Department of History (GRAD)

This course explores family and kinship in early modern China and Korea through the lens of gender and sexuality. In particular, it invites students to think beyond the bias that women in premodern East Asia were victims of patriarchy to understand their active participation in their world-making as well as their dynamic imagination and expression through writing, working, learning, loving.

The rise of Macedonia; the careers of Philip II and Alexander (with emphasis on the latter's campaigns); the emerging Hellenistic Age. The course integrates computer (including Web site) and audiovisual materials throughout.

War and the warrior in the archaic and classical Greek world, seventh to the fourth centuries BCE. Honors version available.

HIST 225 strongly recommended. Topical approach to the social and cultural history of the ancient Greek city states, ca. 800-336 BCE.

HIST 225 strongly recommended. The life and times of the ancient Athenians from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE.

Explores the transformation from Republic to Principate. Conducted in considerable part by student reports and classroom discussions.

Focuses upon administrative, social, and economic themes. Conducted in considerable part by student reports and classroom discussions.

Focuses upon administrative, social, and economic themes. Conducted in considerable part by student reports and classroom discussions.

This course deals with the complex topic of ancient sexuality, which includes courtship, marriage, family structure, public and private morality, and law enforcement. In terms of historical method, this course teaches students how to discover evidence for social history in both diverse documentary and literary sources.

The nature and workings of the Western church between roughly 600 and 1300. Emphasis on the church "from within," organization, missionary strategies, liturgy, monasticism, popular religion.

Students in this course will examine Christian attitudes toward holy war, crusading, and other forms of coercive violence from the 11th until the 15th centuries, with a focus on the major crusades to the Holy Land.

A consideration of England's origins, unification, and development as a national monarchy. Primary emphasis is on political, ecclesiastical, and cultural aspects.

The origins and development of the university during the period 1100 to 1400; types of organization, curricula and degrees, intellectual life, town-gown and student-master relationships.

This course has as its theme the lives of aristocratic men and women in western Europe between about 850 and 1200 CE. Discusses the nature of aristocratic identity, the trends that shaped the lives of aristocratic men and women, and the different roles of men and women within aristocratic culture.

This course examines the multifaceted constructions of masculinity found in narrative texts produced in medieval western Europe. Focuses on topics such as gender relations, male self-fashioning, homosocial bonding, family structures. Sources studied range from epic and romance to chronicles and visual records. Honors version available.

This course explores the history of premodern China from an environmental perspective. Based on mini-lectures and intensive discussions, it investigates diverse modes and sites of human-nature interactions such as agriculture, forestry, marine activities, natural disasters, and landscape cultivation.

An analysis of the roles of women and men in Indian societies from the early to the modern periods. Topics include the cultural construction of gender and sexuality; beauty and bodily practices; gender and religion; gender and politics; race, imperialism, and gender. Previously offered as HIST/ASIA 556.

This course will discuss theories of beauty and the body in Indian History (c. 3 - 17th centuries) and their relation to differing constructions of gender.

This course traces the fascinating history of material, cultural, and theological exchanges and conflicts between individuals belonging to two of the world's major religions: Hinduism and Islam. Throughout the course we will also analyze how modern commentators have selectively used the past to inform their understandings of the present. Previously offered as HIST/ASIA 555.

This seminar introduces the field of settler colonial studies and history. It investigates how settler colonial polities consolidated during and after the global "settler revolution," how they managed relations with the imperial metropole and dealt with the Indigenous populations, whose resistance, adaptation, survival and agency also feature.

This seminar examines humanitarianism in global context around 1800, beginning with the formation of humanitarian movements dedicated to alleviating suffering and especially ending slavery. It traces the movement's complicated relationship to empire in the 19th century, and the professionalization of humanitarian aid in the 20th century.

This course will explore how the law in America has defined and regulated gender and sexuality. Significant topics will range from marriage, reproduction and the family to suffrage, work, and social movements. Honors version available.

A study of the people, culture, and intellectual achievements of the Italian Renaissance with emphasis on the interaction between culture and society.

A picture of Mediterranean social and economic life 1300 to 1600, with special focus on rural and urban society, family structure, patronage, work and wages, public and private finance.

Examines a movement of religious reform that shattered Latin Christendom and contributed many of the conditions of early modern Europe. Emphases: religious, political, social.

