Spring 2016 Course Listings
Spring 2016
List of Spring 2016 Faculty
Department of History
Spring 2016
Course Listings
Spring 2016 Course Listings
List of Spring 2016 Faculty
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Spring 2016 History Department Course Listings
Foundations Seminars (High Demand, Open to undergraduates only.)
Course #
90
93
96
Course Title
Community and Culture: Comparative History of the Industrial North and the Global West
in the US
Professor
Ueda
Family Histories and American Culture
World War II and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Field
Applebaum
Research Seminars ( High Demand, Graduate Students by special permission only.)
Course #
190
Course Title
Travel Writing and History
Professor
Baghdiantz McCabe
192
Argentina & Brazil
Winn
195
South Asia and China: Connections and Comparisons
Jalal
196
First World War and its Legacy
Foster
Survey Courses (Open to undergraduates only.)
Course #
Course Title
Professor
Globalization
World in Motion
Winn
Ueda
14
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Crises in Africa Since 1850
Penvenne
23
Colonial North America & The Atlantic World To 1763
Smith
29
Droessler
32
U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1900
Women in America since the 1950's
41
Modern Chinese History
Xu
43
Japan Since 1868
Leupp
50
History of Ancient Rome
Hitchner
54
Europe since 1815
Proctor
56
Europe in the High Middle Ages
Marrone
62
Reform & Revolution: Late Imperial Russia & the Soviet Union
Applebaum
65
Cross
71
Great Britain And The British Empire
Middle East and North Africa Since WW1
74
Modern Armenia
Baghdantz McCabe
80
Christianity & Globalization [Cross-Listed Rel 37]
Curtis
82
U.S. Latino/Latina History
Fernandez
87
Algeria since 1900
Roberts
2
3
Thematic Courses
Course #
Drachman
Roberts
(Open to undergraduate and graduate students.)
112
Course Title
Angola and Mozambique: From Liberation To Humanitarian Crises
Professor
Penvenne
124
Sickness and Health in America
Drachman
135
Gender And Sexuality In Japanese History
Leupp
152
157
The Religious and Spiritual Map of Europe 300-1500 [cross-list with Religion 113]
Empresses, Saints & Scholars: The Women of Byzantium (cross-list Classics 110)
Marrone
Proctor
160
France & Africa Since the Eighteenth Century
Foster
165
Mongol Empire
Manz
175
Contemporary South Asia
Jalal
Graduate Courses (Undergraduate students by special permission only.)
215
Exhibition Planning
Turino
290
The Meaning of Things: Interpreting American Material Culture
TBA
List of Spring 2016 Faculty
Block Schedule
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Foundations Seminars
HIST. 90 - Community and Culture: Comparative History of the Industrial North and the Global West in the U. S.
Reed Ueda
Block 0
M 9:00 -11:30am
Comparisons between communities in the industrializing north of the nineteenth century and the globalizing west of the twentieth
century. Cultural history in a transregional and global context.
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HIST. 93 - Family Histories and American Culture
Kendra Field
Block 5
M 1:30 – 4:00pm
Explores diverse experiences of family and kinship in U.S. history, especially in the context of racial slavery, Indian removal, and
transnational migration. Contextualizes the recent groundswell in scholarly approaches to family history, as well as the
popularization of DNA testing and genealogical research in American culture. Allows students to develop skills and perspective
necessary for the production of scholarly research based on family histories, including their own. Readings will include family
histories, micro-histories, and memoir.
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HIST. 96 - World War II and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Rachel Applebaum
Block 8
Th 1:30 – 4:00pm
World War II was arguably the most important event in the history of the Soviet Union, one that continues to exert a powerful
influence on contemporary Russian politics and society. Approximately 25 million Soviet soldiers and civilians were killed during
the war, including 1 million Soviet Jews. This foundation seminar will examine the history of World War II and the Holocaust in
the Soviet Union, including how these events were commemorated (and suppressed) in the postwar USSR. We will also discuss
how the legacy of the war has influenced contemporary Russian politics. Topics to be discussed include resistance and
collaboration, the battle of Stalingrad, Jewish life before the war and in areas occupied by the Nazis, wartime propaganda,
women’s roles in the war, the Red Army’s liberation/occupation of Eastern Europe, and commemorations of the conflict in the
postwar USSR and contemporary Russia. Students will learn to analyze a variety of primary sources, including government
documents, oral history accounts, memoirs, diaries, creative literature, propaganda posters, and films. We will also read a range of
current scholarship on the war, as well as theoretical work on history and memory.
