The Department of History
Course Descriptions
Fall 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
Revised 2014
History Major Requirements:
The History Department allows students great latitude in creating a course of study that will
reflect their interests and career objectives. A History major requires a total of thirty-six hours of
study, with twelve at the lower-division (four courses) and twenty-four (eight courses) at the
upper-division level. At the lower-division level, students must complete one survey series, and
may choose any other two courses from the remaining surveys including History of New Mexico
to complete the 12 hours of required lower-division coursework. Students may choose from
History 101-102 (Western Civilization), History 161-162 (U.S.), History 181-182 (Latin
America), History 251-252 (Eastern Civilization), History 260 (History of New Mexico). At the
upper-division level, students may choose any history course at the 300 or 400 level, but all
students are required to include History 491 (Historiography) OR History 492 (Senior Seminar).
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 choose three different geographical or chronological areas of
interest and enroll in at least two upper-division courses in each area. This program gives majors
a broad, liberal arts background. Students may also choose to develop an area of concentration
or select courses that will prepare them for graduate or professional school in a particular area. In
consultation with a professor, 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 the professor. Excellent students (those with an overall
GPA of 3.00 or better) are also encouraged to participate in the History Honors Program, in
which a student works closely with a faculty advisor to research and write a senior thesis. Course
work for the History Honors Program includes History 491 (Historiography), History 492
(Senior Seminar), History 493 (Research) and History 494 (Thesis Preparation).
History Minor Requirements:
The History Minor requires twenty-one hours of study (seven courses). Students may choose
from any two lower-division courses (100-200 level) and any five upper-division courses (300400 level). Students are encouraged to establish their own program and to select courses that
contribute to their major field of study and that support their individual interests and career goals.
Dr. Kimberly Gauderman, Associate Professor
History Undergraduate Advisor
kgaud@unm.edu
Mesa Vista Hall 2079
History Department: 277-2451
History Department Website: history.unm.edu
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latest updates to this course description
History 101-001, 002 Western Civilization to 1648
Instructor: Richardson
MWF 10:00-10:50
There are a lot of good reasons NOT to take a course on Western Civilization: the subject is ill-defined;
the time period covered is vast; the people are pasty. On the other hand, there’s one good reason TO take
such a course: we’re part of Western Civilization, whether we like it or not. In this course, we explore the
origins of some of the values, beliefs and practices that continue to define Western society. We tackle
some of the biggest of big questions. What is the rule of law? What is good government? What role
should religion play in society? War: what is it good for? What is “The West?” What is “Civilization?”
We will also explore the astonishingly varied, diverse and often contradictory ways in which Westerners
have answered these questions. Why take a course on Western Civilization? Because you can’t
understand our world without it.
NOTE: This is part of the Freshman Learning Communities program; this course must be taken in
conjunction with either a Communications and Journalism or Philosophy course. Please contact the
instructor at cwr@unm.edu for details.
History 101-003, 004 Western Civilization to 1648
Instructor: Monahan
MWF 11:00-11:50
This course explores the creation and transformation of “Western Civilization” from the
emergence of Near Eastern river valley civilizations until the Reformation in the sixteenthcentury. Given the extended time period under consideration, this course is not a comprehensive
survey, but explores how religion, “the state”, and commerce have contributed to the creation of
“the West.” There are two primary objectives in this course. The first concerns content: to
familiarize students with major events and developments of Ancient, Medieval, and Early
modern history of “Western” civilizations. The second objective pertains to skills: to improve
as analysts and writers, as well as to gain an appreciation for the historian’s skills by interpreting
primary sources and formulating historical questions. Students must consistently attend
meetings and submit high-quality written work for successful completion of the course.
History 101-005 Western Civilization to 1648
Instructor: Davis-Secord
TR 9:30-10:45
This course will trace the development of societies in the West from the first human settlements
in the ancient Near East, through the Greek and Roman worlds and their legacies in the Islamic
and Christian Middle Ages, and up to the Protestant Reformation and the discovery of the “New
World” in the early modern period in Europe (roughly covering the period from 10,000 B.C.E. to
1648 C.E.). Course lectures, readings, and discussions will focus primarily on what we call
“western” civilization, but always with a view to connections and comparisons between the West
and the rest of the world. We will ask what constitutes “civilization” and why make the
“western” distinction at the same time that we see global inter-connection and mutual influence.
Major themes of this course will include the development and diffusion of monotheistic
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religions, various models for social organization, dominant paradigms of political and economic
power, and the cultural and intellectual heritage of the western world.
