across the century as we focus our attention on several prominent themes: the social impact of
unparalleled urban-industrial growth; the promise and limits of democratic reform; imperial violence and
conquest; colonial rule and its critics; Victorian morality and its discontents.
HIS 335 F FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON
MWF 1:25pm-2:25pm
TBA
HIS 349 S RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN POWERS
FROM NAPOLEON TO THE COLD WAR
TR 3:30pm-4:45pm
- HERMANN BECK
This is a survey of European diplomacy in the crucial century and a half between the Congress of Vienna and the first phase of the Cold War, which ended with the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban missile crisis. We begin in 1815 with an examination of the international repercussions of the Napoleonic wars, then continue with the Revolutions of 1848, the Crimean War, and Bismarck’s push to unify Germany. German unification in 1871 fundamentally changed the European system, and Bismarck subsequently tried to safeguard his creation through an intricate system of alliances (1871-1890) that barely survived his own downfall in March of 1890. Consequently, we next turn to the dissolution of Bismarck’s system, the creation of the Triple Entente, and Germany’s increasing diplomatic isolation in the two decades prior to the outbreak of World War I. Other major topics include: the Great War and its consequences, the Versailles Treaty, diplomacy in the 1920s, the Europe of the Dictators, the origins of the Second World War, Great Power relations after the start of World War II in September 1939, the formation of the Grand Alliance and, finally, the roots and the early history of the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
HIS 363 O THE EARLY REPUBLIC
TR 9:30am-10:45am
- ASHLI WHITE
Beginning with the end of the American Revolution and concluding with the War of 1812, this course examines the earliest years of U.S. republic. We explore both internal and international influences on the making of the United States: everything from the wrangling over the Constitution, the rise of the first political parties, and constant challenges from Indigenous and enslaved peoples, to the impact of the French and Haitian revolutions, relations with the Caribbean, and the ever-present specter of Britain. During our consideration, we pay close attention not only to political and economic developments, but to cultural and social changes as well.
HIS 364 G CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
MW 2:30pm-3:20pm
- MICHAEL BERNATH
This course explores the most cataclysmic event in American history. We will examine the Civil War as a revolutionary experience, an event that touched and radically transformed nearly every aspect of American life, and indeed, redefined the very meaning of the United States itself. This course will not be confined to battles and generals. While the military struggle will not be neglected, the primary focus of the course will be on the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of the war. The Civil War has rightly been called “the crossroads of our being.” It fundamentally altered northern and southern society, ended the institution of slavery, and forever changed the course of American history. Today, the United States is still touched, and in many ways defined, by the legacy of the Civil War.
HIS 364 7G CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS364 C
F 2:30pm-3:30pm
- MICHAEL BERNATH
HIS 364 7E CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS364 C
F 12:20pm-1:10pm
- MICHAEL BERNATH
HIS 397 01 INTERNSHIP
- MARTIN NESVIG
HIS 400 & HIS 500 DIRECTED READINGS
All 400and 500 level directed readings require permission of instructor before signing up for course.
HIS 501/602 1J STUDIES IN AFRICAN HISTORY
MAJOR DEBATES
M 5:30pm-8:15pm
TBA
HIS 511/611 1G STUDIES IN ASIAN HISTORY
SOUTH ASIANS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE UNITED STATES:
GENDER, RACE, CLASS, CASTE IN MIGRATION NARRATIVES
M 2:30pm-5:15pm
- SUMITA CHATTERJEE
This course will critically study the gender, race, class, and caste dynamics of South Asian migration to the New World - to the British colonies of the Caribbean and to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With the help of monographs, fiction, memoirs, films, and oral archival sources we will engage with questions of displacement, belonging, home, and identity. We will situate our seminar-format discussions in the historical context of nineteenth century British colonial labor policies such as indentured servitude, and twentieth century U.S. immigration policies. How do South Asian political, cultural, and social identities get reconstituted in new homelands? Does the category “South Asia” (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan and the Maldives) work in new diasporic spaces in people’s everyday lives?
