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History Research Pathways

The history program encourages its students to carve out their own research pathways. Pathways can be straight or meandering, cover one area exhaustively or take a student across broad stretches. Even though you are required to selected one of three geographic regions—Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World—as your primary area of focus, we encourage you to also think about your degree progress along thematic lines: religion, social movements, science and environment, and gender, to name a few.

Pathways are for advising purposes only. A list of undergraduate history courses and the requirements each satisfy may be found in the Catalog of Course Requirements.

History Research Pathways
Number and Title		Instructor	Research Pathways
Lower Division Courses (HIS 1 - 99)
2A	The World to 1500	Breen	To Be Announced
2B	The World Since 1500	O'Malley, Matera	Colonialism and Imperialism Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
4	History of the Present: Investigating the Historical Origins of Contemporary Problems	Derr & Jones	Science, Technology, and Environment
9	Introduction to Native American History	Lonetree, Smyth	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
10A	United States History to 1877	Jones, Smyth, Westerkamp	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
10B	United States History, 1877 to 1977	Lasar	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
11A	Latin America: Colonial Period	Diaz	To Be Announced
11B	Latin America: National Period	O'Hara	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
12	Introduction to Latino American History	Delgado	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
13	Introduction to American Religious Culture	Westerkamp	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Religions and Secularism
15	The United States of America from its Founding through Our Time	Lasar	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
20	U.S. Popular Music Movements	Porter	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
40A	Early Modern East Asia	Hu	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World War, Conflict, and Peace
40B	The Making of Modern East Asia	Aso, Christy	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
41	The Making of the Modern Middle East	Derr	Colonialism and Imperialism Labor and Social Movements
44	Modern South Asia, 1500 to Present	Shaikh	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Religions and Secularism
50	When Pharaohs Reigned: The History of Ancient Egypt	Sullivan	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World
51	Pyramids of Earth: Religion and Symbol in the Ancient World	Sullivan	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Religions and Secularism
58	From Pirates to Refugees: The History of the Modern Mediterranean	Davis	To Be Announced
59	The History of the English Language (online course)	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Colonialism and Imperialism
60	Medical and Scientific Terminology (online course) _{Formerly offered as Scientific Vocabulary and the Roots of the European Scientific Tradition}	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Science, Technology, and Environment
61	Classical Mythology	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Religions and Secularism
62A	Classical World: Greece	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World War, Conflict, and Peace
62B	Classical World: Rome	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World
65B	Plagues, Peasants, and Pirates: Late Medieval Europe, 1000-1500	Breen	To Be Announced
70A	Modern European History, 1500-1815	Breen, Silver, Thompson	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Colonialism and Imperialism
70B	Modern European History, 1815-Present	Thompson	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
74	Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures	Deutsch, Heckman, Thompson	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Religions and Secularism
74A	Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Ancient to Early Modern	Heckman	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
74B	Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History, 1500-2000	Heckman	Colonialism and Imperialism Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
75	Film and the Holocaust	Thompson	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity War, Conflict, and Peace
76	The Holocaust: A Global Perspective _{Formerly offered as The Holocaust}	Deutsch, Heckman	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity War, Conflict, and Peace
78	Modern Authoritarianism in Europe and Beyond	Kehler	Civil Rights and Social Justice War, Conflict, and Peace
80C	Global China (online course)	Chan	Colonialism and Imperialism Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
80X	Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Change and American Society	Brundage	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
80Y	World War II Memories in the U.S. and Japan	Christy, Yang	Civil Rights and Social Justice War, Conflict, and Peace
81	Science in the Colonial World	Gutierrez	Colonialism and Imperialism Science, Technology, and Environment
82	California Gold Rush in Global History _{Formerly offered as Global History of the California Gold Rush}	McGuinness	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Science, Technology, and Environment
Upper Division Courses (HIS 100 - 189)
101C	Oceans in World History	Matera	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Religions and Secularism
101D	World History of Science (online course)	Hu	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Science, Technology, and Environment
