Hutton | | TR 1230-1345 | | CRN 74163

HIST 1110-002: United States History I

A survey of American history from the time of European discovery of the Americas to Reconstruction. Readings will consist of a text and several short biographies. Three exams will be given.

Massoth | | TR 0930-1045 | | CRN 64835

HIST 1110-001: United States History I

History 1110 is a survey of U.S. History from immediately before European colonization of the Americas until 1877. This course offers a broad overview of the expansive history of North America, with an emphasis on the United States. The course will highlight the following themes in North American history: colonization, daily life, immigration, cultural exchange, family, and the intersections of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Our focus questions are: How do historians know what we know? What are the debates in U.S. history? How have understandings of power, ethnicity, class, gender, and race changed over time and place in the United States? How do one’s race , class, and gender shape their experiences in the United States? What are the various impacts of immigration, cultural exchange, gender roles, and colonization on family life and daily experiences in the United States?

Maska | | MW 1630-17:45 | | CRN 75838

HIST 1110-003: United States History I

Reconstruction to the present day. Throughout the semester, students will learn how the U.S. grew into a continental empire and leading world power following the Civil War and Reconstruction before entering the twenty-first century in the context of neoliberal capitalism and the war on terror. This course will center the voice and perspective most often left out of the official narrative of U.S. history: the Native Americans, African Americans, women, ethnic, and sexual minorities whose actions shaped the destinies of themselves and their country as a whole. It further emphasizes the global context in which the U.S. is situated by highlighting the connections and commonalities that bind both destinies together. Finally, by acknowledging the place of the U.S. in the world, we further consider the links that join people, places, things, and ideas, across space and time. Through our exploration of these subjects and themes, this class aims to present a nuanced picture of U.S. history, its place in the world, and the relevance of this story to the present day.

Prior | ONLINE | | CRN 75143

HIST 1120-001: United States History II

This course focuses on exploring the intricacies of modern American history from 1877 to the present. The assignments for this course will help you cultivate your skills at critical interpretation and essay writing and will familiarize you with professional-quality historical scholarship. We will explore several topics, including the legacies of the Civil War, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American involvement in World War I and World War II, the Great Depression, the 1950s, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, and the rise of modern conservatism.

Steen | ONLINE | 2H | CRN 75633

HIST 1150-001: Western Civilization I

The course will follow a traditional pattern of exploring the development of political, religious and social institutions from the time of the Greeks to seventeenth century Europe, but will also emphasize cultural life as a unifying force in human affairs. Consequently, the art, architecture, literature and customs of each period will receive considerable attention, and students will be encouraged to explore the music as well. The enormous range of time and different peoples involved make a comprehensive treatment impossible, but the course will highlight major figures and developments trying to provide students with glimpses of the past

Gauderman | | MWF 1000-1050 | | CRN 72497

HIST 1170-002: Survey of Early Latin America

As many of us have heard it, Christopher Columbus discovered or destroyed, conquered, or civilized America in 1492. This course will critique and challenge the conventional knowledge of this first European invasion of America. The story of Columbus becomes a complex story about relationships between European countries, individual prejudices, Spanish social and ethnic categories, African slavery, and finally about relationships between Europeans and those they called “Indians.” The history of Early Latin America, however, does not begin in October 1492. Indigenous bands and great civilizations inhabited North and South America for more than ten thousand years prior to the arrival of Europeans on the shores of Caribbean islands. Thus, in this class we will concentrate on the pre-Colombian period, the conquest period, and the ensuing three hundred years of Spanish (and to a limited extent) Portuguese rule. The lectures will move both chronologically and topically. We will concentrate on two key geographic areas of examination—central Mexico, home to the highly structured pre-Colombian societies of the Maya and the Mexica, among many others, and later the center of Spanish control in its northern kingdoms as the Viceroyalty of New Spain; and the central Andes, land of the Inca Empire and its subject polities (among others), and home of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the center of Spanish power in its southern kingdoms. Our class will cover a tremendous breadth of time and territory, and as such, the lectures, readings, and films are designed to draw your critical attention to issues, including ethnicity, gender, slavery, culture, and power, as well as the institutions and structures that patterned native, African, and European experiences of Spanish and Portuguese authority. Lectures, readings, and films are designed to complement one another. As such, each student is expected to attend all class meetings and to prepare readings as assigned.

