HIS 101 F HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, I
MW 1:25pm-2:15pm
DR. SCOTT HEERMAN

THIS COURSE REQUIRES A DISCUSSION SECTION
This course is a topical survey of the history of the United States, from its colonial origins to Reconstruction.Two guiding questions will shape our course. First, we will explore where and when “American” History began and try to trace how the meeting of European societies, African societies, and Indigenous societies adapted to new environments and merged into a distinctly new world “American” society. Second, we will explore competing visions of hierarchy, and belonging in U.S. History. We will look at various boundaries of exclusion and mechanisms of inclusion into the nation and try to understand how they changed over time.

HIS 101 7C HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, I
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS 101 F
F 10:10am-11:00am
DR. SCOTT HEERMAN

HIS 101 7E HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, I
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS 101 F
F 12:20pm-1:10pm
DR. SCOTT HEERMAN

HIS 132 B EUROPE 1648 TO THE PRESENT
MWF 9:05am-9:55am
DR. DOMINIQUE REILL

THIS COURSE IS BEING OFFERED ONLINE

This course covers the political, social, and cultural history of Europe from today until the end of the Thirty Years War (1648). The emphasis of this course will be on how migration changed conceptions of state, people, culture, and economy in Europe and/or among Europeans. Special emphasis will be placed on questions of ethnicity, gender, race, violence, and attempts to forestall violence. Unlike traditional introductory survey courses, we will approach subjects in reverse chronological order. So, instead of beginning the course in the seventeenth century and ending in the twenty-first, we will be beginning in the twenty-first century and ending in the seventeenth. The reason why we are going “backwards” is because your final project will be investigating how a family’s history (yours or someone else’s) has been influenced by different versions of migration over time, starting with you and going back in time. To do this “reverse” system, the course has been separated into 7 modules (or subsections) around certain key themes associated with chronological moments of migration history. At the end of this course, we will reassess how what we first studied (the twenty-first century) was related to subjects covered through everything that brought us to the course’s conclusion in the seventeenth.

HIS 162 P HISTORY OF MODERN LATIN AMERICA (1800-PRESENT)
TR 11:00am-12:15pm
DR. 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 ideas of progress and modernization 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 social 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 267 R MAKING HISTORY
OBJECTS IN HISTORY
TR 2:00pm-3:15pm
DR. ASHLI WHITE

In this seminar we will explore what objects reveal about the lives of diverse Americans in the past.  Working with items from the Lowe Art Museum and Richter Library’s Special Collections, we will engage with various types of things—from ceramics, metalwork, and textiles to maps, prints, and photographs.  As part of our endeavor, we will appraise how historians have approached this unconventional, yet powerful, source base: the
questions they have asked, the methods they have used, and the conclusions they have reached.  Drawing inspiration from this scholarship as well as our own research into objects, the class will create a digital exhibition that showcases your interpretations of the historical meanings of objects.

HIS 308 S WEST AFRICA SINCE 1000 A.D.
TR 3:30pm-4:45pm
DR. EDMUND ABAKA

The course is designed to introduce students to the fascinating and diverse societies and cultures that comprised West Africa from about 1000 AD to 1850. It is organized around six big themes such as prehistory and the sources of information for the study of the history of West Africa, thriving trade networks connecting West Africa to North Africa and the Arab World (the Trans-Saharan trade), and the influence of Muslim/Arab merchants and scholars in West African History. Next, we shall discuss the evolution of some of the political
systems in West Africa – the Sudanic as well as the forest kingdoms of West Africa (Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Asante, Oyo, Benin, etc.) and follow that with West African arts, culture and technology (pottery-making, ceramic work, textile production among others. We shall follow this theme with one of the major migrations in History, the forced migration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean – the Atlantic slave trade – and
its legacies in various societies in West Africa. The course will end with one of the last Islamic revolutions in West Africa and the creation of one of the largest states in the region, the Sokoto Caliphate (1804), in what is now Northern Nigeria.