101E	Global 1930s	Matera	Colonialism and Imperialism Labor and Social Movements
101F	Global Environmental History (online course)	Hu	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Science, Technology, and Environment
104C	Celluloid Natives: American Indian History on Film	Lonetree, Smyth	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
104D	Museums and the Representation of Native American History, Memory, and Culture	Lonetree, Smyth	Museum Studies, Public History, and Cultural Heritage Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
105	Nations and Nationalism	Silver	Colonialism and Imperialism Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
106A	Vietnam War Memories	Yang	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
106B	Asian and Asian American History, 1941-Present	Yang	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
109A	Race, Gender, and Power in the Antebellum South	Jones, Smyth	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
110A	Colonial America, 1500-1750	Westerkamp	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
110B	Revolutionary America, 1740-1815	O'Malley	Colonialism and Imperialism Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
110D	The Civil War Era	Jones	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity War, Conflict, and Peace
110G	Strange Days: The USA and its National Security State, 1945-1991	Lasar	Civil Rights and Social Justice War, Conflict, and Peace
110H	Greater Reconstruction: Race, Empire, and Citizenship in the Post-Civil War United States	Jones	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
112	American Feminist Thought, 1750-1950	Westerkamp	Civil Rights and Social Justice Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History
113C	Women and American Religious Culture	Westerkamp	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History Religions and Secularism
114	Market Revolution in Antebellum U.S.	Jones	Labor and Social Movements Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
116	Slavery Across the Americas	O'Malley	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
116A	Unchained Memory: Slavery and the Politics of the Past	Jones	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
118	The Global Cold War, 1945-1991	Lasar	To Be Announced
118A	Conspiracy Planet: How Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories, and Conspiracy Scandals Shape History	Lasar	War, Conflict, and Peace
120	W.E.B. Du Bois	Porter	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
122A	Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1900-1945	Porter	Museum Studies, Public History, and Cultural Heritage Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
122B	Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1945 to the Present	Porter	Museum Studies, Public History, and Cultural Heritage Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
123	Immigrants and Immigration in U.S. History	Brundage	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
124A	Panama Canal and U.S. Empire	McGuinness	Colonialism and Imperialism Science, Technology, and Environment
128	Chicana/Chicano History	Delgado	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
130	History of Modern Cuba	Diaz	To Be Announced
131	Women in Colonial Latin America	Diaz	To Be Announced
134A	Colonial Mexico	O'Hara	Colonialism and Imperialism Religions and Secularism
134B	History of Mexico, 1850 to Present	O'Hara	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
140B	History of Qing China, 1644-1911	Hu	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World War, Conflict, and Peace
140C	Revolutionary China, 1895-1960	Chan	Colonialism and Imperialism Labor and Social Movements
140D	Recent Chinese History	Chan	War, Conflict, and Peace
140E	Women in China's Long 20th Century	Chan	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History
141A	Classical Chinese Culture and Literature, 10th Century B.C.E. through Sixth Century C.E. _{Also offered as LIT 141B. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.}	Connery	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World
141B	Classical Chinese Culture and Literature, Sixth Century through 16th Century _{Also offered as LIT 141C. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.}	Connery	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World
143B	History of the Philippines, 1815 to the Present	Gutierrez	Colonialism and Imperialism Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
146A	Colonial South Asia 1750-1947	Shaikh	Colonialism and Imperialism Labor and Social Movements
147A	History of Premodern India	Shaikh	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
147B	Political and Social History of Modern South Asia	Shaikh	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
147C	South Asia in the 20th Century	Shaikh	Colonialism and Imperialism Labor and Social Movements
147D	Intellectual History of South Asia	Shaikh	Colonialism and Imperialism Religions and Secularism
149	Plants, People, and the Making of Modern Southeast Asia	Gutierrez	Colonialism and Imperialism Science, Technology, and Environment
150A	Emperors and Outcasts: Ancient Japan	Aso	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Religions and Secularism
150B	Tokugawa Japan	Christy	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
150C	Inventing Modern Japan: The State and the People _{Formerly offered as Modern Japan}	Aso, Christy	Civil Rights and Social Justice Colonialism and Imperialism
150D	The Japanese Empire, 1868-1945	Christy	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
150E	History and Memory in the Okinawan Islands (online course)	Christy	Museum Studies, Public History, and Cultural Heritage Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
