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In its effort to legitimate itself, historical sociology "became domesticated as a subfield, losing much of its critical edge and challenge to mainstream sociology," according to noted historical sociologist Craig Calhoun. In this seminar, we will examine some of the main developments and debates. At the same time, we will explore the untapped potential of historical sociology, resisting its reduction to a methodology and focusing on previously overlooked topics, including race, labor, slavery, gender, and empire.

This course is focused on resistance and strategies of liberation against colonialism, now and in history. It explores how to effectively decolonialize through three parallel approaches: (1) a 500-year overview of the world history of colonialism, imperialism and waves of anti-colonial liberation struggles, (2) an analysis of contemporary colonialism (overseas as well as "internal"), resistance and "decolonization," and (3) comparative case-studies of strategies of decolonizing liberation struggles.

This seminar examines the academic writing and publication process in sociology, with particular emphasis towards peer-reviewed articles as the central writing format of the field. We will give particular emphasis to the work of motivating an article and using a theoretical ?review? of the literature to do so, as well as building methods, results, and conclusions sections to support the motivating questions.

The construction, legitimation, and delegitimation of political power; the formation of states, their expansion, and rebellion and revolution. Focus upon major theoretical perspectives, including pluralist, statist, institutionalist, class, feminist, and race-centered theories.

This graduate seminar focuses on theories of family, kinship, and parenting. Theoretical perspectives will be explored through empirical work on family behaviors and household relationships. The course will be reading- and discussion-centered. It will cover contemporary trends in the U.S., but we will also address global perspectives. The readings include studies with an international focus. Further, students will work on a research proposal relevant to the study of families during the semester.

A second statistics course for the social sciences. Topics include multiple regression analysis, use of qualitative independent variables, interaction effects, nonlinear effects, other topics related to the general linear model. Introduction to logistic regression. Prerequisite: a prior statistics course. Undergraduate students accepted with consent of instructor.