# American Studies ## expand\_more The following 2026-2027 courses count for concentration credit in the American Studies field. In most cases, this means that at least 50% of the material in the course relates directly to the student’s field. If you find a course that you think is well-suited to your own particular course of study, but that does not appear on the list, please petition the Committee on Instruction for credit, keeping in mind the 50% guideline. **This Courses that Count list was updated on March 17, 2026.** Look to the key below to determine which courses can count towards specific field requirements. Click on the requirement term to see a short list of courses that fulfill that field requirement. If you have any questions, please direct them to Assistant Director Nick Bloom. "F" indicates a course offered during the fall semester. "Sp" indicates a course offered during the spring semester. **Key to Requirements:** **Pre-1865****:** [Pre-1865 in American Studies](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/CTC-america#by-requirements) **1865-1945:** [1865-1945 in American Studies ](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/CTC-america#by-requirements) **A:** [Transnational: Diaspora/Migration/Empire](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/CTC-america#by-requirements) **B:** [Ethnic/Racial Diversity in US History or Literature](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/CTC-america#by-requirements) **C:** [Gender/Sexuality in US History or Literature](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/CTC-america#by-requirements) - AAAS 10 Introduction to African American Studies. McCarthy. **1865 - 1945** **(B)** F & SP - AAAS 12 Intro to Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Henry. **(A)** F - AAAS 108 Black Religion and Sexuaity. Greene-Hayes.. **(B)** **(C)** Sp - AAAS 118x The Black American Experience through Film. Eatmon.. **(B)** Sp - AAAS 119x Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food.. Martin.. **(A)(B)** Sp - AAAS 123Z American Democracy. Stauffer & Unger. **1865 - 1945** **(B)** Sp - AAAS 130x Richard Wright: Literature, Philosophy, and Politics. Shelby. **(B)** F - AAAS 134y The Philosophy and Politics of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Terry. **(B)** F - AAAS 146x A Black History of Electronic Dance Music. Aumoithe.. **(B)** F - AAAS 154y African American Fraternal Associations in US Society and Politics. Skopol. **1865 - 1945** **(B)** F - AAAS 170z Harvard Square; Social History of Cambridge, MA. Blier. F - AAAS 179x Abolition, Then and Now. Johnson. **Pre-1865** **(B)** Sp - AAAS 185y Made to Feel: Race & Affect in the Americas. Henry. **(A)(B)** Sp - AAAS 191x African American Lives in the Law.. TBA. **(B)** Sp - Anthropology 1435 Challenging Collections: Critical Reflections on Collecting Through Harvard's History. Loren. Sp - Anthropology 1900 Counseling as Colonization?. Gone. **(B)** Sp - English 90as The American Short Story. Kim.. **(1865 - 1945)** F - English 90fd The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Stauffer. **Pre-1865 (B)** Sp - English 90ff Indigenous Sci Fi, Horror, Fantasy, and Futurisms. Pexa. **(B)** Sp - English 90fg Faulkner and the Southern Gothic. Hopkinson. **1865-1945** F - English 90mnp Monsters and Power: Indigenous and Writers of Color Reimagine the Monstrous. **(B)** Sp - English 90ww Walt Whitman. Burt. **Pre-1865** F - English 168d Postwar American and British Fiction. Wood. Sp - English 170a High and Low in Postwar America. Menand. Sp - English 170se American Literature & the Environmental Imagination. Hopkinson. F - English 172m Immigrant Literature. Carpio. **(A)** **(B)** Sp - English 175m Melville. Stauffer. **Pre-1865** F - English 181al Introduction to Asian American Literature. Kim. **(A)(B)** Sp - English 185rj Race, Speech, and the Law. Menand. F - English 187aa The Aesthetics of Athletics. Stauffer. Sp - English 188n Beyond Settler Borders: an Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies. Pexa. **(B)** F - EMR 158 Land, Labor, Legacies: New Perspectives on Black and Indigenous Histories. TBA. **(B)** Sp - EMR 174 Mashpee and Harvard: Braided Histories. Braude. **(B)** F - EMR 179 Afro-Latinidades & World Diasporas. TBA. **(A)** **(B)** Sp - EMR 181 LatinX Medical Humanities. TBA. **(A)** **(B)** Sp - Folklore and Mythology 125 Introduction to the Indigenous Oral Literatures of the Northwest Coast