Classes

Professor Paulina Alberto and Professor Alejandro de la Fuente. This seminar studies contemporary struggles over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and...

Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. This course offers student to put their social scientific research and writing skills to work on actual asylum cases. Working in teams, students will collaborate with law students and professors at the Immigration and Asylum Clinic at...

Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. This course is designed to help graduate and advanced undergraduate students acquire a basic grounding in key texts, events, periods, and debates in the history of Latina/o/x people in North America since European colonization. The goal is...

Professor Kirsten Weld. During the late 20th century, much of Latin America was engulfed by intense political conflict, the legacies of which still resonate. Focusing on Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, and Guatemala, this course comparatively examines these periods of...

Professor Kirsten Weld. Surveys the complex, mutually constitutive, and often thorny relationship - characterized by suspicion and antagonism, but also by fascination and desire - between the United States and the diverse republics south of the Rio Grande. Examines public...

Professor Tamar Herzog. This course is an introductory survey of European Early Modern history, from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century. Organized chronologically and thematically, it examines developments from the late Middle Ages to the Age of Revolutions...

Professor Tamar Herzog. This course is an introductory survey of colonial Latin American history, spanning the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Organized chronologically and thematically, it will examine developments in Spanish and Portuguese America by reading...

Professor Paulina Alberto and Professor Alejandro de la Fuente. This seminar studies contemporary struggles over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and...

Professor Alejandro de la Fuente. “Race,” most social scientists and well-informed people agree, is a social construction with no basis in biology. It is an invention, a political instrument of power and subordination, deployed to naturalize social hierarchies. Yet “race”...

Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. This course assists students to develop an informed analysis of the current political debate through investigation of the legal history of immigration since founding of the republic. Students analyze the ways that histories of race, gender...

Professor Alejandro de la Fuente. This course seeks to explain why social revolutions have taken place in Latin America and analyzes their impact on the region. The objective is for students to gain a critical understanding of the origins, development, and impact of...

Professor Kirsten Weld. This course explores the history of Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the importance of historical approaches to understanding critical phenomena in contemporary Mexican affairs. Topics covered include colonial legacies, race and...