Ryan | | TR 1100-1215 | | CRN 79368

HIST 504-001: High & Late Middle Ages

In this class, we will reevaluate the traditional narrative that depicts the High Middle Ages (ca. 1000-1300 C.E.) as a “golden” era of medieval civilization, whereas the Later Middle Ages and early modern era (ca. 1300-1550 C.E.) represent the death or waning of that civilization. The reality is far more complex. We will question that narrative and invert it by studying the events that took place during the High Middle Ages that tarnished this “golden” era. We will analyze the crises of the Later Middle Ages and early modern eras and contextualize them within a larger atmosphere of political, cultural, and social change. By encountering the many manifestations of what constitutes the European high and late Middle Ages, students will come away with a more nuanced understanding of the history of that period.

Monahan | | ONL | | CRN 82282

HIST 595-009: Men & Women in Imperial Russia

I was a high school senior when the Soviet Union dissolved itself on December 25, 1991. After college I worked in Russia for three years as part of the "shock troops of Capitalism". I spent the first years of the 21st century as a graduate student trying to get out from underneath the binary of Russia and “The West”. I was more inclined to see Russia as had having developed in its Eurasian context and wanted to move beyond the age-old question, “Is Russia part of Europe or Asia?” In 2014 Russia began a war against Ukraine, showing all-too-clearly that I was premature in trying to get past the Russia vs. “The West” binary but that Eurasia matters, too. As a scholar with friends and colleagues on both sides of the bombing who has seen this war split families (facts: Benjamin Franklin’s own son was imprisoned as a Loyalist for much of the American Revolutionary war; Abraham Lincoln had in-laws who fought for the Confederacy), I struggle to make sense of the present in part—as historians do—by studying the past. This course addresses the relationship of Russia to “The West” at selected critical junctures across the past five centuries, with sustained emphasis on intellectual/social/political movements of the 19th century. From the world of ideas to the boots of the battlefield to the troll factories of Putin’s Russia, we will use contextualizing lectures, focused case-studies, and individual student projects to address questions of contact, consanguinity, confrontation, conflict and logics in this complex and multi-faceted history of Russia and the West. Since “The West” is not just a geographical term but a cultural construction, and one that has changed over time, we will unpack some of the formative concepts undergirding “The West” over time, including Liberalism vs. Autocracy, Freedom vs. Obedience/Repression, Individualism vs. Institutions, Capitalism vs. command economies, Backwardness vs. Modernization, Progress vs. Tradition. Since much regarding these questions has played out in the literary and geopolitical arenas, Literature and Political Science are substantial disciplinary lenses in the course. Finally, we’ll address the historical roots of how East/West binaries intersect with Great Power politics and interrogate critically Vladimir Putin’s claims that Russia is defending itself against “The West”. Students who complete the course successfully will emerge with improved abilities to: conduct independent research; craft a research paper; characterize sources with which they engage, in particular with respect to positionality and content; evaluate evidence and rhetoric; interrogate polemic sources; communicate intelligently orally and in writing on the background and implications of our present engagement with Russia.

Gauderman | | TR 1230-1345 | | CRN 82071

HIST 597-001: Latin American Immigrant Journeys

This upper-division/graduate level course seeks to provide a cultural and historical context to current debates over immigration reform, integration, and citizenship in the context of Latin America and the U.S. The course is divided into three sections: Conditions in Latin America; Migration through Mexico and Barriers at Mexico/U.S. Border; Life in the U.S. and Impact of U.S. Immigration and Asylum Laws on Latin American Migrants. Drawing on the experience of the professor as a researcher and expert witness on country conditions in Latin America, this course will explore the social and political factors that push Latin Americans to leave their homes and the impact of border policies, immigration detention, and U.S. immigration and asylum law on these migrants. Students will read recent scholarship, as well as primary documents including reports by governments and NGOs, personal accounts, and media. LAS Concentrations: History and Society; Conflict, Peace and Rights

Herrán Ávila | | TR 0930-1045 | | CRN 79390

HIST 597-002: Latin American Revolutions

What does a revolution look like? What brought Latin Americans to participate in processes of deep social and political change, or to reject them altogether? How did revolutions in Latin America impact the societies in which they took place and the world around them? In this course, we will draw from historical documents, visual materials, and academic literature in search of answers to these questions and a better understanding of the origins, contradictions, achievements, and legacies of major revolutionary upheavals in Latin American history. We will critically examine various cases of revolutionary change, from the late eighteenth-century rebellion of Tupac Amaru II in the Andes and Haiti’s world-changing “Black Republic,” to episodes of social and political revolution in Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, and Venezuela in the 20th and 21st centuries

