Graduate Program

Fall Term Schedule

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Fall 2021

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
HIST 400-1 History of Nature Stewart Weaver T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This course explores the history of the idea and condition of nature from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on contemporary historical scholarship as well as a range of thinkers and writers from Thoreau to Carson and beyond, we will study the many ways in which humans have thought about and treated the natural world around them and how the natural world has shaped human history in turn. We will also meet occasionally with a parallel course on "the Politics of Nature" (GSW 213). Some background in history is recommended. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 402-1 Spatial History: Putting History in its Place Michael Jarvis W 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This research seminar focuses on spatial dimensions of historical study and analysis and how the physical world reflects historical change. We will survey how historians use spatial, textual, and visual analysis to advance research into Early Modern Atlantic network formation, circulations of disease, news, ideas, and material culture, and witchcraft hysteria before students learn GIS and database building basics and develop their own research topics. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 362 (W 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 423-1 World War II: Eastern Front Matthew Lenoe W 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This course is centered on class discussion of the readings. There will be little lecture time. We will focus on the history of the Soviet Union's struggle with Nazi Germany from 1941-1945, the largest and bloodiest military conflict in human history. Readings will deal with the Holocaust, the history of military operations, the Red Army's 'learning curve' in its battle with the Wehrmacht, and everyday life on Nazi-occupied territory as well as the Soviet 'home front.' Viewing and discussion of documentary and fictional films will be a significant part of the class. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (W 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 453-1 Immigration and the Americas Molly Ball MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
The United States received the largest number of immigrants in the western hemisphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but immigrants’ relative impact in Latin American countries like Brazil and Argentina was arguably more substantial. This course explores the complex events, trends and personal considerations affecting migrants' decisions and experiences. In exploring the movement of Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, and other groups to and within the Americas, we will seek to understand their movements as a function of three essential questions: why do people migrate; who migrates; and how do they choose where they migrate? The course will incorporate a variety of materials including interviews, memoirs, monographs, and demographic studies. Students will also be involved discovering Rochester’s own rich immigrant history. Graduate students will participate in a series of inter-disciplinary workshops and seminars offered by leading migration scholars over the course of the semester. Location Bausch & Lomb Room 315 (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)
HIST 455-1 Digital Paleography: Deciphering Early Modern Spanish Pablo Sierra T 3:25PM - 4:40PM
Learn how to read, analyze, and transcribe Spanish writing from the 1500s-1700s in this interactive two-credit course (class meets once a week). Paleography is an essential skill for deciphering primary sources whether they were produced in Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico or the Philippines. This course prepares students for historical research in digital databases, physical archives and specialized libraries. We will collectively transcribe, analyze and annotate a group document to familiarize ourselves with ancient Spanish. For your final project you will analyze a digitized primary source of your own choice. Students should have a strong background in Spanish (or Portuguese). No HIST pre-requisites necessary. Location Bausch & Lomb Room 315 (T 3:25PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 486-1 The Other Atlantic: Ethnohistory, Chronicle, and Memory Pablo Sierra R 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This seminar engages the experiences, writings and political ambitions of individuals typically excluded from discussions of the Atlantic. Key concepts such as Atlantic creoles and the Black Atlantic will be debated in light of recent studies on Sephardic merchants, African healers and Native American intellectuals. In order to contextualize their lives, this course will focus on the Iberian and South Atlantic from the early sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. Our initial readings will center on the circulation of Native American commoners and elites to Spain and will be complemented by seminal ethnohistorical studies. The second part of the course will take on the construction of a South or Lusophone ocean that weaves together the histories of Brazilian, Angolan and Portuguese actors. Students will revise and resubmit an original research paper on a topic of their choice. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 491-1 Saints: Medieval and Renaissance Laura Smoller –
What marked out some people as friends of God in medieval and Renaissance Europe? How could contemporaries and how should modern authors write about interior religious states? The notion of sainthood and the status of mystical visionaries could, in fact, be topics of major dispute, as the example of Joan of Arc demonstrates. This course examines the linked phenomena of mysticism, visions, and sanctity through an introduction to major scholarship on the field, as well as to important contemporary sources for the study of saints and mystics.
