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Course Listing for HISTORY - Spring 2025 (ALL: 01/21/2025 - 05/09/2025)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
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2756 HIST-201-01 Early America 1.00 LEC Wickman, Thomas MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-202-01
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 10 seats reserved for HIST majors, 5 seats for first-years
  This course introduces students to major developments in the political, economic, and social history of North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. We will study indigenous sovereignty, encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, the founding of European colonies, the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, the spread of human enslavement, the War of 1812, Indian removal policy, U.S. wars with Native nations, westward expansion, the U.S.-Mexican War, abolitionism, and the Civil War. Students will be challenged to imagine American history within Atlantic and global contexts and to comprehend the expansiveness of Native American homelands and the shifting nature of North American borderlands.
3032 HIST-206-01 Encounters in the Shogun's Era 1.00 LEC Said Monteiro, Daniel MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  After decades of political violence, Japan was unified under the hegemonic power of a single ruler, the shogun. During the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), the country was closed to foreign contact, creating a period of stability away from the vicissitudes of the world-or so goes the conventional narrative. In this course, you will learn how economic, cultural, and intellectual connections were established across boundaries under a militarized regime. We look at evidence that challenges the notion of Tokugawa Japan as a "double-bolted land." We encounter Chinese and European vessels on the southern shores, embassies from Korea and Ryukyu, and indigenous Ainu populations in the north. You will understand Japan within broader transnational contexts, tracing parallels between early modern and contemporary patterns of global interconnectedness.
2758 HIST-207-01 Law & Govt in Medieval England 1.00 LEC Elukin, Jonathan TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course will study the evolution of English law and government in the Middle Ages from the Norman Conquest to the Stuarts. It will emphasize key concepts of common law, the nature of English kingship, the development of Parliament, the status of particular groups in English society, the evolution of governmental power, as well as some comparative material from other medieval states. The course will be taught from primary source materials with supplementary readings from secondary scholarship. Qualifies for credit in the Formal Organizations minor.
2759 HIST-212-01 The Crusades & Medievl Society 1.00 LEC Elukin, Jonathan TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  An introductory survey of the political, social, military, and religious history of the Crusades. Using primary sources, the course will also examine how aspects of the Crusades reveal broader themes in medieval history, including: European identity, pilgrimage, religious violence, technological innovation, perceptions of non-Europeans, and the influence of the Crusades on early modern voyages of discovery. Lecture and discussion format.
2760 HIST-220-01 Possible Earths 1.00 SEM Wickman, Thomas MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 10 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-220-01
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 2 seats for first-years, 6 for sophomores, and 2 for juniors
  This seminar examines environmental thinking across histories and cultures in order to retrieve sources of hope and wisdom for a planetary future. Reading and discussion will foreground current humanity's vast inheritance when it comes to ways of existing in community with and knowing a living planet. Students will look critically at how texts, images, objects, and practices are historical evidence of the many ways humans have imagined natural communities and acted within them.
2762 HIST-220-02 Possible Earths 1.00 SEM Cocco, Sean MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 5 seats reserved for first-year students, 7 for sophomores, and 3 for juniors.
  This seminar examines environmental thinking across histories and cultures in order to retrieve sources of hope and wisdom for a planetary future. Reading and discussion will foreground current humanity's vast inheritance when it comes to ways of existing in community with and knowing a living planet. Students will look critically at how texts, images, objects, and practices are historical evidence of the many ways humans have imagined natural communities and acted within them.
2763 HIST-221-01 Science,Religion&Nature 1.00 LEC Cocco, Sean TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The astronomer Galileo Galilei’s trial before the Roman Inquisition nearly four centuries ago endures as a symbol of the clash between science and religion. Undoubtedly, the rise of early modern science in 17th-century Europe provoked its share of battles, but was this the whole story? This course will lead students to consider the origin and extent of the apparently irreconcilable differences between world views. How wide was the rift between science and religion, especially before the Enlightenment? Students will be encouraged to explore this complex relationship in historical context, by weighing the coexistence of scientific curiosity and intense faith, and also by considering the religious response to the expanding horizons of knowledge. The course will highlight investigations of the heavens and the earth, thus seeking instructive comparisons between disciplines such as astronomy, botany, and geology. A number of broad themes will be the focus. These include the understanding of God and nature, authority (classical and scriptural) versus observation, the wide range of knowledge-making practices, the place of magic, and finally the influence of power and patronage. The class seeks to present a rich and exciting picture, looking forward as well to the influence of rational thinking and scientific inquiry on the making of modernity.
2765 HIST-227-01 World Histories of Wine 1.00 LEC Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 10 seats reserved for HIST majors.
