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HIST 602 Seminar in Historiography (3)
W 0300-0530p Davis, Edward
CONTENT: This seminar will introduce the graduate student to important trends in 19th and 20th century western historiography, with an emphasis on recent developments. Themes will range from reformulations of Marxist or Freudian approaches to the influence of feminism, ethnography, and post-colonialism on historiography.
REQUIREMENTS: Readings of 150-400 pages per week. A number of 2-page papers. One 15-20 page paper on a significant historian.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Type or paste your books here.
HIST 609 Seminar in World History (3)
R 0330-0600p Bentley, Jerry
CONTENT: This reading seminar provides an introduction to world history as a field of historical research and scholarship. Members of the seminar will read and discuss literature on the most important methods, themes, and theories of global historical analysis. Topics addressed in the seminar include the historiography of world history, methodology of comparative history, modernization analysis, world-system analysis, cross-cultural trade, migrations and diasporas, imperialism, biological and ecological exchanges, and other processes of cross-cultural interaction. HIST 609 is prerequisite to HIST 610.
REQUIREMENTS: Intensive reading, intelligent discussion, and incisive book analyses.
REQUIRED TEXTS: None.
HIST 611E War Crime Tribunals: From 1945 - Present(3)
R 0300-0530p Cohen, David
CONTENT: This seminar will focus on the development of war crimes tribunals as a mechanism for coming to terms with mass atrocity from World War II to the present. We will begin with the creation of national and international war crimes programs in the aftermath of WWII in Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, and of the place of Nuremberg and Tokyo in that broader context. Examining trial records and other documents, we will analyze the history and politics of the trials and the way in which they provide the foundation for postwar developments. We will also consider the historical scholarship regarding responsibility for war crimes that grows out of genocide and mass murder in Europe and Asia. The second part of the course will explore the process that led to the creation of new international tribunals almost 50 years after Nuremberg and Tokyo. We will look at the political, legal, and historical contexts of the tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, and Cambodia, and the ways in which those contexts influenced how those courts have fulfilled their mandates. This part of the course will draw upon a variety of legal and historical primary sources as well as scholarship on conflicts
HIST 615D Topics iin European Colonialism: early modern (3)
M 0330-0600p Romaniello, Matthew
CONTENT: This seminar is designed to introduce MA and PhD students to the historical literature concerning European exploration and empire-building primarily in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We will begin with consideration of the the idea of "empire" in the early modern world. Then we will consider four different approaches for the study of early modern empires: the nature of political authority, the effects of cultural interactions on the colonizers and the colonized, the concept of European supremacy, and the persistent challenges for European authority created by non-European societies.
REQUIREMENTS: Over the semester, regular attendance and active and engaged participation is expected. This will include introducing the readings and leading the subsequent discussion in at least two weeks of the semester. Furthermore, students will write three short critical reactions for three different weeks' readings. By the end of the semester, each student will complete a longer historiographical essay on a topic of their choice within the broad framework of early modern empires, as well as briefly present this topic and your findings to the class.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Stephen Howe, Empire: A Very Short Introduction; Patricia Seed, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640; Michael N. Pearson, Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era; Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800; Cemal Kadafar, Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State; as well as weekly article readings and several longer excerpts from selected historical monographs.
HIST 639B Advanced Topics in American History: Social and Intellectual (3)
W 0300-0530p Rapson, Richard
CONTENT: Most graduate students focus on historical fragments and confront large-scale interpretation with skepticism. The whole is often seen through the lenses of gender, class, and ethnicity. These seminars return us to the sources of those debates: the bold attempts to see things whole, to look for large patterns, to see the shape of the forest rather than zero in on each separate tree.
Each student will have a chance to read one of the great, influential “big picture” histories and to reflect upon the enterprise. Though the emphasis will be on America, we will also perforce take in models from Western history writ large and from world history. This will be done during both the Fall and Spring semesters.
Additionally, in each semester, five of our seminars will be held jointly with the graduate seminar in Social Psychology as we all try to stretch ourselves beyond the conventional disciplinary barriers. These joint seminars have brought great excitement to our Wednesdays.
The FALL seminar is the first half of a two-semester sequence; students can effectively take either semester separately, or else they can take both semesters in any order. Students will be encouraged freely to stake out positions on a variety of important and controversial matters in a series of what are usually lively conversations.
In the FALL semester, students will do more individualized reading than in the SPRING, where each person's research interests will be given scope. The FALL seminar attends to the large debates that have shaped writing about America.
The SPRING class devotes some time to the teaching enterprise, to the academic career, to the issues that excite the Academy, and to the use of films and fiction in shedding light on the past.
