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Department of History
SPRING 2017
Courses
Faculty Members
Modern Russia; Modern Central/Eastern
Europe
Modern America, Women in the U.S.,
Medicine and Society in the U.S.
U.S. in the World, International History,
Modern U.S. History
Middle East
Nineteenth-century U.S., African
American, Native American
Modern France in the World, Colonial
West Africa
South Asia, the Muslim World
Japan
Modern South Asia, Modern Germany,
Intellectual History
Rachel Applebaum
Assistant Professor
Virginia G. Drachman
Professor
David Ekbladh
Associate Professor
Leila Fawaz
Professor
Kendra Field
Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Foster
Associate Professor
Ayesha Jalal
Gary P. Leupp
Professor
Professor
Kris Manjapra
Associate Professor
Beatrice F. Manz
Professor, Department Chair Middle East and Inner Asia
Steven P. Marrone
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
Jeanne Marie Penvenne
Professor
Professor
Professor
David Proctor
Senior Lecturer
Alisha Rankin
Associate Professor
James Rice
Visiting Professor
Hugh Roberts
Professor
Reed Ueda
Peter Winn
Man Xu
Professor
Professor
Assistant Professor
Medieval, Early Modern Europe
Armenia and Cross-Cultural World
Africa
Late Antique & Medieval Western
Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe,
Papal-Imperial relations
Early Modern Europe
Early American, Native American and
environmental history
North African and Middle Eastern
History, North Africa, Middle East
Industrial and Urban U.S., Immigration
Latin American
Chinese history
Part-Time Lecturer
Part-Time Lecturer
Part-Time Lecturer
Part-Time Lecturer
American History
Europe
Latin American
African-American History
Lecturers
Adrian Brettle
Robert Cross
Rodolfo Fernandez
Kerri Greenidge
Spring 2017 History Department Course Listings
Foundations Seminars (High Demand, Open to undergraduates only.)
Course #
Course Title
Professor
90
Foundation Seminars, World/Transregional: Great Crisis (7 W 1:30-4 PM)
Ekbladh
93
Foundation Seminars, North America: Coney Island to the Hollywood Sign (0 M 9-11:30 AM)
Ueda
96
Rankin
Course #
Foundation Seminars, Europe: History of the Book (3 R 9-11:30 AM)
Research Seminars (High Demand, Graduate Students by special permission only.)
Course Title
190
Research Seminar, World/Transregional: Cold War (2 W 9-11:30 AM)
Applebaum
190
Research Seminar, World/Transregional: Travel Writing and History (6 T 1:30-4 PM)
Baghdiantz McCabe
192
Research Seminar, Latin America: Contemporary Chile in Comparative Perspective (6+ T 1:20-4:20)
Winn
Professor
Course #
Research Seminar, North America: Colonial/Revolutionary America and the Atlantic World
(2+ W 8:30-11:30 AM)
Survey Courses (Open to undergraduates only.)
Course Title
12
Science and Technology in World History (I+ M/W 3-4:15 PM)
Rankin
13
Reconstructing Africa’s Past to 1850 (A+ M/W 8:05 -9:20 AM)
Penvenne
23
Colonial North America & The Atlantic World To 1763 (H+T/R 1:30-2:45 PM)
Rice
29
U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1900 (E+ M/W 10:30-11:45 AM)
Ekbladh
41
Modern Chinese History (D+ T/R 10:30-11:45 AM)
Xu
43
Japan Since 1868 (E M/W/F 10:30-11:20 AM)
Leupp
54
Europe since 1815 (G+ M/W 1:30-2:45 PM)
Proctor
62
Reform & Revolution: Late Imperial Russia & the Soviet Union (I+ M/W 3-4:15 PM)
Applebaum
65
Great Britain And The British Empire (K+ M/W 4:30-5:45 PM)
Cross
71
Middle East and North Africa since WWI (K+ M/W 4:30 – 5:45 PM)
Roberts
82
Special Topics, Latin America: Latino/Latina History (J+ T/R 3-4:15 PM)
Fernandez
83
Special Topics, North America: The United States after 1865 (0 M 9-11:30 AM)
Special Topics, North America: African American Politics from Slavery to Black Power
(K+ M/W 4:30-5:45 PM)
Special Topics, Middle East/Central Asia: Algeria since 1900 (G+ M/W 1:30-2:45)
Brettle
193
83
87
Rice
Professor
Greenidge
Roberts
Thematic Courses (Open to undergraduates and graduate students.)
