The Department of History
Course Descriptions
Spring 2015
The courses described in the booklet are divided into three categories.
Those numbered in the 100's and 200's are designed as introductions to the
study of the various regions of the world. Although any undergraduates
may take these courses, they are aimed at the freshmen and sophomore
level. The courses numbered in the 300's and 400's are specialized classes
for juniors and seniors. The numbers were given in a haphazard fashion
and there is no difference between the 300- and 400- level courses. The
Department does not have courses specifically for juniors or for seniors.
The courses numbered in the 500's & 600’s are seminars and are usually
limited to graduate students.
The courses are listed in numerical order. However, not all courses
offered by the History Department are in this booklet.
If more than one section of a course is offered, please check the name of
the instructor to make sure you are reading the description of the correct
section.
For further information contact any member of the History Department,
1104 Mesa Vista Hall, telephone 505-277-2451.
History Graduate Director is Professor Michael Ryan, Mesa Vista Hall
2058, telephone 505-277-6160. E-Mail ryan6@unm.edu
History Undergraduate Advisor is Professor Kimberly Gauderman, Mesa
Vista Hall 2079, telephone 505-277-7852.
E-Mail kgaud@unm.edu
The Department Chair is Professor Melissa Bokovoy, Mesa Vista Hall
1104, telephone 505-277-2451. E-Mail mbokovoy@unm.edu
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MAJOR AND MINOR REQUIREMENTS IN HISTORY
History Major Requirements:
A History major requires a total of thirty-six hours of study, with twelve at the lower-division
and twenty-four at the upper-division level. The History Department allows students great
latitude in creating a program of study that will reflect their interests and career objectives. Four
lower-division courses and eight upper-division courses are required, but only History101-102
(Western Civilization) and History 491 (Historiography) or 492 (Senior Seminar) must be taken
by all students. The other lower-division courses may be chosen from History 161-162 (United
States History), History 251-252 (Eastern Civilization), or History 181-182 (Latin American
History). Students should take the survey courses that will prepare them for upper-division
courses they wish to take in the areas of study offered by the Department. If students wish to
follow the traditional history major, they will select seven upper-division courses, two each in
three different areas of study. This program gives majors a broad, liberal arts background. Any
student who wishes to design a specialized program of study is welcome to do so after discussing
it with the Undergraduate Advisor. Students may develop an area of concentration or select
courses that will prepare them for graduate or professional school in a particular area. In both
majors, students may undertake independent study (History 496), which gives them the
opportunity to investigate a subject of their own choice, reading and holding discussions on an
individual basis with a professor. Excellent students are also encouraged to undertake
Departmental Honors, which includes History 492 (Senior Seminar), History 493 (Research) and
History 494 (Thesis Preparation) and they will work individually with a professor in preparing a
senior thesis.
History Minor Requirements:
The History Minor requires twenty-one hours of study. Any two lower-division courses may be
taken. Five upper-division courses are required and three of them must be in the same general
area of history. Students are encouraged to establish their own program and to select courses,
which conform to their individual interests and career goals.
Dr. Kimberly Gauderman
History Undergraduate Advisor
Mesa Vista Hall 2079
277-7852
kgaud@unm.edu
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History 101-001 Western Civilization to 1648
Instructor: Steen
MWF 11:00-11:50
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. A textbook will provide
a brief overview of the periods covered and there will be other readings drawn from primary
literature and documents. Laws, treaties and some literary works will offer students the
opportunity to develop their own interpretation of events and people covered in the course.
There will be two take home essay assignments and two exams, a mid-term and a final, both of
which will also follow essay format.
History 101-003 Western Civilization to 1648
Instructor: Steen
ONLINE
ARR
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. A textbook will provide a
brief overview of the periods covered and there will be a book of primary literature and
documents. Laws, treaties and some literary works will offer students the opportunity to develop
their own interpretation of events and people covered in the course. There will be four short
essay assignments and two exams, a mid-term and a final, both of which will also follow essay
format.
History 102-001-008 Western Civilization Post 1648
Instructor: Richardson
MW 10:00-10:50
Plus Lab Time
Many would consider a course in Western Civilization since 1648 to be a waste of time. After
all, most of the important historical events of the period were neither exclusively western
(imperialism, total war, globalization) nor particularly civilized (imperialism, total war and—
depending on whom you ask—globalization.) Yet it is precisely because of such criticisms that
the study of Western Civilization is important: over the last three and a half centuries the concept
itself has been transformed by the west’s contact with the rest of the world. In this course we will
examine the period that gave us Gandhi and Hitler, the Abolition Society and the Scramble for
Africa, Chekhov and the Cheka.
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History 102-009-016 Western Civilization Post 1648
Instructor: Sanabria
MW 12:00-12:50
Plus Lab Time
Western Civilization 102: This course emphasizes the historical development of Western
European and North American culture, politics, economics, and society. Though Western
Civilization has come under fire recently for its narrow focus, this course will not neglect
important developments in the non-western world, especially when these impact the West.
