Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...