150F	Engendering Empires: Women in Modern Japan and Korea	Aso	Colonialism and Imperialism Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History
151	History of Science, Medicine & Technology from Antiquity to the Enlightenment	Breen	To Be Announced
151A	Medicine and the Body in the Colonial World	Derr	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Science, Technology, and Environment
151B	Drugs in World History	Breen	To Be Announced
154	Post-Colonial North Africa	Davis	To Be Announced
155	History of Modern Israel	Thompson	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity War, Conflict, and Peace
156	Interrogating Politics in the Post-Colonial Middle East	Derr	Labor and Social Movements Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
156A	Art, Culture, and Mass Media in the Arab Middle East	Derr	Labor and Social Movements Museum Studies, Public History, and Cultural Heritage
156B	Modern Arab Thought	Davis	To Be Announced
156C	Living Egyptian History in the City of Cairo	Derr	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Labor and Social Movements
157	The Ottoman Empire	Derr	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Colonialism and Imperialism
158A	The Escapes of David George: Biographical Research on Slavery and Early America _{Enrollment restricted to College Scholars students or by permission of the instructor.}	O'Malley	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
158C	Slavery in the Atlantic World: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives _{Also offered as ANTH 179. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.}	O'Malley, Monroe	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
159A	Cleopatra to Constantine: Greek and Roman Egypt	Sullivan	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Colonialism and Imperialism
159B	Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt	Sullivan	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History
159C	Temple and City: The Egyptian New Kingdom and the City of Thebes	Sullivan	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Religions and Secularism
159D	When Cities Were New: the Rise of Urbanism in the Ancient Near East & Mediterranean	Sullivan	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Religions and Secularism
160A	Athenian Democracy	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World
160C	Topics in Greek History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World War, Conflict, and Peace
161B	Topics in Roman History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World War, Conflict, and Peace
163B	Genesis: A History	Deutsch	To Be Announced
166	Northern Ireland: Communities In Conflict	Brundage	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
167A	The First World War	Thompson	Science, Technology, and Environment War, Conflict, and Peace
167B	The Second World War in Europe	Kehler	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
169	Dutch & Belgian History, 1500 to Present	Kehler	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Colonialism and Imperialism
170A	French History: Old Regime and Revolution	Silver	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Labor and Social Movements
170B	French History: 19th Century	Davis	To Be Announced
170C	From the Trenches to the Casbah: France and its Empire in the 20th Century	Davis	To Be Announced
172A	German History	Kehler	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
172B	German Film, 1919 - 1945	Kehler	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History War, Conflict, and Peace
172C	History of German Film, 1945 to Present	Kehler	Labor and Social Movements War, Conflict, and Peace
174	Spies: History and Culture of Espionage	Thompson	Science, Technology, and Environment War, Conflict, and Peace
176	Eastern Europe, 1848-2000	Kehler	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
177A	Slaves, Soldiers, and Scientists: History of the Tropics	Breen	To Be Announced
178A	European Intellectual History: The Enlightenment	Silver	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Religions and Secularism
178B	European Intellectual History: The 19th Century	Thompson	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History Science, Technology, and Environment
178C	European Intellectual History, 1870-1970	Thompson	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History War, Conflict, and Peace
178E	Modern Jewish Intellectual History	Thompson	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Religions and Secularism
181	Modern Britain and the British Empire	Matera	Colonialism and Imperialism
181A	Postcolonial Britain and France _{Also offered as ANTH 110O. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.}	Fernando, Matera	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
181B	Africa and Britain in an Imperial World	Matera	Colonialism and Imperialism Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
184B	Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present	Davis	To Be Announced
185C	Communism, Nationalism, & Zionism: Comparative Radical Jewish Politics	Heckman	Civil Rights and Social Justice Labor and Social Movements
185I	Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period	Heckman	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
185J	The Modern Jewish Experience	Deutsch	To Be Announced
185K	Jewish Life in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities	Heckman	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
185L	Where Civilizations Met--Jews, Judaism, and the Iberian Peninsula	Heckman	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
185M	Zionism: An Intellectual History	Deutsch	To Be Announced
185O	The Holocaust and the Arab World	Heckman	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
