Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

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 is a conference course on the history of law in Europe (including both England and the Continent, as well as Europe’s overseas domains) from the fall of the Roman Empire (5th century) to the establishment of the European...

Professor Kirsten Weld. As the adage goes, “All wars are fought twice: the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” This seminar interrogates the relationship between history and memory by analyzing how modern societies have chosen to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Professor Sidney Chalhoub. This course will analyze major themes in the social and political history of Brazil from Independence (1822) to the present. Themes to be addressed are the following: Independence, colonial legacies and national identity; state...

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...