Instructor: Sean Gilsdorf
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00

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 to broader social and cultural institutions such as the Christian Church, and the ways in which queens were celebrated,... Read more about HL90AN: God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance

Instructor: David J. Alworth
Meeting time: Thursday, 12:00 - 2:00

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, Ralph Ellison, and others. In addition, students can expect to analyze both primary and secondary historical sources, while giving ... Read more about HL90AT: The Postwar American Road Narrative

Instructor: Daniel Loss
Meeting time: Monday, 9:45 - 11:45

One of the enduring legacies of modern imperialism has been the spread of British and American sports around the globe. This seminar takes the connection between sports and imperialism as a starting point to explore questions about the nature of imperialism, the response of colonized peoples to imperial projects, and the ... Read more about HL90BO: Sports and Empire

Instructor: Thomas Dichter
Meeting time: Monday, 12:45 - 2:45

The United States currently keeps more people behind bars than any other country. While the US’s emergence as the leader in incarceration rates is relatively recent, the prison has loomed large in American public life for 200 years. In this class, we will approach the prison not as a marginal phenomenon, but as an institution central to American culture. Readings include ... Read more about HL90CF: The American Prison & the Literature of Punishment

Instructor: Rebecca A. Kennedy de Lorenzini
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:45 - 2:45

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

This 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 Drawing on fiction, film, historical documents, documentaries, photographs, nonfiction, and memoirs, this class will explore the ways in which Indigenous people have articulated both belonging and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 HL90DJ: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: Native America in the Twentieth Century

Instructor: Paul Edwards
Meeting time: Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:45

Instructor: Duncan White
Meeting time: Monday, 9:45 - 11:45

This course considers the way England was transformed through the demise of its Empire after the Second World War through to the present day. From the birth of the welfare state to the rise of Thatcherism, from post-colonial migration to multicultural Britain, from the Swinging Sixties to punk rock and riots, we will track these radical political, social and cultural changes ... Read more about HL90BA: England After Empire

Instructor: Steve Biel and Lauren Kaminsky
Meeting time: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00

On the centenary of the First World War,  this seminar will explore a wide range of representations of the conflict that began in the Balkans but swept through Europe to the Middle East and Russia, to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, to the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Black Seas, and drew in soldiers and civilians from Africa, Asia, and the Americas. By looking closely ... Read more about HL90BX: WWI in Fiction, Film, Poetry, and Memoir

Instructor: Mark Sanchez
Meeting time: Monday, 12:00 - 2:00

This course offers a history of the United States and the Cold War through films made during the conflict. We will examine the Cold War through two themes which drove much U.S. Cold War policymaking, from McCarthyism to Vietnam. The first theme is subversion: the fear that the United States (or our allies) would be quietly infiltrated by Communists and other radicals who ... Read more about HL90BY: Film and the Cold War in U.S. History

Instructor: Alex W. Corey
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00

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, on record, and in written representation—can both reinforce and challenge hierarchies of gender, race, region, ... Read more about HL90CV: Contemporary American Literature and Popular Music

Instructor: Emily Pope-Obeda
Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00 - 5:00

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 cover a wide range of topics including racial quotas, guestworker expulsions, labor control, racialized health panics, ... Read more about HL90CT: Deportation and the Policing of Migration in U.S. History

Instructor: Angela S. Allan
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45 - 11:45

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 the end of the cold war with the end of the American cultural consensus? Did such a consensus ever exist, or was it a mere illusion and nostalgia ... Read more about HL90CX: Stop Making Sense: America in the 1980s

Instructor: Debbie Sharnak
Meeting time: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00

This course will examine the emergence of the twin phenomenon of human rights advocacy and transitional justice across Latin America, exploring the original debates and major players within the movement, a few of the larger case studies in the past three decades throughout the region, and the central issues now facing the field. We will examine how a human rights discourse ... Read more about HL90DF: Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Latin America

Instructor: Briana Smith
Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00 - 5:00

In this course, we will examine the history of Berlin from the "rubble years" after World War II, through the aftermath of German unification in the 1990s from the perspective of the history of everyday life. Our discussion of diaries, primary source documents, historical studies, literature, films, art, and music produced in divided Berlin will reveal how the divided city shaped individual... Read more about HL90DG: Everyday Life in Cold War Berlin

Instructor: Beatrice Wayne
Meeting time: Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:45

What is the role of the student in the struggle for global justice? Do students bear particular responsibility in addressing global inequalities? How does student activism differ from other forms of activism, and how do they intersect? Has student activism changed over time, and have different student movements across the world exhibited different characteristics? ... Read more about HL90DH: Students at the Barricades: Student Activism in Global Perspective

Instructor: Ellen Song
Meeting time: Thursday, 9:45 - 11:45

Speculative fiction, especially science fiction, is known to be a predominantly white genre; data from one source, the sci-fi trade journal Locus, indicates that less than 5% of SF and fantasy books published are by writers of color. This course examines in an intentionally multi-ethnic framework speculative fiction written by African American, Asian American, and white authors alike in ... Read more about HL90DI: Speculative Fictions in Multiethnic America

Instructor: Catherine Nguyen
Meeting time: Wednesday, 3:00 - 5:00

The course on Asian American studies focuses on the genre and form of comics and graphic novels in the context of histories of migration and diasporas. Through these illustrative and textual works, we will explore the representation of Asian American identity and the experience of racial difference through possible works, such as Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings, Mine Okubo's Citzen ... Read more about HL90DK: Asian/American Graphic Novels

Instructor: Jordan Brower
Meeting time: Monday, 3:00 - 5:00

This course charts the development of the American film industry in the context of and in response to the pressures of world capitalism and the shaping forces of geopolitics. "Global Hollywood" begins with the "universal language" hypothesis, the belief among theorists and makers of early cinema that the silent movie functioned as a twentieth-century Esperanto; it proceeds to the problem ... Read more about HL90DL: Global Hollywood

Instructor: Jennifer Brady
Meeting time: Friday, 12:00 - 2:00

This 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 HL90DO: Old Weird America

Instructor: Reed Gochberg
Meeting time: Wednesday, 3:00 - 5:00

This seminar will consider the relationship between science, exploration, and empire in nineteenth-century American culture. Throughout the semester, we will discuss how expeditions to South America, the Pacific, and the Arctic played a major role in shaping ideas about nature and culture around the globe. Newspapers speculated about the mysterious fates of lost voyages; museums ... Read more about HL90DP: Science, Exploration, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century America

Instructor: Jonathan Square
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00

The history of black beauty culture mirrors the complexities of both African and Afro-diasporic cultures. People of African descent have always used their African roots and their own artistic ingenuity to create styles and standards that reflect unique black cultures. Black beauty culture has also been in dialogue with other aesthetic traditions, most notably European and Eurocentric ... Read more about HL90DQ: Black Beauty Culture

Instructor: Tim McCarthy
Meeting time: Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:45

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 the eyes of masters. This course will examine the history of the "black Atlantic" through a diverse range of cultural texts--poetry, pamphlets, ... Read more about HL90L: Stories of Slavery and Freedom