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2122F
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2324F
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Spring 2024
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Curriculum
HIST-105 Global Environmental History of the Twentieth Century
Edward D. Melillo
(Section 01)
HIST-116 The Global Medieval World
Mekhola S. Gomes
(Section 01)
Yael R. Rice
(Section 01)
HIST-122 Readings in the European Tradition II
Alexander Semyonov
(Section 01)
HIST-155 Twentieth-Century America
Francis G. Couvares
(Section 01)
HIST-157 The U.S. in the World: 1898 to the Present
Vanessa Walker
(Sections 01, 01F and 02F)
HIST-172 Opium to Omicron: Troubled Transformations of Modern China
George Qiao
(Section 01)
HIST-190 Prophet, Caliph, Sultan, Shah: Middle Eastern History, 500-1700
Monica M. Ringer
(Section 01)
HIST-205 European Intellectual History and Its Discontents
Alexander Semyonov
(Section 01)
HIST-211 African Migrations and Globalization
Olufemi O. Vaughan
(Section 01)
HIST-217 Slavery and Its Afterlives in the Northern United States
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant
(Section 01)
HIST-222 Histories of the Far-Right
Adi Gordon
(Section 01)
Gilles Verniers
(Section 01)
HIST-230 The French Revolution
Ellen R. Boucher
(Section 01)
HIST-233 Racial Capitalism: Racism, Exploitation and Exclusion in U.S. Economic History
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant
(Section 01)
Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
(Section 01)
HIST-256 Freud as a Jewish Thinker: Jewish Jokes, Psychoanalysis, and the Modern World
Benjamin A. Wurgaft
(Section 01)
HIST-269 Early American Debates
Jen Manion
(Section 01)
HIST-282 From Slavery to Freedom in Latin America
Russell Lohse
(Section 01)
HIST-283 South African History
Sean Redding
(Section 01)
HIST-284 Africa before the European Conquest
Sean Redding
(Section 01)
HIST-285 Africa, Latin America, & the Atlantic Slave Trade
Russell Lohse
(Section 01)
HIST-301 Proseminar in History: Writing the Past
Francis G. Couvares
(Section 02)
HIST-318 Rap, Reagan and the 1980s
Stefan Bradley
(Section 01)
HIST-319 Religion, Empires, and Secular States
Trent E. Maxey
(Section 01)
HIST-323 The Myth of the Past: Exploring Historical Experiences
Ali Mirza
(Section 01)
HIST-357 The Persian Book of Kings
Yael R. Rice
(Section 01)
Monica M. Ringer
(Section 01)
HIST-367 State, Society, and Family in Early Modern China
George Qiao
(Section 01)
HIST-370 Japan's Empire in Asia, 1868–1945
Trent E. Maxey
(Section 01)
HIST-376 Sex, Gender, and the Body in South Asian History
Mekhola S. Gomes
(Section 01)
HIST-390 Special Topics
TBA (Section 01)
HIST-428 Collapse or Revolution: The End of the Soviet Union
Sergey Glebov
(Section 01)
HIST-443 Racism and Risk in Postwar Britain
Ellen R. Boucher
(Section 01)
HIST-459 America and Vietnam
Vanessa Walker
(Section 01)
HIST-490 Special Topics
TBA (Section 01)
HIST-499 Senior Departmental Honors
TBA (Section 01)
Adi Gordon
(Section 02)
HIST-499D Senior Departmental Honors
TBA (Section 01)
Ellen R. Boucher
(Section 02)
George Qiao
(Section 03)
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