Classes

HIST-LIT 90EA: Water Justice and Resistance in the Americas

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2020

Instructor: James Mestaz
Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00 - 5:00

Water JusticeWater is life, but is it a human right? Water governance is a contentious issue globally because humans rely on water for nearly every productive activity; moreover, it is often scarce and not distributed equally. To better understand the persistence and escalation of struggles over water access around the world, this course uses a multidisciplinary approach ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90EA: Water Justice and Resistance in the Americas

AFVS 197K: Cinemas of Resistance: Political Filmmaking Across the Globe

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Kate Rennebohm
Meeting time: Wednesday, 3:00-5:45

Cinemas of ResistanceCan film change the world? What can the history of engaged film and media-making teach us about politics, and vice-versa? This course will study instances of political filmmaking from around the world: early 20th century avant-garde filmmaking, anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist cinemas, feminist and queer filmmaking, Indigenous cinemas, and more. ... Read more about AFVS 197K: Cinemas of Resistance: Political Filmmaking Across the Globe

FRSEMR 631: The First Americans: Portraits of Indigenous Power and Diplomacy

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Shawon Kinew
Meeting time: Friday, 12:00-2:45

The First AmericansHarvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is home to 25 oil portraits of indigenous American leaders painted in the first half of the 19th century. Originally commissioned to preserve cultures an American bureaucrat feared would be extinct, these paintings transcend a moribund history. In fact, the Native American nations represented are still here.... Read more about FRSEMR 631: The First Americans: Portraits of Indigenous Power and Diplomacy

EMR 123: Issues in the Studies of Native American Religion

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Ann Braude
Meeting time: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30 - 11:45

Based around a series of guest speakers, the course interrogates the study of religion in general and of Native American traditions in particular in light of indigenous perspectives and histories. Questions of appropriation, repatriation and religious freedom will be approached through legal as well as cultural...

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ANTHRO 1900: Counseling as Colonization? Native American Encounters with the Clinical Psy-ences

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Joseph Gone
Meeting time: Monday, 12:00 - 2:45

American Indian, First Nations, and other Indigenous communities of the USA and Canada contend with disproportionately high rates of “psychiatric” distress. Many of these communities attribute this distress to their long colonial encounters with European settlers. Concurrently, throughout the 20th century, the disciplines and professions associated with mind, brain, and behavior (e.g., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis) consolidated their authority and influence within mainstream society.... Read more about ANTHRO 1900: Counseling as Colonization? Native American Encounters with the Clinical Psy-ences

HIST 14M: "Black Indians": The Making of an Identity

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019
Instructor: Tiya Miles
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00 
 
Black IndiansThis seminar will explore intersections in African American and Native American histories with an emphasis on pivotal moments in the shaping of a modern identity referred to as “Black Indian.”  Students in this seminar will explore and analyze historical contexts and contingencies leading to thick interactions between people of African descent and indigenous Americans as well as experiential testimony by individuals asserting mixed race and/or bi-cultural Afro-Native identities. ... Read more about HIST 14M: "Black Indians": The Making of an Identity

ANTHRO 1190: The Invasion of America: The Anthropology of American Encounters, 1492-1830

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Matt Liebmann
Meeting time: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00 - 1:15

The Invasion of AmericaIn 1492 Native Americans discovered Europeans, changing the world forever.  The European invasion of the Americas triggered demographic, economic, and ecological changes on an unprecedented scale.  The subsequent movement of plants, animals, and goods prompted global shifts in population, exploitation of resources, and the transformation of environments... Read more about ANTHRO 1190: The Invasion of America: The Anthropology of American Encounters, 1492-1830

HIST-LIT 90DU: Queer Oral Histories

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Devin McGeehan Muchmore
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:45 - 2:45

Queer Oral HistoriesThis course introduces students to twentieth-century U.S. LGBTQ history through a deep engagement with one of its signature methods­—oral history. Oral history has been an essential method for queer historians because personal narratives shed light on the experiences, perceptions, and desires of sexual and gender minorities who too often appear in textual records only as ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DU: Queer Oral Histories

HIST-LIT 90DT: Asian American History

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Mark Sanchez
Meeting time: Monday, 12:45 - 2:45

Asian American HistoryThis course will focus on Asian American history from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Our aim will be to engage the longer history of Asian migration and labor in the United States. As such, we will focus on topics prior to the Immigration Act of 1924 (also sometimes known as the Asian Exclusion Act). We will explore how empire, capital, and labor informs the transnational movements ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DT: Asian American History

HIST-LIT 90DX: Environmental Justice in North America

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Arianne Sedef Urus
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45 - 11:45

Environmental JusticeThis course examines how the right to natural resources became contested in North America following European conquest and westward expansion, with a particular emphasis on the period before 1865. Sometimes these contested resources have been clean air, soil, and water, while at other times they included fisheries, forests, agricultural fields, animal pastures, or oil. From ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DX: Environmental Justice in North America

HIST-LIT 90DW: Queering the South: Race, Gender, & Sexuality in the American South

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Andrew Pope
Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00 - 5:00

Queering the SouthThe course examines the intertwined histories of race, gender, and sexuality in the American South from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the present. We will consider how struggles for gender and sexual freedom are linked to race in the modern South. The course proceeds along two tracks: first, we gain knowledge about the lives of women, trans people, and gay people... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DW: Queering the South: Race, Gender, & Sexuality in the American South

HIST-LIT 90DJ: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: Native America in the Twentieth Century

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Chris Clements
Meeting time: Monday, 9:45 - 11:45

Wounded KneeThis course will explore various forms of Native American cultural and political production in the twentieth century. Drawing on fiction, film, historical documents, documentaries, photographs, nonfiction, and memoirs, this class will explore the ways in which Indigenous people have articulated both belonging and separateness from the United States. In addition to its focus ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DJ: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: Native America in the Twentieth Century

HIST-LIT 90DO: Old Weird America

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Jennifer Brady
Meeting time: Thursday, 9:45 - 11:45

Old Weird AmericaThis seminar focuses on the United States before 1865. Poised halfway between our current moment and the seemingly archaic, superstitious fervor of the Salem Witch Trials, America in the antebellum era was in the process of fitfully, at times reluctantly, becoming modern. We will focus on strange objects, photographs of dead children, the spectacles created by P. T. Barnum, ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DO: Old Weird America

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