Among the topics we will cover are the Enlightenment’s revisions of traditional thought and
politics, the rise of classical liberalism, the era of the first modern industrial and political
revolutions, romantic ideas of nature and human life, the challenges to liberalism posed by such
movements as socialism, imperialism, feminism, and nationalism, the growth of new forms of
self-expression and new conceptions of individual psychology; and the emergence of the United
States of America as a hegemonic power after 1945. The approach to the materials will be
inter-disciplinary as we will incorporate not only historical analyzes of the period but also
primary philosophical, literary, visual, and psychological works to flesh out the trials and
tribulations of European culture in the twentieth century.
Students will meet twice a week for 50-minute lectures, and once a week in smaller 50-minute
discussion groups.
History 102-017-024 Western Civilization post 1648
Instructor: Bokovoy
TR 9:30-10:20
Plus Lab Time
In this course, we will examine the activities and experiences of Europeans from 1648 to the
present, basically studying what has come to be called "Western Civilization." However,
civilized life and society include all activities and experiences of people dwelling together in
organized communities and so this course will encompass a series of historical inquiries. We
will study Europe's economic and social structures, its ideas, beliefs, and achievements of its
people. We will investigate political structures and what they reveal about the governance of
society and which social groups controlled power. In essence, we will examine the political,
economic, cultural, intellectual, and social aspects that make up the life of Europe.
History 102-025 Western Civilization Post 1648
Instructor: Winchester
MW 5:30-6:45
This Western Civilization 102 course traces the historical development of European and North
American culture, economics, politics, and society from the middle of the 17th century to roughly
the end of the 20th century. The course is organized chronologically and divided into three
sections. The first third of the course will cover the state of Europe from 1648 to the end of the
French Revolution and the defeat of Napoleon. The second third of the course will cover the
Congress of Vienna to the state of Europe immediately before the First World War. The final
third of the course will cover World War I until the end of the Cold War and the advent of the
European Union.
Utilizing this chronology, the course will focus on several key themes and developments. The
exercising and maintaining of state power, the struggle for human rights and equality, the battle
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of political ideologies, the nature of gender norms, and the results of nationalism and imperialism
will be some of the important themes running throughout the historical narrative covered by the
course. Key developments the course will cover include: The Scientific Revolution, the Atlantic
System, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Congress of Vienna, the revolutions of
1848, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of the working class, the new imperialism, World
War I, the Russian Revolution, the rise of fascism, World War II, the Holocaust, the Cold War,
decolonialization, and the creation of the European Union. The importance of gender and
sexuality, race, class, and social and women’s history to these themes and events will be a salient
feature of lectures and assignments.
As the study of history is not simply about memorizing dates and facts, this course is intended to
provide students with an understanding of cause and effect, change over time, and nuanced
perspectives on how the world of today came into being. Furthermore, students will develop
critical thinking skills; in particular the ability to formulate original thoughts based especially on
primary sources and convey those ideas through the medium of a clear and concise college-level
history essay. This course is intended to foster thinking, problem solving, and intellectual
capacity through learning how to analyze and critically evaluate ideas, arguments, and points of
view. This knowledge of the past and these real-world skills are a vital component of any college
education.
History 102-026 Western Civilization post 1648
Instructor: Dodson 2H ONLINE
ARR
In this course, we will examine the activities and experiences of Europeans from 1648 to the present.
Civilized life and society include all activities and experiences of people dwelling together in organized
communities and so this course will encompass a series of historical inquiries. We will study Europe’s
economic and social structures, its ideas and beliefs, and achievements of its people. We will investigate
political structures and what they reveal about the governance of society and which social groups
controlled power. In essence we will examine the political, economic, cultural, intellectual, and social
aspects that make up the life of Europe.
History 102-027 Western Civilization post 1648
Instructor: Shumaker ONLINE
ARR
In this course, we will examine the activities and experiences of Europeans from 1648 to the
present. However civilized life and society include all activities and experiences of people
dwelling together in organized communities and so this course will encompass a series of
historical inquiries. We will study Europe’s economic and social structures, its ideas and beliefs,
and achievements of its people. We will investigate political structures and what they reveal
about the governance of society and which social groups controlled power. In essence we will
examine the political, economic, cultural, intellectual, and social aspects that make up the life of
Europe.
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History 161-001 US History to 1877
Instructor: Hutton
TR 12:30-1:45
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.
History 162-001 US History Since 1877
Instructor: Sandoval-Strausz
TR 9:30-10:45
This undergraduate survey course covers the major historical developments of the past 135 years.
We will begin with the collapse of post-Civil War Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow,
move through the emergence of industrial and agrarian labor movements that challenged laissezfaire capitalism, examine the rise of state and federal regulation of health, safety, and
corporations, observe how the prosperity of the 1920s gave way to the Great Depression, explore
the conduct and consequences of World War II, analyze the rising prosperity of the postwar
years, consider the accomplishments of the civil rights movement and its influence on the status
of women, Hispanics, Native Americans, and gays and lesbians, interrogate the lessons and
legacy of the Vietnam War, and witness the rise and possible fall of modern political
conservatism. On the way, we will examine both secondary literature and primary-source
documents, images, and films.