History 101-006 Western Civilization to 1648
Instructor: Steen
TR 11:00-12:15
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 101-007 Western Civilization to 1648
Instructor: Staff
MW 5:30-6:45
History 101-010 Western Civilization to 1648
Instructor: Steen
ONLINE
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 102-011 Western Civilization Post 1648
Instructor: Latteri
ARR
“Civilization” is a term which encompasses the activities, experiences, and belief systems of
peoples dwelling together in organized communities. This course explores the history of
Europeans and Western Civilization from the mid-seventeenth century to the present, a period of
complexity which marks a turning point into the modern era. As an entry-level course, History
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102 provides a survey of significant intellectual, cultural, social, economic, and political
developments which affected European society.
History 102-013-020 Western Civilization Post 1648
Instructor: Florvil
TR 2:00-2:50
Plus Lab Time
In this course, students will explore the experiences, identities, lives, exchanges, and actions of
Europeans from 1648 to the present. Throughout the semester, students will also study diverse
communities in the non-western world and their impact on European societies, economies,
politics, and cultures. We will address topics such as scientific inquiry, the rise of
Enlightenment, the Age of Revolutions, nationalism and imperialism, World War I,
expressionism, World War II, socialism, the Cold War, and decolonization. By examining a
variety of interdisciplinary sources such as autobiographies, art, films, literature, music, and
photographs, students will gain critical skills interpreting primary sources, posing historical
questions, and crafting persuasive arguments and papers.
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 161-002 US History to 1877
Instructor: Staff
TR 5:00-6:15
History 161-003-008 US History to 1877
Instructor: Connell-Szasz
MW 11:00-11:50
Plus lab time
This course will cover American History from the early 1500s to 1877. It will deal with some of
the major issues facing colonials in the 16th through 18th centuries (survival, trade, Indian-White
relations, etc.), and will then turn to major themes affecting Americans between the Revolution
and the Civil War (reform, Westward expansion, slavery). There will be two mid-terms, and a
final exam, one map quiz, and one additional writing assignment. Readings include a brief
textbook and several paperbacks. Students will meet once a week for section. Lecture will be
given twice a week.
History 162-001 US History Since 1877
Instructor: Smith
TR 11:00-12:15
This course surveys the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to
the present. Thematically, the course will focus on political, economic, social, and cultural
changes during this period. We will pay particular attention to how democratic
political institutions coped with often violent swings in the economy, to the changing nature of
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citizenship and its relation to racial categories, and to the changing fortunes of conservatism and
liberalism, among other subjects. Students are required to demonstrate their grasp of the
course through their engagement with assigned readings, in-class examinations, and lectures.
History 162-010 US History Since 1877
Instructor :Staff
History 181-001--003 US Early Latin America
Instructor: Gauderman
ONLINE
MW 10:00-10:50
Plus lab time
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
encounter. The story of Columbus becomes a complex story about relationships between European
countries, individual prejudices, Spanish social and ethnic hierarchies, 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. 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 Inka
Empire and its subject polities (among others), and home of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the center of Spanish
power in its southern kingdoms. Our course will focus on issues such as ethnicity, gender, slavery,
culture, and power, as well as the institutions and structures that patterned indigenous, African, and
European experiences of Spanish and Portuguese authority.
History 182-001- 004 Modern Latin America
Instructor: Staff
MW 5:30-6:45
History 201-001- The Medieval World
Instructor: Graham
TR 9:30-10:45
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
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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.
History 252-001 Modern Eastern Civilizations
Instructor: Wu
TR 12:30-1:45
History 260-002 New Mexico History
Instructor: Garcia y Griego
TR 12:30-1:45
This course will survey the history of New Mexico, from pre-European contact to contemporary
times, and examine the peoples and processes that led to such a politically, culturally and
ethnically diverse region. Topics include: indigenous life and resistance to Spanish and later
American colonization, race and ethnic relations and conflict, U. S. invasion and domination,
land and water issues for Pueblos and Spanish/Mexican land grants, the long road to statehood,
politics in the twentieth century, and land, water, and environmental policy issues since World
War II. Students who miss more than two times or fail to submit assignments in the first part of
the course are dropped. Class participation in oral discussion is required. Class assignments
include essays on reading, essay and short-answer exams.
History 300/500-001 American Legal History
Instructor: Sandoval-Strausz
TR 3:30-4:45
This course provides an introduction to the legal regimes that have most directly influenced the
lives of Americans in the past and into the present. Law has long been an ever-present aspect of
life in the United States, operating in politics (in legislation and Supreme Court rulings), at work
(in laws on wages and hours, workplace safety, and anti-discrimination), in the home (in the laws
of marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance), and in almost countless other aspects of
everyday life. While Constitutional law is the most widely recognized and studied aspect of
American law, state and private law typically have had more bearing on people’s daily lives.
The course will cover laws governing marriage, corporations, safety, sexuality, employment,
injury and death, parenthood, slavery, and the environment. Class sessions will be divided
between lectures and hands-on analysis and discussion of court cases, legal treatises, and other
primary sources in American law from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first.