This seminar will familiarize students with foundational works of Holocaust historiography as well as with newer works that challenge old interpretations and methodologies. Throughout the course we will look at the mutual influences of historical writing and memory of the Holocaust as societies have come to terms with the dark past of the Second World War; the course will also examine historical writing as a form of representation and memory. Previously offered as HIST 743.

This seminar examines liberal, socialist, communist, and fascist political systems in Europe during the twentieth century by comparing and contrasting their ideologies and approaches to their citizens' welfare. The seminar compares European and US experiences, and also attends to conservative critiques of the expansion of government activity in the 1940s.

Europe and the experience of total war, with special focus on national conflicts; ideological conflicts among fascism, communism, and liberalism; and the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin.

This is a survey of evangelical Christianity from 1600 to the present. We will trace the roots of evangelicalism in post-Reformation Europe, its diverse expressions and political influence in modern Western culture, and its recent spread throughout the Global South.

This course examines the changes in German politics, culture, and society during the long 19th century, with a focus on the Anti-Napoleonic Wars and the following era of restoration, the Vormärz and the Democratic Revolution of 1848 to 1849, the German Unification of 1871 and the Wilhelmine Empire, and finally World War I. Honors version available.

This course examines the changes in German politics, culture, and society during the 20th century, with a focus on the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and World War II, the reshaping of East and West Germany since the post-war era, and the unification in 1989. Honors version available.

The main developments in European thought from the Enlightenment to the 20th century, with some attention to social context. Readings include Voltaire, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, Sand, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Freud. Honors version available.

This discussion-based course examines the systems of value that confer special status on the broad category of cultural property, then explores a number of case studies of art theft and restitution since the early 19th century, with an emphasis on art theft during World War II and that undertaken under the aegis of European colonialism.

The social transformation of Europe from agrarian through postindustrial society, discussing population growth, family history, spread of education, class structure, social conflict, group ideologies, and mass politics, as well as everyday lives and popular lifestyles.

The course provides a historical, political, and socio-economic framework for understanding British history and politics in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will assess important turning points in domestic British politics, the main focus will be on Britain's foreign relations during both the Cold War and the post-Cold War years.

This course will examine the unprecedented surge of feminist thought and activism in the postwar United States. Course materials and discussions will trace feminists' varied conceptions of empowered womanhood and their expectations of the state, society at large, and each other. Honors version available.

The history of modern Eastern, East Central, and southeastern Europe has been shaped by the ethnic and religious diversity of the regions. This course examines experiences in the Russian, Habsburg, and Ottoman Empires and their successor states from the 19th century to the present day.

A close study of Russia's age of revolution from the reign of the last tsar to the turbulent Stalin Revolution of 1929, with emphasis on the revolutions of 1917.

An in-depth examination of Soviet and post-Soviet history from 1929 to the present.

Spanning the ancient, medieval, and modern West, this course explores normative and non-normative female sexualities, ideas about female bodies, and the regulation of female sexuality by families, religions, and states.

The diplomatic, military, and ideological confrontations with the West; the decline and fall of the Russian autocracy; the evolution of reform thought; and revolutionary opposition.

An examination of the countries of Eastern Europe, their origins and development since World War II, their cohesion and conflict.

This course examines the development of the Russian Empire, from the Mongol conquest in the 13th century to the transformation of Imperial Russia in the Soviet Union after 1917.

This course explores the role of nation and religion in shaping political, cultural, and social experience and change in Tsarist and Soviet Russia through the prism of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

This course examines the role that Islam has played in the history of the Russian sphere--interior Russia, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia--from the 18th century to the present. Topics include methods of rule, social change, Islamic institutions, attempts to bureaucratize religion, and resistance.

Eastern Europe was one of the largest centers of Jewish civilization from premodern times to the Second World War, giving rise to important religious, cultural, and political developments in Jewish modernity. This course examines main developments of Jewish society from the late 18th century until the aftermath of the Holocaust.

In the debate on how to efficiently combat terrorism without abandoning the rule-of-law, it is often neglected that this is not a new problem. This course will examine European states' reactions to national and international terrorism since the 1960s. Case studies will include Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Honors version available.

This seminar studies the circulation, exchange, translation, reception, and adaptation of political, social, and cultural ideas across time and space. After considering systems of knowledge in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, the seminar explores reactions to European empire. Themes include (de)coloniality, modernity, development, conceptions of nationality, race, and civilizations. Honors version available.

This course explores the 2008 financial crisis as a window into the longer history of global capitalism. We consider the construction of the sub-prime mortgage market, mass securitization, deregulation, and the interconnected nature of global finance, as well as the historical development of crises within financial capitalism. Honors version available.