  This seminar explores the history of wine, a new and growing research field in world history. We will consider how wine has been produced, traded, and consumed in both continental Europe and the “New World” since circa 1600. Topics will include: approaches to commodity history; wine, terroir and the construction of national identity; protection and global markets; technological change and modernisation; networks, trade and information exchanges; and the creation of consumers and experts. All students will write a major research paper and it is possible to gain additional course credit for Language Across the Curriculum by undertaking foreign-language research.
2766 HIST-232-01 South Africa/Anti-Apartheid Mv 1.00 SEM Markle, Seth MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with HRST
  The creation of the apartheid state in South Africa gave birth to a litany of sociopolitical movements aimed at dismantling a system of white minority rule. In what ways can a digital archive open up a window onto this rich and dynamic history of the anti-antiapartheid movement in South Africa between 1948 and 1994? This course will seek to answer this question by primarily utilizing Aluka's "Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa", a collection of over 190,000 primary and secondary sources that shed considerable light on how marginalized peoples and communities sought to realize a democratic alternative to settler colonialism during the era of decolonization in Africa. Topics such as political leadership, nonviolent civil disobedience, coalition building, state repression, armed guerilla resistance, nationalism, international solidarity and truth and reconciliation will inform the ways in which we search for sources of historical evidence contained in Aluka's digital archive.
2767 HIST-238-01 Caribbean History 1.00 LEC Euraque, Dario TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUGI  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The location of the first encounter, conquest, and colonization of Native American peoples by Europeans, the Caribbean became a center of bitter rivalries between European imperial powers, and later in the 20th century a new, premiere location of the United States’ own imperial thrust. The Caribbean’s strategic location in relation to Atlantic Ocean trade routes and its tropical climate and fertile soils were key factors in shaping these imperial rivalries and the colonial and postcolonial societies that emerged in the region. The vast experience of African slavery, the later “indentured” migration of hundreds of thousands of Asians to some colonies, and the migration of similar numbers of Europeans (especially to the Hispanic Caribbean) have shaped deeply yet unevenly the nature of Caribbean societies since the 16th century, giving the Caribbean a complex multi-ethnic, yet also heavily “Western,” cultural landscape. This course will introduce students to these and other aspects of Caribbean history, from the pre-European era, through the epics of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the Cuban Revolution of 1959, to the present.
2806 HIST-258-01 The Islamic City 1.00 LEC Antrim, Zayde TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: URST-258-01, INTS-258-01
  This course explores the great variety of cities founded, claimed, and inhabited by Muslims from the beginnings of Islam to the present day. While there is no such thing as a prototypical "Islamic city," this course grapples with questions of change and continuity in the organization of urban life among Muslims globally. Through a combination of lectures and discussions, we will situate cities in their historical contexts, examine their built environments, and consider the ways in which exchange, mobility, empire, revolution, and globalization have shaped urban space.
3044 HIST-268-01 Black Inner Lives 1.00 SEM Miller, Channon MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-268-01
  Prevailing understandings of Black life, read Black expression through a social, public lens. Their cultures, embodiments, and ideologies are often cast as responses to institutions and forms of protest. Often placed in conversation with worlds outside of themselves and their communities, they are cast as either disrupting a space, or transforming it. But what of Black life outside of public expression? This course complicates our conceptions of Black culture by tracing the inner lives of Black Americans. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and drawing from multidisciplinary works - we will trace their aspirations, longings, imaginations, as well as their fears, across race, gender, class, and time. With an emphasis on the intimate, we will redefine our sense of Black people's relationship to resistance.
2770 HIST-272-01 Pacific World 1.00 LEC Alejandrino, Clark MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The Pacific Ocean has historically been regarded as a vast and prohibitive void rather than an avenue for integration. Yet over the last five centuries motions of people, commodities, and capital have created important relationships between the diverse societies situated on the "Pacific Rim." This course examines the history of trans-Pacific interactions from 1500 to the present. It takes the ocean itself as the principal framework of analysis in order to bring into focus large-scale processes -- migration, imperial expansion, cross-cultural trade, transfers of technology, cultural and religious exchange, and warfare and diplomacy. This "oceans connect" approach to world history brings these processes into sharp relief while also allowing for attention to the extraordinary diversity of cultures located within and around the Pacific.
2771 HIST-300-01 History Workshop 1.00 SEM Wickman, Thomas W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in at least one History course completed at Trinity, or permission of instructor.
  The Workshop seminar combines extensive readings on the topic of the seminar with a substantial research paper involving the use of primary source materials and original analysis. Prerequisite: At least one History Department course completed at Trinity. This course is primarily for History majors but permission of the instructor will allow other Trinity students interested to enroll.
2772 HIST-301-01 Biography as History 1.00 SEM Euraque, Dario M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This seminar deals with the theory, methodology and historiography of  historical biography. We begin with varied readings on the theory, method and historiography of biography, and then  transition to deep, critical analysis of substantial classic and contemporary biographies about personae who lived and died in different parts of the world. Students read biographies of political greats, revolutionaries, mystics, artists, poets, musicians and more. No expertise in historical analysis required, or any perquisite history courses. Students enrolled must love to read substantial books, and analyze them.