History 162-002 US History Since 1877
Instructor: Steinke
TR 5:00-6:15
This course is an introduction to the major themes and developments in American history
following Reconstruction. We will begin by discussing the rise of industry and its impact on
American workers and consumers. Moving into the twentieth century, we will trace efforts to
reform government, business, and society and the growing role of America in world affairs, first
in the Spanish-American War and then World War I. After addressing the cultural shifts of the
1920s, we will measure the impact of the Great Depression on American government and the
expansion of American power during World War II. Readings will provide an opportunity to
consider how Americans pursued civil rights and citizenship throughout the twentieth century,
culminating in the civil rights movements of the postwar period. The course will conclude by
addressing globalization following the end of the Cold War. Lectures will include periods for
discussion, when we will draw on the readings to frame and explore questions that still occupy
historians today.
History 162-003-007, 009-011 US History Since 1877
Instructor: Prior
MW 11:00-11:50
Plus Lab Time
This course is designed so that you learn about the history of the United States since 1877 while
exploring the challenges and rewards of studying history. The assignments for this course,
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moreover, will help you cultivate your skills at critical interpretation and essay writing. We will
explore 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.
History 162-012 US History Since 1877
Instructor: Biro
ONLINE
2H
ARR
This course will explore the social, cultural, political, and economic changes that defined
American history from Reconstruction through the modern era. In particular, it will focus on the
efforts and struggles of historical subjects to make the United States abide by the promises of
freedom and equality enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Women, immigrants, ethnic/racial minorities, gay men, lesbians and others often remained
excluded from full participation as citizens. We will examine the promises of American freedom
made during this period, the limits (including racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality and class) that
prohibited many from experiencing basic freedoms, and the efforts of various groups to expand
their civil and political rights.
History 181-001 US Early Latin America
Instructor: Veeder
MW 5:30-6:45
This is a survey of Latin America before 1810. We will examine the cultures of Latin America
both before and after contact between indigenous people and Europeans. This contact and
conflict between indigenous civilizations and those from Spain and Portugal is pivotal to
understanding early Latin America. The class examines the political, social, religious and
economic development of Latin America with this context of conflict and integration between
Europeans and Indigenous peoples until the beginning of the 19th century.
History 182-001- 004 Modern Latin America
Instructor: Hutchison
MW 10:00-10:50
Plus Lab Time
This course traces the principal economic, social and political transformations in Latin America
from the Wars of Independence to the present, in order to understand the roots of ethnic conflict,
social inequality and political instability in modern Latin America. Why is there so much
poverty in Latin America? What has been the role of the United States in the region? How does
the military maintain such power in politics? These and other questions will be addressed in
lectures, readings, films and discussions that focus principally on Mexico, Brazil, Argentina,
Chile, Cuba and Central America. The class will use a comparative framework to address topics
such as the consolidation of nation-states and their insertion in the world economy after
Independence; changes in land use and labor organization; political movements for liberalism,
populism, and revolution; industrialization and class politics; military regimes; U.S. intervention;
and the emergence of contemporary social movements.
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History 251-001 Asian Survey before 1600
Instructor: Risso
MWF 1:00-1:50
Intended for the curious and those interested in Asian Studies or International Studies, this lower
division survey covers much of Asia—East, South, West, and Central—from antiquity to about
1600. Topics with comparative potential include governing institutions, social structures,
economies and trade, belief systems, and artistic expressions.
History 260-001 New Mexico History
Instructor: Truett
TR 12:30-1:45
This class will approach the history of New Mexico within a larger regional perspective,
exploring ties not only to the U.S. Southwest at large, but also to Mexico. We will begin in the
pre-colonial era, and then move through the periods of Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. rule, from the
sixteenth century to the present.
History 300/500-001 Metaphor of Plague
Instructor: Gibbs
MWF 11:00-11:50
This course explores the metaphor of plague as described in various historical sources with a
focus on medical literature, literary texts, and popular media. We are concerned not only with the
scientific disease known as plague, but also how various other epidemic diseases (like syphilis,
tuberculosis, AIDS, and ebola) have been labeled as plagues. How and why does the label of
“plague" become applied to certain disease and not others? How does such a construction shape
the way we understand and respond to them? How do various “plagues" grow out of their
particular cultural circumstances and inform the next one?
History 300/500-004 History of U.S. Immigration
Instructor: Reyes
TR 2:00-3:15
This course will examine the history of the political, social, and cultural impact of immigration
to American Society. By studying social constructions relevant to immigration history, such as
race, ethnicity, and gender, among others, particularly the ways in which they have operated in
the development of structures and policies related to immigration, the course will explore the
role of immigrant legislation, normative understandings of ‘national belonging,’ and the
construction of categories of "others" and the role they played in the inclusion/exclusion of
certain immigrant populations to the American political, economic and social fabric. By the end
of the semester, students will have discussed and critically analyzed a diverse sample of
immigration scholarship that highlights a broad range of immigrant experiences from the 19th
through the 21st Centuries.
500 level students must get approval from instructor BEFORE enrolling.
