Between 1919 and 1939, Europe – somewhat surprisingly – became a global hub of anticolonial thought. The leaders of future national liberation movements in India, Vietnam, and Algeria all converged in Europe’s metropolitan centers. This seminar investigates the intellectual and political creations that anti-imperial elites forged in Europe during this period. Focusing on the political networks that developed in Paris, London, Berlin, and Moscow, it evaluates how individuals from the Global South rethought and expanded the contents of Marxist-Leninist thought. It considers how they drew upon the principle of self-determination and, thereby, mobilized both Wilsonian and Leninist rhetoric. In addition to providing students with a foundation in anti-imperialism’s early twentieth-century histories, this course examines why Europe’s anticolonial revolution was so belated. To investigate this point, students investigate how intellectual traditions, including liberalism, socialism, and feminism, supported and were complicit in Europe’s imperial missions. **History Majors may write a 15-page research paper for this course to fulfill the major research requirement, with the permission of the instructor and their major advisor.**

Weekly readings, discussions, and writing assignments to develop a global perspective within which to study human events in various regional/cultural milieus, c. 1400 to the present. This course is required for all PhD students, and is taken in the first year of study.

Reading and discussion course on selected topics in the History of Transregional Empires and Colonialisms

Reading and discussion course on selected topics in Transregional History

Reading and discussion course on selected topics in Middle Eastern history.

Reading and Discussion course on selected topics in European History.

Reading and discussion course on selected topics in US history.

Reading and discussion course on selected topics in US history.

Open to senior honors candidates in history who will write their honors thesis during this seminar.

African-American Childhood is an upper-level seminar designed to introduce students to the literature on childhood and youth through the lens of African-American children's history. The class will demonstrate the relationship that race, gender, and age have in shaping children's experiences. Readings will focus on institutions serving African-American children, their participation in civil rights struggles, and the representation of African-American children in popular culture. The class will also consider children as political actors in major moments of African-American history. Class assignments will include two long research papers, presentations on course texts and a field trip. Students will strengthen their expository writing, as well as their primary and secondary research skills.