Course #
Course Title
Professor
109
Decolonization and Postcolonial Thought (G+ M/W 1:30-2:45)
Manjapra
116
Revolution in Central and South America (10+ M 6-9 PM)
Winn
135
Gender and Sexuality in Japanese History (8R 1:30-4:00 PM)
Leupp
139
Women and Gender in East Asian Tradition (7 W 1:30-4 PM)
Xu
156
Science, Magic, and Society, 1100-1700 (J+T/R 3-4:15 PM)
Marrone
157
Empresses, Saints, and Scholars: The Women of Byzantium (K+ M/W 4:30-5:45 PM)
Proctor
166
History of Afghanistan (8 R 1:30-4 PM)
Advanced Special Topics, North America: African American Freedom Trail: Race and Citizenship in
Greater Boston from Winthrop to White (0 M 9-11:30 AM)
Manz
173
Greenidge
Graduate Courses (Open to graduate students only.)
Course #
Course Title
Professor
203
Comparative Colloquia The Search for Community (1T 9-11:30 AM)
Ueda
Foundations Seminars
HIST. 90 – Great Crisis
David Ekbladh
Block 7 W 1:30 – 4:00 pm
Three critical eras—the Great Depression, World War II, and the start of the Cold War—constitute a hinge moment in the
global history of the 20th Century. However, historians commonly treat each as separate epochs. Emphasizing new historical
perspectives and methodologies this course will explore the three as one interrelated crisis. Big interlocking questions about
ideology, the shape of society, the individual, and the composition of the international system were argued with means
ranging from propaganda to total war. The outcomes of these disputes left the outlines of the world we live in today. By
repositioning our understanding of these vital events, the course explores how different styles and methods of writing history
can lead to new understandings of well-known historical events. We will also critically discuss how historical research can
support different assertions on the same issue. Beyond basics of craft, a goal of the course is to expose them to the plural
nature of history and historical debate.
HIST. 93 – Coney Island to the Hollywood Sign (Communities and Cultures)
Reed Ueda
Block 0 M 9:00 – 11:30am
Comparisons between communities in the industrializing north and the globalizing west of the twentieth century.
Exploration of inter-regional cultural continuity and innovation.
HIST. 96 – History of the Book
Alisha Rankin
Block 3 R 9:00 – 11:30 am
This class traces the development of the European book from medieval manuscripts to the focus on the book in the
Renaissance. The main topics discussed will be: the book before print; the social, technical and economic developments that
led to the invention of print; the aftermath of printing and the spread of the book trade; "print culture" and the extent of its
effects on religious, scientific, and social changes in the Renaissance; developments in printing and the book trade through the
nineteenth century; and the effects of the internet on the book and printing. Throughout the class we will discuss the impact
of digitalization on studying the book in pre-modern Europe. In addition to teaching students the subject material of book
history, as a Foundation seminar, this class will also impart crucial historical skills. Students will learn to use different kinds
of primary sources, to distinguish between primary and secondary sources, to examine secondary sources carefully for the
author's argument, to use Tufts' rare books collection, and to create a set of sources for writing a history paper. Our series of
short assignments aim to build these skills.
Research Seminars
HIST. 190 – The Cold War
Rachel Applebaum
Block 2
W 9:00 - 11:30 am
The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was the defining geopolitical conflict of the second half of the
twentieth century. This research seminar will provide an in-depth chronological and thematic examination of the Cold War.
We will analyze some of the key political events of the conflict, including the postwar division of Europe, the Sovietization of
Eastern Europe, the development of nuclear weapons, the construction of the Berlin Wall, détente, and the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan. We will also examine how the Cold War impacted social and cultural life in the two superpowers, including
family structure, gender and race relations, popular culture, and consumption. While the course will focus primarily on the
Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and the United States, we will devote some attention to how the Cold War shaped the
superpowers’ relations with recently decolonized countries in Africa and Asia. This course will demand significant class
participation, reading, and writing. Throughout the semester, students will work on a major research paper. Students with
backgrounds in Latin American, Middle Eastern, Asian, or African history are welcome to take the course so long as they
select a research topic related to the Cold War.