Subject matter will vary with instructor but will focus on some particular topic or historical approach. Course description available from the departmental office. Honors version available.

Permission of the director of undergraduate studies. A supervised internship at an organization or institution engaged in the promotion of historical studies or the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts.

Permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Directed reading and relevant writing, supervised by a member of the department, in a selected field of history.

Permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Directed primary source research and production of a research project, supervised by a member of the department. Prior coursework in the selected field is recommended.

This course explores the growing body of research on gender, empire, and nation/nationalism in modern European history by focusing on problems of national belongings and citizenship, state and nation building and empire formation, and the gendered discourses and representations of nation and empire.

This seminar offers students an insight into the role of Europe within the global regime of humanitarian aid. After looking at the history and at theoretical definitions of humanitarianism, the course will examine a variety of case studies to assess the changing role of Europe in the post-war era.

This course considers slavery in comparative context, from ancient times to the present and across the world. It offers a chronological narrative and raises themes for comparison, including women in slavery and challenges to slavery. This approach allows for a wide view of this pervasive institution and develops analytical skills.

This course looks at the international history of human rights from the Enlightenment to the present and considers how human rights ideas first emerged, how they evolved, and how they became so influential. Honors version available.

This course focuses on three great decolonization movements-Communism, Nationalism, and Islamism-in the postcolonial Islamic world, in an attempt to understand the impact of the 9/11/2001 terrorists attacks on the social, political, and cultural life of Muslims in predominantly Islamic countries and diasporic communities in the West. Honors version available.

Explores the role of monuments in the formation of cultural memory and identity, both nationally and globally. Topics include the construction of identities in and through public spaces, commemoration of both singular individuals and ordinary citizens, and the appearance of new types of post-traumatic monuments in the 20th century.

This course explores the ways in which Western historians and other students of the past from Adam Ferguson to Stephen Jay Gould have conceptualized and packaged historical time. Honors version available.

This course introduces students to new research on the history of gender, the military, and war in a comparative perspective. It explores the interrelations between changing military systems, types of warfare, the gender order, as well as political, social, and cultural currents in modern history.

Reading colloquium in world military history, emphasizing Europe, focusing on the most significant issues, methods, and approaches in the field today.

This course offers a survey of the history of the Andean region. The primary focus will be either the pre-Inca, Inca, and colonial periods or the 19th and 20th centuries, depending on the instructor.

Thematic approach to the history of the West Indies, with emphasis on the period from European conquest through the 20th century. Topics include colonialism, slavery, monoculture, United States-Caribbean relations, and decolonization.

Thematic approach to Cuban history, from conquest to the revolution. Attention is given to socioeconomic developments, slavery and race relations, the 19th-century independence process, and the 20th-century republic.

A comparative examination of the movements, experiences, and contributions of Africans and people of African descent from the period of the Atlantic slave trade to the present. Honors version available.

Analysis of historical transformations in Africa and their effects on women's lives and gender relations. Particular themes include precolonial societies, colonialism, religious change, urban labor, nationalism, and sexuality. Honors version available.

This course will focus on revolutionary change in the Middle East during the last century, emphasizing internal social, economic, and political conditions as well as international contexts.

Explores the lives of women in the Middle East and how they have changed over time. Focus will change each year.

This course explores changing interactions between the Middle East and the West, including trade, warfare, scientific exchange, and imperialism, and ends with an analysis of contemporary relations in light of the legacy of the past.

This course is intended as a broad overview of Southeast Asian economic history from premodern times to the present day.

This course is designed to introduce undergraduates to recent historical scholarship in the field of Chinese gender studies. Topics include family and kinship, the body and bodily practices, social space, writing, sexuality, work, and law, covering both the premodern and modern periods. No prior coursework required.

This course examines the histories, representations, and cultural perceptions surrounding bandits and rebels in modern India. The representations of bandits and rebels are studied in the light of the emergence of nationalism, shifting notions of gender and masculinity, race relations, and emergence of capitalist structures.

This course combines readings and field work in oral history with the study of performance as a means of interpreting and conveying oral history texts. Honors version available.

This course on the "Atlantic World" studies Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the medieval Iberian kingdoms, then the religious "other" in the colonial expansion to Latin America, by deploying theories concerning race, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality.

Focus is on causes, nature, and consequences of the Civil War.

A history of the sexual practices, desires, and understandings of Americans, from earliest colonial encounters to the late 20th century.