Graham | | TR 0930-1045 | | CRN 69615

HIST 1190-001: Medieval World

This course offers a broad orientation to Western culture during the Middle Ages by surveying the history, literature, art, and spirituality of the West during the thousand-year period from the fall of the Roman Empire to the eve of the Renaissance. This was an especially fertile epoch during which there evolved ideas, institutions, and forms of cultural expression of enduring importance, many of them still influential today. Far from being a long interlude of darkness and stagnation separating Antiquity from the Renaissance, the Middle Ages were a time of vibrant transformation, of innovative developments in many areas of human endeavor. Yet, while medieval men and women sowed the seeds for changes whose impact can still be detected today, medieval habits of thought and action differed in fundamental ways from those of our contemporary world. This course will highlight, investigate, and seek to explain what is most typical and most significant in the culture of the Middle Ages through a multi-faceted approach focusing on a broad range of texts and artifacts. The course will introduce students to several of the great vernacular works of the Middle Ages, including Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; will cover such key topics as the evolution of rulership and the beginnings of parliamentary democracy; and will provide an orientation to major cultural breakthroughs, including the evolution of the manuscript book, the origins of the university system of education, and the development of the architecture of Gothic cathedrals. The overall aim of the course is to provide a well-rounded assessment and evaluation of the most significant developments during this rich historical period.

Garcia y Griego | | TR 1100-1215 | | CRN 73224

HIST 2110-001: Survey of New Mexico History

This course surveys the history of New Mexico from pre-European contact to contemporary times. Through lectures, readings, and classroom discussion, it traces indigenous life and resistance to Spanish and later American domination and colonization, and land and water issues for Pueblos and Spanish/Mexican land grants during and after the Territorial period. It seeks to explain why it took more than sixty years for New Mexico to become a state; how Los Alamos and the nuclear weapons industry altered the economic and political landscape, why New Mexico’s politics are a mix of traditional conservativism and progressivism, and how land, water, and the environment have become the state’s defining issues in recent years. Requirements: extensive discussion of readings, essays on UNM Learn on reading assignments, and in-class short-answer and essay exams. Students who miss the deadlines for initial assignments are dropped from the course.

Ray | | MWF 0900-0950 | | CRN 73220

HIST 2256-001: Modern Eastern Civilization

For most of its history, Asian civilizations were both a source of fascination as well as knowledge-production in the world. The rise of complex political and social assemblages in different parts of Asia allowed different streams of philosophy, religion and science to merge with each other seamlessly and contribute a cosmopolitan and advanced cultural patterns. And yet by the seventeenth century, it was Northern and parts of Western Europe that surged ahead in building an imperial geography; a development so sudden and unanticipated that most scholars and contemporary observers were puzzled by it. This course intends to familiarize students with the history of many Asian societies – big and small – to trace the developments that shaped the idea of the Orient. Bookended between earliest history to the eventual colonization of eastern and southeastern Asia towards the eighteenth century, students will learn about highly mobile and transient ecologies and knowledge systems that eventually gave way to national identities across Asia. With a specific focus on China, Japan, and Korean history and the role of Islam, trade and migration in these histories, this course focus on how civilizations developed networks of knowledge and communication and yielded to a distinct Asian identity. How did these knowledge systems become source of cultural identity, military expansion and national belonging? Through a broad sweep of time in history, students will also come to critically evaluate the idea of ‘greatness’ and the cultural connotations associated with ‘eastern people’ over the course of the semester.

Ray | | TR 1530-1645 | | CRN 71766

HIST 300-004: T: Environments and Diseases

The global spread of Covid-19 and the crippling impact of this affliction on the daily lives of millions of us even more acutely aware of the entangled lives that we lead. Using the present conjuncture as its point of departure this course is concerned with the material and ideological construction of environment in modern history. In other words, how have people developed their ideas about nature in the last three hundred years and what has been the impact of this way of viewing environment in the lived realities of different societies. A second component of this course is familiarizing students with contemporary social movements and philosophical trends attached to environmental conservation and their relationship with non-human actors. Relying on broader theoretical approaches to the subject of environment sciences and philosophy as well as case-studies from specific countries, this course unpacks the way in which we see our environment and the assumptions and conditionings that undergird this act of seeing. Instances will include spread of disease, infrastructures of development AND conservation, role of animal, plants and insects in shaping colonialism and prominent trends in thinking about society and nature. Using historical documents, visual representations, and cultural artefact, the course also tries to develop a model of thinking about environmental co-habitation in vulnerable, local ecologies of New Mexico itself has made.