189	@history: Doing History in a Digital Age	Sullivan	Science, Technology, and Environment
Comprehensive Exit Seminar Courses (HIS 190s, 194s, and 196s)
190A	Slavery and Race in Latin America	Diaz	To Be Announced
190B	Race and the Nation in Latin America	Diaz	To Be Announced
190D	Asian and Latino Immigration Since 1875	Delgado	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
190E	Topics in Chicana/o History	Delgado	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History
190F	Research Seminar in the Americas _{May be repeated for credit.}	Lonetree, Smyth	Museum Studies, Public History, and Cultural Heritage Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
190G	Comparative History of Redress and Reparations	Yang	Civil Rights and Social Justice Colonialism and Imperialism
190H	History of Time	O'Hara	Religions and Secularism Science, Technology, and Environment
190J	Mexican History in the Archives	O'Hara	Colonialism and Imperialism Religions and Secularism
190L	Personal Politics in the New South	Jones	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
190M	History of Children and Culture of Childhood in the 19th Century	Jones	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
190P	Early American Society and Culture	Westerkamp	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History
190Q	The Novel and History	Westerkamp	Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History Religions and Secularism
190R	Research in the History of American Religions	Westerkamp	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Religions and Secularism
190T	Latin America in the Cold War	O'Hara	Labor and Social Movements War, Conflict, and Peace
190V	Myths of California	McGuinness	Museum Studies, Public History, and Cultural Heritage Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
190W	U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction	Jones	Civil Rights and Social Justice War, Conflict, and Peace
190X	History of the Atlantic World, 1492-1824	O'Malley	Colonialism and Imperialism Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
190Y	The Atlantic Slave Trade	O'Malley	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
190Z	The Long Civil Rights Movement	Brundage	Civil Rights and Social Justice Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
194C	Topics in Modern Chinese History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Chan	Colonialism and Imperialism Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
194E	Women in Japanese History	Aso	Civil Rights and Social Justice Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History
194K	Topics in the History of Southeast Asia _{May be repeated for credit.}	Gutierrez	Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Science, Technology, and Environment
194L	Exile, Diaspora, and Displacement: Jewish Lives from North Africa to the Middle East	Heckman	Colonialism and Imperialism Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
194M	Literati, Samurai, and Yangban: Comparative History of State and Elite in East Asia, 1600-1900	Hu	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World War, Conflict, and Peace
194N	Urbanites in the Global South, 18th Century to the Present	Shaikh	Labor and Social Movements Science, Technology, and Environment
194O	South Asia in the Twentieth Century	Shaikh	Civil Rights and Social Justice Labor and Social Movements
194P	Urban South Asia	Shaikh	Labor and Social Movements Science, Technology, and Environment
194Q	Making Space in the Colonial and Post-Colonial World	Derr	Colonialism and Imperialism Labor and Social Movements
194S	Special Topics in Ancient Egyptian History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Sullivan	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World Museum Studies, Public History, and Cultural Heritage
194T	Worlds of Labor in Asia	Shaikh	Colonialism and Imperialism Labor and Social Movements
194U	The Cold War and East Asia	Aso	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
194V	Fascism & Anti-Fascism: The Global Spanish Civil War	Heckman	Colonialism and Imperialism War, Conflict, and Peace
194W	Social Movements in the Modern Middle East	Derr	Labor and Social Movements Colonialism and Imperialism
194Y	Memories of WWII in the U.S. and Japan	Christy, Yang	Civil Rights and Social Justice War, Conflict, and Peace
196E	Modern Irish History	Thompson	Colonialism and Imperialism Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration
196F	Topics in European Environmental History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Breen, Thompson	Colonialism and Imperialism Science, Technology, and Environment
196G	Topics in Modern Germany and Europe _{May be repeated for credit.}	Kehler	Labor and Social Movements War, Conflict, and Peace
196H	Sex And The City--The History Of Sexuality In Urban Areas Around The Globe	Matera	Civil Rights and Social Justice Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History
196I	The French Revolution	Silver	Labor and Social Movements Religions and Secularism
196K	Studies in European Intellectual History	Silver	Labor and Social Movements Religions and Secularism
196M	Shtetl: Eastern European Jewish Life	Deutsch	To Be Announced
196N	Eastern European Jewish Social History	Kehler, Thompson	Diaspora, Emigration, Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
196S	Special Topics in Ancient History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Hedrick	Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World War, Conflict, and Peace
196Z	Europe From the Margins: Outside Influences on Modern European Thought and Culture	Matera	Colonialism and Imperialism

History Research Pathways

Lower Division Courses (HIS 1 - 99)

Upper Division Courses (HIS 100 - 189)

Comprehensive Exit Seminar Courses (HIS 190s, 194s, and 196s)