of North America. Frim. **(B)** Sp - Folklore and Mythology 172 Quilts and Quiltmaking. Lufkin. **(1865-1945)** **(C)** Sp - Folklore and Mythology 176 Tattoo: Histories and Practices. Lufkin. F - General Education 1019 The Caribbean Crucible: Colonialism, Capitalism and Post-Colonial Misdevelopment In The Region. Patterson. **(B)** F - General Education 1052 Race in a Polarized America. Hochschild. **(B)** F - General Education 1089 The Border: Race, Politics, and Health in Modern Mexico. Soto Laveaga. **(A)** **(B)** F - General Education 1115 Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World. Patterson. **(pre-1865)(A)** Sp - General Education 1133 Is the US Civil War Still Being Fought? Stauffer. **(pre-1865) (B)** F - General Education 1176 Sexuality in Literature: From Giovanni's Room to Fun Home. Schlossberg. **(C)** Sp - Government 94aa American Political Thought. Ecker. Sp - Government 94gc African American Politics. Gay. **(B)** Sp - Government 94mr The Politics of Immigration. Roman. Sp - Government 1317 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States. Lee and Roman. **(pre-1865)** Sp - History 25 Native American and Indigenous Studies: An Introduction. Deloria. **(A)** Sp - History 26 Latin America and the United States. Weld. **(A)** F - History 63 Afro-Indigenous Intersections in Early America. Miles.**(Pre-1865)** **(B)** Sp - History 65 The Black American Experience since 1865. Eatmon. **(1865 - 1945)** **(B)** Sp - History 67 The United States and World Order since 1900. Manela. **(A)** F - History 73 Environmental History of the United States. Deloria. F **(Pre-1865)** - History 74 Canadian-American Relations, 1900 to the present. TBA. **(A)** F - History 78 American Legal History, 1776 - 1865. Gordon-Reed. **Pre-1865** Sp - History 164 Romancing the Archive: Romance Fiction in Historical and Cultural Context. Miles. **(B)** **(C)**F - History 175 US History: Major Themes in the Twentieth Century. McGirr. F - History 188 Ecologies of American Empire: the United States and Global Environments, 1898 - 2000. Ruamcharoen. **(A)** Sp - History 1957 Healthcare and the Welfare State. Aumoithe. **(B)** Sp - History 1976 The American Revolution and its Legacies. Gordon-Reed. **(pre-1865)** F - History and Literature 10 Introduction to Cultural Studies. Allan and Allison. Sp - History and Literature 90dv Red Scares. Biel. Sp - History and Literature 90hd Literatures of the Displaced: Diasporic Culture in the United States. Lam-Saili. **(A)** **(B)** **(C)**F - History and Literature 90hn Soccer, Globalization, and Urban Life. Carvalho. **(A)** F - History and Literature 90ho New York Modern. Hawkey. **(1865 - 1945)** F - History and Literature 90hp Manliness & Civilization. Bloom. **(1865 - 1945)** **(B)** **(C)** F - History and Literature 90hq Cultures of Capitalism in the United States. von Stackelberg. **(1865 - 1945)** F - History and Literature 93aa Queer Archives. Kaminsky. **(B)** **(C)** Sp - History of Art and Architecture 172v Unseen Black Art. Lewis. **(B)** Sp - History of Art and Architecture 177p The Language of Photography in the USA. Kelsey. Sp - History of Science 1450 The Mind Has No Sex: The History of Women in Science in the US. Hammonds. **(C)** Sp - History of Science 1458 Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: A History of Health Disparities in America. Hammonds. **(B)** **(C)** Sp - History of Science 1760 Brainwashing and Modern Techniques of Mind Control. Lemov. Sp - History of Science 1765 History of Psychedelics and Trauma. Lemov. F - History of Science 1852 Technoscience and US Politics. Aidinoff. F - History of Science 1980 Burning Books, Fighting Facts: How Individuals & Institutions Resist, Reject, and Destroy Knowledge. Oreskes. F - Religion 16 Religious Dimensions in Human Experience: Apocalypse, Sports, Music, Home, Sacrifice, Medicine. Carrasco. F - Religion 1087 Black Religion and Sexuaity. Greene-Hayes. **(B)** **(C)** Sp - Religion 1093 Racial Liberalism and the Ethics of Law and Justice. Johnson. **(B)** Sp - Religion 1497 Evangelicalism in America. Brekus. F - Religion 1556 Pragmatism and Religion: Pierce, James and Dewey. Lamberth. Sp - Religion 1562 Alternative Spiritualities in the United States. McKanan. F - Religion 1901 The Religious and Ecological Diminsons of Octavia Butler's Parable. Hoskins. **(B)** Sp - Religion 1902 American Religious Ecofascism. Hoskins. **(B)** Sp - Sociology 1276 Fiction as