HIS 311 EF GANDHI AND THE MAKING OF MODERN INDIA
MW 12:20pm-1:35pm
DR. SUMITA CHATTERJEE

This course will study the rise and significance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leader of the non-violent nationalist movement against the British Empire in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Through a detailed study of his numerous writings and speeches we will explore Gandhi’s theories and praxis of civil disobedience, satyagraha, non-violent protest, moral discipline, critique of modernity as well as his alternative vision of civil society and polity. We will focus on the extent to which his ideas and thoughts were adopted as well as rejected in the making of the modern Indian nation state. We will critically examine the widely held perception that “Gandhi brought politics to the masses,” and see the ways in which Gandhian thought was adapted, received, and enacted by different actors in the nationalist struggle against the British as well as in independent India. We will explore issues of political mobilization, strategies of “passive” resistance, relations between Hindus and Muslims, Hindu caste society’s ills, the question of “untouchables”, the place of women in society, self-reliance, individual and collective responsibilities. Endearingly often called “Bapu”, or with veneration also known as the “Mahatma”, Gandhi and Gandhian philosophy and praxis have a complex and conflicted relationship with modernity in India in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. In this course the students drawing from Gandhi’s writings, as well as extensive multi-disciplinary scholarship on him and his times, films, and other multi-media, will get a rounded picture of the man, the historical context of his times, primary influences on his thoughts as well as his legacy and relevance in contemporary India and the world in general.

This is a writing credit course.

HIS 315 Q IMPERIAL CHINA
TR 12:30pm-1:45pm
DR. STEPHEN HALSEY

This course examines the origins and development of Chinese civilization from the Bronze Age through the early modern period (1500 BC-1800 AD).  We will trace China's transformation from a state dominated by great aristocratic families in the Tang era (618-907) to a bureaucratic empire with civil service examinations and a flourishing commercial culture after 1000 AD.  Lectures and course readings will emphasize two additional themes: the importance of foreign contacts in shaping Chinese history; and China's economic, cultural, and technological creativity in the imperial era.  In the first section of the course, we will explore the politics and society of early China, focusing on the emergence of philosophical schools such as Daoism, Legalism, and Confucianism and on the evolution of a unified state under the Qin and Han dynasties.  We will then discuss the spread of Buddhism from 300 to 600 and China's military and cultural efflorescence under the Tang dynasty.  In the final part of the class, we will describe the growth of a sophisticated commercial culture, the development of a new bureaucratic elite after the eleventh century, and China's conquest by non-Han dynasties like the Liao, Jin, Mongol, and Qing.

HIS 341 S HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH
TR 3:30pm-4:45pm
DR. HERMANN BECK

This lecture course offers a comprehensive survey of the history of Nazi Germany from the early beginnings of pre-fascist movements in Central Europe before the First World War to the final and ignominious collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945. The main topics covered include the rise of the Nazi party in the 1920s; the last years of the Weimar Republic and Hitler’s rise to power; the crucial first phase of the regime that ended with the consolidation of Nazi rule in 1934; social, economic, and cultural developments; anti-Semitic attacks during the years leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War; Nazi foreign policy; Germany during the Second World War; and the Holocaust. Readings for this class include autobiographies and diaries from contemporaries as well as an array of translated primary sources. In addition, documentaries during the course of the semester complement written sources to bring the material to life.

HIS 353 P HISTORY OF CUBA
TR 11:00am-12:15pm
DR. MICHAEL BUSTAMANTE

This course invites students to interrogate simplified narratives that continue to dominate popular understandings of modern Cuban history from the nineteenth century to the present. We begin by considering Cuba’s winding path to independence under a U.S. shadow and the nature of the political and economic order that followed. We then pay particular attention to the Cuban Revolution (leading up to and after 1959) as a contested historical process and experience. We will assess evolving debates over what it meant to be “revolutionary” in the post-1959 context; we will evaluate conflicting claims about the Castro government's legacies of repression and empowerment; and we will dissect the politics of race, gender, and culture alongside readings about Cuban economic policies, state formation, and foreign policy. Against accounts that treat recent Cuban history as only a function of the island’s conflicted relationship with the United States, or as a series of Cold War flash points, we will explore the dynamic relationship between local, national, and international forces. To that end, we will also consider the formation and evolution of the Cuban diaspora. Course assignments and lectures incorporate significant engagement with primary and cultural materials, including visual art, literature, and film.

HIS 364 C CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
MWF 10:10am-11:00am
DR. MICHAEL BERNATH
THIS COURSE REQUIRES A DISCUSSION SECTION

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 7E CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS 364 C
F 12:20pm-1:10pm
DR. MICHAEL BERNATH

HIS 364 7G CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
DISCUSSION SECTION FOR HIS 364 C
F 2:30pm-3:20pm
DR. MICHAEL BERNATH

HIS 397 01 INTERNSHIP
DR. MARTIN NESVIG

HIS 400 and; HIS 500 DIRECTED READINGS
All 400and 500 level directed readings require permission of instructor before signing up for
course.