An exploration of the distinctive themes in Southern women's lives, using the evidence of history and literature.

A wide-ranging exploration of America's longest war, from 19th-century origins to 1990s legacies, from village battlegrounds to the Cold War context, from national leadership to popular participation and impact.

Explores the history of music in the American South from its roots to 20th-century musical forms, revealing how music serves as a window on the region's history and culture.

Introduces students to the study of Native American women through the perspectives of anthropology, history, and autobiography.

How the United States came to occupy a leading role in world affairs as a diplomatic, military, economic, and cultural power and what that role has meant to Americans and to other peoples, especially during the Cold War.

This course considers transatlantic relations in its security, political, and economic dimensions. The course also analyzes U.S. attempts to construct a more united European continent. It is the main aim of this course to give students a structured overview of transatlantic relations and geo-political developments from 1945 to the present.

The course combines an academic and practical approach to policy formulation, implementation, and critical evaluation at the global level and based on a solid historical foundation. This course is tightly integrated with the UNC Krasno Global Events Series. Many of the talks in the series as well as the reading material in preparation deal with issues of 20th history, such as the Cold War years, US foreign policy, America's relations with the wider world.

In a classroom environment characterized by discussion, simulation, and interaction, the antecedents, formation, and interpretation of the Constitution are confronted in a broad historical matrix.

Using a classroom environment similar to HIST 581, constitutional adjustments and change are related to psychological, political, social, and economic factors, and to Supreme Court members.

A survey of the development of American cities since 1815 and their influence upon American history.

This course explores how Americans have used basketball for integration, economic mobility, and political protest. Particular focus is on how black Americans have used the game for individual expression and political and economic advancement; and the ways the game has influenced ideas about race, "whiteness," and "blackness" in our society.

This course explores the transformation of the South from the time of the Civil War and emancipation to the contemporary rise of the Sunbelt.

This course will historically and critically examine the changing legal status of people of color in the United States. Within a broad historical matrix from the colonial era to the present, it will focus on African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latina/os, and United States law.

The Southern Oral History Program offers experiential education in the intellectual, organizational, and practical work of oral history. You will learn to do oral history interviews, contribute to a collaborative research project, and help this esteemed research center with programming, processing interviews, communications, and digital projects. You must apply through the Southern Oral History Program. This course is application-only.

Introduces students to the uses of interviews in historical research. Questions of ethics, interpretation, and the construction of memory will be explored, and interviewing skills will be developed through field work.

Introduces the theory, politics, and practice of historical work conducted in public venues (museums, historic sites, national parks, government agencies, archives), directed at public audiences, or addressed to public issues.

A seminar on the art of translating academic expertise for a general audience. Students read model works ranging from philosophy to biology, workshop story ideas, and learn how to publish in print and online media. Open to all disciplines.

Permission of the instructor. Introduction to the methods of historical research; designed to lead to the completion of an honors essay.

Permission of the instructor. Introduction to the methods of historical research; designed to lead to the completion of an honors essay.

Introduces students to the intellectual currents and schools of thought that have characterized the historical profession over time. By examining such diverse conceptual frameworks, students will prepare themselves to tackle more confidently the research projects they will design and execute in HIST 900 and 901.

This is an interdisciplinary course to introduce graduate students to the sources, methods, and approaches of medieval studies.

Provides an introduction to teaching history. Topics include the history of historical education, planning a course, the role of the teacher, goals and methods, using new technologies, and evaluating students.

In this course, students explore the many identities of professional historians. Through readings and assignments, students learn about the state and future of the historical profession, develop skills that will serve them in their careers, and identify their own goals as professional historians and/or public intellectuals.

Directed readings on early European history, from Britain through European Russia.

Directed readings on modern European history, from Britain through European Russia.

Directed readings on Latin American history from preconquest to 1810; required for students entering the field.

Directed readings on Latin American history in the National Period; required for students entering the field.

An introduction to the methods, issues, and literature of military history, including classic works and scholarship representative of a variety of approaches from history and other disciplines.

An introduction to major works and themes in the history of premodern and modern African history.

An introduction to major works and themes in the history of Asia with an emphasis on the history of China, Japan, and South Asia.

Examines the changing economic, political, and cultural dynamics between and across Europe, Africa, and the Americas with special attention to colonization and slavery. The course is intended to familiarize students with major works in the field and the latest scholarship.

Focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Mixing theory, case studies, and comparisons, the readings reflect disciplinary diversity.

