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Spring 2023
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HIST-104 Environmental Issues of the 19th Century
Edward D. Melillo
(Section 01)
HIST-125 The Italian Renaissance: Politics, Culture, and Society
Jutta G. Sperling
(Section 01)
HIST-157 The U.S. in the World: 1898 to the Present
Andrew Bell (Sections 01, 01F and 02F)
HIST-172 Troubled Transformations: History of Modern China
George Qiao
(Section 01)
HIST-204 Jewish History in the Modern Age
Adi Gordon
(Section 01)
HIST-205 European Intellectual History and Its Discontents
Alexander Semyonov
(Section 01)
HIST-210 Christianity and Islam in Africa
Olufemi O. Vaughan
(Section 01)
HIST-211 Afr Migratns & Globaliz
Olufemi O. Vaughan
(Section 01)
HIST-218 China and the Developing World
Edward D. Melillo
(Section 01)
Kerry E. Ratigan
(Section 01)
HIST-219 Venice, Perfect City (476-1797)
Jutta G. Sperling
(Section 01)
HIST-236 USSR During Cold War
Sergey Glebov
(Section 01)
HIST-252 History of Race, Gender, and Comic Books
Christine N. Peralta
(Section 01)
HIST-274 Religion and Violence in the Roman Empire
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
(Section 01)
HIST-278 Black History of Brazil, 1500-1888
Russell Lohse
(Section 01)
HIST-279 Making of Modern South Asia
Mekhola S. Gomes
(Section 01)
HIST-283 South African History
Sean Redding
(Section 01)
HIST-301 Proseminar in History: Writing the Past
Francis G. Couvares
(Section 02)
HIST-328 Indigenous Narratives: Creating Children's Stories about Native American History
Ellen R. Boucher
(Section 01)
Kiara M. Vigil
(Section 01)
HIST-333 American Empire
Andrew Bell (Section 01)
HIST-344 Empires in Global History
Alexander Semyonov
(Section 01)
HIST-348 History of Asian American Women: Migration and Labor
Christine N. Peralta
(Section 01)
HIST-368 Frontier Chinese Hist
George Qiao
(Section 01)
HIST-376 Sex, Gender, and the Body in South Asian History
Mekhola S. Gomes
(Section 01)
HIST-389 Ottoman Modern
Monica M. Ringer
(Section 01)
HIST-393 Early Islam: Construction of an Historical Tradition
Monica M. Ringer
(Section 01)
HIST-402 Wine, History and the Environment
Rick A. Lopez
(Section 01)
Anna M. Martini
(Section 01)
HIST-431 Colonial and Decolonial Archives: Historical Research Methods
Jutta G. Sperling
(Section 01)
HIST-488 Riot and Rebellion in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Sean Redding
(Section 01)
HIST-490 Special Topics
TBA (Section 01)
HIST-499 Senior Departmental Honors
TBA (Section 01)
Monica M. Ringer
(Section 02)
HIST-499D Senior Departmental Honors
TBA (Section 01)
Ellen R. Boucher
(Section 02)
Stefan Bradley
(Sections 04 and 06)
Francis G. Couvares
(Sections 03 and 04)
Edward D. Melillo
(Section 05)
Sean Redding
(Section 06)
Monica M. Ringer
(Section 07)
Jutta G. Sperling
(Section 08)
Related Courses
SWAG-243 Rethinking Pocahontas: An Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
ARHA-232 Cartographic Cultures: Making Maps, Building Worlds
CLAS-136 History of Rome
POSC-248 Cuba: The Politics of Extremism
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