The course will cover the following themes: 1) a brief history of globalization and migration 2) literary imaginings of belonging, home, and hyphenated identities, 3) diasporic films, music, and dance in the shaping of performative and visual cultures. 4) Use of Richter library’s oral sources to understand their value in making visible immigrant voices and stories not found in official and written archival sources.
HIS 544/646 4G MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
WWI: ORIGINS AND CAUSE
W 2:30pm-5:15pm
- HERMANN BECK
This seminar concentrates on the origins and course of the First World War. We begin with a detailed analysis of the diplomatic origins of the war, starting with Bismarck’s system of alliances and its gradual overthrow between 1890 and 1907, as well as an examination of the crises that preceded the outbreak of the conflict in August 1914. We then turn to the course of military events and the economic, social, and psychological dimensions of the conflict. The First World War changed the face of the earth forever, resulting not only in the mobilization of 65 million men, the death of ten million, and the destruction of four empires; it also precipitated the Russian Revolution and was a main factor in the emergence of fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany. The “Great War,” as it came to be called in Western Europe, also lay at the root of the second world-wide conflagration. Historians have come to speak of it as the Urkatastrophe, the great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century that set off a "thirty years crisis" spanning the decades from 1914 to 1945.
HIS 553 5R STUDIES IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
CONQUEST OF MEXICO
R 2:00pm-4:45pm
- MARTIN NESVIG
This is a reading intensive seminar. The theme this semester is "What we used to call the Conquest of Mexico but which we call other things now, like Culture Contact, Spanish invasion of Mexico, or the Spanish-Mexica War." The seminar will consider the themes of empire, cultural imperialism, culture contact, linguistic interaction, the New Philology, missionaries, ethnic mixture, environmental history, and epistemology of exploration.
HIS 569/669 5T AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
RETHINKING AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE
R 7:00pm-9:45pm
- DONALD SPIVEY
The culture of a people is, in so many respects, the most intimate component of their history. We will dare in the seminar this semester to explore the culture of African Americans from African roots to the present. Please bring all of your senses to this endeavor as we will not only read and discuss but listen and imbibe the folkways of black America and the innermost aesthetic. Our examination will include aspects of the music, the sport, the art, the literature, the comedy, the dance, the dress, the religion, and the food of the people. As a history seminar we will always be mindful of meaning and context and what our exploration can tell us about the African-American struggle, the creative ability of a people, and their take on life at critical junctures in their history.
If you are committed to taking this intellectual journey, come prepared to do extensive reading, thinking, and sharing of ideas and insights from the first day the class meets to the last. The student’s grade for the seminar shall be based on contribution to discussion (20%), two oral presentations (15% each; 30%), and a fifteen-page primary source research paper (50%) that explores a topic of the student’s choice within the theme of the course.
*Service-learning option (off campus): A community-based project, such as volunteer work with the Black Archives, Miami Workers Center, Alonzo Mourning Charities, Overtown Youth Center, South Miami Afterschool Center, Habitat for Humanity, the Red Cross, Haitian Support Network, Nature Links, Miami Rescue Mission, or some other community service organization, may be done in lieu of the research paper.
The learning outcome goals of this course are to advance the students’ understanding of the African-American experience and contribution to the United States of America, enhance cognitive, analytical, and critical thinking ability, and improve overall writing and verbal communication skills.
HIS 602 5N STUDIES IN AFRICAN HISTORY
The Pre-Colonial Period (To 1800)
THE PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD (TO 1800)
R 9:00am-11:5am
- EDMUND ABAKA
Africa is no historical part of the World” (Hegel). “In the future, there will be some African history to teach. For now, there is only the history of Europeans in Africa” (Trevor Roper). From the distant past down to the modern times perceptions of Africa are mired in a seesaw of change. This graduate seminar is designed to engage students in an interrogation of major perspectives, questions, and debates in the field of African history from myths to realities and major problems and themes in the historiographical literature.