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Research Seminars
HIST. 190 - Travel Writing and History
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
Block 6+
T 1:20 - 4:20 pm
This research seminar examines the literary roots of historiography. Travel accounts and their major influence in shaping
historiography, from Marco Polo, to colonial reports, to travelogues and journalism today. The focus is on how cross-cultural
encounters and exchanges shaped historiography, revolutionary writing and political philosophy in Europe and how narrative style
and description still shapes historical text. Travel descriptions of Europe, the New World, Persia, India and China and Africa, some
integrated into later historical texts are used as primary sources. Sources including text, early maps, photographs and documentary
film are analyzed. Several short oral and written papers. Sources are analyzed for views of the "other", views of the world, postcolonial issues of representation, Orientalist discourse, expressions of racism, sexism, imperialism and colonialism.
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HIST. 192 Argentina & Brazil
Peter Winn
Block 6+
T 1:20 – 4:20 pm
A research seminar on Argentina and Brazil that surveys their history and historiography from the colonial era to the present day.
Colonialism and imperialism, race and ethnicity, export economies and industrialization, democracy and dictatorship, reform and
reaction are among the themes that will be explored, as will gender, class and culture. Most of the seminar will focus on student
research papers and will culminate in the presentation of student research projects to the class. A reading knowledge of Spanish or
Portuguese is strongly recommended.
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HIST. 195 - South Asia and China: Connections and Comparisons
Ayesha Jalal
Block 2+
W 8:30 – 11:30 am
This senior research seminar will explore the historical connections between South Asia and China and place their historiographies
into creative dialogue. Thematically organized, the aim is to encourage students in two connected classrooms across the world –
one at Tufts and the other at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan – to think about the intertwined
histories of these two regions within a global context. Starting with a quick overview of the pre-modern and early modern history
of India and China, the focus will be on their distinctive but comparable encounters with Western colonialism from the mideighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The final segment of the course will be devoted to an examination of the ways in which
South Asia and China have negotiated the challenges of the post-colonial era and how this will shape the future global balance of
power.
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HIS 196 - First World War and its Legacy
Elizabeth Foster
Block 8
Th 1:30 – 4:00 pm
The Great War of 1914-1918 brought the "long nineteenth century" (1789-1914) to a close and gave rise to new orders, new
conflicts, and new ideas that re-shaped Europe and the wider world in the twentieth century. In this research seminar, students will
use a variety of primary and secondary sources to study the origins, the experience, and the aftermath of this unprecedented
conflict. The course explores testimony and scholarship dealing with a variety of fronts, including the Western Front, the Eastern
Front, the homefronts, and Europe's colonial empires. The course will also examine the legacies of the war, including the effects of
violence on society and culture, popular and official memory of the conflict, as well as the peace settlement and the tensions it
provoked in Europe and its colonies.
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Survey Courses
HIST. 2 – Globalization
Peter Winn
Block I+
MW 3:00 -4:15 pm + Sections
Five centuries of globalization, including the age of reconnaissance, the Columbian Exchange, the industrial revolution, and the
globalization of economies, technologies, war, politics, and popular culture in the 20th century. Includes resistance and alternatives
to globalization.
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HIST. 3- World in Motion
Reed Ueda
Block 1
T 9:00 – 11:30 am
Examination of migration as a factor in historical studies. The role of migrations in empires, frontiers and borderlands, slavery and
indentured labor, oceanic history, industrialization, urbanization, intra-state conflict, and globalization.
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HIST. 14 - Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Crises in Africa Since 1850
Jeanne Penvenne
Block E+
M/W 10:30 – 11:45 am
African history and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, relating environmental, technical, and social innovations and
constraints to change through time. Themes include intensified contact between Africans and Europeans, conquest, colonial
experiences, African strategies to reclaim authority and the developing role of women and youth in shaping production,
investment, and social choices in contemporary Africa.
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HIST. 23 - Colonial North America & The Atlantic World To 1763
Craig Smith
Block I+
MW 3:00 – 4:15 pm
This course inquires into the development of early America and its connections with the broader Atlantic World from the preColumbian era through the end of the French and Indian War. The class will illustrate how the American colonies were forged by a
combination of cultures, beliefs, and interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans. Students will be introduced
to topics such as: exploration, colonization, religion, economics, diplomacy, slavery, politics, and war.
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HIST. 29 – U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1900
Holger Droessler
Block L+
T/Th 4:30 – 5:45 pm
The rise of the United States to global preeminence over the course of the twentieth century is a fundamental element of recent
international history. This transition had a profound impact on global life as well as the United States itself. This course will trace
those changes.