Carcelen | | TR 1400-1515 | | CRN 55945

HIST 300-001: T: History of Human Rights

South and Global North. This course explores how modern “human rights” have been created, maintained, transformed, and contested across diverse transnational, imperial, national, and local contexts and spaces. Using a range of texts, including political, legal, literary, aural, and visual, the course will chart the emergence and evolution of modern human rights regimes, discourses, practices, and movements. Students will also be exposed to rights as the protection of the body and personhood dovetailing with ideals of individualism. The course will also unpack the relationship between rights and citizenship, belonging, and security and how rights impact particular groups (ethnicities, states, etc.). Finally, the course will further understandings of the utility of rights in international campaigns for justice, equality, dignity, and humanity and acknowledge continuities and discontinuities with the past and present.

Ray | | MW 1100-1215 | | CRN 73606

HIST 300-005: T: Bibliography & Indian History

Traditional histories were told through the lens of “great men” and their lives. With growing democratization of the field and diversification of sources, histories have moved decidedly away from such personality- centric narratives. Greater focus is given to processes, structures, collective lived experiences and in our times, environments. Despite these discernible shifts, individuals continue to remain central to historical narratives. This course is intended as an introduction to Indian history, across the expanse of 5000 years, with each week dedicated to one biography. These biographies are unconventional though. In some instances, we will learn about an archeological object, other times it could be human or non-human species and sometimes, it might not even be a “real” person! However, we will think about these individual lives within the larger context of forces and events that have shaped them, and in the process, the history of modern India itself. What made these twelve lives so significant to Indian history? What makes them relevant till this day? And is there a common approach to history that can be instructive to other parts and epochs of the world? We will consider these and other questions in a newly offered, innovative and interdisciplinary course from the History Department!

Richardson | | MWF 1000-1050 | | CRN 70146

HIST 300-003: T: Playing the Past: Rebels!

What if the best way to learn history is to play it? In this course, you will take part in a series of role-playing games centered on revolutionary moments in history. Instead of just reading about the American or French Revolutions, you will play the roles of actual revolutionaries, reactionaries, kings, commoners, rabble-rousers and reactionaries. Instead of listening to lectures, taking tests, and writing essays, you will participate in debates, write speeches, and negotiate with other players, competing and collaborating to achieve your goals. After “Playing the Past: Rebels!” you will never think about history the same way again.

Richardson | | MW 1300-1415 | | CRN 73805

HIST 300-002: T: Teaching & Debating History

How should we teach History? In an age of declining History enrollments at colleges and universities, disinvestment in History education at the K-12 level, and a widespread disrespect for historical knowledge, this question matters more than ever. In this course, graduate and undergraduates will work together to study the most hotly contested debates, the best practices, and the most exciting innovations in history teaching.

Sanabria | | TR 0930-1045 | | CRN 74890 74901

HIST 312-001: History of Fascism

Fascism, or rather the misuse and misunderstanding of Fascism, has been bandied about recently as part of the discursive arsenal of the American Right toward the American Left and current Presidential administration. This course will take this unfortunate development as a point of departure for a deep semester-long exploration of the theory, origins, and tangible manifestations of European fascism and fascistic dictatorships in the twentieth century. We will certainly delve into the history of the two most famous fascist regimes (Mussolini’s Italy and Nazi Germany), but also explore (possibly French?) origins of fascism, the social and cultural ramifications of living under a fascist regime, especially for women, and the long-lived fascistic dictatorships of General Francisco Franco in Spain and Antonio de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal. It is hoped that students, once steeped in a strong understanding of the acute interwar crisis in Europe, will have a strong appreciation of and better definition of fascism than many of our contemporaneous pundits. A midterm, a final, a number of short response papers, and two six to eight page essays, as well as active participation shall be the basis of evaluation.

Ryan | | MWF 1400-1450 | | CRN 74891 74902

HIST 318-001: Spain & Portugal to 1700

“Spain is different” was the slogan used by the caudillo Francisco Franco to encourage tourism to Spain in the 1970s, as the country had been effectively isolated by the international community due to Franco’s fascist rule. The slogan was designed to evoke the “exotic” qualities of Spain and its history. Of course, this elided the historical nuances of centuries’ worth of encounter and exchange among the many premodern peoples—particularly Christians, Jews, and Muslims—who all called the peninsula—land of the modern countries of Portugal, Spain, and Andorra—home. In this class, we’ll study the history of Spain and Portugal until roughly the end of the seventeenth century. Among some of the many themes investigated will be the waves of settlers and immigrants of the peninsula; the formation of Muslim al-Andalus and the development of the Christian Iberian kingdoms; social and cultural exchanges among Christians, Jews, and Muslims; conflict and coexistence; cultural and intellectual innovation; and the devastating consequences that are part of and follow the establishment of empires.