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History 300/500-005 African Americans, War, and Society since 1863 (cross listed with
AFST 285)
Instructor: Jefferson
TR 2:00-3:15
This course explores the history of the African American participation in the U.S. Armed Forces
from the Middle Nineteenth Century to the Present; from the Civil War through the
desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces. The class also interrogates black responses to recent
war-related emergencies, ranging from the Vietnam War and the post-Cold War military to the
War on Terror and the Second Persian Gulf War. In addition to focusing on some of the major
themes, controversies, and personalities in African American Military history, we will examine
the shifting meanings of race, gender, and citizenship among segments of African American
society and the wider society at large. Throughout the course, we will pay particular attention to
the ways that scholars have treated the larger significance of the black presence in the American
armed forces and where it has stood in relation to the larger processes of United States and
World history.
History 300/500-006 History of Modern Sport
Instructor: Sanabria
MWF 10:00-10:50
This course surveys the phenomenon of sport in its social, cultural, political, and economic
aspects. Though our focus will be global we will pay particular attention to the development of
sports and the meanings and impact of that development in the Western World (especially
Western Europe and the USA) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The majority of
our sources and reading assignments deal with modern sport in Europe and the United States
where the historiography and social science analyses of sport are most abundant. The link
between sport and culture, including political culture, will also be emphasized, and thus, we will
dedicate a sizeable unit of the course to the modernization and commercialization of sports such
as soccer and baseball, and what these sports can tell us about western civilization values,
culture, and history. Our discussions and lectures will concern themselves not only with modern
elite sport (The modern Olympics, professional baseball teams in the United States, and so on),
but also with physical culture (such as the fascist mobilization of sport and youth in the inter-war
period). Because our approach will be both topical and chronological, it would help immensely
if students already have some basic knowledge of nineteenth- and twentieth-century world
history. Students who feel they lack historical background may want to read Eric Hobsbawm’s
The Age of Empire and/or The Age of Extremes.
History 300/500-007 The City in America Since 1893
Professor Sandoval-Strausz
TR 2:00-3:15
One of the most profound transformations in all of American history was the nation's evolution
from an overwhelmingly rural country in which most people lived in small farming communities
into a predominantly urban nation in which much of the population lived in large, complex, and
diverse industrial cities and, later, throughout postindustrial suburbanized metropolitan areas.
This advanced undergraduate class will cover the reasons for this dramatic shift, the way it
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influenced people's everyday lives, how it changed their ways of thinking, and how it in turn
reordered their family norms, workplaces, sexual behaviors, political choices, leisure pursuits,
and personal identities. Class periods will be divided among lectures, discussions of the readings,
and analysis of historical evidence such as maps, charts, paintings, statistical tables, lithographs,
photographs, and films.
History 300/500-008 Old Russia
Instructor: Monahan
TR 2:00-3:15
This course surveys the history of the emergence of Russia from the ninth to the seventeenth
century. Topics include: Ancient Kiev, Christianization of the Rus’, Medieval Novgorod,
Mongol Conquest, Rise of Muscovy, Muscovy’s place in late medieval and early modern world
history, expansion into Siberia, state and empire building in the early modern era, the baffling
reign of Ivan the Terrible, Time of Troubles, the establishment of the Romanov dynasty,
encounters with foreigners, society and culture of Muscovy, and the early reign of Peter the
Great, and the historical relationship of Russia and Ukraine. As we survey the early centuries of
Russian history, students will over the course of the semester develop an independent research
project. No background in Russian history or language is required. Course readings include a
variety of primary (translated into English) and secondary sources
History 300-010 North American Law Enforcement History
Instructor: Raspa
MW
5:30-6:45
The police are arguably one of the most important—and visible—representations of legal justice
and power in American society. This course will explore the development of law enforcement
from its earliest origins in the ancient world to the modern uniformed and armed urban police
officer of the twenty-first century with a focus on North America.
History 300/500-011 New Mexico since 1848
Instructor: Garcia y Griego
MW 4:00-5:15
History 300-016 Atomic America
Instructor: Campos
TR 12:30-1:45
Los Alamos, Trinity, Hiroshima—familiar names in the history of Atomic America. But long
before the atomic bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many believed that radium
might hold the secret to life. What happened, and how did this change? Through a series of case
studies, we will survey the complex historical, political, environmental, and moral dimensions of
the atomic age, from the discovery of radioactivity in the late nineteenth century through the
Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb, up to the world we live in today. Special attention will
be paid to the role of scientists, secrecy, and security; the place of radioactivity and nuclear
weapons in popular culture; and the central place of New Mexico and the nuclear borderlands in
this history.
Topics to be covered include: the radium craze; radium and the origin of life; radiation and the
discovery of the nature and structure of the gene; the discovery of nuclear fission and chain
reactions; the development of the world’s first secret weapons laboratory in Los Alamos in 1942;
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the first atomic detonation at Trinity in 1945; the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and its
aftermath; and growing concerns over nuclear fallout. With the dawn of the Cold War, Atomic
America armed itself with arsenals of tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, giving humans the
capacity to destroy all life on earth. A new calculus of nuclear geopolitics emerged: an arms race
justified by the doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction,” existing side by side with the
development of radioisotopes for use in medicine, ecology, and other peaceful uses of the atom
(such as nuclear energy under civilian control). As fears of global Armageddon, “nuclear
winter,” and genetic mutation seemed increasingly imminent, broader health and environmental
consequences also came to the fore. We will conclude by examining how even decades after the
end of the Cold War, we are still dealing with the complex political and environmental legacies
of the atomic age, from nuclear proliferation to waste disposal, as well as the unexpected ironies
of mutant ecologies, toxic tourism, and more. (No scientific background necessary.)
