Topics course This course explores debates about race, racism, moral status, and identity in recent and contemporary American Philosophy. While examining the very concepts of race and racism, we will also investigate philosophical responses to race issues in America. Enrollment limited to 20.

Topics course. In this course, we will read and discuss testimony, texts and images that have been pivotal to the study of women and gender in the Holocaust, while also exploring recent debates and new directions in research.

Topics course. Gives students the opportunity to think about gender in a non-modern, non-Western context by focusing on women?s and gender histories of China, Japan and Korea from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. After reading several exemplary works of scholarship and translation, students conduct their own research and write up their findings in a seminar paper. By examining a period before modern conceptions of rights and feminism existed, the course encourages students to grapple with the complexity of the historical past.

Origins, course and consequences of the war of 1861-65. Major topics include the politics and experience of slavery; religion and abolitionism; ideologies of race; the role of African Americans in ending slavery; the making of Union and Confederate myths; Reconstruction; white Americans? final abandonment of the cause of the freed people in the 1880s and 1890s.

Same as LAS 260. The development of Latin American society during the period of Spanish and Portuguese rule. Social and cultural change in Native American societies as a result of colonialism. The contributions of Africans, Europeans and Native Americans to the new multi-ethnic societies that emerged during the three centuries of colonization and resistance. The study of sexuality, gender ideologies and the experiences of women are integral to the course and essential for understanding political power and cultural change in colonial Latin America.

Topics course. This course examines the political, social, and economic role of women in African history, while paying particular attention to the ways in which a wide variety of women - rural and urban, Christian and Muslim, married and unmarried, and literate and non-literate engaged, understood, and negotiated the changing political and social landscapes associated with life under colonial rule. Key issues addressed in the course include marriage and respectability, colonial domesticity regimes, and women and religion.

This course provides an introductory survey of African history since 1800. In doing so, the course offers students a framework for understanding the political, social, and economic history of Modern Africa by foregrounding the strategies African peoples employed as they made sense of, accommodated themselves to, and confronted their changing historical landscapes.

Focuses on the history of the Soviet Union during the "greater Cold War," that is, between World War II and the disintegration of the USSR. Touches on foreign policy developments but main focus will be on the social, political and economic processes and cultural developments inside the USSR itself. Explores Soviet history in the second half of the twentieth century through historical works and a range of primary sources. Topics include the post-war reconstruction, rise of the military-industrial complex, education, popular culture and dissent

Traditionally, historians portrayed the British Empire as the province of male explorers, merchants, missionaries, soldiers and bureaucrats. This course treats such men as gendered subjects, investigating intersections between the empire and masculinity. It surveys debates about white women?s colonial experiences and studies the experience of women who were colonized and enslaved. It examines the gendered structure of racial ideologies and the imperial features of feminist concerns. Focus is on the West Indies, Africa, and India from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.

From the High Middle Ages through the fifteenth century. Topics include cathedrals and universities, struggles between popes and emperors, pilgrimage and popular religion, the Crusades and Crusader kingdoms, heresy and the Inquisition, chivalry and Arthurian romance, the expansion and consolidation of Europe, and the Black Death and its aftermath.