History 300/500-002 : Men and Women in Imperial Russia
Instructor: Monahan
MWF 1:00-1:50
This course is designed to familiarize students with the history of Imperial Russia through the
lens of gender. Since female empresses presided over the Russian Empire for the majority of the
eighteenth century, this history provides much opportunity to compare male and female
rulership. Our focus in not, however, limited to elite court culture. Beginning with the regency of
Sophia (1682-1689) in the “long eighteenth century” and taking the story up until the turn of the
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twentieth century we will read scholarly works, Russian literature, memoirs and other primary
sources to address the following questions: What roles did men and women play in various ranks
of imperial Russian society, including the non-Russian regions of the empire? What constituted
“normal” and “deviant” behavior and how was gender constructed? How did Westernization and
modernization affect these norms? How did experiences and expectations differ for men and
women in various imperial regions and historical periods?
History 300/500-003 Queer History from Ancient Times to Today
Instructor: Campos
TR 3:30-4:45
This upper-division course surveys the history of queer sexualities (LGBT*) in world history
http://www.bettycrocker.com/couponsfrom ancient times to today. Cultural contexts to be
explored in the first half of the term will range from ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome,
through medieval Arabic, European, and pre-contact American contexts, through to the European
Renaissance and Enlightenment. In the second half of the term, particular attention will be paid
to the development of modern categories of the “homosexual” (and associated sexological
sciences and “gay and lesbian liberation” movements) in the cultural contexts of the North
America and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with some comparative international cases.
Guest lectures from associated faculty will broaden the range of topics, periods, and cultural and
national contexts to be explored (including early modern Asia and contemporary Latin America).
The course will pay particular attention to the identities and roles of “queers” in science, art,
culture, and politics and major historical transitions in this history. Important historiographical
considerations will also play a central role in our study: the problem of using present-day
categories to understand complex past practices and identities in diverse cultural contexts; the
“epistemology of the closet”; the historical problems of “feeling backward”; and the difficulties
of reconstructing the queer past from lost, censored, or coded sources.
History 300/500-004 Slavery and Abolition
Instructor: Prior
MWF 9:00-9:50
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.
History 300/500-005 Health and Disease in the Southwest
Instructor: Withycombe
TR 9:30-10:45
Focusing on diseases, practitioners, institutions, and patients, this course will explore and
produce the history of medicine in the Southwest. Beginning with the devastating illnesses
brought to the area by the Spanish in the 16th century and ending with contemporary medical
issues facing the region, the course will investigate the particular social, ethnic, political,
geographic, and economic challenges faced by the many communities in the Southwest. We will
examine traditional native practices, western medical advances, the role of government in
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protecting the public’s health, and the intersections and conflicts between the three. While the
course will include traditional historical practices (reading articles and discussing their
arguments and methods), students will also be required to carry out investigative research to be
presented as non-traditional academic historical productions, such as short films, online articles,
and posters.
History 300/500-006 -Farm, City and Public Health
Instructor: Gibbs
MWF 2:00-2:50
Over the last century, urban spaces across the U.S. have dramatically expanded while small
farms have disappeared in favor of giant agribusinesses. These changes are not merely
geographical, but have encouraged profound changes in American lifestyles, including how we
produce and consume food and, by extension, our general state of health. This course explores
the dynamic relationship between cities and farms, and the resulting implications for our
individual and collective well-being. While surveying research literature across a wide variety of
disciplines, participants will conduct an investigative and experimental research project over the
course of the semester that examines different facets of the farm and city relationship in New
Mexico. Towards the end of the term, we will compile these case studies into a broadlyaccessible website that will help shape research in this field. This course eschews traditional
writing assignments in favor of developing basic but foundational technical skills in historical
research, geography, mapping, data analysis, visualization, and web design.
History 300/500-007 Medieval & Modern Apocalypse
Instructor: Ryan
MWF 12:00-12:50
Apocalyptic expectations and apprehensions underpin much of what constitutes “Western
Civilization.” But what is the changing definition of “apocalypse”? Originally from the Greek
term meaning “revelation,” the Apocalypse attributed to John the Evangelist was dependent upon
longer, more historic apocalyptic traditions as well as the political and cultural contexts in which
it was composed in the first century C.E. In the twenty-first century, however, apocalyptic
understandings have manifested themselves in contexts surrounding notions of plague and
contagion, the fear of the alien “other,” and in ecological and environmental catastrophe, among
other themes. In this class, we will analyze the changing nature of the apocalypse as a genre of
historical literature. We will read traditional apocalypses within the Abrahamic faiths, trace the
understanding of apocalyptic expectations and apprehensions throughout the Middle Ages and
early modern eras, and investigate what constitutes an apocalyptic scenario within the modern
era.