2773 HIST-310-01 Animal Histories 1.00 SEM Alejandrino, Clark MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Humans are animals. Most histories are about us, the most prominent and impactful animals on this planet. But we have arrived at where we are today on the backs of other non-human animals whose histories are often taken for granted. This seminar puts the animal back into our histories. It looks at how humans have shaped the ecological and evolutionary paths of animals but also how animals have influenced the course of history as agents of empire, biotechnology, and culture. We will explore the interdisciplinary methods that scholars use to understand the complex interactions between human and non-human animals and students will have the opportunity to undertake a project in animal history.
2810 HIST-320-01 Global 1001 Nights 1.00 SEM Antrim, Zayde TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: WMGS-320-01, INTS-320-01
  This seminar explores the history and global dissemination of the fantasy story collection known as the 1001 Nights. The recent success of movie adaptations of Aladdin is just one of the many waves of popularity that these stories have enjoyed over the centuries. We will begin with medieval story-telling and the circulation of the Nights in Arabic. We will then discuss its transformation into an international best-seller in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the context of British and French colonialism. Finally we will map its more recent reinventions in literature, film, and art across the globe. Key topics will include magic, gender, sexuality, race, empire, and orientalism. Students will undertake a final research project.
2774 HIST-325-01 Italy and the Mediterranean 1.00 SEM Cocco, Sean TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This seminar examines the history of Italian coasts from the Middle Ages up to the period of nineteenth-century national unification. The focus in the first instance will be the history of port cities as well as the coastal stretches that lay between urban centers of power and commerce. As the chronology shifts toward later periods, the historical investigation of shores will also develop comparisons to coastal cultures elsewhere in the world.
3033 HIST-328-01 Reason in Premodern East Asia 1.00 SEM Said Monteiro, Daniel MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Why did science develop faster in Western Europe than in the rest of the Eurasian continent? Or did it? In this seminar, we examine the long history of rational and scientific thinking in the eastern regions of Eurasia, leading up to the formation of modern East Asian states between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will unravel how premodern Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese scholars engaged with a range of explanations about phenomena concerning heaven, earth, and everything in between. Finding points of convergence and divergence between disciplines such as astronomy, geography, botany, and medicine, you will learn about indigenous knowledge systems in constant dialogue with other epistemologies from around the world.
3034 HIST-330-01 History of Genocide 1.00 SEM Rodriguez, Allison MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Although the term "Genocide" was not coined or codified until the 1940s, it has occurred around the globe and across the centuries. This course will examine several genocidal events in various national contexts, examining their unique circumstances while also stressing common themes. Issues of race, class and gender, and how they affect genocidal actions, will be closely examined Possible topics will include the genocide of the Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the US; the Armenian genocide; the Holodomor; the Holocaust; the Khmer Rouge; the Rwandan genocide; and the genocide in Bosnia. Sources will include scholarly texts, memoirs and films.
3021 HIST-339-01 Modern Mexico 1.00 LEC Euraque, Dario TR: 6:30PM-7:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with LATINAMER
  This course is a survey of Mexican history from the colonial period under Spain to the aftermath and consequences of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s and 1920s. However, most of the course’s time will be dedicated to the post-Independence period after 1821. The “modern” period extends from the post-Cardenas period (after 1940) to the recent economic crisis of the late 1970s as a result of plummeting oil prices. This latter period will be considered in a more “topical” than a chronological way. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the post-Cardenas political system, the border economy with the United States and industrialization, Mexican immigration to the United States, and the contours of deepening Mexican agrarian capitalism.
2931 HIST-354-01 Black American Women's History 1.00 SEM Miller, Channon MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-354-01
  In this course, through lectures, readings, and discussion - we will follow the lives of Black women in America - a people enslaved by European powers - and then held in the bellies of ships that would sojourn through and across the Atlantic Ocean. Upon arrival to North American soil, their stationing as nonhumans would be solidified. We will trace how this intersectional, racial and gendered status, has followed them through the generations. Centrally, we will tend to the ways and means by which Black women have endeavored to live free and make a way of out of no way. We will unearth the ways in which the margins are, as scholar bell hooks states, "a position and place of resistance."
2905 HIST-366-01 History of the Book 1.00 LEC Elukin, Jonathan F: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is designed to give students an extensive introduction to issues in the history of the book, including: the origins of writing, the transition from roll to codex, medieval literacy and book technology, the impact of printing, the nature of reading in early modern Europe, and the future of the book in the digital age.
1041 HIST-399-01 Independent Study 1.00 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available on the Registrar’s Office website, is required for enrollment.
1131 HIST-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
2517 HIST-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is the second part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis.