Classes

Professor: Kirsten Weld. This course surveys Latin America from its 19th-century independence movements through the present day. How did the powerful legacies of European colonialism, and the neocolonial economic order that emerged to replace it, shape the Americas' new...

Professor: Kirsten Weld. In this seminar, participants will use archival resources available at Harvard to carry out original research on a topic of their choice related to the seminar theme of history and memory in Latin America. Early sessions will be devoted to a series...

Professor: Alejandro de la Fuente. This course focuses on the history of "race" as a category of difference and explores why "race" has become a globally-accepted idiom to classify humans. It assesses the prominent roles that science and scientists have played in the process...

Professor: Alejandro de la Fuente. This seminar surveys the booming historiographies of slavery and the law in Latin America, the United States, and Africa. Earlier generations of scholars relied heavily on European legal traditions to draw sharp contrasts between U.S. and...

Professor: 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...

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: 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: Tamar Herzog - This course examines how our image of Latin American past(s) had changed in last decades in order to introduce students to some of the major debates and recent developments in history and the art of history-making. Among other things, we will...

Professor: Tamar Herzog - This is a survey course of the history of European law from the fall of the Roman Empire (5th century) to the establishment of the European Union and debates on Human Rights (20th century). Organized chronologically, it engages with the sources and...

Professor Alejandro de la Fuente - Students in this seminar cross listed in History will work with the editor of Transition to design, edit, and produce the journal. Housed at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research (http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard...

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...