Instructor: Tim McCarthy
Meeting time: Thursday, 10-12

In the last generation, scholars have revolutionized our understanding of slavery and freedom in the modern Atlantic world. This sea-change has been the result of a major methodological shift: to view this history through the eyes of slaves rather than ... Read more about HL90L: Stories of Slavery and Freedom

Instructor: Sean Gilsdorf
Meeting time: Monday, 1-3

This seminar will explore female rulership in Europe from the late Roman empire to the age of Elizabeth I. Discussion of varied texts and images (most of them primary sources in translation) will reveal the role of queens within their societies, their relationship ... Read more about HL90AN: God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance

Instructor: David J. Alworth
Meeting time: Tuesday, 2-4

This course examines a vibrant subgenre of post-World War II American literature. We will read major novels by Kerouac, Nabokov, and Didion as well as less familiar (yet still fascinating) writings by Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Patricia Highsmith, ... Read more about HL90AT: The Postwar American Road Narrative

Instructor: Daniel Loss
Meeting time: Friday, 1-3

How did soccer become a global sport?  What explains the distribution of cricket and rugby around the world?  Are sports a form of cultural imperialism?  This course will explore these questions (and more) as we examine the connection between sports ... Read more about HL90BO: Sports and Empire

Instructor: Melissa Castillo-Garsow
Meeting time: Monday, 3-5

This course explores the history of race relations, civil rights, and youth cultures post WWII through the lens of music history. Although overtime, African American contributions to American Music have become more and more recognized, Latino contributions ... Read more about HL90DA: Rock and Roll to Rap en Español: Urban Youth Cultures in América

Instructor: Reed Gochberg
Meeting time: Wednesday, 1-3

In this course, we will consider the literary and cultural history of American museums from the eighteenth century to the present. Throughout the semester, we will discuss how museums have functioned as both centers for research and as public spaces for ... Read more about HL90DB: Museums in America

Instructor: Anouska Bhattacharyya
Meeting time: Monday, 1-3

Why do we take the history of Euro-American psychiatry as the barometer against which we understand all other histories of madness? Is there a larger narrative of insanity that doesn’t use the Greenwich Meridian as the centre of the world? To give students the tools ... Read more about HL90DC: Colonialism as Madness

Instructor: Stefanie Sevcik
Meeting time: Tuesday, 10-12

This seminar explores roles women have played in wars for independence across the French-speaking world. As the Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo depicts in his iconic film, The Battle of Algiers (1966), some women fought alongside men carrying bombs in the fight ... Read more about HL90DD: Women at War in France and in the Colonies

Instructor: Patricia E. Chu
Meeting time: Thursday, 2-4

In this course our exploration surrounds four contemporary novels by African American and Asian American authors with the theory and history of the new political, economic and social context these authors were confronting while writing political literature. We ... Read more about HL90DE: After Affirmative Action: Race, Justice, and Inequality in America since the 1990s

Instructor: Duncan White
Meeting time: Monday, 11-1

This course considers the way England was transformed by the demise of its empire after the Second World War. From the birth of the welfare state to the rise of Thatcherism, from post-colonial migration to multi-culturalism, from Cool Britannia to Brexit, we will ... Read more about HL90BA: England After Empire

Instructor: Lynne M. Feeley
Meeting time: Wednesday, 10-12

This course examines American environmental literature from the period of colonization through the era of climate change.  Our focus will be on how people from an array of different backgrounds experienced and inscribed North American environments.  ... Read more about HL90CB: Environmental Change in American Literature and History

Instructor: René Carrasco
Meeting time: Monday, 4-6

This course will examine the world of ideas that has shaped Latin America. It is designed to provide students with the necessary tools to think critically about topics such as nationalism, capitalism, literary criticism, historiography, political and economic theory, ... Read more about HL90CO: Latin American Cultural Criticism

Instructor: Alan Niles
Meeting time: Monday, 2-4

This course studies Boston’s early history and literary culture. Our readings will feature prominent and influential authors such as John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Samuel Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Our class activities ... Read more about HL90CP: Boston and the World, 1600-1850

Instructor: Rebecca A. Kennedy de Lorenzini
Meeting time: Wednesday, 1-3

This course will explore the history of Afro-Latin American culture as expressed through literature, music, dance, and religious and spiritual practices. Beginning with an analysis of the theoretical framework of the African diaspora, we will ask ... Read more about HL90CQ: Afro-Latin American Cultures: Race, Religion, Music, and Literature

Instructor: Paul K. Adler
Meeting time: Wednesday, 3-5

“More than one billion people in the world live on less than a dollar a day.” “For the past thirty years development policy has been dominated by the paradigm of export-led growth.” Sentences such as these epitomize how often we think of global economic ... Read more about HL90CR: Narrative of Global Inequality

Instructor: Ryan Acton
Meeting time: Tuesday/Thursday 5-6

The Frankfurt School was a group of intellectuals who first started writing in Germany in the tumultuous period between the two World Wars. They sought to understand why modernity had led not to progress, as earlier social theorists such as Marx had ... Read more about HL90CS: The Cultural Criticism of the Frankfurt School

Instructor: Emily Pope-Obeda
Meeting time: Thursday, 11-1

This course examines the history of deportation in American society, and considers how the policing, exclusion, and expulsion of immigrant populations has shaped the nation. Through historical texts, primary sources, literature, and popular culture, we will ... Read more about HL90CT: Deportation and the Policing of Migration in U.S. History

Instructor: Jonathan Square
Meeting time: Tuesday, 2-4

This course examines the politics of fashion among people of African descent during slavery and the period immediately followed emancipation. Fashion is generative, yet underutilized analytic to explore the experience of the enslaved and their ... Read more about HL90CU: Fashion and Slavery

Instructor: Alex W. Corey
Meeting time: Thursday, 3-5

This class examines the relationship between popular music, American literature, and the power structures that organize life in the United States. We will study the ways that music constructs social identities by considering how popular music—in performance, ... Read more about HL90CV: Contemporary American Literature and Popular Music

Instructor: Marina Magloire
Meeting time: Monday, 3-5

The story of the African diaspora begins with, and continues to be shaped by, travel. If, as Angela Davis posits, the ability to travel was one of the most significant ways that “emancipation radically transformed personal lives” of formerly enslaved people, this seminar ... Read more about HL90CW: Great Migrations: Black Atlantic Travel Narratives

Instructor: Angela S. Allan
Meeting time: Thursday, 1-3

The 1980s saw the convergence of American politics and economics to strengthen U.S. interests abroad, but the decade was also a moment of enormous social, political, and economic divergence at home. How compatible—or causal—was ... Read more about HL90CX: Stop Making Sense: America in the 1980s

Instructor: Steve Biel
Meeting time: Tuesday, 2-4

Russiagate, Emailgate, Benghazigate: these are the latest in a series of scandals and pseudo-scandals bearing the suffix that originates in the name of the Washington hotel where, in the summer of 1972, burglars associated with the Committee to Re-Elect the ... Read more about HL90CY: Watergate: Conspiracy, Paranoia, and the Abuse of Power

Instructor: Uğur Z. Peçe
Meeting time: Thursday, 2-4

The current humanitarian disasters in the Middle East and North Africa have brought the plight of refugees in the region to the fore. Taking a long-term historical perspective, this course explores the centrality of migrants and refugees to the formation of the modern Middle ... Read more about HL90CZ: Middle Eastern Displacements: From Ottoman Migrants to Syrian Refugees