History 300-009 Writing as an Historian
Professor Scharff
T 4:00-6:30
Historians write. We write for a variety of audiences, professional and public, working in a
range of genres, employing a diverse and flexible array of rhetorical tools and tactics. If you’re
planning to be a historian, you might as well learn how to write, how to cope with the
frustrations of writing, and how to gain some satisfaction from getting the words right. This
course is designed as a workshop, to help students become both meticulous and passionate about
writing. We will read about, talk about, practice, critique, revise and enjoy writing throughout
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the semester. We will work to develop professional attitudes, good work habits, justified
confidence and a command of skills.
Students will, of course, write throughout the semester, producing essays in various genres.
Additionally, students will read and critique their colleagues’ essays.
History 300-010 Sexuality in Latin America
Instructor: Morris
TR 5:00-6:15
This course will focus on a wide range of topics on sexuality under democracy, dictatorships,
and authoritarian regimes in diverse regions of modern Latin America, with particular emphasis
on Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. Through lectures, readings, films,
and writing assignments, students will look at reproductive freedom, marriage,
prostitution, and productive sexuality in cabaret performance, as well as LGBTQI organization,
visibility, and rights to analyze the complex and multifaceted dimensions of Latin American
sexuality and their relations to political movements, regimes, and nation-building projects.
Students will discuss the theoretical, methodological and epistemological differences between
essentialist and constructivist approaches to the history of sexuality and analyze a variety of
primary sources to understand how and why sexuality has been central to shaping the course of
recent Latin American history.
History 300-012 Christians and Spices: Western Impact on Asia
Instructor: Porter
TR 11:00-12:15
This course examines European expansion and its impact on Asia from 1498 to 1900. During
these four centuries, a succession of European countries dispatched expeditions of discovery and
conquest, sought Asian commodities for trade and profit, colonized Asian lands, competed with
one another and with other Asian powers, and ruled over Asian peoples. The impact and
consequences of these events and processes on Asia have endured to the present; at the same
time the European encounter with Asia affected Europeans themselves in diverse ways.
History 300/500-015 Inca Empire to Spanish Colony
Instructor: Gauderman
MW 2:00-3:15
"There is only one world, and although we speak of the Old World and the New, this is because
the latter was lately discovered by us, and not because there are two."
Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca
With this statement, the famous mestizo chronicler Garcilaso de la Vega, claims a difficult
allegiance to the cultures of his Spanish conquistador father and to his noble Inka mother.
Indeed, the transformation from sophisticated indigenous civilizations to complex multi-racial
societies that included Indigenous, Africans, and Europeans, was dramatic and violent, but also
gradual and complex. This course examines the history of Spanish South America up to the
region's independence in the 1820s. The course provides an introduction to ancient indigenous
cultures of the region, the empire of the Inka, and examines the region's political, economic, and
social development under Spanish authority. Students will read, analyze, and discuss both
primary and secondary sources to understand the political and social roles that race, class, and
gender have played in South America.
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History 300/500-016 Religions in Modern Latin America
Instructor: Hutchison
TR 12:30-1:45
Religion has long been an important focus for historians, anthropologists, and sociologists
concerned with the dynamics of social change in Latin American societies. The central role
played by the Catholic Church, along with the continuing influence of native and African
religions, have made the study of religious experience crucial to understanding the region’s
cultures and political structures. This course applies the lens of religious experience to key
developments in modern Latin American history, such as Church-State relations in the
nineteenth century, popular Catholicism and state-building in Mexico and Brazil, Afro-Brazilian
religions, liberation theology and Central American revolution, and the spread of Evangelical
influence throughout the region. By exploring these and related themes, students will learn about
the historical development and significance of diverse religious practices and their relationship to
the process of social and political transformation in Latin America. Undergraduates must prepare
assigned readings, attend lectures and participate in discussions, write two short papers, and
complete midterm and final exams. Graduate students will complete a longer paper in lieu of
undergraduate papers, complete additional readings, and meet several times as a group for
seminar discussion.
History 300/500 History of Early Medicine
Instructor: Gibbs
MWF 9:00-9:50
The idea of pre-modern medicine conjures up images of animal sacrifice, magic amulets, bloodletting, and general incompetence. Actually, ancient and medieval physicians proved to be
remarkably effective healers who dealt with limitations just as modern doctors do. This course
describes the development of medical theory and practice in the Western world and its evolution
(though not always for the better) from antiquity to 1600, including ways in which medical
professionals promoted a healthy diet, developed and administered drugs, diagnosed and treated
dozens of illnesses, and acquired extensive knowledge of anatomy and physiology. It also
explores crucial developments in the profession itself, including the origins of the first medical
schools, public health programs, and how the identity of the modern physician was carefully
crafted. Even if pre-modern medical knowledge seems outdated, its long and important history
illustrates the many cultural, social, and economic influences on medical theory and practice.
