The History Department would like to extend a warm welcome to admitted students and their families. The following opportunities are available to help you learn more about our program:
Visit a History Course
As a courtesy, please identify yourself to the course instructor(s) before class begins so that they know you are present. We also ask that you stay for the entire class period so as not to disturb the lecture by leaving early. Visitors are invited to attend the following classes:
History 5B, Early Christianity: First to Fourth Century A.D.
Course Description: Christianity from its origins as a Jewish messianic movement, its expansion in multiple forms in the Greco-Roman world and the East, to its transformation into the major religion of the Roman and Byzantine empires.
Day(s): Friday April 5th, Monday April 8th, Wednesday April 10th, and Friday April 12th
Time: 8:00AM - 9:10AM
Location: Oakes Academic 105
Instructor: Gildas Hamel
History 40B, The Making of Modern East Asia
Course Description: A broad introductory survey of the political, social, economic, philosophical, and religious heritage of modern China, Japan, and Korea. Emphasis on the historical foundations of modern nationalism, the colonial experience, and revolutionary movements.
Day(s): Friday April 5th, Monday April 8th, Wednesday April 10th, and Friday April 12th
Time: 9:30AM - 10:40AM
Location: Stevenson Academic 150
Instructors: Alan Christy
History 105, Nations and Nationalism
Course Description: Provides an historical, comparative, and theoretical exploration of the development of nations and nationalism. Emphases include the historical formation of nation-states, modernization, colonialism, decolonization, nations and globalization, and the intersections between ethnicity, race, religions, and nationalism.
Day(s): Tuesday, April 9th and Thursday, April 11th
Time: 4:00PM - 5:45PM
Location: Social Sciences 2, room 75
Instructor: Kiva Silver
History 140E, Women in China's Long 20th Century
Course Description: Introduces changes in Chinese women's lives--and changes in shared social ideas about what women should do and be--from the mid-19th century to the present. When we foreground gender as a category of analysis, how does history look different?
Day(s): Monday April 8th, and Wednesday April 10th
Time: 5:00PM - 6:45PM
Location: Jack Baskin Engineering, room 372
Instructor: Gail Hershatter
History 152, Trade and Travel on the Silk Roads
Course Description: Introduction to two millennia of history along the ancient trade routes popularly known as the "Silk Road." These routes carried precious goods between Asia and Europe, while also serving as important conduits for the flow of people and ideas.
Day(s): Tuesday, April 9th and Thursday, April 11th
Time: 12:00PM - 1:45PM
Location: Oakes Academic 102
Instructor: Maya Peterson
History 164B, Renaissance Italy, c. 1400-1600
Course Description: Italy from the Florentine Renaissance through the Reformation. Topics include social change and political consolidation, the rise of the papacy, court life, witch hunting, Machiavelli, artistic developments from Donatello through late Venetian Renaissance. Requires viewing several films outside of class.
Day(s): Friday April 5th, Monday April 8th, Wednesday April 10th, and Friday April 12th
Time: 2:00PM - 3:10PM
Location: Cowell Classroom 131
Instructor: Cynthia Polecritti
History 166, Northern Ireland: Communities in Conflict
Course Description: Introduction to the so-called "troubles" in Northern Ireland, from the 1960s to the present. Examination of the historical background to the conflict, the patterns of conflict in the 1970s and 1980s, and the emergence of a peace process in the 1990s.
Day(s): Tuesday, April 9th and Thursday, April 11th
Time: 4:00PM - 5:45PM
Location: Porter Academic 144
Instructor: David Brundage
History 174, Spies: History and Culture of Espionage
Course Description: Analyzes the roles of espionage and intelligence in modern European history with emphasis on major conflicts from the Franco-Prussian War through the Cold War and beyond. Also examines images of spies in popular culture from the early 20th century to the present.
Day(s): Friday April 5th, Monday April 8th, Wednesday April 10th, and Friday April 12th
Time: 12:30PM - 1:40PM
Location: Social Science 1, room 110
Instructor: Bruce Thompson
History 178C, European Intellectual History, 1870-1970
Course Description: Drawing on experiments in autobiography, the arts, and social theory, this course focuses on ideas and images of modernity in European culture. It also highlights the role of the intellectual as politically engaged or disillusioned witness in a violent century.
Day(s): Friday April 5th, Monday April 8th, Wednesday April 10th, and Friday April 12th
Time: 3:30PM - 4:40PM
Location: Cowell Classroom 131
Instructor: Bruce Thompson
History 185H, Women, Gender, and Jewish Modernity (1800-Present)
Course Description: Explores the impact of modernization upon women and the concepts of gender, both feminine and masculine, in Jewish societies across Europe, the Middle East, and India.
Day(s): Tuesday, April 9th and Thursday, April 11th
Time: 4:00PM - 5:45PM
Location: Cowell Academic 113
Instructor: Paula Daccarett
History 185I, Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period
Course Description: Explores Jewish immigration settlement and identity negotiation in Latin America from the mid-19th Century to the present.
Day(s): Tuesday, April 9th and Thursday, April 11th
Time: 2:00PM - 3:45PM
Location: Cowell Academic 113
Instructor: Paula Daccarett
Meet with an Adviser
Admitted students and their families are invited to meet with Stephanie Sawyer, the history undergraduate program coordinator, in Humanities 1, room 200 (located next door to the History Department Office, Humanities 1, room 201).
Friday, April 5th: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Monday, April 8th: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Tuesday, April 9th: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Wednesday, April 10th: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Thursday, April 11: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Friday, April 12th: 9:00am - 12:00pm