Social Theory: Memory, Domination, and Resistance in the Novel. Dromi. **(B)** F - TDM 141bd Boston Goes Dancing. Quinton. Sp - TDM 194s The Show-Tune Canon Meets the No-Show Songbook. Stewart. Sp - TDM 196ss The Singer-Songwriter: Intimacy, Parasociality, and the Confessional. Hearfield. F - WGS 1133 Gender and Performance. Bernstein. **(B)** **(C)**Sp - WGS 1170 Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation, 1955 - 1975. Bronski. **(B)** **(C)**F - WGS 1424 American Fetish: Consumer Culture Encounters the Other. Light. **(B)** **(C)** Sp - WGS 1471 Art, Culture, and the Global Struggle for Black Liberation. Kothor. **(A)** **(B)** **(C)** Sp ## By Requirement Open all sections Close all sections ### Pre-1865 expand\_more - AAAS 179x Abolition, Then and Now. Johnson. **Sp** - English 90fd The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Stauffer. **Sp** - English 90ww Walt Whitman. Burt. **F** - English 175m Melville. Stauffer. **F** - General Education 1115 Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World. Patterson. **Sp** - General Education 1133 Is the US Civil War Still Being Fought? Stauffer. **(pre-1865) (B)** F - Government 1317 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States. Lee and Roman. **Sp** - History 63 Afro-Indigenous Intersections in Early America. Miles. **Sp** - History 73 Environmental History of the United States. Deloria. **F** - History 78 American Legal History, 1776 - 1865. Gordon-Reed. **Sp** - History 1976 The American Revolution and its Legacies. Gordon-Reed. **F** ### 1865-1945 expand\_more - AAAS 10 Introduction to African American Studies. McCarthy. **F &** **Sp** - AAAS 123Z American Democracy. Stauffer & Unger. **Sp** - AAAS 154y African American Fraternal Associations in US Society and Politics. Skopol. **F** - English 90as The American Short Story. Kim. **F** - History 65 The Black American Experience since 1865. Eatmon. **Sp** - History and Literature 90ho New York Modern. Hawkey. **F** - History and Literature 90hp Manliness & Civilization. Bloom. **F** - History and Literature 90hq Cultures of Capitalism in the United States. von Stackelberg. F ### Category A expand\_more **One course on transnational themes (e.g. diaspora, migration, empire) and/or comparative approaches that examines the United States in a wider, global context** - AAAS 12 Intro to Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Henry. **F** - AAAS 119x Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food. Martin. **Sp** - AAAS 185y Made to Feel: Race & Affect in the Americas. Henry. **Sp** - English 172m Immigrant Literature. Carpio. **Sp** - English 181al Introduction to Asian American Literature. Kim. **Sp** - EMR 179 Afro-Latinidades & World Diasporas. TBA. **Sp** - EMR 181 LatinX Medical Humanities. TBA. **Sp** - General Education 1089 The Border: Race, Politics, and Health in Modern Mexico. Soto Laveaga. **F** - General Education 1115 Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World. Patterson. **Sp** - History 25 Native American and Indigenous Studies: An Introduction. Deloria. **Sp** - History 26 Latin America and the United States. Weld. **F** - History 67 The United States and World Order since 1900. Manela. **F** - History 74 Canadian-American Relations, 1900 to the present. TBA. **F** - History 188 Ecologies of American Empire: the United States and Global Environments, 1898 - 2000. Ruamcharoen. **Sp** - History and Literature 90hd Literatures of the Displaced: Diasporic Culture in the United States. Lam-Saili. **F** - History and Literature 90hn Soccer, Globalization, and Urban Life. Carvalho. **F** - WGS 1471 Art, Culture, and the Global Struggle for Black Liberation. Kothor. **Sp** ### Category B expand\_more **One course on race and ethnicity in American Studies** - AAAS 10 Introduction to African American Studies. McCarthy. **F &** **Sp** - AAAS 108 Black Religion and Sexuaity. Greene-Hayes. **Sp** - AAAS 118x The Black American Experience through Film. Eatmon. **Sp** - AAAS 119x Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food. Martin. **Sp** - AAAS 123Z American Democracy. Stauffer & Unger. **Sp** - AAAS 130x Richard Wright: Literature, Philosophy, and Politics. Shelby. **F** - AAAS 134y The Philosophy and Politics of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Terry. **F** - AAAS 146x A Black History of Electronic Dance Music. Aumoithe. **F** - AAAS 154y African American Fraternal Associations