Understanding and how and why physicians embraced different medical theories and practices
over time (like why alchemy and astrology were important medical sciences), helps us better
evaluate the values embraced by modern medicine.
History 300 The History of Popular Music in America,
Instructor: Ball
MTWRF 8:00-5:00
INTERSESSION This course won’t be on the schedule until sometime late October/early
November.
This course will explore modern U.S. musical traditions from their vernacular origins in
America’s rural and urban communities in the nineteenth century to their reformulations and
transformations in the urban-industrial marketplaces of the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth
centuries. Lectures and readings will study the intersection of folk forms such as blues and
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country (among others) rooted in rural society and of popular forms such as black-face
minstrelsy and parlor crooning with the urbanization, industrialization, technological revolutions,
and mass markets and consumption of modern America. Also commanding the class’ attention
will be the adaptation of African American musical forms and sounds to markets among
ambivalent white audiences. This course will employ multimedia, especially music, slides, and
transparencies, during the sixteen weeks of class. Students will execute several in class quizzes
and one exam, a final on the last day the course. I want to reassure all students that “Crooners
and Jive” is not a musicology class. Neither the reading of musical charts nor the mastery of
music theory is a prerequisite to performing well in this course. I will test your historical
knowledge of musical formations, not your ability to peck out tunes on a keyboard or to dissect
chords scratched on the chalk board.
History 303/503-001 Early Middle Ages
Instructor: Davis-Secord
TR 12:30-1:45
In 476 the last western Roman emperor was deposed, but the transition from the world of the
Roman Empire to that of the early Middle Ages had already begun. During these centuries,
Europe and the Mediterranean world were fundamentally transformed by the breakdown of the
structures of the Roman Empire and by the rise of new and distinctive cultures in Latin Europe,
Byzantium, and the Islamic world. Rather than being a time of darkness or decay, the early
medieval period was one of vibrancy and the growth of new institutions, cultures, and religious
traditions. This course will follow the birth and development of the three cultures of Europe,
Byzantium, and Islam from the late-Roman period through the year 1000. Topics will include the
spread of institutional Christianity from Constantine to the early medieval papacy, the rise of the
Franks and the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, and the development of characteristically
“medieval” forms of social and political organization, religion, art, and architecture in Europe.
We will also highlight the transformation of the Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople into
medieval Byzantium, and the relationship between the West and the East of Christendom. The
course will also cover the birth and spread of Islam and the society and culture of the first two
Sunni dynasties, the rise of a rival Sunni caliphate in Iberia, and the foundation of a Shi’ite state
based in Cairo. Questions we will consider include those of how to define the “Middle Ages,”
the utility of this definition for our understanding of history, continuity versus discontinuity
between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the relationships between these three “heirs
of Rome,” and how medieval European civilization related to the societies on its borders.
History 311-001/500-013: World War I
Instructor: Bokovoy
MWF 9:00-9:50
World War I or the Great War disrupted and destroyed live on a scale never known before.
More than 60 million people were mobilized and 8.5 million killed, 21 million were wounded
and in every town and village in Europe the blinded and maimed victims served as daily
reminders decades after the war was over. In every town and village war memorials
commemorate those who gave their lives. In this course, we will examine how a war which
involved millions and for which millions suffered war launched by just a few men negotiating
and conspiring in secret. In addition, we will examine why the war was so popular in 1914 and
how the enthusiasm for the war died in the wake of the carnage. What were the experiences of
men and women stationed on all fronts of the war? How did the war affect European society
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after 1918? How war the war commemorated and for what purposes? This course is as much a
social and culture study of war as it is a military or political study.
History 318/518-001: History of Spain and Portugal to 1700
Instructor: Ryan
MWF 10:00-10:50
“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 class, we’ll study the history of
Spain and Portugal until roughly the end of the 17th century. 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.
History 319/519-001: Spain and Portugal Since 1700
Instructor: Sanabria
TR 9:30-10:45
Modern Iberia has held a troubled place in European history because we often focus our attention
on the political, social, cultural, and economic developments of England, France, Germany, and
the former Soviet Union. After Spain and Portugal’s international domination in the sixteenth
century, these nations seemed to have fallen out of the mainstream of European history books.
Perhaps Spain and Portugal’s historiographic marginalization was the result of their diminished
military presence after the Napoleonic Wars. Still, in spite of the prevailing notion that Spain
was in decline during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Spain (which controlled Portugal
at this time) was actually involved in every major European War up to 1814. Spain only
reappeared in the European History narrative in the 1930s when she suffered a bloody civil war.
Only Spain and Portugal’s successful democratic transitions in the 1970s have erased the notion
that Spain and Portugal were different than the rest of Western Europe, and therefore, erased the
idea that the Iberian nations should be relegated to the footnotes of the big picture of European
History.