HIST 491-12 Master's Reading Course Elias Mandala –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 491-6 Master's Reading Course Ruben Flores –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 495-6 Master's Research Ruben Flores –
Graduate level research course for the M.A. level.
HIST 500-1 Problems in Historical Analysis Ruben Flores F 9:00AM - 11:40AM
This course addresses questions of interest to beginning graduate students in history. These may include: the history of the historical profession, styles of historical writing, relations between history and literature, ethno-history, and the functions of history as criticism and as social memory. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (F 9:00AM - 11:40AM)
HIST 510-1 Advanced Historical Studies (1cr) Thomas Devaney –
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HIST 590-1 Supervised Teaching in History Thomas Devaney –
Individual instruction in the teaching of history under the supervision of a faculty member. For first-year Ph.D. students.
HIST 591-01 PhD Readings in History Molly Ball –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-02 PhD Readings in History Thomas Devaney –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-03 PhD Readings in History Thomas Slaughter –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-04 PhD Readings in History Pablo Sierra –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-05 PhD Readings in History Thomas Fleischman –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-06 PhD Readings in History Ruben Flores –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-08 PhD Readings in History Joseph Inikori –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-09 PhD Readings in History Michael Jarvis –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-11 PhD Readings in History Matthew Lenoe –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-12 PhD Readings in History Elias Mandala –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-14 PhD Readings in History Mical Raz –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-15 PhD Readings in History Joan Rubin –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-16 PhD Readings in History Laura Smoller –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-17 PhD Readings in History Brianna Theobald –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-18 PhD Readings in History Stewart Weaver –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-19 PhD Readings in History: America to 1865 Thomas Slaughter –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 591-20 The Frontier in World History Thomas Devaney –
Our world is replete with frontiers. We speak of the frontiers of science and medicine, of new or unexpected frontiers in the farthest reaches of the globe, of space as the ‘final frontier.’ The term itself implies action: frontiers are to be crossed, conquered, and pushed back. These frontiers of our popular imagination owe much to a theory first articulated more than a century ago. While it has been challenged, historians have since explored how various frontiers—physical, religious, political, linguistic, cultural—have defined societies throughout the world. Viewing frontiers as barriers but also sites for cultural exchange, we’ll look at colonization, settlement, trade, and the spread of ideas.
HIST 591-30 PhD Readings in History Laura Smoller –
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-01 Independent Reading Course Molly Ball –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-02 Independent Reading Course Thomas Devaney –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-03 Independent Reading Course Thomas Slaughter –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-04 Independent Reading Course Pablo Sierra –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-05 Independent Reading Course Thomas Fleischman –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-06 Independent Reading Course Ruben Flores –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-08 Independent Reading Course Joseph Inikori –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-09 Independent Reading Course Michael Jarvis –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-11 Independent Reading Course Matthew Lenoe –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-12 Independent Reading Course Elias Mandala –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-14 Independent Reading Course Mical Raz –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-15 Independent Reading Course Joan Rubin –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-16 Independent Reading Course Laura Smoller –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-17 Independent Reading Course Brianna Theobald –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-18 Independent Reading Course Stewart Weaver –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-19 Independent Reading Course: The World Thomas Slaughter –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 592-20 Independent Reading Course Thomas Devaney –
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member.
HIST 593-1 Apprentice Teaching Thomas Devaney –
Apprentice teachers act as participant-observers in an undergraduate course under the close supervision of a member of the faculty. Ordinarily, students will attend the course; hold weekly meetings with the professor to discuss the progress of the course, and, in many cases, consider strategies for teaching the weeks assigned reading, assist the professor in preparing examination questions, paper topics, and other written assignments; gain experience in evaluating undergraduates work by reading and commenting on (but not grading) exams and essays; and prepare a lecture or lead a class discussion.