A historiographical overview of the Cold War in a global context, 1945-1991. The course familiarizes students with major works in the field and the latest scholarship.

Readings in the history of women and gender in a comparative, global, or transnational perspective.

Directed readings on American history from the precolonial period through the American Revolution; required for students entering the field.

Directed readings on American history from the Constitution through the end of the nineteenth century; required for students entering the field.

Directed readings on American history in the twentieth century; required for students entering the field.

Readings in contemporary feminist and gender theory, focused especially on theories that address the construction, writing, and general practice of history.

Readings on the historical study of gender and sexuality and on definitions of femininity and masculinity in different historical contexts.

This course will examine the origins, growth, and maturation of a field whose initial explorations sought simply to identify women's contributions to history, then began to conceptualize gender as a system that organized social relations, and most recently, has interrogated sexuality as practice and identity.

Introduces students to the study of law and society across world regions and time periods. Students will explore historical meaning of legal institutions and processes in social, political, and cultural contexts. Explores terms and concepts of legal history such as rule of law, legal pluralism, sovereignty, consent, and justice.

Examines the principal historiographical problems in the history of science and medicine, focusing on a different topic each year.

This graduate seminar explores the theory, methodology, and scholarship on history and memory, and examines some broad questions about the importance of studying collective memory. We will seek to understand both, different theoretical and methodological approaches, and their practical use in historical research and writing.

This seminar explores the politics of human rights by examining practices of rights-claiming since the early modern period. Taking a global perspective, it examines varying and contested modalities of agency in articulating rights in the name imagined group identities (nation, religion, or civilization), sex, the individual, and the human.

The relationship of the social sciences to history, logic of inquiry, use of quantitative methods, and introduction to the computer.

Permission of the instructor. This course introduces graduate students to problems in the use of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources for a range of issues, including religion, law, and warfare.

Readings, reports, and discussions on selected topics of current importance for the field. Topics to be announced in advance.

A readings course on the history of women, gender, and sexuality in Medieval Europe.

Readings in English history, ca. 1300-1500, with a focus on social, economic, political, and legal topics.

A survey of the best historical literature emphasizing churches, varieties of secular power, and religious practice.

Selected readings and discussion of topics and relevant historiography in early modern Europe.

A topical survey of the political, social, and economic history of early modern Germany.

Readings, reports, and discussion on aspects of the French Revolutionary upheaval in Europe.

A readings course in the history of women in Europe since 1500.

This course examines particular themes, events, and historiographical debates of Modern European History in a seminar setting.

A readings course on specific themes and debates in modern European intellectual life.

This graduate readings course discusses classic works as well as recent landmark books about the development of European society in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Directed readings, varying from year to year, selected from historiographical classics as well as the most recent scholarly publications.

Directed readings in 19th- and 20th-century English history. Topics vary from year to year.

Open to graduate students from all departments. This course examines one period or one set of problems within French history since the Renaissance. Topics determined by instructor.

Considers the role of visual representation in the construction of European empire and its associated knowledges from the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt to debates over primitivism in the 1980s.

Selected readings and discussion of various topics in the history of Russia from the late 18th century to the Russian Revolution.

A historiographical reading colloquium covering Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history, 1917-present. The course familiarizes students with Western, Soviet, and post-Soviet literature on the most important issues in Soviet history.

This interdisciplinary seminar provides an in-depth look at some of the major topics in modern Russian, East European, and Eurasian history.

Directed readings on modern East European history.

The peoples of Islamic Central Eurasia are united by linguistic, cultural, and religious ties. Their history is divided between study fields: Soviet/Russian, Chinese, and Islamic Studies. Course takes historiographical diversity as a point of departure, interrogating the major debates that have animated the study of Islamic Central Asia across disciplines.

This course introduces students to a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of colonialism. It encourages them to examine critically the ways in which scholars apply and use the concepts of "coloniality" and "postcoloniality," and to assess the avenues through which those concepts might prove to be productive in informing their own research.

This graduate course will examine the intellectual, political and cultural history of Muslim societies since 1492 through the methodology and approaches of global history.

A readings-based course on particular topics or approaches in African history. Topics may vary by semester and will be announced in advance.

Instructors use this course to focus on particular topics or historical approaches related to Asian history.

Instructors use this course to focus on particular topics or approaches in Latin American history. Topics to be announced in advance.

This graduate seminar examines the role of biography and memoir in national-period Latin American historiography.

