Graduate Program

Spring Term Schedule

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Spring 2025

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
HIST 403-01 International Human Rights Jean Pedersen M 9:00AM - 11:40AM
What does it mean to be human? What political, economic, religious, social, or sexual rights might be part of different people's working definitions? This course will look at both a) the historical development of conflicting theories of human rights and b) more contemporary debates about their ideal extent, their exercise, and their enforcement. Special topics will include debates over the meaning of the American and French Revolutions, the fight to design an International Declaration of Human Rights in the aftermath of World War II, the history of organizations such as Amnesty International, and the controversy around UN events such as the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2000 and 2005 Millennium Summits in New York City. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (M 9:00AM - 11:40AM)
HIST 424-01 History of Emotions Thomas Devaney M 2:00PM - 4:40PM
No description Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 446-01 East Asia and the Cold War Michael Hayata W 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This course probes the regional dynamics of the Cold War in East Asia by examining the histories of China, Japan, and South and North Korea during the second half of the twentieth century. It uses primary and secondary works – including literature, film, and government documents – to explore the domestic and international contexts that shaped the region’s geopolitical landscape. Students will first study patterns of state control across East Asia in the form of rapid industrialization, land reform, and mass culture. They will then create dialogue between popular experiences of these social transformations by analyzing the alternative politics of such movements as the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Japanese peace movement, and South Korean democracy movement in relation to the Cold War world system. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (W 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 447-01 Archives and Absences: Writing from the Margins of History Melanie Chambliss R 2:00PM - 4:40PM
How do archival absences impact what we know about the past? How should these silences shape the histories we write? This course will explore the process of historical production through critical archival studies. We will discuss how “the archive” documents power dynamics in the past and present. We will read histories and theories of archives’ construction and examine different approaches to recovering African diasporic history. Researchers have turned to microhistory, memoir, fiction, theory, and other methods or genres to address archival absences, and we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these choices. By the end of the semester, students will be familiar with key voices within critical archival scholarship and postmodernist theories of history, and students will learn different techniques for addressing absences in their own research. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 457-01 Developing Latin America Molly Ball TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
What does it mean for a country to be developed? Developing? Underdeveloped? And who decides what it means to be developed? To explore these questions over the course of the late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this upper-level seminar centers its focus on the ideological home of dependency theory, Latin America. We will explore how internal tensions manifested in competing local, regional, and national visions of development. We will examine how foreign interests, international humanitarian, and NGO goals intersected with and challenged Latin American efforts. Through weekly readings and a final, independent research paper, students will be challenged to rethink their understanding of development. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)
HIST 483-01 Disease and Society from Antiquity to the Present Laura Smoller MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
What is the relationship between disease and the society in which it strikes? How do societies define disease, and how does culture affect the treatment of the sick? How have scholars written the history of disease? In this research seminar, students will explore such questions by examining interactions between disease and society in western cultures from antiquity through the present, at the same time pondering what this insight can tell us as we face the frightening prospect of new killers like Ebola and resistant strains of old diseases like tuberculosis. Throughout, the course will insist that the experience of disease is not simply a biological fact, but is conditioned by the culture in which we live. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 305 (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 488-1 Title Doctors and Devils: Literature and Medicine in Early Modernity William Miller MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM
This course focuses on literature and medicine in the 16th and 17th centuries. It introduces students to the major medical systems of the era and explores the ways that medical theories and practices both influenced and incorporated literary representations. We will consider character, inspiration, gender, race, and erotic love, among other topics. Authors may include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Robert Burton, Thomas Browne, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Finch, Lady Montague, and members of the Royal Society. Location Meliora Room 219 (MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM)
HIST 491-12 Master's Reading Course Elias Mandala 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 491-2 Master's Reading Course Stewart Weaver 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 491-3 Master's Reading Course Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 491-4 Master's Reading: Technology in Medieval Europe Morris Pierce 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 491-6 Master's Reading Course Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 495-6 Master's Research Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the M.A. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 502-1 Dissertation Writers' Seminar Thomas Devaney T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
The purpose of this course is to help students launch their dissertation projects and its chief outcome will be the dissertation prospectus. To that end, we will work on identifying topics, locating primary sources, engaging with the research literature, finding and applying for external research funding, and drafting and revising the prospectus. We will also discuss related topics, such as archival research practices and presenting work in progress at conferences and other meetings. This course is envisioned as a collaborative enterprise; though each student will focus on their own project, peer support and feedback will be an important part of all we do. Location Rush Rhees Library Room 416 (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
HIST 510-01 Advanced Historical Studies Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-02 Advanced Historical Studies William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-03 Advanced Historical Studies Gregory Heyworth 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-04 Advanced Historical Studies Henk Goemans 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 510-05 Advanced Historical Studies Christopher Heuer 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 520-1 Advanced Historical Studies Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-01 PhD Readings in History Molly Ball 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-02 PhD Readings in History- Popular Religion and Heresy in Europe, 1100-1650 Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-06 PhD Readings in History Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-09 PhD Readings in History Michael Jarvis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-12 PhD Readings in History Elias Mandala 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-16 PhD Readings in History Laura Smoller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-17 PhD Readings in History Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 591-20 PhD Readings in History Tanya Bakhmetyeva 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-01 Independent Reading Course Molly Ball 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-02 Independent Reading Course Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-05 Independent Reading Course Thomas Fleischman 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-06 Independent Reading Course Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-09 Independent Reading Course Michael Jarvis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-11 Independent Reading Course Matthew Lenoe 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-12 Independent Reading Course Elias Mandala 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-16 Independent Reading Course Laura Smoller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 592-17 Independent Reading Course Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Individual, specialized independent reading courses; topics, relevant to student's program, chosen in consultation with faculty member. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 593-1 Apprentice Teaching Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Apprentice teachers act as participant-observers in an undergraduate course under the close supervision of a member of the faculty. Ordinarily, students will attend the course; hold weekly meetings with the professor to discuss the progress of the course, and, in many cases, consider strategies for teaching the weeks assigned reading, assist the professor in preparing examination questions, paper topics, and other written assignments; gain experience in evaluating undergraduates work by reading and commenting on (but not grading) exams and essays; and prepare a lecture or lead a class discussion. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-01 PhD Research in History Molly Ball 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-02 PhD Research in History Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-06 PhD Research in History Ruben Flores 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-09 PhD Research in History Michael Jarvis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-11 PhD Research in History Matthew Lenoe 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-12 PhD Research in History Elias Mandala 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-15 PhD Research in History Joan Rubin 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-16 PhD Research in History Laura Smoller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-17 PhD Research in History Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-18 PhD Research in History Stewart Weaver 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-2 PhD Research in History Thomas Devaney 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 595-9 PhD Research in History Michael Jarvis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate level research course for the Ph.D. level. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 895-1 Continuation of Master's Enrollment – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Blank Description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 897-2 Master's Dissertation Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Blank Description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 899-02 Master's Dissertation Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Blank Description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 986V-1 Full Time Visiting Student – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Blank Description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 995-1 Continuation of Doctoral Enrollment – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Blank Description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 997-2 Doctoral Dissertation Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
HIST 999-02 Doctoral Dissertation Brianna Theobald 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
HIST 403-01 International Human Rights Jean Pedersen
What does it mean to be human? What political, economic, religious, social, or sexual rights might be part of different people's working definitions? This course will look at both a) the historical development of conflicting theories of human rights and b) more contemporary debates about their ideal extent, their exercise, and their enforcement. Special topics will include debates over the meaning of the American and French Revolutions, the fight to design an International Declaration of Human Rights in the aftermath of World War II, the history of organizations such as Amnesty International, and the controversy around UN events such as the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2000 and 2005 Millennium Summits in New York City.
HIST 424-01 History of Emotions Thomas Devaney
No description
Monday and Wednesday
HIST 488-1 Title Doctors and Devils: Literature and Medicine in Early Modernity William Miller
This course focuses on literature and medicine in the 16th and 17th centuries. It introduces students to the major medical systems of the era and explores the ways that medical theories and practices both influenced and incorporated literary representations. We will consider character, inspiration, gender, race, and erotic love, among other topics. Authors may include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Robert Burton, Thomas Browne, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Finch, Lady Montague, and members of the Royal Society.
HIST 483-01 Disease and Society from Antiquity to the Present Laura Smoller
What is the relationship between disease and the society in which it strikes? How do societies define disease, and how does culture affect the treatment of the sick? How have scholars written the history of disease? In this research seminar, students will explore such questions by examining interactions between disease and society in western cultures from antiquity through the present, at the same time pondering what this insight can tell us as we face the frightening prospect of new killers like Ebola and resistant strains of old diseases like tuberculosis. Throughout, the course will insist that the experience of disease is not simply a biological fact, but is conditioned by the culture in which we live.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Tuesday
HIST 502-1 Dissertation Writers' Seminar Thomas Devaney
The purpose of this course is to help students launch their dissertation projects and its chief outcome will be the dissertation prospectus. To that end, we will work on identifying topics, locating primary sources, engaging with the research literature, finding and applying for external research funding, and drafting and revising the prospectus. We will also discuss related topics, such as archival research practices and presenting work in progress at conferences and other meetings. This course is envisioned as a collaborative enterprise; though each student will focus on their own project, peer support and feedback will be an important part of all we do.
Tuesday and Thursday
HIST 457-01 Developing Latin America Molly Ball
What does it mean for a country to be developed? Developing? Underdeveloped? And who decides what it means to be developed? To explore these questions over the course of the late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this upper-level seminar centers its focus on the ideological home of dependency theory, Latin America. We will explore how internal tensions manifested in competing local, regional, and national visions of development. We will examine how foreign interests, international humanitarian, and NGO goals intersected with and challenged Latin American efforts. Through weekly readings and a final, independent research paper, students will be challenged to rethink their understanding of development.
Wednesday
HIST 446-01 East Asia and the Cold War Michael Hayata
This course probes the regional dynamics of the Cold War in East Asia by examining the histories of China, Japan, and South and North Korea during the second half of the twentieth century. It uses primary and secondary works – including literature, film, and government documents – to explore the domestic and international contexts that shaped the region’s geopolitical landscape. Students will first study patterns of state control across East Asia in the form of rapid industrialization, land reform, and mass culture. They will then create dialogue between popular experiences of these social transformations by analyzing the alternative politics of such movements as the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Japanese peace movement, and South Korean democracy movement in relation to the Cold War world system.
Thursday
HIST 447-01 Archives and Absences: Writing from the Margins of History Melanie Chambliss
How do archival absences impact what we know about the past? How should these silences shape the histories we write? This course will explore the process of historical production through critical archival studies. We will discuss how “the archive” documents power dynamics in the past and present. We will read histories and theories of archives’ construction and examine different approaches to recovering African diasporic history. Researchers have turned to microhistory, memoir, fiction, theory, and other methods or genres to address archival absences, and we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these choices. By the end of the semester, students will be familiar with key voices within critical archival scholarship and postmodernist theories of history, and students will learn different techniques for addressing absences in their own research.