Graduate Program

Spring Term Schedule

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Spring 2027

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
HIST 403-01 International Human Rights Jean Pedersen M 2:00PM - 4:40PM
What does it mean to be human? What political, economic, religious, social, or sexual rights might be part of different people's working definitions? This course will look at both a) the historical development of conflicting theories of human rights and b) more contemporary debates about their ideal extent, their exercise, and their enforcement. Special topics will include debates over the meaning of the American and French Revolutions, the fight to design an International Declaration of Human Rights in the aftermath of World War II, the history of organizations such as Amnesty International, and the controversy around UN events such as the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2000 and 2005 Millennium Summits in New York City. Location (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 447-01 Archives and Absences: Writing from the Margins of History Melanie Chambliss T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
How do archival absences impact what we know about the past? How should these silences shape the histories we write? This course will explore the process of historical production through critical archival studies. We will discuss how “the archive” documents power dynamics in the past and present. We will read histories and theories of archives’ construction and examine different approaches to recovering African diasporic history. Researchers have turned to microhistory, memoir, fiction, theory, and other methods or genres to address archival absences, and we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these choices. By the end of the semester, students will be familiar with key voices within critical archival scholarship and postmodernist theories of history, and students will learn different techniques for addressing absences in their own research. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 486-01 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 (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 491-02 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 491-03 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 491-04 Master's Reading Course Morris Pierce 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 491-06 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 491-13 Master's Reading Course John Michael 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 495-06 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 502-02 Dissertation Writers' Seminar Brianna Theobald W 2:00PM - 4:40PM
The purpose of this course is to help students launch their dissertation projects and its chief outcome will be the dissertation prospectus. To that end, we will work on identifying topics, locating primary sources, engaging with the research literature, finding and applying for external research funding, and drafting and revising the prospectus. We will also discuss related topics, such as archival research practices and presenting work in progress at conferences and other meetings. This course is envisioned as a collaborative enterprise; though each student will focus on their own project, peer support and feedback will be an important part of all we do. Location (W 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 510-01 Advanced Historical Studies Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-02 Advanced Historical Studies William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-03 Advanced Historical Studies Gregory Heyworth 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-04 Advanced Historical Studies Henk Goemans 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-06 Advanced Historical Studies Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-07 Advanced Historical Studies Michael Jarvis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-08 Advanced Historical Studies Pablo Sierra 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-09 Advanced Historical Studies Pablo Sierra 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-11 Advanced Historical Studies Alexander Parry 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-12 Advanced Historical Studies Christine Slobogin 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-13 Advanced Historical Studies Stefanie Bautista 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-14 Advanced Historical Studies Nader Sayadi 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-15 Advanced Historical Studies Molly Ball 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-16 Advanced Historical Studies Jedediah Kuhn 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-17 Advanced Historical Studies Alanna Radlo-Dzur 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 520-01 Advanced Historical Studies II Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 520-02 Advanced Historical Studies II Alexander Parry 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Advanced Historical Studies 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 Jedediah Kuhn 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 591-04 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 591-05 PhD Readings Stefanie Bautista 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 Michela Andreatta 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 Nader Sayadi 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 Pablo Sierra 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 591-20 PhD Readings Tanya Bakhmetyeva 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 592-03 Independent Reading Course Pablo Sierra 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 592-17 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 593-01 Apprentice Teaching Brianna Theobald 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 595-01 PhD Research Molly Ball 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 595-02 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 595-02 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 595-06 PhD Research Ruben Flores 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 595-09 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 595-09 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 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 895-01 Master's Thesis/Dissertation (P) Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides masters students the opportunity to work on their dissertation. Students will make progress toward completing degree requirements. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 897-02 Masters Dissertation Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides master's students who are currently completing their final required coursework, or with special circumstances like an approved reduced courseload, with the opportunity to work full-time on their degrees. Students will make significant progress toward completing their degrees. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 899-02 Master's Thesis/Dissertation (F) Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides master's students the opportunity to work full-time on their thesis/dissertation. Students will make significant progress toward completing degree requirements. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 986V-01 Full Time Visiting Student – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Full Time Visiting Student Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 995-01 Doctoral Dissertation (P) – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides doctoral students the opportunity to work on their dissertation. Students will make progress toward completing degree requirements. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 999-01 Doctoral Dissertation (F) Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides doctoral students the opportunity to work full-time on their dissertation in absentia. Students will make significant progress toward completing degree requirements. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
HIST 403-01 International Human Rights Jean Pedersen
What does it mean to be human? What political, economic, religious, social, or sexual rights might be part of different people's working definitions? This course will look at both a) the historical development of conflicting theories of human rights and b) more contemporary debates about their ideal extent, their exercise, and their enforcement. Special topics will include debates over the meaning of the American and French Revolutions, the fight to design an International Declaration of Human Rights in the aftermath of World War II, the history of organizations such as Amnesty International, and the controversy around UN events such as the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2000 and 2005 Millennium Summits in New York City.
Monday and Wednesday
Tuesday
HIST 447-01 Archives and Absences: Writing from the Margins of History Melanie Chambliss
How do archival absences impact what we know about the past? How should these silences shape the histories we write? This course will explore the process of historical production through critical archival studies. We will discuss how “the archive” documents power dynamics in the past and present. We will read histories and theories of archives’ construction and examine different approaches to recovering African diasporic history. Researchers have turned to microhistory, memoir, fiction, theory, and other methods or genres to address archival absences, and we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these choices. By the end of the semester, students will be familiar with key voices within critical archival scholarship and postmodernist theories of history, and students will learn different techniques for addressing absences in their own research.
Tuesday and Thursday
Wednesday
HIST 502-02 Dissertation Writers' Seminar Brianna Theobald
The purpose of this course is to help students launch their dissertation projects and its chief outcome will be the dissertation prospectus. To that end, we will work on identifying topics, locating primary sources, engaging with the research literature, finding and applying for external research funding, and drafting and revising the prospectus. We will also discuss related topics, such as archival research practices and presenting work in progress at conferences and other meetings. This course is envisioned as a collaborative enterprise; though each student will focus on their own project, peer support and feedback will be an important part of all we do.
Thursday
HIST 486-01 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.