History 304/504-001: High and Late Middle Ages
Instructor: Ray
TR 2:00-3:15
This course surveys the European Middle Ages from the eve of the twelfth-century Renaissance
to the Great Schism and its aftermath in the early fifteenth century. Among the topics covered
are the economic and political transformations of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the
flowering of learning and culture during this same period, the highlights of Christian thought
from Anselm of Bec to Julian of Norwich, and the enduring legacy of High and Late medieval
society—the great works of art, architecture, poetry, political theory, theology, and philosophy
produced during this formative period in the development of Western culture. The course makes
extensive use of primary sources, and a variety of media, that provide first-hand glimpses into
the minds and lives of medieval men and women.
History 309/ 509-001 French Revolution & Napoleon
Instructor: Steen
MWF 9:00-9:50
This course covers one of the most dramatic periods in European history, one that had a
tremendous impact on every aspect of life. It will begin with an appraisal of the Old Regime,
pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of the system that was by 1789 already one thousand
years old. The second part will explore the swift course of the revolution itself, concentrating on
the events of from the fall of the Bastille to the end of the Terror. The last part will investigate
the collapse of the revolution and the emergence of military dictatorship under Napoleon.
Several topics will provide themes that will draw the different sections of the material together.
These include the emergence of radical politics and the creation of political parties, the
reordering of social structure, the impact of revolution on cultural life, and the effect of the
revolution and Napoleon on the rest of Europe. The required books in the course will elaborate
on these themes. In addition, students will prepare a short paper on a topic of their own choice.
The paper must be based on primary sources, the documents and literature from the time itself.
There will be a mid-term and a final exam in this course
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History 327-001 History of Christianity, 1517-Present
Instructor: Ray
TR 11:00-12:15
This course covers the development of Christianity from the Protestant Reformation to the
modern day. Primary focus will be on the rich variety of forms—doctrinal, liturgical, artistic,
intellectual, and institutional—that Christianity assumed throughout this period as it moved
outward from Europe and became a world religion. Also of concern will be the interaction of
Christianity with society at large.
History 329/529-001 Science Since Enlightenment
Instructor: Campos
TR 2:00-3:15
This course surveys the history of science from the Enlightenment to today. We will begin with
the supreme place granted to reason during the European Enlightenment in the aftermath of Isaac
Newton, explore major developments in the history of science over the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, and conclude with an analysis of the place of science in our world today.
Topics to be explored include: gravity, celestial mechanics, and the system of the world; atomic
theory, chemistry, and the nature of matter; the invention of the metric system and the sciences
of empire; natural history, botanical geography, and classification; early theories of evolution;
Darwinisms and neo-Darwinisms; electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and the moral sciences of
energy; the rise of statistics; the railroad and the standardization of time and space; medicine,
germ theory, and anesthesia; Edison’s inventions and “the end of physics” ; the discovery of Xrays, radioactivity, and the radium craze; heredity from experimental breeding to eugenics and
genetics; theories of relativity and quantum mechanics; phrenology, psychology, and
psychoanalysis; chemical weapons and the First World War; the atomic and hydrogen bombs of
World War II; “computers” from women to machines; the discovery of the double helix of DNA
and the cracking of the genetic code; Cold War science, Sputnik, the arms race, and the space
race; biotechnology and big business; and the Human Genome Project and climate change.
Themes to be addressed include science and: colonialism, nationalism, war, industry, politics,
religion, science fiction, memory, and the public.
History 334/534-001Civil War Era
Instructor: Prior
MWF 1:00-1:50
This course will examine the Civil War-era United States in all its complexity. We will explore
the causes, meanings, and consequences of the war by reading sources by and about soldiers,
politicians, slaves, freedpeople, slaveowners, diplomats, suffragists, immigrants, and others. We
will consider why and how Unionists and Confederates fought as well as the political issues,
cultural values, and social relationships that gave the war its contours. Class time will be
devoted to lectures and discussions of readings.
History 341-001 US Foreign Relations Since 1900
Instructor: Pugach
TR 12:30-1:45
The 20th Century brought the United States into the arena of world politics. This course will
examine the major factors responsible for this development and the significant landmarks. It will
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also analyze the means used by the U.S. to acquire power. The Spanish-American War brought
us a colonial empire. Teddy Roosevelt tested the waters in the Caribbean and East Asia. Entry
into World War I and World war were critical to establishing our new role in world affairs. The
Cold War affirmed our status as a superpower. The Vietnam War and our involvement in the
Mideast started to undermine our position. Learn more about American foreign relations as we
face the complexities of h the 21st Century. There will be a Midterm and Final, two short papers,
and a fair amount of reading, with some optional books
History 345/545-001 US Women Since 1865_
Instructor: Cahill
MWF 2:00-2:50
This upper division course explores the history of women in the United States from the midnineteenth century to the present. The range of women’s experiences was vast, and often differed
as a result of race, class, region, age, marital status, and many other characteristics. Nonetheless,
there have also been commonalities. While we will touch on many of these, the course will focus
on women’s participation in the political realm, including the political struggles in which they
have been directly involved and the ways in which political debates have been framed in
gendered terms. Grades will be based on participation, a variety of reading and writing
assignments, as well as a final research paper.