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HIST. 32 - Women in America since the 1950's
Virginia Drachman
Block G+
M/W 1:30 – 2:45 pm
Examination of the progress and challenges in women’s lives since the 1950s. An examination of the rise and decline of secondwave feminism, the enduring challenge of juggling women’s public lives with domesticity, and the tension between equality and
difference in advancing women’s lives. Attention to diversity, including race, class, and sexual preference, in women’s
experiences.
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HIST. 41 – Modern Chinese History
Man Xu
Block E+
M/W 10:30 – 11:45 am
The history of modern China from the dynamic seventeenth-century of the Ming Dynasty to the social backlash against market
economic reforms of the 1980s. Lectures and discussions provide a big picture survey of historical chronology and important
historiographical debates in Chinese history, as well as opportunities for in-depth investigation into selected materials and topics
that illuminate the everyday lives of Chinese people.
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HIST. 43 - Japan Since 1868
Gary Leupp
Block E
M/W/F 10:30 – 11:20 am
From the eve of the Meiji Restoration to the twentieth century. Topics include the unequal treaties with Western powers, the Meiji
Restoration, early industrialization, growth of the imperialist state, fascism, war, defeat, recovery, and recent role as a member of
the Western camp.
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HIST 50 – History of Ancient Rome
R. Bruce Hitchner
Block I +
M/W 3:00-4:15 pm
The history of ancient Rome, tracing Rome's rise from an insignificant Italian community to the ruler of the Mediterranean
world, and ending with the transfer of the imperial capital to Constantinople in A.D. 330. Emphasis on the interaction of Rome
with various foreign peoples, and examination of literary and documentary sources. (Crosslisted as CLS 38.)
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HIST. 54 – Europe since 1815
David Proctor
Block G +
M/W 1:30 – 2:45 pm + Sections
The forces that shaped and characterized the history of Eastern and Western Europe from the Congress of Vienna into the
contemporary era. Topics include nationalism, ethnic consciousness, the Industrial Revolution, political ideologies, the
development of nation-states, Great Power diplomacy, the impact of the "Eastern Question," the disruptions of the First and
Second World Wars, and the current conditions of the European states.
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HIST. 56 - Europe in the High Middle Ages
Steven Marrone
Block J
M 4:30 – 5:20 and T/Th 3:00 – 3:50 pm
Western Europe from the middle of the eleventh to the beginning of the fifteenth century, the period of the flowering and decline
of medieval culture and society. Topics include the economic revolution of the twelfth century, the growth of towns and
development of urban culture, the reform of the church, the challenge of heresy and the emergence of popular religion, the
consolidation of knighthood and the creation of an ideal of chivalry, Scholasticism and vernacular literature, Romanesque and
Gothic art and architecture, and the social and cultural crisis of the fourteenth century.
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HIST. 62 - Reform & Revolution: Late Imperial Russia & the Soviet Union
Rachel Applebaum
Block I+
M/W 3:00 – 4:15 pm
An introduction to modern Russia from the “great reforms” of the mid-19th century until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Topics
to be covered include the emancipation of the serfs; late imperial society, politics, and culture; revolutionary movements; national
minorities and nationalities policy in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union; the Russian Revolution and Civil War; Stalinism;
World War II and the Holocaust on Soviet territory; the Cold War; de-Stalinization and the Thaw; the impact of Western culture on
Soviet society; Soviet engagement with the Third World; Brezhnev and the era of stagnation; perestroika and the end of the
Communist system. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of primary sources, including government documents, fiction,
diaries, propaganda posters, and films.
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HIST. 65 - Great Britain And The British Empire
Robert Cross
Block K +
M/W 4:30 – 5:45 pm
The growth of British world power after the loss of America in the late 18th century, and its domestic social, economic, and
political context. War, patriotism, and the popular culture of imperialism. Decolonization, immigration, and the search for a postimperial identity after the Second World War.
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HIST. 71 - Middle East and North Africa Since WW1
Hugh Roberts
Block D+
T/Thu 10:30 – 11:45 am
This course will provide an introduction to the politics, society and culture of the Middle East and North Africa. It will examine the
transformations that occurred following both WWI and WWII, the rise of anti-colonial nationalism and Islamism, the emergence of
nation-states, the creation of the state of Israel and the evolution of the Arab-Israel conflict; and, since the end of the Cold War, the
impact of globalization, the development of democratic currents, feminist and minority rights movements and Islamist movements
and the dynamics and evolution of the ‘Arab Spring’.
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HIST. 74 - Modern Armenia
Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe
Block I+
M/W 3:00 – 4:15 pm
The uses of history in the formation of Armenian identity, nation, and nationalism. The Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, Iran,
India, and other host societies. A comparative study of the ideas of nationality and ethnicity, with a focus on revolution, ideology,
and identity. Linkages between the massacre of Armenian people in 1915 and other mass killings and genocide in the twentieth
century (examples extend to Kosovo in 1999).
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HIST. 80- Christianity & Globalization
Heather Curtis
Block E+
M/W 10:30-11:45
Development of Christianity as a world movement from the early modern period to the present. Major themes include Protestant
Reformations; expansions of Christianity through exploration, trade, conquest and mission; diversity and transformations of
Christian traditions in colonial and post-colonial societies; global spread of evangelicalism and pentecostalism. (Crosslisted as
Religion 37)
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HIST. 82 - U.S. Latino/Latina History
Rodolfo Fernandez
Block G+
M/W 1:30 – 2:45 pm
This class introduces students to the complex histories of Latinos in the United States. The first section of the class will focus on
the historical roots of Latino communities, particularly along the region that today is the U.S.-Mexico border. The second part of
this class analyzes the histories, cultures, and current socio-political realities of Latino communities in the United States beyond
the border. The last segment of the class will also focus on current issues affecting Latinos. By approaching the subject from these
different perspectives and methodologies, and by using readings and texts that range from historical documents to television
programs, this class will serve as a general introduction while avoiding homogenizing the rich and complicated details of Latino
histories.
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HIST. 87 - Algeria since 1900
Hugh Roberts
Block J+
T/Th 3:00 – 4:15 pm
This course examines the revolutionary transformation of Algeria in the course of the 20th century and the subsequent political
history of the independent state from 1962 to the present. Beginning with an examination of the character of the colonial system,
we will consider the development of Algerian anti-colonialism and nationalism from the 1920s onwards, the war of liberation
(1954-62) and the character of the National Liberation Front (FLN) and its armed forces (ALN), the Ben Bella regime (1962-5),
the Boumediène regime (1965-78), its development strategy and foreign policy, the Chadli regime (1979-92) and the growth of
domestic protest, the Kabyle question, the riots of 1988 and the political opening of 1988-1991, the descent into violence (19922002), the Zeroual and Bouteflika presidencies (1993-98 and 1999 to present) and the current succession crisis.
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Thematic Courses
HIST. 112 - Angola and Mozambique: From Liberation to Humanitarian Crises
Jeanne Penvenne
Block A+
M/W 8:05 – 9:20 am
Southern African settler colonies moved slowly to self-determination. The transition in Portugal's colonies of Angola and
Mozambique was especially difficult. Both areas experienced a generation of fighting for independence, and subsequently
fractured into intractable insurgencies. This course grounds a broader study of decolonization, sovereignty, social authority, and
governance in a case study of Angola and Mozambique from the 1890s to the early twenty-first century.
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HIST. 124 - Sickness and Health in America
Virginia Drachman
Block 6
T 1:30 – 4:00pm
Medical and cultural attitudes toward sickness and health in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Attention to the impact of
race, class, and gender on medical beliefs and practice. Topics include epidemics in social context, the popular health movement,
rise of the modern medical profession, decline of midwifery and rise of obstetrics, women's health and women's rights, Tuskegee
syphilis study, eating disorders.
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HIST. 135 - Gender and Sexuality in Japanese History
Gary Leupp
Block 8
Th 1:30 – 4:00 pm
Discussion of ancient matriarchy, marriage customs, the status of women in ancient courtly and medieval military society, female
samurai, childhood, initiation rites, monastic and samurai homosexuality, male and female prostitution, ruling-class "deployment"
of sexuality, and the appeal of androgyny in theatre and other arts.
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HIST. 152 - The Religious and Spiritual Map of Europe 300-1500 [cross-list with Religion 113]
Steven Marrone
Block F+
T/Th 12:00 – 1:15 pm
The encounter between Christianity and Roman, Celtic, and German paganism; resistance to established Christianity among the
common people; spread of Judaism and changing relations between Christians and Jews; coexistence of Muslims, Jews, and
Christians in Spain. Focus on cultural history and development of institutions such as monasticism, a clerical hierarchy, and
rabbinical communities, with attention as well to evolution of spiritual practices in the three "religions of the book": Judaism,
Christianity and, for southern Europe, Islam.