HIST 595-11 PhD Research in History Matthew Lenoe –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 595-15 PhD Research in History Joan Rubin –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 595-16 PhD Research in History Laura Smoller –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 595-17 PhD Research in History Brianna Theobald –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 595-18 PhD Research in History Stewart Weaver –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 595-2 PhD Research in History Thomas Devaney –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 595-3 PhD Research in History Thomas Slaughter –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 595-4 PhD Research in History Pablo Sierra –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 595-9 PhD Research in History Michael Jarvis –
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level.
HIST 895-1 Continuation of Master's Enrollment – –
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HIST 897-11 Master's Dissertation Matthew Lenoe –
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HIST 897-14 Master's Dissertation Mical Raz –
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HIST 897-15 Master's Dissertation Joan Rubin –
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HIST 897-16 Master's Dissertation Laura Smoller –
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HIST 897-17 Master's Dissertation Brianna Theobald –
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HIST 897-18 Master's Dissertation Stewart Weaver –
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HIST 897-2 Master's Dissertation Thomas Devaney –
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HIST 897-3 Master's Dissertation Thomas Slaughter –
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HIST 897-4 Master's Dissertation Pablo Sierra –
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HIST 897-5 Master's Dissertation Thomas Fleischman –
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HIST 897-6 Master's Dissertation Ruben Flores –
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HIST 897-8 Master's Dissertation Joseph Inikori –
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HIST 897-9 Master's Dissertation Michael Jarvis –
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HIST 899-02 Master's Dissertation Thomas Devaney –
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HIST 899-03 Master's Dissertation Thomas Slaughter –
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HIST 899-04 Master's Dissertation Pablo Sierra –
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HIST 899-05 Master's Dissertation Thomas Fleischman –
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HIST 899-06 Master's Dissertation Ruben Flores –
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HIST 899-08 Master's Dissertation Joseph Inikori –
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HIST 899-09 Master's Dissertation Michael Jarvis –
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HIST 899-11 Master's Dissertation Matthew Lenoe –
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HIST 899-12 Master's Dissertation Elias Mandala –
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HIST 899-14 Master's Dissertation Mical Raz –
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HIST 899-15 Master's Dissertation Joan Rubin –
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HIST 899-16 Master's Dissertation Laura Smoller –
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HIST 899-17 Master's Dissertation Brianna Theobald –
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HIST 899-18 Master's Dissertation Stewart Weaver –
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HIST 995-1 Continuation of Doctoral Enrollment – –
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HIST 997-11 Doctoral Dissertation Matthew Lenoe –
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HIST 997-12 Doctoral Dissertation Elias Mandala –
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HIST 997-14 Doctoral Dissertation Mical Raz –
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HIST 997-15 Doctoral Dissertation Joan Rubin –
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HIST 997-16 Doctoral Dissertation Laura Smoller –
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HIST 997-17 Doctoral Dissertation Brianna Theobald –
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HIST 997-18 Doctoral Dissertation Stewart Weaver –
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HIST 997-2 Doctoral Dissertation Thomas Devaney –
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HIST 997-3 Doctoral Dissertation Thomas Slaughter –
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HIST 997-4 Doctoral Dissertation Pablo Sierra –
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HIST 997-5 Doctoral Dissertation Thomas Fleischman –
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HIST 997-6 Doctoral Dissertation Ruben Flores –
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HIST 997-8 Doctoral Dissertation Joseph Inikori –
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HIST 997-9 Doctoral Dissertation Michael Jarvis –
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HIST 999-02 Doctoral Dissertation Thomas Devaney –
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HIST 999-03 Doctoral Dissertation Thomas Slaughter –
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HIST 999-04 Doctoral Dissertation Pablo Sierra –
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HIST 999-05 Doctoral Dissertation Thomas Fleischman –
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HIST 999-06 Doctoral Dissertation Ruben Flores –
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HIST 999-08 Doctoral Dissertation Joseph Inikori –
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HIST 999-09 Doctoral Dissertation Michael Jarvis –