HIST. 190 – Travel Writing and History
Baghdiantz-McCabe
Block 6
T 1:30 – 4:00 pm
This research seminar examines the literary roots of historiography. Travel accounts and their major influence in shaping
historiography, from Marco Polo, to colonial reports, to travelogues and journalism today. The focus is on how cross-cultural
encounters and exchanges shaped historiography, revolutionary writing and political philosophy in Europe and how narrative
style and description still shapes historical text. Travel descriptions of Europe, the New World, Persia, India and China and
Africa, some integrated into later historical texts are used as primary sources. Sources include text; early maps, photographs
and documentary film are analyzed. Several short oral and written papers. Sources are analyzed for views of the "other", views
of the world, post-colonial issues of representation, Orientalist discourse, expressions of racism, sexism, imperialism and
colonialism.
HIST. 192 - Contemporary Chile in Comparative Perspective
Peter Winn
Block 6+
T 1:20 – 4:20 pm
The history of Chile since World War II, years in which it was a laboratory for successive economic, social and political
experiments. Populism before revolution, counter-revolution, authoritarianism, neo-liberalism and the restoration of
democracy. The experience of Chile will be compared to that of other countries of the region; comparative research papers are
encouraged. Students’ research papers would be based on primary as well as secondary sources; a reading knowledge of
Spanish is strongly recommended.
HIST. 193 – Colonial/Revolutionary America and the Atlantic World
James Rice
Block 2+
W 8:30 – 11:30 am
This research seminar examines early America in the broadest possible sense. Though Britain's American colonies are at its
core, our readings, discussions, and research projects will consider them in the context of the Atlantic World, Native America,
and French, Spanish, and Dutch colonization; the chronology will range from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Students will research and write a substantial paper, on a topic of their choosing, within these broad parameters.
Survey Courses
HIST. 12 – Science and Technology in World History
Alisha Rankin
Block I+
M/W 3:00 -4:15 pm
A broad survey of the history of science from the ancient world to the 20th century. The course places a particular emphasis on
the wider context of global trade, knowledge sharing, and colonialism throughout the development of scientific thought.
Topics and themes include: science in ancient Babylonia, Greece, China, and India; Islamic science and its influence on
medieval Europe; Mayan science; the discovery of the New World and its influence on conceptual and philosophical changes of
the "Scientific Revolution"; globalization and colonialism; Darwin and human evolution; science and religion; race, science,
and eugenics; science and warfare. Students will be challenged to consider the processes involved in the development of
scientific theories and the ways in which global developments affected (and continue to affect) scientific thought.
HIST. 13 – Reconstructing Africa’s Past to 1850
Jeanne Penvenne
Block A+
M/W 8:05 – 9:20 am
African history and culture from earliest times to the eve of European imperial expansion in Africa. Early patterns of
settlement and cultural interaction; origins of African states; development of regional trading systems; the nature and impact
of Africa's shifting participation in global trade.
HIST. 23 – Colonial North America & The Atlantic World to 1763
James Rice
Block H+
T/R 1:30 – 2:45pm
European imperialism and the creation of colonial societies in North America. Transatlantic perspective on religious,
economic, and political forces joining Europe, Africa, and America. American society's emergence within Spanish, French,
Dutch, and British empires. Trade, slavery, race, and ethnicity; family and community; work and economy; politics and war.
HIST. 29 – U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1900
David Ekbladh
Block E+
M/W 10:30 – 11:45 am
The rise of the United States to global preeminence over the course of the twentieth century is a fundamental element of
recent international history. This transition had a profound impact on global life as well as the United States itself. This
course will trace those changes.
HIST. 41 – Modern Chinese History
Man Xu
Block D+
T/R 10:30 – 11:45 pm
The history of modern China from the dynamic seventeenth-century of the Ming Dynasty to the social backlash against
market economic reforms of the 1980s. Lectures and discussions provide a big picture survey of historical chronology and
important historiographical debates in Chinese history, as well as opportunities for in-depth investigation into selected
materials and topics that illuminate the everyday lives of Chinese people.
HIST. 43 – Japan since 1868
Gary Leupp
Block E
M/W/F 10:30 – 11:20 am
From the eve of the Meiji Restoration to the twentieth century. Topics include the unequal treaties with Western powers, the
Meiji Restoration, early industrialization, growth of the imperialist state, fascism, war, defeat, recovery, and recent role as a
member of the Western camp.
HIST. 54 – Europe since 1815
David Proctor
Block G+
M/W 1:30 – 2:45 pm
The forces that shaped and characterized the history of Eastern and Western Europe from the Congress of Vienna into the
contemporary era. Topics include nationalism, ethnic consciousness, the Industrial Revolution, political ideologies, the
development of nation-states, Great Power diplomacy, the impact of the "Eastern Question," the disruptions of the First and
Second World Wars, and the current conditions of the European states.
HIST. 62 - Reform & Revolution: Late Imperial Russia & the Soviet Union
Rachel Applebaum
Block I+
M/W 3:00 – 4:15 pm
An introduction to modern Russia from the “great reforms” of the mid-19th century until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Topics to be covered include the emancipation of the serfs; late imperial society, politics, and culture; revolutionary
movements; national minorities and nationalities policy in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union; the Russian Revolution
and Civil War; Stalinism; World War II and the Holocaust on Soviet territory; the Cold War; de-Stalinization and the Thaw;
the impact of Western culture on Soviet society; Soviet engagement with the Third World; Brezhnev and the era of stagnation;
perestroika and the end of the Communist system. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of primary sources, including
government documents, fiction, diaries, propaganda posters, and films.
HIST. 65 – Great Britain and the British Empire
Robert Cross
Block K+
M/ W 4:30 – 5:45 pm
The growth of British world power after the loss of America in the late 18th century, and its domestic social, economic, and
political context. War, patriotism, and the popular culture of imperialism. Decolonization, immigration, and the search for a
post-imperial identity after the Second World War.
HIST. 71 – Middle East and North Africa since WW1
Hugh Roberts
Block K+
M/W 4:30 – 5:45 am
Major themes of the history of the region in light of long-term historical and cultural trends, including the impact of the West,
World War I and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, the emergence of nation states, the role of Islam in a changing
society, tradition and revolution, the oil boom, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
HIST. 82 –Latino/Latina History
Rodolfo Fernandez
Block J+
T/R 3:00 – 4:15 pm
This class introduces students to the complex histories of Latinos in the United States. The first section of the class will focus
on the historical roots of Latino communities, particularly along the region that today is the U.S.-Mexico border. The second
part of this class analyzes the histories, cultures, and current socio-political realities of Latino communities in the United
States beyond the border. The last segment of the class will also focus on current issues affecting Latinos. By approaching the
subject from these different perspectives and methodologies, and by using readings and texts that range from historical
documents to television programs, this class will serve as a general introduction while avoiding homogenizing the rich and
complicated details of Latino histories.
HIST. 83 – The United States after 1865
Adrian Brettle
Block 0
M 9:00 – 11:30 am
This course is an interpretive survey of American History covering the fourteen decades since the end of the Civil War. The
main topics are the creation of a huge capitalist market economy, the ascent of the U.S. to world power and engagement in
world affairs, and the domestic challenge of keeping a mass society democratic—how to balance the preservation of individual
liberty with the growth of government power. The course will combine lecture and discussion of a range of primary sources,
including two novels, in order to investigate both the individual experience and the long-term forces in history. In particular,
the class will examine the social and economic changes wrought by Reconstruction and Progressivism on the nation.
Attention will be given to the causes, experience, and outcomes of the two world wars. We will debate the background to the
Great Depression and the effectiveness of the New Deal Program. We will discuss the difference both the Cold War and Civil
Rights Movement have made to the United States. The course will conclude with an preliminary assessment of the impact of
both terrorism and globalization on American domestic and foreign policy up to the present.
HIST. 83 - African American Politics from Slavery to Black Power
Kerri Greenidge
Block K+
M/ W 4:30 – 5:45 pm
Between ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, and passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, millions of AfricanAmericans transformed from slaves to free people, non-citizens to citizens, and "problem" to leading advocates for expanded
civil rights. This course examines the contested meaning of this transformation through various strands of African-American
political thought and the historical, cultural, and racial contexts from which this thought emerged. Special attention will be
paid to the African-American literary tradition, black women's rights, and racial uplift politics.