Prior | | MWF 1400-1450 | | CRN 74893

HIST 338-001: Slavery and Freedom in the US

This course will examine the history of slavery in North America, considering its development in the colonial era, its spread across the South during the early history of the United States, and the processes of emancipation and abolition. We will study the economics of slavery, the relationships among people in slave societies, and how slavery shaped the political and intellectual life of the United States. We will compare slavery in North America to unfree labor in the rest of the Americas and elsewhere.

Hutton | | TR 1400-1515 | | CRN 74894

HIST 350-001: Modern US Military

This course is a survey of the origins and development of American military institutions, traditions, and practices 1890-1990, while blood will indeed flow freely as we slog across numerous battlefields, the development of military technology and administration will also be emphasized. We will also deal with questions regarding the nature of war and our warlike or non-warlike character as a nation.

Cochran | | TR 11:00-12:15 | | CRN 75837

HIST 395-007: Genders and Borders in Premodern Europe

Western Europe in the Middle Ages was a vibrant and diverse space where issues of gender, race, language, culture, politics, and society interacted across multiple modes of communication. The borderlands of medieval Europe were not simply geographic boundaries but took a variety of forms: some were cultural, some legal, and still others spiritual. This course introduces these different borders, questioning the very notion of a border and how the term applies to medieval and early modern European societies. We will also explore the importance of gender in relation to borders, discussing, for instance, how gender allowed people to cross borders and how medieval figures (both real and fictional) defied gender norms. In the last month of the term, we will consider how medieval borders and gender expressions allow us to reframe early modern sources. Students will analyze a wide range of primary sources from the third through seventeenth centuries, including letters, saints’ lives, inscribed objects, maps, saga literature, and medical texts. This course encourages students to think critically about gender dynamics in the many borders that premodern people faced and invites conversation on the roles of genders and borders in premodern life. Throughout the semester, students will work on guided assignments culminating in a final project of original research.

Ball | | MW 1400-1630 | 1H | CRN 75805

HIST 396-001: T: History of Pop Music 1830-1940

Smith | | MWF 1100-1150 | | CRN 72145

HIST 396-002: T: US in Era of WWII

Gauderman | | MWF 1200-1250 | | CRN 74895

HIST 397-001: T: Latin America Gender & Sexuality

Scholars and activists frequently claim that the current status of women in Latin America stems from a colonial legacy of gender oppression and sexual repression. And yet, the status of women has changed substantially, not always for the better, since the colonial period. Similarly, sexuality in the colonial period contradicts modern notions of an evolution of sexual constraints constructed through public and private divisions of social space. We will examine the sources, methodologies, and theoretical approaches that shape the history of women and sexuality in early Latin America. The readings represent ethnic, racial, and class-based distinctions among individuals, and emphasize the importance of using diverse approaches in the reconstruction of gender and sexual norms, particularly for Indigenous persons and Afro-descendants. This course includes a focus on perceptions of same-sex attractions, Indigenous traditional religious practices, and witchcraft. The course ends with an analysis of how female figures from the colonial period, such as La Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe, have been incorporated into modern political agendas by intellectuals and political activists. Students will read, analyze, and discuss both primary and secondary sources to understand how history is conceived and written.

Herran Avila | | TR 0930-1045 | | CRN 74896

HIST 397-002: T: 20th Century Mexico

This course explores the political and social history of 20th century Mexico, from the turmoil of the 1910 revolution to the era of neoliberalism. We pay particular attention to roots of social discontent and the questions of equality and democracy. We look at the winding process of consolidation and decline of the post-revolutionary state, and the mobilization of workers, peasants, students, guerrilla organizations, intellectuals, women, indigenous peoples, and the urban middle class. By examining these histories of dissent, protest, and rebellion, the course provides a critical take on the creation, exertion, and contestation of power in Mexico and a historical perspective on the lasting legacies of its seemingly “unfinished” revolution.

Herran Avila | | TR 1400-1515 | | CRN 74897

HIST 397-003: T: Cold War Latin America

This course provides a critical perspective on how Latin Americans experienced the transformations and polarizations of the Cold War period. We assess the role of the United States in these histories but we give primacy to the agency of Latin American actors, and we situate the local and broader global contexts that shaped Cold War conflicts in the region. The course uses primary and secondary sources to get a grasp of different perspectives, and interrogates the extent to which the Cold War still informs much of the region’s present.

Ryan | | MWF 0900-0950 | | CRN 75806

HIST 404-001: Ancient & Medieval Mediterranean

From the ancient to medieval periods, the Mediterranean Sea was the point of intersection between the major civilizations of the age: the Egyptian, Roman, and Greek worlds that transformed into Latin Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic world. Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Egyptians of the ancient world battled for control of the sea and its surrounding lands, while also sharing technology, culture, language, and trade goods. Medieval Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived in the Mediterranean along shifting frontiers, at times in both conflict and cooperation. In both of these eras, merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, and warriors traveled across the sea, often bringing with them cultural or economic products that contributed to a larger framework of commerce and communication. This course will examine the Mediterranean region, both as a geographical concept and as a stage for complex relationships, from the ancient through the late medieval periods. Topics running throughout the course will include: creation, maintenance, and crossing of boundaries; the balance between violence and cooperation in cross-cultural dialogue; relationships between religious minorities and their dominant society; and commercial and cultural exchanges between the major civilizations of the Mediterranean world.

Withycombe | | TR 1230-1345 | | CRN 74899

HIST 414-001: Women & Health in US History

When did women's health become about pink ribbons and baby bumps? How did the development of modern medicine both help and hurt American women? This course examines the health issues women have faced and their responses to them from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries in the United States. In particular, it explores the personal experiences and the medical views of women's life-cycle events, the role of women as health care practitioners and activists, and the effect of gender on the perception of illness.

Withycombe | ONLINE | | CRN 76769

HIST 416-001: History of Modern Medicine

This course will investigate the development of the modern medical profession over the last 300 years. We will examine the clinical encounter between patient and healer and how it has been shaped by larger forces such as race, class, gender, politics, and economics. Covering diverse topics such as the effects of the French Revolution upon the field of medicine, the links between mass urbanization and epidemics, the popularization of germs, and the power of modern pharmaceutical companies, students will explore how shifting social and cultural values have motivated changes in thinking about health and healers.

Garcia y Griego | | TR 1230-1345 | | CRN 74900

HIST 469-001: Inter-American Relations

History and analysis of selected events in the relations principally between the United States and Latin America since Independence, the Monroe Doctrine, U.S. annexation of Texas and invasion of Mexico (1846-1848) and acquisition of territory on the continent, and overseas possessions in the Caribbean and Pacific. Review of the conditions and outcomes of political instability and revolutions in 20th century Latin America. Origins of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy and postwar superpower status that set the foundation for contemporary hemispheric relations: trade, sovereign debt, illegal narcotics, migration, environment, and foreign policy activism by the U.S.'s weaker neighbors. Course requirements include analysis of readings, extensive class discussion, short lectures, and periodic essays and short video commentary.

Smith | | MW 1300-1415 | | CRN 65721

HIST 491-001: Historiography

Sanabria | | TR 1230-1345 | | CRN 69636

HIST 492-001: Sem: Antifascisn & Fascism

Among the numerous interwar (1919-1939) battles that raged throughout Europe, but also here in the USA, were intense struggles between antifascism and antifascists groups that rose up to challenge the birth of Italian Fascism and the spread of fascist-like ideologies in places such as Nazi Germany and Eastern Europe and Iberia. Indeed, Antifascism has been increasingly present in both academic and public realms lately, as news stories about “Antifa” abound primarily in conservative news sources, and as numerous recent books and journal articles have both revisited the concept and shone the light on the continued relevance of antifascism after the attempted overthrow of the government on 6 January 2020. Rachel Maddow’s podcast, “Ultra”, is but one example of the need to revisit the American interwar years to remember that the USA itself was not immune from fascist intrigue and the need to maintain a permanent antifascist consciousness against dangerous internal enemies of democracy. Students in this capstone seminar will immerse themselves in both the rise of fascist movements and trends in interwar Europe and the USA as well as engage with the growing literature and historiography on interwar antifascism, and will spend a significant amount of time learning to work with primary documents in the Special Collections and archives of the UNM Center for Southwest Research, especially, but not limited to the Spanish Civil War Collection (Identifier: MSS-320-BC). This collection was generated by David Gordon who was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, who were American antifascist volunteers who fought against General Francisco Franco and the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. Students will prepare and deliver an in-class presentation and research project on an interwar fascism/antifascism topic of their choice, including a research proposal, an annotated bibliography of relevant primary and secondary sources, and a formal paper to be submitted at the end of the semester. The primary goal of the seminar will be to help students in developing the key skills associated with critical historical thinking and writing.

