History Department

Chair: Ismail O. D. Rashid;

Professors: Nancy Bisaha, Robert K. Brigham, Mita Choudhury, Lydia Murdoch, Ismail O. D. Rashid, Joshua Schreier^a;

Associate Professors: Michaela Pohl; 

Assistant Professors: Yu-chi Chang^b, Whitney Fields, Daniel Mendiola^b, Ashanti Shih, Noel Smyth^a, Anna Solovy;

Adjunct Associate Professor: Ronald Patkus.

^a On leave 2026/27, first semester

^b On leave 2026/27, second semester

Advisers: The department.

Programs

Major

• •  History Major

Correlate Sequence in History

• •  History Correlate Sequence

Courses

History: I. Introductory

• •  HIST 104 - Asian American History
• •  HIST 109 - Becoming Taiwan
• •  HIST 112 - Modern European History
• •  HIST 115 - Russian Revolutions: Metropolis and Borderlands
• •  HIST 116 - The Dark Ages 400-900 CE
• •  HIST 117 - High Middle Ages 950-1300
• •  HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe
• •  HIST 129 - The First World War
• •  HIST 131 - Narratives of Black History: Lives and Archives
• •  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 158 - The Making of Modern East Asia
• •  HIST 160 - American Moments: Rediscovering U.S. History
• •  HIST 161 - Violent Economies: Rewriting the American West
• •  HIST 164 - Environmental History of Latin America
• •  HIST 168 - Black Histories in the United States
• •  HIST 170 - Introduction to Native American History
• •  HIST 174 - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East
• •  HIST 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa

History: II. Intermediate

• •  HIST 203 - How We Got Here
• •  HIST 205 - Vecinos Poughkeepsie
• •  HIST 206 - Women Warriors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• •  HIST 210 - Dangerous Liaisons, Dangerous Selves
• •  HIST 211 - Life and Work in New York
• •  HIST 212 - Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Native American South
• •  HIST 214 - The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
• •  HIST 215 - African American History to 1865
• •  HIST 216 - History of the Ancient Greeks
• •  HIST 217 - History of the Ancient Romans
• •  HIST 218 - The Origins of Totalitarianism
• •  HIST 219 - Deceptive Maps and Where to Find Them
• •  HIST 221 - Medieval Science and Technology
• •  HIST 222 - The Politics of Borders
• •  HIST 223 - The History of the Holocaust
• •  HIST 224 - Intersectionality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• •  HIST 225 - Renaissance Italy
• •  HIST 226 - Northern Europe in the Renaissance, c. 1300-1550
• •  HIST 227 - Chinatowns
• •  HIST 229 - Paris and London: Society and Culture in the Early Modern City, 1500-1800
• •  HIST 230 - The French Revolution: Local Origins and Global Impact
• •  HIST 231 - Algeria/France:Race, Religion & Citizenship
• •  HIST 234 - Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Crisis, Politics, and Culture in a Modern City
• •  HIST 235 - Ending Deadly Conflict
• •  HIST 239 - Warfare in Modern China
• •  HIST 241 - Asian American Women and Gender History
• •  HIST 242 - The Russian Empire to 1812
• •  HIST 243 - Russia and the Soviet Union, 1900-Present
• •  HIST 246 - African American History since 1865
• •  HIST 247 - Albert Einstein
• •  HIST 249 - Global Science and Empire
• •  HIST 250 - Palestine, Christian Zionism, and the Evangelical Empire
• •  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 272 - Modern African History
• •  HIST 274 - Early America, 1500-1750
• •  HIST 275 - Revolutionary America 1750-1800
• •  HIST 276 - Democracy in America? Parties, Politics and Grassroots Change, 1828-1912
• •  HIST 277 - History and the Politics of Grief
• •  HIST 278 - Women’s History of Latin America
• •  HIST 279 - The Viet Nam War
• •  HIST 281 - Immigration Policy in America: The Cost of Borders
• •  HIST 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  HIST 298 - Independent Work

History: III. Advanced

• •  HIST 213 - Art, Spirituality and Power in Precolonial African History
• •  HIST 300 - Thesis Preparation: Sources, Methods, and Interpretations
• •  HIST 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 302 - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 303 - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 311 - Trauma, Memory and Justice: Quests of Modern East Asia
• •  HIST 314 - History of Asian American Social Movements
• •  HIST 315 - Crusading and the Holy Land (1095-1291)
• •  HIST 316 - Constantinople/Istanbul: 1453
• •  HIST 317 - Youth Culture and Politics in Africa, 1930s to Present
• •  HIST 319 - Military, War and Society
• •  HIST 321 - Bordering China
• •  HIST 326 - Machiavelli and his Contemporaries
• •  HIST 333 - The Question of Palestine and Israel: A Dialogical Approach
• •  HIST 336 - Black Ecologies
• •  HIST 340 - From Patriarchy to Family Romance: The Family and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
• •  HIST 344 - Living for the City: Race, Space, and Place in Urban American
• •  HIST 349 - U.S. Strategic Thinking in Global Affairs
• •  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 357 - The First World War
• •  HIST 360 - Fascism in Twentieth Century Europe
• •  HIST 363 - Bordering the Americas
• •  HIST 366 - The Indigenous Caribbean
• •  HIST 374 - The African Diaspora
• •  HIST 375 - Nineteenth-Century America at War
• •  HIST 379 - War and Adoption
• •  HIST 380 - Ukraine/Russia: War and Peace
• •  HIST 382 - Marie-Antoinette