• HIUS 7151

    The United States, 1945-Present
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    3.85

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    An intensive reading course emphasizing historiographic approaches to synthesizing post-war America.

  • HIST 7559

    New Course in History
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    3.97

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of general history.

  • HIUS 7559

    New Course in United States History
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    3.67

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history.

  • HIUS 7621

    Topics in United States Gender History
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    3.94

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This colloquium will survey foundational and cutting-edge scholarship on the social construction of femininity and masculinity in U.S. history, from the colonial era to 1900. We will explore how gender conventions take shape, and how they are perpetuated and contested. Our readings reconsider key events in women's and gender history such as the Salem witch trials and Seneca Falls convention.

  • HIUS 7658

    Nineteenth-Century American Social and Cultural History
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    3.87

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Reading and discussion of primary and secondary sources.

  • HIST 8001

    Historical Research and Writing
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    3.90

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Historical Research and Writing offers first-year doctoral students in History and those in the JD/MA program a workshop in which to discuss and develop an article-length work of original scholarship. Prerequisite: First-year history Ph.D. students or JD/MA students

  • HIEU 8585

    Advanced Topics in Modern European History
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    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    A seminar offering in-depth investigations of topics and research methodologies in modern European history and culture. Topics vary.

  • HIST 8999

    Research in History
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    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    For master's essay and other research carried out prior to advancement to candidacy, taken under the supervision of the student's adviser.

  • HIEU 9023

    Tutorial in the History of the Modern British Empire
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    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This graduate-level tutorial introduces the major themes, debates, and methods of historical writing on the British Empire from around 1750. It is intended particularly, though not exclusively, as field preparation for the general examination. Topics include the uses of expert knowledge, the peculiarities of settler colonialism, the lure of liberalism as imperial ideology, and the role of violence.

  • HIME 9024

    Tutorial in Ottoman Society
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    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This tutorial explores diverse themes in the social and cultural environmental history of the Ottoman Empire, placing special emphasis on the transformation of Ottoman society from the 18th century onward.