REQUIREMENTS: In addition to reading and lots of discussion, students in the FALL terms will make brief oral presentations. In the SPRING term, the focus is expanded to take on innovative research design.
REQUIRED TEXTS: J.L. Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past; R. Rapson, Magical Thinking and the Decline of America
Most of the reading and writing both semesters will be a matter of your choice, flexibly assigned, and based on your own interests and our conversations about them.
HIST 639C Advanced Topics in American History: US Foreign Relations: Capitalism & Criminality
T 0300-0530p Reiss, Suzanna
CONTENT: In this course we will study the historical relationship between policing and the emergence of US-dominated global capitalism, from the arrival of Europeans in the Americas to the contemporary US-led “War on Terror.” The emergence of the modern nation-state was fundamentally dependent on the capacity of the state to use “legitimate” violence as a mechanism of social control, and as the basis for consolidating and expanding political power. We will study the evolving relationship between the coercive power of the state and the economic structures that provided both the justification and material basis for its expansion. We will study how categories such as “legal” and “illegal” gained historical resonance; how designations of “criminality” have been shaped by racial, gender, economic, geographic and other hierarchies and how fear of “crime” has framed debates about “national security.”
REQUIREMENTS: TBA
REQUIRED TEXTS: Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison; Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century; Huggins, Political Policing: the United States and Latin America; Colin, The Story of Cruel and Unusual
Note: Additional readings will include writings by Angela Davis, Cynthia Enloe, Stuart Hall, George Jackson, Clarence Lusane, Mark Mazower, Loïc Wacqant and others.
HIST 657 Historiography of Southeast Asia (3)
T 0230-0500p Andaya, Leonard
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HIST 661D Seminar in Chinese History: modern (3)
W 0130-0400p Brown, Shana
CONTENT: This seminar focuses on recent English-language scholarship on the history of twentieth-century China, organized thematically around key debates in the field. Readings are arranged chronologically and are intended to give non-specialists an introduction to the major events of the century in China. Some of the thematic issues we consider are gender in Chinese history; the question of "alternate" Asian modernities; the problem of a Chinese public sphere; ethnicity and nationalism; and China-Japan relations.
REQUIREMENTS: Students will read an article, book chapter, or even an entire book every week for class discussion. Students will also take turns giving in-class presentations on weekly readings, accompanied by a short essay. The final project is a longer review essay on a topic of the student's choice, developed in consultation with me.
REQUIRED TEXTS: The books we will read include Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China; Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation; David Strand, Rickshaw Beijing; Gail Hershatter, Dangerous Pleasures; Louise Young, Japan’s Total Empire; Yunxiang Yan, Private Life under Socialism; Louisa Schein, Minority Rules; Yingjin Zhang, Chinese National Cinema;Li Zhang, Strangers in the City.
HIST 665D Seminar in Japanese History: 1868 to present (3)
T 0300-0530p Totani, Yuma
CONTENT: TBA
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HIST 667B Seminar in Korean History: reading (3)
M 0330-0600p Yoo, Jun
CONTENT: TBA
REQUIREMENTS: TBA
REQUIRED TEXTS: Lee, The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea; Yoo, The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor and Health, 1910-1945; Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History; Schmid, Korea Between Empires; Moon, Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea; Eckert, Offspring of Empire; Park, Two Dreams in One Bed: Social Life and the Origins of North Korean Revolution in Manchuria; Armstrong, The North Korean Revolution: 1945-1950; Miyoshi-Jage, Narratives of Nation Building in Korea; Morris-Suzuki, Exodus to North Korea; Deuchler, THe Confucian Transformation of Korea; Buswell & Lee, Christianity in Korea; Koo, State and Society in Contemporary Korea; Cho, The Dwarf
HIST 675C Seminar in Pacific History: Micronesia (3)
T 0300-0530p Hanlon, David
CONTENT: A seminar on the history and historiography of the Micronesian geographical area. Topics to be covered include the viability of the term "Micronesia," the nature and meaning of history in Micronesian societies, approaches to the study of Micronesian pasts, first contact, colonialism (especially the American period), local responses to colonialism, and a consideration of contemporary issues facing Micronesian peoples at home and abroad.
REQUIREMENTS: Weekly readings, written summaries of those readings, and active participation in seminar discussions.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Barker, Bravo for the Marshallese; Hanlon, Remaking Micronesia; Hezel, The First Taint of Civilization; Hezel, Strangers in Their Own Land; Kihleng, My Urohs; Levy, Micronesia Handbook; Marshall, Namoluk Beyond the Reef; Peattie, Nan'yo; Falgout, Poyer and Carucci, Memories of War.