We shall discuss some of these longstanding debates and interrogate new directions in African history before the European penetration of the nineteenth century. Some of the major themes to be discussed in this seminar include perceptions of Africa and Africans, the nature of the sources for the study of African history, social and political institutions (including state formation, i.e. the growth of centralised and non-centralised state systems), pre-colonial West African trade, the introduction and spread of Islam and some of the Islamic revolutions in West Africa. The slave trade and the “legitimate” trade that followed are also discussed. The last segment of the courses would deal with Christianity in Africa from the 4th century onward. We shall also look at “herstory” to delineate the significant role of women in African history.
This is a two and a half-hour seminar that meets every week to discuss themes relevant to the assigned readings. Keep in mind that the course focuses on three fundamental elements: the historiography, arguments, debates, and new directions of the field of African history.
HIS 702 4A RESEARCH SEMINAR 2
W 9:00am-11:45am
- MAX FRASER
HIS 717 7G FIELD PREPARATION IN MODERN CARIBBEAN HISTORY
F 2:30pm-5:15pm
- KATE RAMSEY
This seminar is designed for Ph.D. students interested in working on major topics, questions, and debates in Caribbean history from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Students will have the chance to read and discuss a wide range of scholarship in Caribbean Studies, with an emphasis on influential recent directions in this field. Seminar readings will spotlight comparative and transnational approaches, and methodological questions will be foregrounded throughout. Major points of focus will include the Haitian Revolution and its reverberations; antislavery movements and abolition across the region; post-emancipation struggles over land, labor, citizenship, and the meaning of freedom; histories of Indian, Chinese, and African indenture; the Cuban wars of independence against Spain and visions of Caribbean political federation; the expansion of U.S. empire and rising intra-Caribbean migrations in the early twentieth century; Garveyism, labor movements, and anticolonial nationalisms in the mid-twentieth-century Caribbean; and the politics of sovereignty and non-sovereignty.
HIS 721 1N HISTORIOGRAPHY
T 9:00am-11:45am
- STEPHEN HALSEY
This reading colloquium will introduce doctoral students to the theory and methods of writing history since the middle of the twentieth century. Readings will focus on the period since 1600 and address geographic and thematic specialties ranging from the environmental history of nineteenth century America to the social history of early modern Southeast Asia. The course is organized around a series of abstract concepts such as time, culture, and the state that may constitute the historian’s object of study but in almost all cases shape their analytical categories and epistemological assumptions. Yet students of history often possess a vague understanding of terms such as ‘power,’ including their multivalent normative, methodological, and interpretive implications. This colloquium will address that problem by providing an overview of recent historiographic debates, introducing many of the different genres of historical writing, and examining the dialogue between history and disciplines such as anthropology and literature. Students will learn to analyze the logical structure of scholarly arguments, evaluate the use of historical sources and evidence, and identify the theoretical framework that informs a given historical work. They will also have the opportunity to hone their analytical writing skills, including scholarly book reviews with restrictive length requirements. The instructor will take the position that the writing of history resembles a professional craft, in which practice is everything.
HIS 810 01 MASTER’S THESIS
The student working on his/her master’s thesis enrolls for credit, in most departments not to exceed six, as determined by his/her advisor. Credit is not awarded until the thesis has been accepted.
HIS 825 01 MASTER’S STUDY
To establish residence for non-thesis master’s students who are preparing for major examinations. Credit not granted. Regarded as full time residence.
HIS 830 01 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Required of all candidates for the Ph.D. The student will enroll for credit as determined by his/her advisor, but for not less than a total of 12 hours. Up to 12 hours may be taken in a regular semester, but not more than six in a summer session.
HIS 840 01 POST CAND DOC DISS
HIS 850 01 RESEARCH IN RESIDENCE
Use to establish research in residence for the Ph.D. after the student has been enrolled for the permissible cumulative total in appropriate doctoral research. Credit not granted. May be regarded as full-time residence as determined by the Dean of the Graduate School.
