Courses

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 of...

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 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, and impact of...

Professor Tamar Herzog. This workshop aims to provide students with an historical perspective on the phenomenon of legal pluralism world-wide, but with a focus on the medieval and early modern worlds, Europe and its colonies. Assignments and class discussions will feature a...

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...

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 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 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...

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 Community (20th century)...

Professors Emmanuel Akyeampong and 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...

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, and impact of...

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...