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 ethnicity, the Mexican Revolution, the border, nation-building and development, Mexico-US relations, popular culture, economic crisis, the Zapatista rebellion, narco-violence and the "war on drugs," and migration.

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 - 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 policy, US expansionism and empire, popular culture and consumption, competing economic development models, migration, tourism, the Cold War, sovereignty, dissent, and contrasting visions of democratic citizenship.

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 worldwide. Words appear to have lost the prestige of referring to facts or interpretations presented in good faith and based on discourses of proof which, however contested, meant the recognition of a certain shared terrain of disputation. History as a form of knowledge has been affected by the... Read more about FRSEMR 71I - Thinking About History in a Post-Truth World

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 and intellectual traditions. The course will focus primarily on the evidence regarding changes in the politics of social dominance in the period from slavery and paternalism to the worlds and meanings of "free" labor. Questions of class, gender and race in the general context of defining and setting new... Read more about HIST 1930 - Literature and Social History: A View from Brazil

Prof. 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, including the passage from feudalism to urban institutions, the Renaissance, European Expansion overseas, the Protestant and the Catholic Reformations, the Scientific Revolution, the Rise of Absolutism, slavery, the Enlightenment, and Revolutions. Meetings will alternate between lecture and discussion of primary... Read more about HIST 1155 - Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789

Prof.  Tamar Herzog - This course examines some of the main debates in Colonial Latin American History. Among other things, we will discuss issues such as conquest and resistance, the construction and administration of differences (such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion), the use of organizing concepts such crisis, decline, and corruption, the contribution of Atlantic, global and comparative history, subaltern studies and postcolonialism to the study of colonial Latin America, the persistence of a black legend, and so forth.

Prof.  Alejandro de la Fuente and Prof. 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 scholars to share their own work and learn about the scholarship of others in a workshop form (inA the spring). In 2016-2017 we will discuss how differences were defined, negotiated, represented, and challenged in colonial Latin American, creating both inclusion and exclusion. Among differences... Read more about HIST 2525A - Administrating Differences in Latin America: Historical Approaches

Prof. Alejandro de la Fuente and Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong - 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 Latin American slavery. The most recent scholarship, however, approaches the legal history of slavery through slaves' legal initiatives and actions. These initiatives were probably informed by the Africans' legal cultures, as many of them came from societies where slavery was... Read more about HIST 2707 - Comparative Slavery & the Law: Africa, Latin America, & the US

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 of the origins, development, and impact of revolutionary movements in Latin America during the twentieth century.  The course examines several case studies, which may include Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, and the so-called "Bolivarian...

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