History 346/546-001 Native America to 1850
Instructor: Connell-Szasz
TR 11:00-12:15
In this course we will focus initially on pre-1492 North America. During the first weeks of term
we will tour Native lands and peoples, ranging from the Arctic Inupiat to the Pueblos, Apache,
and Diné; from the Hodenosaunee to the Makah. From there, we will examine the contact
between the hundreds of Native nations and Europeans and Africans—Spaniards, French, Dutch,
English, Russians and African Americans—moving from sixteenth-century Spanish-Native
encounters through Removal of Southeastern and Northeastern Indian nations to Indian Territory
and, finally, to the mid-nineteenth-century conflicts in the Columbia River Plateau. The course
will weave its way through many Native cultures and complex relations among peoples within
North America, and between Natives and the Europeans and Africans who brought their own
world views and diseases. Course is strongly recommended for any student of American history,
Native history, or the history of encounters between Outsiders and Indigenous peoples.
Assignments include a two-part research paper, discussions, quizzes, mid-term and final exam.
Extensive student participation expected.
History 350/550-001 Modern US Military
Instructor: Hutton
TR 3:30-4:45
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.
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History 384-001 History of Japan
Instructor: Porter
TR 11:00-12:15
A survey of the history of Japan from its mythological and archeological origins, the
development of the early Japanese state and society, the evolution of feudalism, unique cultural
characteristics, and the early Western impact, to the Meiji Restoration and the emergence of
modern Japan in the twentieth century. Issues of contemporary Japan as a world economic and
political power will also be examined.
Required readings include six paperback texts.
History 401/601-001Anglo-Saxon England
Instructor: Graham
TR 11:00-12:15
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, inclass quizzes, and a final examination.
History 419/619-001 The Irish Diaspora
Instructor: Richardson
MWF 1:00-1:50
Ireland’s biggest export has always been people. Over the centuries, millions of Irish men and
women have left the island, for reasons ranging from a quest for political liberty, to a search for
economic opportunity, to the humanitarian desire to provide the citizens of Singapore with a
decent pint of Guinness. The people of this tiny nation on the edge of Europe have had a
disproportionate influence on the politics, economics and culture of the rest of the world: to take
but one statistic, nine of the last ten U.S. Presidents have had Irish roots. But what is it, exactly,
that connects these “Irish worldwide”? What do John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, Rosie
O’Donnell and Bill O’Reilly, or the Lucky Charms leprechaun and the Notre Dame leprechaun
really have in common? Through a variety of sources, including not only conventional histories
but also letters, essays, memoirs, novels, official documents, newspapers, cartoons, visual art,
films and music, we will explore the convoluted story of how the Irish became international. But
we will also take up broader questions about history and heritage: what does it mean to have a
hyphenated identity, “Irish-“or otherwise?
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History 429/629-001 Beauty, Body & Power
Instructor: Hall
TR 12:30-1:45
This course will explore the intersections of these three themes in comparative context. Most of
the course content will use materials form the histories of the U.S. and of Latin America, though
we will use material from other world areas as well. We will use both theoretical and empirical
works. Topics which we will cover include: social constructions vs. biological notions of
beauty; the intersection of ideas of beauty and gender roles; beauty and business and beauty as
business; the history of plastic surgery; historical case studies of famous beauties in Latin
America and elsewhere in which issues of beauty, body and power, Political and otherwise,
intersect; the history of anorexia and other body altering and sometimes health-threatening
practices; issues of race and body; and issues of missing bodies. The major focus of the course
will be on female beauty and body in relation to questions about power, but we will consider
male beauty and body in this context as well. There will be three in-class essays. Graduate
students will be required to do a paper as well.
History 432/632-001 Russian and Culture in Russian History
Instructor: Monahan
TR 12:30-1:45
What is Environmental History and how has it changed? How can it help us better understand the
Russian past? How have humans, animals, and environments interacted over the course of
Russian history? This course will tackle these questions and more through a multi-disciplinary
approach that draws on primary and secondary sources including scholarly, literary, journalistic,
and autobiographical works to explore the emerging field of the environmental history of Russia.
We will examine how notions about nature and geography have been marshaled in the formation
and articulation of national and imperial identities in Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history.
Topics include: resource exploitation and regulation, land reclamation and transformation of
landscapes, exploration, cartography, notions of progress, public health, the creation of urban
environments, attitudes towards nature, pollution, and emergence of conservation movements.
No background in Russian history or language is required.
History 468/684-001 Society and Development in Latin America
Instructor: Bieber
1H
TR 8:00-10:30
This course explores how underdevelopment has shaped historical outcomes in Latin America
during the 19th and 20th centuries. It compares important themes across different country cases
within a roughly chronological framework. Topics include dependency and underdevelopment,
rural-urban migration, industrialization, authoritarian regimes, revolution, women’s movements,
and labor and peasant organizations. The course’s social history focus emphasizes class, race,
ethnicity, and gender. Regional emphasis is given to Mexico, Central America, Brazil, and
Argentina.
