Classes

Professor Kirsten Weld. Latin America's "dirty wars" generated intense struggles over historical memory. Course focuses on Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and comparatively examines how societies reckon with bloody recent pasts that are anything but settled...

Professor Sidney Chalhoub. This course seeks to analyze the ways in which Machado de Assis, the most important Brazilian novelist of all times, appropriated the European tradition of the novel of adultery. In doing so, he sought to discuss literary models (realism)...

Professor Tamar Herzog. This course examines how Europeans interacted with those they considered different inside and outside Europe during the Medieval and the Early Modern periods. Reading will alternate between primary and secondary sources.

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 Sidney Chalhoub. Of the estimated 12.5 million people taken from Africa to be enslaved in the Americas, 4.9 million went to Brazil alone (in contrast to about 450 thousand who arrived in the United States). The black population in the country today is the second...

Professors Alejandro de la Fuente and Tamar Herzog. The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop is a yearlong research seminar and workshop that meets every other week to study a central question in Latin American history (in the fall) and provide opportunities for...

Prof. Sidney Chalhoub - The objective of this course is to study major authors and works of nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction. Writing fiction from a spot deemed to be in the "periphery" of the western world meant a difficult and complex engagement with European literary...

Prof. Sidney Chalhoub - We live in a world of polarized, post-truth politics. Blatant lies are major components of public discourse. It seems that the phenomenon is global, accompanied by a resurgence of hate politics, expressed, for example, in the strengthening of racism...

Prof. Kirsten Weld - This seminar provides a critical examination of the documentary and archival forms that lie at the heart of historical knowledge production. Readings span disciplinary boundaries, geographic regions, and time periods.

Prof. 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...

Prof. Alejandro de la Fuente. Cross-listed with African & African American Studies. 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...

Professor Alejandro de la Fuente. This yearlong seminar introduces students to current questions and debates in the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America, from the colonial period to the present. Our seminar answers the call, issued by anthropologist Peter Wade (1997)...