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HIST. 157 - Empresses, Saints & Scholars: The Women of Byzantium (Cross-listed as CLS 110)
David Proctor
Block K+
M/W 4:30 – 5:45 pm
Examination of the themes of political legitimacy, spirituality, education, gender roles, the spread of Byzantine culture, and the
evolution of Christian theology through a careful study of the lives of various women of the Byzantine world. This will include
examination of the lives of women of the Byzantine Empire, Southeastern Europe, Russia, Western Europe, the kingdoms of
Armenia and the Ottoman Empire.
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HIST. 160 - France & Africa Since the Eighteenth Century
Elizabeth Foster
Block D+
T/Th 10:30 – 11:45 am
Encounters between France and Africa since the eighteenth century. Topics: slavery, African responses to French rule, competing
conceptions of a French "civilizing mission," decolonization, relations between France and former African colonies, and the
experience of African immigrants in contemporary France.
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HIST. 165 - Mongol Empire
Beatrice Manz
Block H+
T/Th 1:30 – 2:45 pm
The nomad empires of Eurasia, from the development of mounted nomadism to its decline in the seventeenth century. The Mongol
Empire (founded by Genghis Khan) and its many successor states that lasted into the modern period. Political traditions; the
relation of nomads to settled peoples; the legacy of the Mongol Empire in both settled and nomad worlds.
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HIST. 175 - Contemporary South Asia
Ayesha Jalal
Fletcher Block
T 3:20 – 5:20 pm
The nuclearization of South Asia against the backdrop of a rising tide of Islamic 'fundamentalism' in Pakistan and the increasing
assertiveness of right-wing Hindu parties in India has made it urgent to understand the history, politics and culture of this diverse
and complex region. Despite a shared history and overlaps of region, language and culture, India and Pakistan have seemingly
contrasting state systems, political forms and ideological orientations. Religion has been a persevering difference, but fewer
Muslims live in Pakistan today than in India and Bangladesh put together A comparative study of contemporary South Asian
history brings out these contradictions and offers insights into the historical construction of the post-colonial world in general.
Organized along chronological and thematic lines, the course will begin with a survey of the history of late colonial India before
concentrating on the interplay of domestic, regional and international factors in post-independence South Asia with special
reference to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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Graduate Courses
HIST. 215 - Exhibition Planning
Kenneth Turino
Block TBA
Learn the organization of an exhibition, from idea to opening reception and beyond. This course addresses issues specific to the
temporary museum exhibition, such as priorities, deadlines, loan negotiations, installation requirements, evaluation, and curatorial
and educational goals. Students select objects, arrange for loans, design and install the exhibition, create and implement a public
relations campaign, write interpretive labels, and formulate and produce public programs. Prerequisites: ED/FAH/HIST 285 and
one other Museum Studies course. Prerequisite: ED/FAH/HIST0285 plus one other museum studies course.
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HIST. 290 - The Meaning of Things: Interpreting American Material Culture
Block TBA
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Faculty
Rachel Applebaum
Assistant Professor
Modern Russia; Modern Central/Eastern Europe
Virginia G. Drachman
Professor
Arthur Stern, Jr. Professorship in American History; Modern
America, Women in the U.S., Medicine and Society in the U.S.
David Ekbladh
Associate Professor
U.S. in the World, International History, Modern U.S. History
Leila Fawaz
Professor
Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese & Eastern Mediterranean Studies;
Middle East
Kendra Field
Assistant Professor
Nineteenth-century U.S., African American, Native American
Elizabeth Foster
Assistant Professor
Modern France in the World, Colonial West Africa
Ayesha Jalal
Professor
Mary Richardson Professor of History; South Asia, the Muslim World
Peniel Joseph
Professor
African American, Race Relations, Intellectual History, Civil Rights
and Black Power
Gary P. Leupp
Professor
Japan
Kris Manjapra
Associate Professor
Modern South Asia, Modern Germany, Intellectual History
Beatrice F. Manz
Professor, CHAIR
Middle East and Inner Asia
Steven P. Marrone
Professor
Medieval, Early Modern Europe
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
Professor
Armenia and Cross-Cultural World
Jeanne Marie Penvenne
Associate Professor
Africa
David Proctor
Lecturer
Late Antique & Medieval Western Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern
Europe, Papal-Imperial relations
Alisha Rankin
Associate Professor
Early Modern Europe
Hugh Roberts
Professor
Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle
Eastern History, North Africa, Middle East
Reed Ueda
Professor
Industrial and Urban U.S., Immigration
Peter Winn
Professor
Latin America
Man Xu
Assistant Professor
Chinese history
Robert Cross
Part-Time Lecturer
Europe
Holger Droessler
Part-Time Lecturer
United States
Rodolfo Fernandez
Part-Time Lecturer
Latin America
Craig Smith
Part-Time Lecturer
United States
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