Students will get more out of the course if they have taken the introductory Modern Latin
America survey, History 182. However, while desirable, this background is not absolutely
essential to do well in this course.
To receive graduate credit, students will have additional research and writing requirements and
will be expected to blog on all assigned readings at http://atlantichistory.wordpress.com
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History 478/678-001 Latin American Film
Instructor: Hall
R 5:30-8:00
This course will examine eight to nine films from Latin America or U.S.-produced with
substantial Latin American input. The major themes to be explored will be 1) state and society,
especially the issues of human rights and state oppression; 2) gender; and 3) religion. The films
will be used in conjunction with materials on the historical incident or setting explored in the
film; the historical context (political and otherwise) in which the film was produced, the
biographies of a selection of the actors, writers, directors, and other major figures involved; and
the history of the film industry in Latin America generally. Undergraduate students will be
required to write four response papers and two in-class essays, and take a final examination.
Graduate students will be expected to produce four short essays and one 20 to 25-page essay, the
topic to be decided in consultation with the instructor, in addition to the examination and in-class
essays noted above.
History 488/588-002 Middle East c. 1260-1800
Instructor: Risso
MWF 10:00-10:50
The Mongol Il-khans of Persia (c.1260—1334) and the Turko-Circassian Mamluks of Egypt and
Syria (c.1260—1517) were foreign to the Middle East and bound by strong military traditions.
Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, and established an empire that took much of
western Asia towards the modern era, while the Safavids of Persia gave Shi`i Islam a permanent
home. By 1700, dramatic technological, commercial, and institutional changes were evident that
appeared to leave western Asia ripe for exploitation by Europeans and, by 1800, there were
curious debates about the future of the Middle East. We will get to know some of the people of
western Asia who lived, loved, worked, cooked, and generated art during all the turmoil.
History 491-001 Historiography
Instructor: Gibbs
MW 1:00-2:15
This course introduces some of the most prominent and influential approaches that historians
have taken in crafting their interpretations of the past. It addresses various philosophies of
history (the underlying assumptions of how we can access and understand the past), as well as
various historical interpretive frameworks that have shaped the professional practice of history
(ways of considering place, culture, labor, communities, identity, etc). The course begins with a
survey of the historical mythology of the ancient world and examines various constructions of
history throughout the medieval and early modern periods, but focuses on developments after the
nineteenth-century professionalization of history.
History 492-001 Comparative Indigenous History
Instructor: Connell-Szasz
TR 2:00-3:15
Students who enroll in this seminar may anticipate a world-wide tour that will look at Indigenous
peoples from 1945 to the present. We will begin with definitions: what characteristics
contribute to Indigenous identity and who should determine that identity? We will question if
identity must include a widely spoken Indigenous language; and we will contrast Indigenous
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peoples who live within their own nation states with those who live within the geographical
boundaries of larger nation states. The course will begin with extensive reading and assessment
of works, including collections of essays and monographs. Students will write reviews and lead
discussions of the readings.
Each student will write a comparative research essay. We will
assess these essays during the last weeks of term through written analysis and class discussion of
individual essays.
History 492-002 Borderlands History
Instructor: Truett
TR 5:00-6:15
In this seminar, we will immerse ourselves in a range of cutting-edge works from one of the most
dynamic fields of American history: borderlands history. Much scholarship in this field focuses
on the U.S.-Mexico border region (from the Spanish period to the present day), but scholars have
begun increasingly to use a borderlands history approach to contemplate other American contact
faces—from the Great Lakes to the Great Basin, from the Rio Grande to the Columbia River.
Borderlands history is becoming an influential paradigm for thinking about the entanglements of
indigenous and immigrant America, and transnational relationships that have connected America
to the world at large. How did the continent’s indigenous borderlands change together with new
imperial borderlands, how did these borderlands assume new shape as empires yielded to nations
all across the North American continent? And more generally, what can we gain by approaching
American history from the perspectives of the borderlands?
History 665-001 Historical Research Methods
Instructor: Hutchison
T 12:00-2:30
This graduate seminar is required of all history doctoral students and recommended for MA
students planning to write a thesis. In it, we will emphasize the skills and techniques used in
historical research, such as the identification and critique of primary sources, archival research,
and the technical procedures necessary to produce different kinds of historical writing (research
proposals, theses and dissertations, and journal articles). Working with available sources,
students will apply historical methods – and relevant methodologies from other disciplines – to a
wide variety of texts, as well as oral histories, statistics, photographs, music, maps, and other
ephemera With support from UNM collections specialists students will also explore the
expanding universe of digitalized primary sources in their region of specialization. In addition to
common readings and short research assignments, students will produce a research 10-15 page
research prospectus or equivalent text approved by the instructor.
History 666-001 Sem: Comparative Slavery: From the Classics to the Present in North
America and Brazil
Instructor: Bieber
T 4:00-6:30
This course examines the development of the historiography of slavery over the course of the
past century. We will examine primarily literature based the evolution of slavery in the US and
Brazil, with some coverage of the Caribbean. This course fulfills distribution requirements for
the Race and Ethnicity thematic field as well as the regional fields in US history and Latin
American history.
