PROSPECTUS - SPRING 2008
100-level, 200-level, 300-level, 400-level
106 - EARLY MODERN EUROPE TO 1799 (11:30 MWF)
Course Description: This survey course will examine the society, culture, and politics of Europe from the Renaissance through the French Revolution.
Instructor: M. Catherine Mellen, Adjunct Instructor. ABD, Cornell University.
Availability: This course is taught every year.
117-01 - AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877 (8:30 MWF)
Course Description: This course is a survey of American history from European settlement through Reconstruction. Emphasis will be placed on themes central to the American experience: the variety of cultures that make up America; the historical development of regional identities; the creation of racial distinctions and their centrality in American history; changing gender roles in early America, and an exploration of how a "jumble of peoples" came together as a single nation with a distinctive identity and a multi-dimensional sense of national purpose.
Instructor: Christopher Bilodeau, Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Cornell. He teaches courses in the fields of colonial North America and American Indian History. His research and teaching interests include European (especially English and French) contact with Indians on the borders of North American empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the Atlantic World; the role of violence in colonialism; and the history of religious missions.
Availability: This course is taught every semester.
118-01 - AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1877 (10:30 MWF)
Course Description: This course surveys major developments in US History since Reconstruction with an emphasis on the intersection of politics, culture, and economics.
Instructor: Kim Rogers, Professor of History. Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Her teaching interests center on recent U.S. history, African-American history, and gender and family history. Research interests include biography and autobiography, oral history, and life-course analysis. Professor Rogers’ most recent book is Life and Death in the Delta. She has also published a book entitled Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement, and has edited collections of essays on oral history interviewing, and trauma and autobiography.
Availability: This course is taught every semester.
118-02 - AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1877 (10:30 TR)
Course Description: This course surveys major developments in US History since Reconstruction with an emphasis on the intersection of politics, culture, and economics.
Instructor: Matthew Pinsker, Pohanka Chair for Civil War History. DPhil., Oxford University. His research interests include U.S. political history, the Civil War era, and Abraham Lincoln. He teaches courses in U.S. political, legal and diplomatic history. His research focuses on the career of Abraham Lincoln, partisanship in the Civil War era, American constitutionalism, the Underground Railroad and the history of U.S. campaigns and elections.
Availability: This course is taught every semester.
122-01 - MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1750 (11:30 MWF)
Course Description: This course will cover bureaucratic-military reforms of the 19th century in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism, regional nationalisms, contemporary autocratic regimes, and the politicization of religion.
Instructor: David Commins, Benjamin Rush Distinguished Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of History. Ph.D., University of Michigan. His research and teaching interests are in modern Middle Eastern history with an emphasis on intellectual and social development of the nations of that region. His current research is on jihad, Wahhabism and Salafi movements.
Availability: This course is taught every year.
131-01 - LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY II (9:00 TR)
Course Description: This course will focus on the social, economic, and political developments of Latin America after independence, from consolidation of the new nations during the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. The course will view Latin American history from a global perspective.
Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Associate Professor of History. Ph.D. , Rutgers University. He teaches Latin American, Iberian, and comparative history. His current research deals with transatlantic migration from Portugal to Argentina in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Availability: This course is taught every year.