Graduate Program

Fall Term Schedule

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Fall 2025

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
HIST 437-01 George Orwell and the Twentieth Century Stewart Weaver W 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This course will approach the tortured history of the 20th century by way of the life and writings of George Orwell. Best known for his late dystopian novels 1984 and Animal Farm, Orwell wrote many other memorable books and essays commenting on the signal events of his time. He experienced first hand (among other things): India, the British Empire, the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, post-war austerity and affluence, and the Cold War. And he wrote about them all with unrivaled clarity and force. Students will immerse themselves in Orwells life, work, and times and write a substantial research paper on a relevant topic of their own choice and design Location (W 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 452-01 Racial Democracies: Mexico vs. Brazil Molly Ball T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
Mexico and Brazil are countries with complex cultural, racial and ethnic histories. This seminar will explore the process by which these two countries grappled with their diverse populations during the modern era and how policies and attitudes impacted citizens, residents and perceptions. The course will investigate the limitations that arose from Mexicos pursuit of a cosmic race? and how the myth of Brazils racial democracy? was created and debunked. We will debate the durability of these constructions and the limitations that arise from cross-country comparisons. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 464-01 The US-Mexico Borderlands Jedediah Kuhn M 2:00PM - 4:40PM
The U.S.-Mexico border has become a site of contentious political debate. These present-day debates over immigration, however, belie a complicated, often uncomfortable history: what is now the U.S. Southwest used to belong to Mexico, and it has always been Indigenous land. Moreover, many of the people the U.S. views as Mexican or Latinx immigrants are also Indigenous. This course provides an in-depth examination of both the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, from the seventeenth century to the recent past, and the concepts that structure how we think about this place. Location (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 467-01 Topics in Revolutionary America Michael Jarvis R 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This course explores the roots of the American Revolution and uses recent scholarship to consider how the war affected a wide array of Americans. We will also situate the American Revolution in its Atlantic and global contexts as we examine the course of the war and its enduring legacies. Location (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 491-07 Master's Reading Course Mehmet Karabela 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for master's students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 491-2 Master's Reading Course Stewart Weaver 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for master's students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 491-3 Master's Reading Course Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for master's students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 491-6 Master's Reading Course Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for master's students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 495-6 Master's Research Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides master’s students with the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their degrees. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
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 (F 9:00AM - 11:40AM)
HIST 510-1 Advanced Historical Studies Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 520-1 Advanced Historical Studies II Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-01 PhD Readings Molly Ball 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-02 PhD Readings Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-03 PhD Readings Stefanie Bautista San Miguel M 2:00PM - 3:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location (M 2:00PM - 3:00PM)
HIST 591-05 PhD Readings Thomas Fleischman 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-06 PhD Readings Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-07 PhD Readings Laura Smoller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-08 PhD Readings Thomas Fleischman 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-09 PhD Readings Michael Jarvis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-10 PhD Readings Matthew Lenoe 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-11 PhD Readings Matthew Lenoe 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-13 PhD Readings Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-16 PhD Readings Laura Smoller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-17 PhD Readings Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-18 PhD Readings Stewart Weaver 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-01 Independent Reading Course Molly Ball 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-02 Independent Reading Course Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-05 Independent Reading Course Thomas Fleischman 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-06 Independent Reading Course Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-09 Independent Reading Course Michael Jarvis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-11 Independent Reading Course Matthew Lenoe 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-15 Independent Reading Course Joan Rubin 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-16 Independent Reading Course Laura Smoller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-17 Independent Reading Course Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-18 Independent Reading Course Stewart Weaver 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-20 Independent Reading Course Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-21 Independent Reading Course Thomas Fleischman 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-22 Independent Reading Course Molly Ball 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-23 Independent Reading Course Tanya Bakhmetyeva 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-24 Independent Reading Course Thomas Fleischman 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-25 Independent Reading Course Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 593-1 Apprentice Teaching Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
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. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-11 PhD Research Matthew Lenoe 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-16 PhD Research Laura Smoller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-17 PhD Research Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-18 PhD Research Stewart Weaver 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-2 PhD Research Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-9 PhD Research Michael Jarvis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 895-1 Continuation of Master's Enrollment – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is designed for master's degree students who have completed all required coursework but still need to finalize specific degree requirements under less than half-time enrollment. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 986V-1 Full Time Visiting Student – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course affords graduate students visiting the University of Rochester full-time student status. Visiting students will engage in research, discussion, and/or professional training in partnership with an academic department or faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 995-1 Continuation of Doctoral Enrollment – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is designed for PhD students who have completed all required coursework but still need to finalize specific degree requirements under less than half-time enrollment. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 999-01 Doctoral Dissertation Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students who have completed or are currently completing 90 credits of coursework and have fulfilled all degree requirements (except for the dissertation) with the opportunity to work full-time on their dissertation. Students will make significant progress toward completing their degrees. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
HIST 464-01 The US-Mexico Borderlands Jedediah Kuhn
The U.S.-Mexico border has become a site of contentious political debate. These present-day debates over immigration, however, belie a complicated, often uncomfortable history: what is now the U.S. Southwest used to belong to Mexico, and it has always been Indigenous land. Moreover, many of the people the U.S. views as Mexican or Latinx immigrants are also Indigenous. This course provides an in-depth examination of both the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, from the seventeenth century to the recent past, and the concepts that structure how we think about this place.
HIST 591-03 PhD Readings Stefanie Bautista San Miguel
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study.
Monday and Wednesday
Tuesday
HIST 452-01 Racial Democracies: Mexico vs. Brazil Molly Ball
Mexico and Brazil are countries with complex cultural, racial and ethnic histories. This seminar will explore the process by which these two countries grappled with their diverse populations during the modern era and how policies and attitudes impacted citizens, residents and perceptions. The course will investigate the limitations that arose from Mexicos pursuit of a cosmic race? and how the myth of Brazils racial democracy? was created and debunked. We will debate the durability of these constructions and the limitations that arise from cross-country comparisons.
Tuesday and Thursday
Wednesday
HIST 437-01 George Orwell and the Twentieth Century Stewart Weaver
This course will approach the tortured history of the 20th century by way of the life and writings of George Orwell. Best known for his late dystopian novels 1984 and Animal Farm, Orwell wrote many other memorable books and essays commenting on the signal events of his time. He experienced first hand (among other things): India, the British Empire, the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, post-war austerity and affluence, and the Cold War. And he wrote about them all with unrivaled clarity and force. Students will immerse themselves in Orwells life, work, and times and write a substantial research paper on a relevant topic of their own choice and design
Thursday
HIST 467-01 Topics in Revolutionary America Michael Jarvis
This course explores the roots of the American Revolution and uses recent scholarship to consider how the war affected a wide array of Americans. We will also situate the American Revolution in its Atlantic and global contexts as we examine the course of the war and its enduring legacies.
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.