History 326/001: History of Christianity to 1517
Instructor: Ray
TR 11:00-12:15
This course covers the history of Christianity from its beginnings in Palestine to the eve of the
Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. This was a period of major growth and
development for Christianity, but also a time in which the Church faced significant crises and
underwent fundamental changes. We will see Christianity emerge from early challenges to
become the official religion of the Roman Empire and then define many aspects of life during the
Middle Ages. Primary focus will be on the rich variety of forms—doctrinal, liturgical, artistic,
intellectual, and institutional—that Christianity assumed throughout this period. Also of concern
will be Christianity’s contributions to Western culture and its significance as a “civilizing” force.
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History 347-001/500-014: Native America 1850-1940
Instructor: Connell-Szasz
MW 4:00-5:15
Focusing on the middle generations of American Indian/Alaska Native History, this course will
concentrate on the major themes that dominate Native lives between the era of removal of the
eastern tribes to Indian Territory and the Second World War. It will begin in the TransMississippi West with the treaties, warfare, and removal of Native Nations in regions such as the
Columbia River Plateau, the Great Basin, and California. Native involvement in the Civil War,
especially in Indian Territory, will follow. During the post-Civil War years we will look at a
number of issues: treaties, warfare, and removal that occurred on the Plains, the Southwest, and
Plateau, alongside the national movement for land allotment, assimilation, and federal Indian
schooling. These themes will be contrasted with pan-tribalism, revitalization movements, and
Wounded Knee. At the turn-of-the-century, we will assess the dramatic role of U.S. Supreme
Court decisions on relations between Indian nations and the United States. In the early twentieth
century we will assess the significance of the Society of American Indians, the rise of Indian
leadership in the 1920s reform movement, and, finally, the controversial measures of the Indian
New Deal and the role of Native leaders in the federal programs that were cut off by World War
II. The course structure will alternate between lecture and discussion and documentaries.
Readings will include a number of paperbacks, including fiction. Assignments will be: a midterm with map, a final exam, and a research essay.
History 361/561-001 The Trans-Mississippi West
Instructor : Hutton
TR 3:30-4:45
This course is concerned with the exploration, settlement, and exploitation of the transMississippi West, 1820-1900, and the resultant conflict between white Americans and Native
Americans over the land. The Indian Wars, the cattle empire, the mining booms, the movement
of great numbers of people of various origins and ethnicities, and the development of the great
American myth of the Wild West will all be covered. This is not regional history as such, but is
rather national history in a broad regional setting.
History 373-573-001 Mexican Revolution
Instructor: Hall
TR 11:00-12:15
This course will study the political background and the economic and social structures of Mexico
which led to the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920; the major events, personalities, and factional
struggles of the Mexican Revolution; the effects of the United States and other world powers on
the course of the Revolution; and the process of the institutionalization of the Mexican state in
the post-revolutionary period.
History 387/587-001 Modern Middle East
Instructor: Risso
MWF 10:00-10:50
Topics include "defensive developmentalism" in the face of economic and political challenges,
the post-WWI transition from empire to states, the Arab-Israeli conflict, revolutionary Iran, and
the widening range of Islamism. Also covered are family and gender as well as literary
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and artistic changes over time. Students will have opportunities to debate controversial issues in
prepared class forums.
History 411/611-001 History of Britain, 1066-1660
Instructor: Richardson
MWF 1:00-1:50
Typically, the historian’s challenge is conveying the often-esoteric appeal of her subject to a wider
audience: the study of changing patterns of land ownership in nineteenth-century Ireland, for instance,
doesn’t exactly sell itself. But the period under study in this course is another matter entirely—if
anything, there is almost too much drama here. The years from 1066 to 1660 include enough invasions,
wars, political upheavals, great men, greater women, and shockingly naughty kings, queens and
aristocrats to keep BBC America programmers and historical novelists in business for centuries. There are
reasons that every one of Shakespeare’s histories is set between these years. As for events of significance,
this period witnessed the development of the common law, the origins of the state and the birth of
imperialism, among other things (such as the small affair of the Protestant Reformation.) In this course we
will try to make sense of one of the most exciting, bewildering and transformative eras in not just British
but world history.
History 414/614-001 Women and Health
Instructor: Withycombe
TR 2:00-3:15
When did women's health become about pink ribbons and baby bumps? How did the
development of modern medicine help and hurt 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.