HIS 511/611 1G STUDIES IN ASIAN HISTORY
ASIANS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE U.S.
M 2:30pm-5:15pm
DR. SUMITA CHATTERJEE

This course will study the gender, race, class, and caste dynamics of South Asian migration to the New World - to the British colonies of the Caribbean and 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) Discussion of feminist ethnographic method and use and value of oral histories. Here we will use Richter library’s oral sources to understand their value in making visible immigrant voices and stories not found in official and written archival sources. We will also use South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA.org) These themes and archival engagement with existing oral collections, historical scholarship, literature, and film, provide the frames through which we will evaluate the lived experiences of South Asians who migrated to different parts of the Caribbean and United States under diverse conditions and dissimilar motivations – highlighting gender, race, caste, and class in shaping these new homes and identities.

HIS 544/646 5G STUDIES IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
WEIMAR AND RISE OF HITLER
W 2:30pm-5:15pm
DR, HERMANN BECK

This seminar concentrates on the Weimar Republic and Hitler's rise to power: born out of defeat in World War I, unstable but intellectually vibrant, culturally far ahead of its age but beset by political disasters – notably the rise of Nazism – that would ultimately lead to its downfall. This seminar explores the social, political, economic, and intellectual trends in the ill-fated Weimar Republic from the end of World War I to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. In the first two-thirds of the course, we concentrate on Weimar’s history with an emphasis on the rise of the Nazi party, using a variety of (translated) primary sources and diplomatic reports from the British and American embassies in Berlin. The latter part of the course is devoted to a discussion of more specialized topics and student presentations.  

HIS 591/654 5R STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE HISTORY
CAPITALISM: HISTORIES AND WORLDS
R 2:00pm-4:45pm
DR. EDUARDO ELENA

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of a defining issue of our times: growth. We live in a world today geared to the frenetic pursuit of capitalist expansion, as measured by familiar metrics like GDP. Boosting growth has become the major aim of governments across the globe, and many of our institutions are shaped by expectations of never-ending increases. Yet sustained levels of high growth per capita are a relatively recent phenomenon in world history, dating back only to the early nineteenth century in the industrializing West. The collective improvements associated with rapid growth have brought undoubted benefits to a portion of humanity and need to reach hundreds of millions more, but the ecological and social limitations of current models are becoming ever more apparent. To borrow Kenneth Boulding’s phrase, “anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.” This seminar will provide students will tools for thinking about the past, present, and possible futures of capitalism and growth. As the seminar will show, one cannot adequately address this subject without considering questions of consumption, money, technology, political power, demography, labor, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world, among other topics. Seminar members will read works that cover different time periods, types of historical actors, and geographic areas, including Latin America and other parts of the Global South. No prior expertise in methods of economic inquiry is necessary.

HIS 599 4G INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
W 2:30pm-5:15pm
DR. PHILIP HARLING

HIS 602 1P STUDIES IN AFRICAN HISTORY
STUDIES IN AFRICAN DIASPORA HISTORY
T 11:00am-1:45pm
DR. EDMUND ABAKA

The Studies in African Diaspora History course will introduce students to theoretical and methodological approaches to the study and research of critical themes pertaining to the African Diaspora (continental Africa, African American, and the global African diaspora writ large). Multidisciplinary in scope and diverse in approach, the class focuses on the historical background of both the forced and voluntary migration of Africans to Portuguese, English, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the “New World,” to Asia and the Middle East and the black experience in these colonial spaces after slavery. It recognizes the various “Middle Passages” and, thus, moves beyond the Atlantic-centric focus on the African diaspora. We shall examine the free and unfree migrations of African people across the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean to places as far away as India and “the world these Africans engaged with and made their home.” Thus, what is a diaspora and how important is it as an analytical tool? More importantly, we shall spend some time on the historical legacy of these migrations to the Americas and the issues that culminated in the civil rights struggle by African-descended people in all the colonial spaces in which they found themselves. For our purpose, however, we shall turn the lens of our research focus to the African Diaspora in South Florida in general and the University of Miami in particular.

HIS 702 4G RESEARCH SEMINAR 2
W 2:30pm-5:15pm
DR. SCOTT HEERMAN

HIS 721 1T HISTORIOGRAPHY
T 5:05pm-7:50pm
DR. STEPHEN HALSEY

HIS 722 1D DISSERTATION PROSPECTUS SEMINAR
M 11:15am-2:00pm
DR. MICHAEL BERNATH

Students will develop a strong dissertation prospectus. This class will operate as a writing workshop, for which each student will write and revise several drafts of a prospectus that will be critiqued by the student's advisor, the professor teaching the course, and fellow students. At the end of the semester, students will give oral presentations about their proposed projects to the department.

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.