Bokovoy/Richardson | | MW 1300-1415 | | CRN 37379

HIST 500-001: T: Teaching & Debating History

How should we teach History? In an age of declining History enrollments at colleges and universities, disinvestment in History education at the K-12 level, and a widespread disrespect for historical knowledge, this question matters more than ever. In this course, graduate and undergraduates will work together to study the most hotly contested debates, the best practices, and the most exciting innovations in history teaching. This course will introduce students to the intellectual conditions of the production of history. While the core concern of the class will be to survey the key theoretical trends informing modern historiography, we will also consider the historical context in which those theories were developed, including the evolution of the profession. We will stress the professional context in which each of the theorists and historians on our syllabus worked, and we will number ourselves among them by reflecting purposefully on our own identities and assumptions as historians. In addition to mastering key trends in modern historiography, an important part of this course will be practicing forms of writing central to the historian’s craft as well as conventions of scholarly debate and discussion.

Sanabria | | TR 0930-1045 | | CRN 74901

HIST 512-001: History of Fascism

Fascism, or rather the misuse and misunderstanding of Fascism, has been bandied about recently as part of the discursive arsenal of the American Right toward the American Left and current Presidential administration. This course will take this unfortunate development as a point of departure for a deep semester-long exploration of the theory, origins, and tangible manifestations of European fascism and fascistic dictatorships in the twentieth century. We will certainly delve into the history of the two most famous fascist regimes (Mussolini’s Italy and Nazi Germany), but also explore (possibly French?) origins of fascism, the social and cultural ramifications of living under a fascist regime, especially for women, and the long-lived fascistic dictatorships of General Francisco Franco in Spain and Antonio de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal. It is hoped that students, once steeped in a strong understanding of the acute interwar crisis in Europe, will have a strong appreciation of and better definition of fascism than many of our contemporaneous pundits. A midterm, a final, a number of short response papers, and two six to eight page essays, as well as active participation shall be the basis of evaluation.

Ryan | | MWF 1400-1450 | | CRN 74902

HIST 518-001: Spain & Portugal to 1700

“Spain is different” was the slogan used by the caudillo Francisco Franco to encourage tourism to Spain in the 1970s, as the country had been effectively isolated by the international community due to Franco’s fascist rule. The slogan was designed to evoke the “exotic” qualities of Spain and its history. Of course, this elided the historical nuances of centuries’ worth of encounter and exchange among the many premodern peoples—particularly Christians, Jews, and Muslims—who all called the peninsula—land of the modern countries of Portugal, Spain, and Andorra—home. In this class, we’ll study the history of Spain and Portugal until roughly the end of the seventeenth century. Among some of the many themes investigated will be the waves of settlers and immigrants of the peninsula; the formation of Muslim al-Andalus and the development of the Christian Iberian kingdoms; social and cultural exchanges among Christians, Jews, and Muslims; conflict and coexistence; cultural and intellectual innovation; and the devastating consequences that are part of and follow the establishment of empires.

Smith | | MWF 1100-1150 | | CRN 70553

HIST 596-003: T: US in Era of WWII

Herran Avila | | TR 0930-1045 | | CRN 74903

HIST 597-002: T: 20th Century Mexico

This course explores the political and social history of 20th century Mexico, from the turmoil of the 1910 revolution to the era of neoliberalism. We pay particular attention to roots of social discontent and the questions of equality and democracy. We look at the winding process of consolidation and decline of the post-revolutionary state, and the mobilization of workers, peasants, students, guerrilla organizations, intellectuals, women, indigenous peoples, and the urban middle class. By examining these histories of dissent, protest, and rebellion, the course provides a critical take on the creation, exertion, and contestation of power in Mexico and a historical perspective on the lasting legacies of its seemingly “unfinished” revolution.

Herran Avila | | TR 1400-1515 | | CRN 74904

HIST 597-001: T: Cold War Latin America

This course provides a critical perspective on how Latin Americans experienced the transformations and polarizations of the Cold War period. We assess the role of the United States in these histories but we give primacy to the agency of Latin American actors, and we situate the local and broader global contexts that shaped Cold War conflicts in the region. The course uses primary and secondary sources to get a grasp of different perspectives, and interrogates the extent to which the Cold War still informs much of the region’s present.