History 431/631-001 US Political History
Instructor: Garcia y Griego
TR 3:30-4:45
This course surveys U.S. national political history from the drafting of the Constitution in 1787
to the 2012 presidential election. It emphasizes the changing role of political institutions,
judicial review, the role of state and federal government within the federal system, the
emergence and transformation of political parties, and the consequences of territorial expansion
and immigration on nation building. In the post New Deal period the federal government
acquired a large role in social policy. A sharp partisan debate has emerged since then over social
and economic policy, a subset of which is referred to as the “culture wars.” This course
concludes with an examination of the changing institutional roles of government in the aftermath
of 9/11 and the debate over the appropriate balance of federal authority and individual rights in
the face of international terrorism. The writings of historians are supplemented by U.S. Supreme
Court decisions, government documents and reports, and news sources.
History 463/643-001 Hispanic Frontiers in North America
Instructor: Truett
TR 2:00-3:15
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In this class we will examine the historical legacy of Spain in the U.S., focusing on what is today
the southern and southwestern United States. We will start with exploration and settlement on
the northern frontiers of New Spain, move through three hundred years of exchange and conflict
between native peoples and Spanish colonists, and end with the period between the rise of
independent Mexico (1821) and the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848). We will focus on conquest
and expansion, Indian-Spanish relationships, rivalries with other empires in North America, and
how these relations changed after the U.S. and Mexico became independent nations in 1783 and
1821.
History 466/646 -001 Sem:Native American Southwest
Instructor: Truett
TR 5:00-6:15
Native peoples of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico from the precolonial period to
the present day, with an emphasis on changing relationships between native communities,
European newcomers, and colonial and national states.
History 482/662-001 Raj: India During British Rule
Instructor: Risso
MWF 12:00-12:50
In colonial and post-colonial studies, British India occupies a lion's share of scholarly interest
because South Asia is so varied and complex, and also because British policies provide themes,
theories, and categories that can be transferred to many other colonial situations. This course
focuses on the South Asians and Europeans in or tangent to British India, rather than the view
from London. Topics include the the rapid expansion of British economic and political interests,
the use of education and law as tools of empire, colonial impact on race and gender, the partition
of India and Pakistan, and also analysis of some of the literature and film prompted by the Raj.
History 491-001 Historiography
Instructor: Sanabria
TR 2:00-3:15
This course is a capstone seminar designed for History majors that will explore the theory of
history and how history is “done” (i.e. historical research methods) through a careful reading and
discussion of historical documents and texts from classical times to the present. In this seminar
we will not just look at the history of History, but also explore different and influential
approaches to history as well as the philosophical underpinnings that inform our assumptions in
understanding the past, and thereby emerge with a critical understanding of the discipline and
profession of being an historian.
History 492-001 American Civil War in Global Context
Instructor: Prior
MW 1:00-2:15
The United States Civil War is often thought of as a quintessentially domestic conflict – as a war
of, by, and for the American people. We will challenge this perspective by exploring the war as
an episode in world history. Ranging from secession up through the process of Reconstruction
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that followed the war, we will consider the variety of ways in which broader global currents
shaped and were shaped by developments in the United States. As we do so, we will examine
the histories of slavery and racism in the western hemisphere, nationalism in the Americas and
Europe, travel writing and international news reporting, and warfare in the 19th century. Students
will write a paper based on original primary source research as well as a series of short
assignments.
History 492-002 Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll
Instructor: Florvil
TR 9:30-10:45
Events in Johannesburg, South Africa to Mexico City, Mexico and from Chicago, Illinois to Berlin,
West Germany had global reverberations in the 1960s that impacted diverse individuals. The 1960s,
moreover, ushered in profound changes that unsettled and transformed traditional beliefs, practices,
and ideas across the world. In this special topics seminar, we will explore a series of questions: How
and why did the 1960s become critical to transnational events? What were the socio-cultural and
political transformations that took place? What happened in the revolutionary year of 1968? We will
attempt to answer these questions by studying the events, social movements, actors, places, and
legacies of the 1960s throughout the globe. We will use case studies in Europe (West and East), the
United States, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. By interpreting the cultural, political, and social
meaning of protest, violence, and resistance, we will discover the impact of the 1960s on race
relations, gender, sexuality, emotions, and identity. The course will introduce students to emotional
activism, the influence of the media, the cross-cultural exchange of ideas, the challenges of the Cold
War, the “crisis” of racial politics, and the intersection of national and international dynamics.
Studying the histories of the global 1960s and the long the sixties (1954-1975) more generally will
enable students to examine the transnational connections that cultivated and divided solidarity
networks and defined a generation.
History 664-001 Advanced Historiography
Instructor: Staff
T 12:30-3:00
History 666-001 Seminar: Readings in African American History
African Americans in the Industrial Age
Instructor: Jefferson
T 4:00-6:30
This course will examine the growing literature on African American life in the industrial age of
American history. Through an exploration of relatively recent secondary literature, particular
emphasis will be placed on Reconstruction and Jim Crow’s Cycle Transition, African American
Leadership, Black Migration, the Making of Urban Workers, Education, Class Formation, and
Power, the Civil Rights and Grassroots Action, and Suburbanization. The course is organized
both chronologically and thematically and the goal is to critically review this literature, with the
purpose of identifying and recommending new scholarly departures.