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HIST 999-11 Doctoral Dissertation Matthew Lenoe –
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HIST 999-12 Doctoral Dissertation Elias Mandala –
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HIST 999-14 Doctoral Dissertation Mical Raz –
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HIST 999-15 Doctoral Dissertation Joan Rubin –
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HIST 999-16 Doctoral Dissertation Laura Smoller –
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HIST 999-17 Doctoral Dissertation Brianna Theobald –
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HIST 999-18 Doctoral Dissertation Stewart Weaver –
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Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday and Wednesday
HIST 453-1 Immigration and the Americas Molly Ball
The United States received the largest number of immigrants in the western hemisphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but immigrants’ relative impact in Latin American countries like Brazil and Argentina was arguably more substantial. This course explores the complex events, trends and personal considerations affecting migrants' decisions and experiences. In exploring the movement of Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, and other groups to and within the Americas, we will seek to understand their movements as a function of three essential questions: why do people migrate; who migrates; and how do they choose where they migrate? The course will incorporate a variety of materials including interviews, memoirs, monographs, and demographic studies. Students will also be involved discovering Rochester’s own rich immigrant history. Graduate students will participate in a series of inter-disciplinary workshops and seminars offered by leading migration scholars over the course of the semester.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Tuesday
HIST 400-1 History of Nature Stewart Weaver
This course explores the history of the idea and condition of nature from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on contemporary historical scholarship as well as a range of thinkers and writers from Thoreau to Carson and beyond, we will study the many ways in which humans have thought about and treated the natural world around them and how the natural world has shaped human history in turn. We will also meet occasionally with a parallel course on "the Politics of Nature" (GSW 213). Some background in history is recommended.
HIST 455-1 Digital Paleography: Deciphering Early Modern Spanish Pablo Sierra
Learn how to read, analyze, and transcribe Spanish writing from the 1500s-1700s in this interactive two-credit course (class meets once a week). Paleography is an essential skill for deciphering primary sources whether they were produced in Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico or the Philippines. This course prepares students for historical research in digital databases, physical archives and specialized libraries. We will collectively transcribe, analyze and annotate a group document to familiarize ourselves with ancient Spanish. For your final project you will analyze a digitized primary source of your own choice. Students should have a strong background in Spanish (or Portuguese). No HIST pre-requisites necessary.
Tuesday and Thursday
Wednesday
HIST 402-1 Spatial History: Putting History in its Place Michael Jarvis
This research seminar focuses on spatial dimensions of historical study and analysis and how the physical world reflects historical change. We will survey how historians use spatial, textual, and visual analysis to advance research into Early Modern Atlantic network formation, circulations of disease, news, ideas, and material culture, and witchcraft hysteria before students learn GIS and database building basics and develop their own research topics.
HIST 423-1 World War II: Eastern Front Matthew Lenoe
This course is centered on class discussion of the readings. There will be little lecture time. We will focus on the history of the Soviet Union's struggle with Nazi Germany from 1941-1945, the largest and bloodiest military conflict in human history. Readings will deal with the Holocaust, the history of military operations, the Red Army's 'learning curve' in its battle with the Wehrmacht, and everyday life on Nazi-occupied territory as well as the Soviet 'home front.' Viewing and discussion of documentary and fictional films will be a significant part of the class.
Thursday
HIST 486-1 The Other Atlantic: Ethnohistory, Chronicle, and Memory Pablo Sierra
This seminar engages the experiences, writings and political ambitions of individuals typically excluded from discussions of the Atlantic. Key concepts such as Atlantic creoles and the Black Atlantic will be debated in light of recent studies on Sephardic merchants, African healers and Native American intellectuals. In order to contextualize their lives, this course will focus on the Iberian and South Atlantic from the early sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. Our initial readings will center on the circulation of Native American commoners and elites to Spain and will be complemented by seminal ethnohistorical studies. The second part of the course will take on the construction of a South or Lusophone ocean that weaves together the histories of Brazilian, Angolan and Portuguese actors. Students will revise and resubmit an original research paper on a topic of their choice.
Friday
HIST 500-1 Problems in Historical Analysis Ruben Flores
This course addresses questions of interest to beginning graduate students in history. These may include: the history of the historical profession, styles of historical writing, relations between history and literature, ethno-history, and the functions of history as criticism and as social memory.