Hutchison | | TR 1100-1215 | | CRN 74905

HIST 597-003: T: Chile & Argentina post 1820

This course offers an intensive introduction to the countries of Southern South America in the national period, including Uruguay and Paraguay but with special emphasis on Chile and Argentina. We will begin by looking at the economic and administrative shifts of the late colonial period, independence movements and the protracted process of national consolidation, and the social changes stemming from export led growth and industrialization in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (including foreign immigration, the rise of organized labor, and changes in gender relations). Then we will analyze how the political experiences of the twentieth century—liberal reform, populism, revolution, military intervention and democratization—can be understood in terms of each country's political culture and institutional development. Why have generations of military and political leaders repeatedly failed to achieve sustainable development and political stability? How and why have authoritarian rulers come to power and enjoyed popular support? What do these national experiences tell us about the history of development, political sovereignty, democracy, and ethnic/class/gender relations in Latin America as a whole? Course materials include historical monographs, archival and published primary documents, testimonial literature, fiction and film. Class assignments and discussion will frequently revolve around two course readers of primary sources in translation – The Argentina Reader and The Chile Reader – allowing students to work closely with historical sources, as well as several historical monographs, testimonial literature, fiction and film. Students should plan to attend lectures, participate in class discussions, and read approximately 75 pages a week, as well as complete a midterm, final exam, and two 5-6 page papers based on the assigned readings. Graduate students will also prepare additional readings, attend special sessions, and complete a 15-page paper.

Gauderman | | MWF 1200-1250 | | CRN 75807

HIST 597-001: T: Latin American Gender & Sexuality

Scholars and activists frequently claim that the current status of women in Latin America stems from a colonial legacy of gender oppression and sexual repression. And yet, the status of women has changed substantially, not always for the better, since the colonial period. Similarly, sexuality in the colonial period contradicts modern notions of an evolution of sexual constraints constructed through public and private divisions of social space. We will examine the sources, methodologies, and theoretical approaches that shape the history of women and sexuality in early Latin America. The readings represent ethnic, racial, and class-based distinctions among individuals, and emphasize the importance of using diverse approaches in the reconstruction of gender and sexual norms, particularly for Indigenous persons and Afro-descendants. This course includes a focus on perceptions of same-sex attractions, Indigenous traditional religious practices, and witchcraft. The course ends with an analysis of how female figures from the colonial period, such as La Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe, have been incorporated into modern political agendas by intellectuals and political activists. Students will read, analyze, and discuss both primary and secondary sources to understand how history is conceived and written.

Ryan | | MWF 0900-0950 | | CRN

HIST 604: Ancient & Medieval Mediterranean

From the ancient to medieval periods, the Mediterranean Sea was the point of intersection between the major civilizations of the age: the Egyptian, Roman, and Greek worlds that transformed into Latin Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic world. Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Egyptians of the ancient world battled for control of the sea and its surrounding lands, while also sharing technology, culture, language, and trade goods. Medieval Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived in the Mediterranean along shifting frontiers, at times in both conflict and cooperation. In both of these eras, merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, and warriors traveled across the sea, often bringing with them cultural or economic products that contributed to a larger framework of commerce and communication. This course will examine the Mediterranean region, both as a geographical concept and as a stage for complex relationships, from the ancient through the late medieval periods. Topics running throughout the course will include: creation, maintenance, and crossing of boundaries; the balance between violence and cooperation in cross-cultural dialogue; relationships between religious minorities and their dominant society; and commercial and cultural exchanges between the major civilizations of the Mediterranean world.

Bokovoy | | W 1600-1830 | | CRN 27712

HIST 664-001: Advanced Historiography

This course will introduce students to the intellectual conditions of the production of history. While the core concern of the class will be to survey the key theoretical trends informing modern historiography, we will also consider the historical context in which those theories were developed, including the evolution of the profession. We will stress the professional context in which each of the theorists and historians on our syllabus worked, and we will number ourselves among them by reflecting purposefully on our own identities and assumptions as historians. In addition to mastering key trends in modern historiography, an important part of this course will be practicing forms of writing central to the historian’s craft as well as conventions of scholarly debate and discussion.

Truett | | M 1600-1830 | | CRN 72493

HIST 666-001: Sem:Empires & Others

In this graduate seminar, we will engage recent scholarly work on histories of empires and primarily Indigenous and nonstate others. With an eye in particular to early modern (15th-19th centuries) contexts and taking Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper’s ambitious Empires in World History as a point of departure, while also drawing on new scholarship in global Indigenous studies, histories of state-making and dynamics of state rule, and, in later parts of the class, of new dynamics of nationalism and nation-making as alternative pathways to incorporation. Over the course of the semester, we will ask how empires at different times and places (through their leaders, elites, subaltern subjects, and go-betweens) imposed their institutional authority over others; built and sustained political, military, and economic networks; managed internal ethnic and cultural differences; and imagined and improvised their place in the world at large. We will look, variously, at territorial and commercial, terrestrial and maritime, and sedentary and nomadic contexts—with somewhat greater attention to parts of the world in which the imperial historiographies are more richly developed (for instance, the history of the British Empire), or that connect to our departmental strengths in the histories of the Americas. We will also discuss points of overlap, entanglement, and resonance with global histories, frontier and borderlands histories, indigenous and subaltern histories, histories of trade and cross-cultural relations, and histories of capitalism and settler colonialism.