in US Society and Politics. Skopol. **F** - AAAS 179x Abolition, Then and Now. Johnson. **F** - AAAS 185y Made to Feel: Race & Affect in the Americas. Henry. **Sp** - AAAS 191x African American Lives in the Law. TBA. **Sp** - Anthropology 1900 Counseling as Colonization? Gone. **Sp** - English 90fd The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Stauffer. **Sp** - English 90ff Indigenous Sci Fi, Horror, Fantasy, and Futurisms. Pexa. **Sp** - English 90mnp Monsters and Power: Indigenous and Writers of Color Reimagine the Monstrous. **Sp** - English 172m Immigrant Literature. Carpio. **Sp** - English 181al Introduction to Asian American Literature. Kim. **Sp** - English 188n Beyond Settler Borders: an Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies. Pexa. **F** - EMR 158 Land, Labor, Legacies: New Perspectives on Black and Indigenous Histories. TBA. **Sp** - EMR 174 Mashpee and Harvard: Braided Histories. Braude. **F** - EMR 179 Afro-Latinidades & World Diasporas. TBA. **Sp** - EMR 181 LatinX Medical Humanities. TBA. **Sp** - Folklore and Mythology 125 Introduction to the Indigenous Oral Literatures of the Northwest Coast of North America. Frim. **Sp** - General Education 1019 The Caribbean Crucible: Colonialism, Capitalism and Post-Colonial Misdevelopment In The Region. Patterson. **F** - General Education 1052 Race in a Polarized America. Hochschild. **F** - General Education 1089 The Border: Race, Politics, and Health in Modern Mexico. Soto Laveaga. **F** - General Education 1133 Is the US Civil War Still Being Fought? Stauffer. **F** - Government 94gc African American Politics. Gay. **Sp** - History 63 Afro-Indigenous Intersections in Early America. Miles. **Sp** - History 65 The Black American Experience since 1865. Eatmon. **Sp** - History 164 Romancing the Archive: Romance Fiction in Historical and Cultural Context. Miles. **F** - History 1957 Healthcare and the Welfare State. Aumoithe. **Sp** - History and Literature 90hd Literatures of the Displaced: Diasporic Culture in the United States. Lam-Saili. **F** - History and Literature 90hp Manliness & Civilization. Bloom. **F** - History and Literature 93aa Queer Archives. Kaminsky. **Sp** - History of Art and Architecture 172v Unseen Black Art. Lewis. **Sp** - History of Science 1458 Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: A History of Health Disparities in America. Hammonds. **Sp** - Religion 1087 Black Religion and Sexuaity. Greene-Hayes. **Sp** - Religion 1093 Racial Liberalism and the Ethics of Law and Justice. Johnson. **Sp** - Religion 1901 The Religious and Ecological Diminsons of Octavia Butler's Parable. Hoskins. **Sp** - Religion 1902 American Religious Ecofascism. Hoskins. **Sp** - Sociology 1276 Fiction as Social Theory: Memory, Domination, and Resistance in the Novel. Dromi. **Sp** - WGS 1133 Gender and Performance. Bernstein. **Sp** - WGS 1170 Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation, 1955 - 1975. Bronski. **F** - WGS 1424 American Fetish: Consumer Culture Encounters the Other. Light. **Sp** - WGS 1471 Art, Culture, and the Global Struggle for Black Liberation. Kothor. **Sp** ### Category C expand\_more **One course on gender and sexuality in American history and/or literature** - AAAS 108 Black Religion and Sexuality. Greene-Hayes. **Sp** - Folklore and Mythology 172 Quilts and Quiltmaking. Lufkin. **Sp** - General Education 1176 Sexuality in Literature: From Giovanni's Room to Fun Home. Schlossberg. **Sp** - History 164 Romancing the Archive: Romance Fiction in Historical and Cultural Context. Miles. **F** - History and Literature 90hd Literatures of the Displaced: Diasporic Culture in the United States. Lam-Saili. **F** - History and Literature 90hp Manliness & Civilization. Bloom. **F** - History and Literature 93aa Queer Archives. Kaminsky. **Sp** - History of Science 1450 The Mind Has No Sex: The History of Women in Science in the US. Hammonds. **Sp** - History of Science 1458 Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: A History of Health Disparities in America. Hammonds. **Sp** - Religion 1087 Black Religion and Sexuaity. Greene-Hayes. **Sp** - WGS 1133 Gender and Performance. Bernstein. **Sp** - WGS 1170 Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation, 1955 - 1975. Bronski. **F** - WGS 1424 American Fetish: Consumer Culture Encounters the Other. Light. **Sp** - WGS 1471 Art, Culture, and the Global Struggle for Black Liberation. Kothor. **Sp**