History 668-001 Seminar: Bede and His World
Instructor: Graham
W 4:00-6:30
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The Venerable Bede (673-735) is a towering figure in medieval historiography, hagiography,
exegesis, and computistics. His massive achievements are the more impressive in that he lived
and worked in a part of England that had only recently converted to Christianity and developed a
literate population. In this seminar we will first immerse ourselves in the historical context of the
Northumbrian Renaissance, a cultural movement that witnessed the production of such
extraordinary artifacts as the Franks Casket, the Ruthwell Cross, the Codex Amiatinus, and the
Lindisfarne Gospels, not to mention such landmark literary productions as Cædmon’s Hymn. We
will study the specific environment within which Bede worked: the monastic complex of
Wearmouth-Jarrow, founded in the late seventh century by Benedict Biscop. Bede has himself
left a detailed record of the early history of the twin monasteries in his Lives of the Abbots of
Wearmouth and Jarrow, a work that is supplemented by the anonymous Life of Ceolfrith, Bede’s
first abbot at Jarrow. We will then focus especially on the detailed study and analysis of Bede’s
most famous work, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, before moving on to
consider his key hagiographical, exegetical, and computistical writings, including (but not
limited to) his Life of St. Cuthbert, his On the Temple, and his The Reckoning of Time. During the
semester we will read several of Bede’s major works in translation and will also familiarize
ourselves in depth with the rich scholarly literature that has grown up around this most important
author and teacher who is justly reckoned the greatest historian of the early Middle Ages.
History 669-001 Seminar: Early Modern Revolutions
Instructor: Steen
M 4:00-6:30
This seminar will be dedicated to mastering the techniques necessary to conduct research in the
comparative history of revolutionary episodes in Western Europe from the Reformation to the
end of the French Revolution. The aspirations of Reformation leaders often had revolutionary
overtones and objectives, and the seminar will examine Anabaptism and Calvinism as powerful
representatives of that characteristic. The Revolt of the Netherlands will serve as a particular
example of the intricate relationship between religion and politics in a revolutionary situation.
The English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution will dominate the seminar’s review of the
seventeenth century. Political, legal, and religious changes in England fascinate the rest of
Europe and deeply influenced the development of Enlightenment through. The intellectual life
of eighteenth century Europe will serve as an introduction to the French Revolution and the
powerful impact that it had on all of Europe. The readings for the course will be drawn from the
primary literature of the centuries and secondary works will serve as supplementary reading.
History 678-001 Politics, Society and Capitalism
Instructor: Smith
R 4:00-6:30
This graduate reading seminar focuses on the political and social history of the twentieth-century
United States. Readings will address the revival of interest in interdisciplinary approaches to
political economy, politics, and the history of capitalism. We will also investigate classic and
recent work on such subjects as populism, conservatism, liberalism, and the state, among others.
Students interested in preparing for comprehensive exams and in developing possible research
topics dealing with the twentieth-century United States will find the course useful.
History 687-001 Seminar: Social Movements in Latin America
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Instructor: Hall
W 4:00-6:30
This seminar will focus on the origins, ideologies, motivations, events, contexts (from the local
to the international level) and outcomes of 20th century social movements in Latin America. The
focus will be on violent political upheavals including the Mexican Revolution and the Cuban
Revolution, but will also include failed or partially successful movements in other countries.
Requirements include five short essays, one 25 page research paper on one country or an
interpretive essay comparing at least two countries on a common theme, and a class presentation
on the subject of the research paper or essay.
History 692-001 Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Latin America
Instructor: Hutchison
T 4:00-6:30
Since the early 1990s, the study of gender and sexuality has become a significant subfield within
Latin American History, examining such questions as how normative roles for male and female
behavior affect the construction of the family and shape the sexual division of labor; whether
patriarchal structures are a modern creation and how they operate; the gendered construction of
political movements and state formation; how sexuality shapes class and racial hierarchies; and,
most recently, the emergence in the 20th century homosexual identities, subcultures, and activist
movements in Latin America. This seminar will be primarily concerned with this
historiography, and will acquaint students with different analytical approaches to the study of
gender in Latin America in the national period as well as this literature’s engagement with
feminist theory, cultural studies, and the history of sexuality. Students are required to prepare
assigned readings and discussion questions, attend and participate actively in seminar meetings,
and make a brief research presentation. Writing assignments include weekly blog posts, three 5page papers based on required and supplementary works, and a rewrite of one 5-page paper.
This course fulfills History PhD Seminar requirements for the Regional Concentration in Latin
American History (Modern specialization) and the Thematic Concentrations in Gender/Sexuality
and Politics/Economy.
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