Graham | | MWF 1200-1250 | | CRN 82073

HIST 601-001: Anglo-Saxon England

This course will offer an overview of the history and culture of England from the arrival of the Angles and Saxons in the fifth century until the Battle of Hastings of 1066. These six centuries form one of the most vibrant and innovative periods of English history, when the foundations of England’s greatness were first established. We will cover such diverse topics as the pagan culture of the early Anglo-Saxons, the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, the Irish and Roman missions to England, the Viking invasions, the military and educational campaigns of King Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon manuscript culture, and the Bayeux Tapestry. The course will center upon the interpretive study of such primary source materials as the Beowulf poem, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There will be two papers, in-class quizzes, and a final examination. Cross listed with English ENGL 551-001.

Withycombe | | T 1600-1830 | | CRN 82083

HIST 666-001: Sem: Hist of Sex & Sexuality

What is sex? What is sexuality? Do they have histories? Who gets to decide? This course will examine sexual practices and identities of the past, interrogating how cultures have defined sex acts, policed sexual bodies, categorized biological markers, and constructed gendered individuals. It centers on the historiographical, methodological, and theoretical contributions that a focus on sexuality can provide. Investigating sex in multiple historical eras and diverse geographic regions we will explore the role of power, bodies, and deviance in biological, medical, political, and social constructions of sexuality.

Graham | | M 1600-1830 | | CRN 52478

HIST 668-001: Medieval Research & Bibliography

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.

Garcia y Griego | | W 1600-1830 | | CRN 82070

HIST 682-002: Sem: People, Land, & Government

Massoth | | M 1600-1830 | | CRN 82078

HIST 685-002: Sem: Gendering Borderlands History

The course will focus on research methodologies and readings in which both borderlands and gender are categories of analysis. This class will rethink 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 to the methodologies behind such scholarship (including de-colonial and gender theories, archival approaches, and publication goals). The focus will be North American borderlands – however each week we will provide a comparison to other borderlands, such as the Global South, Israel-Palestine, South Africa, Australia, Philippines, Northern Ireland, etc. The focus of these comparisons will be to encourage students to understand the importance of interdisciplinary and transnational methodologies in shaping North American projects (and vice versa). Depending where the graduate students are on in their career, they will develop projects (historiographical, research proposals, syllabus, and/or primary research) that force them to place an intersectional gendered analysis into their understanding of borderlands as a field. This course is crosslisted with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies WGSS 579-001.

Herrán Ávila | | T 1600-1830 | | CRN 82074

HIST 687-001: Sem: Violence in Latin America

Can violence be historicized? This seminar will tackle recent scholarship on violence in Latin America with the aim of building a basic conceptual and interpretive toolkit to study and understand violence from a historical perspective and review the approaches that scholars of Latin America have used to tackle different modalities of violence across time and space. The main premise of the seminar is to treat violence as an entry point to discern social relations and power dynamics. We will examine how historical actors have related to the exertion, threat or experience of violence, endowing it with various meanings that helped them make sense of the social worlds they inhabited and the history that shaped them. Students will engage with interdisciplinary-minded historical scholarship of Latin America tackling the links between violence, war, nationalism, and nation-making; instances of revolutionary violence, state repression, and criminality; the role of religion and notions of “the sacred” in legitimizing violence; the racialization, “gendering,” and sexualization of violence; and the connection between violence, law, punishment and justice.

Gauderman | | R 1600-1830 | | CRN 55760

HIST 690-001: Sem: Race in Latin America

How have Latin Americans constructed and interpreted racial, ethnic, class and gender identities and ideologies? Recent scholarly trends, as well as current developments in the region, have combined to bring race, ethnicity, and related issues to the forefront of political as well as academic debates. The “problems of race” are far from insignificant, and any attempt to understand contemporary Latin America from a historical perspective should take into account the evolution of racial ideas and practices in the region. This graduate seminar begins with an overview of racial construction in the colonial period and examines the social, cultural, and political constructions of race and ethnicity in modern Latin America and their connections with the processes of class, gender, and national formation in the region. Thematically, the course will focus on Indigenous, African, Asian, and European peoples, gender and sexuality, and human rights. LAS Concentrations: History and Society; Indigeneity in the Americas; Conflict, Peace and Rights