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The first part of the course will examine excerpts of classic works ranging from the apologists B.
Ulrich Phillips and Gilberto Freyre (US and Brazil respectively) to the first comparative
synthesis by Frank Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen. We will also read passages from classics
dating from the 1940s through the 1970s by Eric Williams, Alexander Marchant, Kenneth
Stampp, Eugene Genovese, Eric Foner, Herbert Gutman. Edmund Morgan, Ira Berlin and Stuart
Schwartz, among others.
The balance of the class will be organized thematically, covering an array of topics including the
slave trade, slave resistance, slavery and the law, gender and sexuality, and abolition and the
challenges of citizenship in a post-emancipation world. The emphasis will be on excerpts and
published essays over monographs in order to expose students to the broadest possible array of
relevant scholarship. By the end of the course, students will have the necessary historiographical
background to prepare courses about Atlantic slavery at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
It will also provide enough of an overview of the field to develop research proposals concerning
the history of slavery.
History 666-002 History Clinic: Historians and the Food System
Instructor: Scharff
W 1:00-3:30
This is the pilot Field Course for the American Historical Association-Mellon Foundation Career
Diversity Project. Students will bring the skills and knowledge they learn to master as graduate
students in history, to a collaborative project engaged with the local, national, and global food
system. Over the course of the semester, students will read, write, think and talk, work with each
other and the instructors, meet with guest mentors, and build their confidence and their abilities
to communicate with diverse audiences and to lead and contribute to team efforts.
History 674-001 Sem: Readings in Premodern Iberia
Instructor: Ryan
R 4:00-6:30
“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 peoples--particularly Christian, Jews, and Muslims-who called the peninsula home in the premodern past. In this graduate-level reading seminar
geared towards specialists in premodern history, Iberian history, and Latin American history, we
shall study the history of Spain and Portugal until roughly the end of the 17th century as
constructed and analyzed by some of the foremost scholars of premodern Iberian history from
the 20th and 21st centuries. Among some of the many themes investigated will be the waves of
settlers of the peninsula, the formation of the Iberian kingdoms, social and cultural exchanges
among Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and cultural and intellectual innovations. Each week
students will be expected to read approximately a book and/or a selection of scholarly articles
and come prepared to discuss them at length. The final project will be a historiographic paper
that deals with the state of the question regarding some aspect of premodern Iberian history.
History 678-002 Atomic America
Instructor: Campos
M 4:00-6:30
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This graduate seminar surveys the complex historical, political, environmental, and moral
dimensions of the atomic age. We will trace the half-life of the nuclear narratives of Atomic
America from the discovery of radioactivity in the late nineteenth century and the “radium girls”
of the 1920s through the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb, the Cold War and the arms
race, and the post-Cold War nuclear and environmental realities we still face. Particular attention
will be paid to the history of the American Southwest, and the historiography of the nuclear
borderlands we inhabit, though transnational perspectives will also be incorporated. (No
scientific background necessary.)
History 682-001 Sem: U.S. West
Instructor: Cahill
W 4:00-6:30
In this research seminar we will explore the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the
American West during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course approaches race and
gender as cultural and historical constructs that are formed and reformed over time, often in
conversation with each other. While primarily a research seminar, we will begin with a series of
readings from recent scholarship (contact Professor Cahill for book list) that will give the class a
shared vocabulary and historical background with which to start our discussions. In the second
part of the course, the class will take advantage of the Center for Southwest Research’s
exceptional resources in western history to explore a wide range of questions and topics through
archival work. By the end of the semester, participants will have completed an article-length
piece of original research.
History 686-001 Racial Horizons in Early and Modern Latin America
Instructor: Gauderman
M 4:00-6:30
How have Latin Americans constructed and interpreted racial, ethnic, class and gender identities
and ideologies? We will begin this course with a theoretical discussion of race, class, and gender,
and then proceed to an evaluation of how they intersect and influence each other in a Latin
American context. How do these identities help us understand Latin American history and
culture? What functions have these identities played in Latin American societies, and how have
they influenced cultural, economic, and political developments? How have the intersections of
these identities contributed to the emergence of new forms of identity that contribute to the rich
diversity that is Latin America? This course focuses on intersections between disciplines, and
interrogates their assumptions on race, class, and gender. We will emphasize the political and
social roles that race, class and gender have played in Latin America in the colonial and modern
eras and examine how various disciplines have interpreted these political and social changes.
Thematically, the course will focus on Indigenous, African, and European peoples, gender and
sexuality, and human rights.
UNM West
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History 102-028 Western Civilization post 1648
Instructor: Schumaker
TR
3:30-4:45
In this course, we will examine the activities and experiences of Europeans from 1648 to the
present. However civilized life and society include all activities and experiences of people
dwelling together in organized communities and so this course will encompass a series of
historical inquiries. We will study Europe's economic and social structures, its ideas and beliefs,
and achievements of its people. We will investigate political structures and what they reveal
about the governance of society and which social groups controlled power. In essence we will
examine the political, economic, cultural, intellectual, and social aspects that make up the life of
Europe.
History 162-008 US History since 1877
Instructor: Darcy
MW 12:30-1:45
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