Selected readings and research in United States history and its multicultural dimensions up to the American Revolution.

Readings, discussion, and book lists designed to give familiarity with the historiographical problems, research opportunities, and bibliography of the period.

An analysis of the material and ideological transformations within the antebellum republic, which climaxed in the sectional crisis of the 1850s.

A review of traditional and modern literature on the pre-Civil War South, focusing on the interrelationships of its economy, society, culture, and politics.

An intensive readings course on key works comprising the core historiography for Civil War-Reconstruction America. Discussions, short papers, and a 20-page historiographical paper comprise the bulk of the assignments.

Readings, reports, and discussions on selected topics with a view to gaining familiarity with the literature of the field.

A course of readings for advanced students that relate social history to the history of the state in America in the period from the Great Depression and the New Deal to the present.

A graduate reading seminar on the history of America's workers from the 20th century to the present. The struggle of American workers to achieve a measure of dignity and security is examined from social, economic, and political perspectives. The course critically evaluates recent scholarship in the field of labor history.

Reading colloquium in United States military history focusing on the most significant issues, methods, and approaches in the field today.

Readings and research exploring various topics in modern American foreign relations and diplomacy.

A readings course to introduce students to the main topics in urban history.

Graduate reading seminar in American labor history intended for students doing research as well as those writing M.A. and doctoral theses. Graduate students from fields other than United States history welcome. Students will read texts and articles by scholars in a wide variety of fields of American labor history.

A readings course on the history of women and gender in the United States.

Graduate students compile bibliographies and read important contributions to various aspects of African American history, stressing shifts in African American historiography and including very recent works.

Research seminar exploring various topics in United States cultural history to be announced in advance.

Readings in and discussions of the major works in Native American history.

This course exposes graduate students to the classical and burgeoning debates among historians over the history of global capitalism around the world from its antecedents in the medieval and early modern period until the present.

Instructors use this course to focus on particular topics or historical approaches. Specific course descriptions are available each semester on the departmental Web site (www.unc.edu/depts/history).

Permission of the instructor. Independent reading programs for graduate students whose needs are covered by no course immediately available. For students resident in Chapel Hill or vicinity.

Intended to help students develop a plan of research and writing, select a bibliography, develop an understanding of the literature available for their topic, and articulate a problem or facet of the topic to which they can contribute original research in their M.A. thesis.

A seminar for those preparing the M.A. thesis. Pursuing original research in primary sources, students prepare full drafts of their theses.

Doctoral students focus intensively on the writing process to produce an article-length piece of work suitable for publication. Topics include quotation, translation, narrative technique, structuring argument, and addressing a wide audience.

Required of all doctoral candidates in the last semester of course work, this practicum helps students refine a dissertation topic and produce a prospectus.

A seminar for A.B.D. students, offered as demand and resources permit.

Research seminar on selected topics of current importance for the field. Topics to be announced in advance.

This course complements HIST 905, focusing on specific skills, sources, and methods for designing a dissertation prospectus in the field of medieval European history.

This course involves the close study of narrative historiographical texts before 1700. It introduces students to narratological approaches to textual analysis as well as to scholarly work, in a variety of disciplines, on the question of memory. The course is interdisciplinary in its orientation.

Intended to accommodate students at various stages in their graduate careers, this multipurpose seminar will focus on problems in modern African history.

This writing seminar explores the process of working with primary sources, creating a narrative, and shaping an interpretation based on examples from the last two centuries of European history.

A multi-purpose writing seminar on Russian and Soviet history in which students may write a seminar paper, M.A. thesis, dissertation prospectus, or dissertation chapter.

Research seminar exploring various topics related to United States history in the late 18th century around the time of the American Revolution.

This course introduces graduate students to research methods in Native American history, including the methodology of ethnohistory and the techniques of compiling a source base, taking notes, and outlining.

Introduction to research that should result in a major research product. Students will alternate reading classic texts in military history with discussions of project conceptualization and research strategies.

A research seminar designed to bring major projects (usually an M.A. thesis) to completion.

All students will be required to complete an original research paper based on use of primary sources on a Latin American topic corresponding to the theme of the seminar to be announced in advance.

Writing seminar for graduate students on all levels who work on the history of women and gender.

Given on demand and as resources permit, this seminar allows faculty to respond to student interest in particular topics.

Individual work on the M.A . thesis, pursued under the supervision of the M.A. advisor.

Individual work on the doctoral dissertation, pursued under the supervision of the Ph.D. advisor.