HIST. 87 – Algeria since 1900
Hugh Roberts
Block G+
M/W 1:30 – 2:45 pm
This course examines the revolutionary transformation of Algeria in the course of the 20th century and the subsequent
political history of the independent state from 1962 to the present. Beginning with an examination of the character of the
colonial system, we will consider the development of Algerian anti-colonialism and nationalism from the 1920s onwards, the
war of liberation (1954-62) and the character of the National Liberation Front (FLN) and its armed forces (ALN), the Ben Bella
regime (1962-5), the Boumediène regime (1965-78), its development strategy and foreign policy, the Chadli regime (1979-92)
and the growth of domestic protest, the Kabyle question, the riots of 1988 and the political opening of 1988-1991, the descent
into violence (1992-2002), the Zeroual and Bouteflika presidencies (1993-98 and 1999 to present) and the current succession
crisis.
Thematic Courses
HIST. 109 - Decolonization and Postcolonial Thought
Kris Manjapra
Block G+
M/W 1:30 – 2:45 pm
Third World and postcolonial theorists, including Guha, Spivak, Said, Gramsci, Hall, Chatterjee, Mohanty. Study
of structures of colonialism, modes of resistance, and the processes of creative response among the colonized.
Analysis of large-scale developments in the rise of modern global empires. Study of local and transnational social
and cultural forces that critique, resist or counteract imperialism. Close reading of works by Marx, Fanon and
Foucault. Analysis of capital and power. Attention to gender and sexuality, ideas about selfhood and
subjectivity, forms of subordination.
HIST. 116 - Revolution in Central and South America
Peter Winn
Block 10+
M 6:00 -9:00 PM
A comparative study in historical perspective of the causes, course, and consequences of revolution and counterrevolution in
twentieth-century Central and South America.
HIST. 135 – Gender and Sexuality in Japanese History
Gary Leupp
Block 8 R 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Discussion of ancient matriarchy, marriage customs, the status of women in ancient courtly and medieval military society,
female samurai, childhood, initiation rites, monastic and samurai homosexuality, male and female prostitution, ruling-class
"deployment" of sexuality, and the appeal of androgyny in theatre and other arts.
HIST. 139 –Women and Gender in East Asian Tradition
Man Xu
Block 7
W 1:30 – 4:00 pm
How women made history and how history made women. An international and comparative study of women and gender in
traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean societies from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries. Women’s multiple roles in
political, economic, legal, social, intellectual, and literary history.
HIST. 156 - Science, Magic, and Society, 1100-1700
Steve Marrone
Block J+
T/R 3:00 – 4:15 pm
Western European intellectual and cultural history from the twelfth-century Renaissance to the scientific revolution: the
development of a rationalist worldview among intellectuals, the persistence of magic among the lower classes, and the
phenomenon of the witch craze in the seventeenth century.
HIST. 157 – Empresses, Saints, and Scholars: The Women of Byzantium
David Proctor
Block K+
M/W 4:30 – 5:45 pm
Examination of the themes of political legitimacy, spirituality, education, gender roles, the spread of Byzantine culture, and
the evolution of Christian theology through a careful study of the lives of various women of the Byzantine world. This will
include examination of the lives of women of the Byzantine Empire, Southeastern Europe, Russia, Western Europe, the
kingdoms of Armenia and the Ottoman Empire.
HIST. 166 – History of Afghanistan
Beatrice Manz
Block 8
R 1:30 – 4:00 pm
History, society, and culture of Afghanistan. Ethnic groups and ways of life. History from Alexander the Great to the Taliban,
with emphasis on modern. Formation of the afghan state in the 18th century, 19th century imperial politics, Cold War, Soviet
invasion, civil war.
HIST. 173 –African American Freedom Trail: Race and Citizenship in Greater Boston from Winthrop to White
Kerri Greenidge
Block 0
M 9:00 – 11:30 am
Boston is a city of contradictions – political liberalism marked by racial tension; economic opportunity punctuated by wealth
and racial disparity. This course explores Boston’s diverse history through the African-American communities that have lived
in the area since the 17th Century. Special attention will be paid to site visits, independent student research, and the
compilation of a historical archive of African-American communities in greater Boston as part of Tufts / Medford African
American Freedom Trail.
Graduate Courses
HIST. 203 – Comparative Colloquia: The Search for Community
Reed Ueda
Block 1
T 9:00 – 11:30 am
The questions-- “What is a community?” and “Who are the community?” --explored in comparative historical perspective.
Origins of nations, relation of culture and community, and the ties of regionalism and community.