Graham | | M 1600-1830 | | CRN 57609

HIST 668-001: Sem:Medieval Research & Bibliographies

This course will offer intensive training in the research and bibliographic skills necessary for the study of the Middle Ages while also introducing students to the history of medieval scholarship from the sixteenth century onwards. A key aspect of the course will be a detailed orientation to the major published resources available to medievalists, including the volumes of the Patrologia Latina, the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and the Early English Text Society, as well as the important series Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile. Participants in the course will learn about the techniques used by scholarly editors when preparing a medieval text for use by a modern readership; they will also be introduced to the conventions of the modern apparatus criticus. Students will learn how to read and analyze charters and other types of medieval document and will receive instruction in the basics of such important ancillary disciplines as medieval chronology and sigillography. The section of the course devoted to the history of medieval scholarship will include a special focus on the origins and development of scholarship on pre-Conquest England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

Massoth | | R 1600-1830 | | CRN 74906

HIST 685-001: Sem:Gendering Borderlands History

This seminar focuses on the recent and significant research methodologies and readings in which both borderlands and gender are categories of analysis. The seminar rethinks traditional historical narratives of borders and frontiers by considering how the inextricably linked social constructs of gender and race have evolved and have shaped social, cultural, political, and economic historical processes in contested spaces. This seminar will encourage graduate students to examine how gendered ideas placed on physical bodies complicated daily life and structured power – and the boundaries of nations. The goal of the class will include introducing graduate students to foundational gendered borderlands histories and the methodologies behind such scholarship (including de-colonial and gender theories, archival approaches, and publication goals). The focus will be on North American borderlands with options for individual topics, including Global South, Israel-Palestine, Philippines, medieval, Roman, and Mediterranean borderlands, etc. These comparisons will focus on encouraging students to understand the importance of interdisciplinary and transnational methodologies in shaping North American projects (and vice versa). Depending on where the graduate students are in their career, they will develop projects (historiographical, research proposals, syllabi, and/or primary research) that ask them to place an intersectional gendered analysis into their understanding of borderlands as a field.

Bieber | | R 1600-1830 | | CRN 74907

HIST 688-001: Sem:Brazil

This seminar will cover the dominant themes of Brazilian history - a complex intertwining of European, African and indigenous social, economic and cultural contributions. For the colonial period, main topics will include first contact, indigenous societies and sources, the development of planter and mining society, slavery, women and the family, and religion. Material on the modern period will highlight the themes of labor, politics, race, gender, and social history. Required readings are written in English or available in English translation. You do not need prior knowledge of Brazilian history to do well in this class. Students of US History and Spanish America will discover interesting points of comparison. Graduate students from outside programs such as Latin American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese also are welcome!

Hutchison | | T 1600-1830 | | CRN 62401

HIST 692-001: Research Seminar – Latin America, Gender, and Revolution

From the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution to la mujer metralleta, women’s participation in Latin America’s armed struggles have attracted popular and scholarly attention for decades, serving as one of the principle foci of women’s history in the region. But stories of women warriors is just a starting point for a much broader field of historical inquiry, which now includes: women’s participation in non-militarized revolutionary (and anti-revolutionary) politics; the construction of gender and sexuality in revolutionary cadres; revolutionary programs promoting women and/or gender equality; sexual violence in civil conflicts; revolutionary and reactionary masculinities; global feminist and internationalist projects; and many, many more topics. This course will begin by reviewing the historical literature on women, gender and revolution in twentieth Latin America, with a focus on representative works on Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Chile. Through common readings and seminar discussions, we will examine key historical debates – from the woman question to feminism and double militancy – that have roiled revolutionary movements, the socialist and authoritarian regimes they produced, and resulting historical scholarship. Finally, the seminar will also consider how recent attention to gender and sexuality has expanded the scope and significance of this field of historical inquiry. The work of this seminar will be organized around issues of research methodology and historical narrative, as students design and execute a semester-long research project on some aspect of the history of gender and revolution in Latin America. This 20 to 30 page research paper must be based on primary sources: although many of these will only be available in Spanish, students will lesser facility in that language may structure a topic around appropriate English-language sources. The research and writing process will be collaborative, in that students are required to present their work and critique each others’ efforts at various points throughout the semester.