Chair: Sumita Choudhury;

Professors: Nancy Bisaha, Robert K. Brigham, Sumita Choudhury, Rebecca Edwards, James Merrell, Lydia Murdoch, Ismail O. D. Rashid, Joshua Schreier^ab;

Associate Professors: Michaela Pohl, Wayne Soon; 

Assistant Professors: Daniel Mendiola, Allison Puglisi, Ashanti Shih.

^ab  On leave 2022/23

Advisers: The department.

Programs

Major

• •  History Major

Correlate Sequence in History

• •  History Correlate Sequence

Courses

History: I. Introductory

• •  HIST 103 - How We Got Here
• •  HIST 104 - Asian American History
• •  HIST 115 - Russian Revolutions: Metropolis and Borderlands
• •  HIST 116 - The Dark Ages
• •  HIST 117 - High Middle Ages
• •  HIST 124 - Europe 1945
• •  HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe
• •  HIST 128 - Europe 1945 - Rethinking History
• •  HIST 143 - Russia, Ukraine, and the Steppe
• •  HIST 150 - Revolution, Evolution, and the Global Nineteenth Century
• •  HIST 151 - British History: James I (1603) to the Great War
• •  HIST 152 - Smallpox: The Biology and History of a Disease
• •  HIST 160 - American Moments: Rediscovering U.S. History
• •  HIST 161 - Violent Economies: Rewriting the American West
• •  HIST 163 - A History of American Foreign Relations
• •  HIST 164 - Environmental History of Latin America
• •  HIST 168 - Introduction to African American History
• •  HIST 174 - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East
• •  HIST 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa
• •  HIST 178 - The Global Cold War

History: II. Intermediate

• •  HIST 214 - The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
• •  HIST 216 - History of the Ancient Greeks
• •  HIST 217 - History of the Ancient Romans
• •  HIST 221 - Medieval Science and Technology
• •  HIST 222 - The Politics of Borders
• •  HIST 225 - Renaissance Italy
• •  HIST 226 - Northern Europe in the Renaissance, c. 1300-1550
• •  HIST 229 - Paris and London: Society and Culture in the Early Modern City, 1500-1800
• •  HIST 231 - Algeria/France:Race, Religion & Citizenship
• •  HIST 235 - Ending Deadly Conflict
• •  HIST 236 - The Black Freedom Struggle
• •  HIST 237 - Gender and Sexuality in African America
• •  HIST 241 - Asian American Women and Gender History
• •  HIST 242 - The Russian Empire to 1812
• •  HIST 243 - Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861-2000
• •  HIST 245 - Medicine, Health and Diseases in East Asia
• •  HIST 246 - World War II in East Asia
• •  HIST 247 - Albert Einstein
• •  HIST 249 - Global Science and Empire 1800-Present
• •  HIST 251 - A History of American Foreign Relations
• •  HIST 254 - Victorian Britain
• •  HIST 255 - The British Empire
• •  HIST 257 - Comics and History
• •  HIST 260 - Sex & Reproduction in 19th Century United States: Before Margaret Sanger
• •  HIST 263 - Conquest and Borderlands in Colonial Latin America
• •  HIST 265 - Cold War America
• •  HIST 268 - Religion, Repression, and Resistance in Latin America
• •  HIST 269 - Gender and African American History
• •  HIST 272 - Modern African History
• •  HIST 274 - Early America, 1500-1750
• •  HIST 275 - Revolutionary America, 1750-1830
• •  HIST 276 - Democracy in America? Parties, Politics and Grassroots Change, 1828-1912
• •  HIST 277 - America 1890-1990 “The Rise and Fall of “The American Century”
• •  HIST 278 - Women’s History of Latin America
• •  HIST 279 - The Viet Nam War
• •  HIST 287 - American Empire: The Nineteenth-Century West
• •  HIST 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  HIST 297 - Readings In History
• •  HIST 298 - Independent Work

History: III. Advanced

• •  HIST 300 - Thesis Preparation: Sources, Methods, and Interpretations
• •  HIST 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 302 - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 303 - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 310 - Mao’s China in the World: War, Science and Legitimacy
• •  HIST 312 - Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese Diaspora
• •  HIST 314 - History of Asian American Social Movements
• •  HIST 315 - Crusading and the Holy Land (1095-1204)
• •  HIST 326 - Machiavelli: Power and Politics
• •  HIST 336 - Black on Earth: Race, Gender, and the Environment
• •  HIST 337 - The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany
• •  HIST 342 - Stalinism
• •  HIST 351 - Problems in U.S. Foreign Policy
• •  HIST 354 - History and the Politics of Grief
• •  HIST 355 - Childhood and Children in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• •  HIST 363 - Bordering the Americas
• •  HIST 364 - Race, Class & Gender in the United States
• •  HIST 366 - American Encounters: Natives, Newcomers, and the Contest for a Continent
• •  HIST 367 - Strategic Thinking in Global Affairs
• •  HIST 369 - Social Citizenship in an Urban Age
• •  HIST 374 - The African Diaspora
• •  HIST 375 - Nineteeth-Century America at War
• •  HIST 382 - Marie-Antoinette
• •  HIST 385 - Colonialism, Nationalism, and Social Identities in the Modern Middle East
• •  HIST 386 - Central Asia and the Caucasus: Nation Building and Human Rights
• •  HIST 387 - Modern China: Wealth, Power and Revolution
• •  HIST 391 - Independent Study - Thesis Preparation and Methodology
• •  HIST 392 - Independent Study - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 399 - Senior Independent Work