History 5194 Group Studies, Topic: Frida and Diego
Instructor: Smith, Stephanie
Days/Times: Online, TR, 12:50pm - 2:10pm
Description
This course examines the art, lives, and times of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two of Mexico’s most famous artists. Through discussion, lectures, readings, and visual analysis we will consider the historical and artistic roots of their radical aesthetics as well as the ideals and struggles that shaped their lives. During their era, Kahlo was overshadowed by her husband Rivera, but in recent decades her fame has eclipsed his. To make sense of this we will address the changing meaning of their art over time, especially in relation to social movements, and gender and sexual identities. By the end of the semester, students will have a strong understanding of these two artists and their work, as well as the historical contexts in which they lived, including the Mexican Revolution, the postrevolutionary era, and recent efforts toward ethnic and gender inclusion.
Note: Graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students may enroll in this course.
History 7265 Studies in French History
Instructor: Conklin, Alice
Days/Times:: Monday, 2:15pm - 5:00pm
Description
The focus of this course will be the major developments and historiographical debates in French history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an eye to the larger European and global context. Themes will include revolutionary, republican, and reactionary politics; social, economic, and cultural trends; occupation, resistance, and the challenge of memory; decolonization, creation of the EU, and 1968. Our readings will include both “classics” and noteworthy new works.
Assigned readings
- Sudhir Hazareesingh, Black Spartacus
- Christine Haynes, Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France After Napoleon
- David Todd, A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
- Philip Nord, The Republican Moment
- Alain Corbin, Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside
- Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator
- Claire Zalc, Denaturalized: How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France
- Emma Kuby, Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945
- Judith Coffin, Writing Simone de Beauvoir: Sex, Love, and Letters
- Venus Bivar, Organic Resistance: The Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
- Burleigh Hendrickson, Decolonizing 1968
- Emile Chabal, A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France
Assignments
Weekly reviews of the reading. One class presentation.
History 7500 Studies in International History
Instructor: Parrott, Joe
Days/Time: F, 1:00pm – 3:45pm
Description
Colloquium in International History.
History 7550 Studies in Military History
Instructor: Cabanes, Bruno
Days/Time: W, 5:30pm – 8:15pm
Description
Experienced individually and collectively as violent social ruptures, wartime catastrophes have dramatic and long-lasting effects on survivors and their descendants. Drawing from history, psychology and sociology, this interdisciplinary seminar explores the strategies of survival, the interpretations of trauma, and the changing figure of the survivor over the course of the 20th Century, with a specific focus on war and genocide. Using the work of social scientists as well as witness accounts, we will answer some of the following questions: what does the experience of total war and genocide change in the reality and status of survival? how do survivors negotiate a role in postwar societies? How is the memory of survival transmitted from one generation to the next?
History 7650 Studies in World History
Instructor: Levi, Scott
Days/Time: R, 2:15pm - 5:00pm
Description
This seminar is designed to introduce students to the emergence and development of the field of world history. The semester begins with
Fernand Braudel, William McNeill, and other early efforts to move beyond nationalist and civilizational frameworks in favor of a more comprehensive global history. Readings engage worldsystems theory, monetary history, the history of technology, military history, imperialism and colonialism, environmental history, and other means that historians have deployed to explain the emergence of the modern world. Students will gain an improved understanding of the ways world civilizations have developed and interacted from the late medieval period to the modern age. They will emerge from the seminar prepared to approach their future studies with a more global perspective.
History 7705 Graduate Readings in the History of Technology
Instructor: Otter, Christopher
Days/Time: R, 2:15pm – 5:00pm
Description
Withoutmaterial artefacts, human individuals and societies have extremely limited capacities. Consequently,technology is implicated in almost every conceivable historical event, trend or process: industrial,economic, nutritional, military, architectural, biological and cultural. Human history is the history ofhumans and the things they have made. This course is designed to provide a methodological toolkitfor students wishing to analyze the human-made world. Many, perhaps most, of the course readingsaddress the past 100 years or so, but some (Mumford, Giedion, Hodder, Peters) have a considerablydeeper historical focus. The books themselves are drawn from the broad, interdisciplinary fi eld ofwhat might be called “technology studies,” which brings together sociology, science and technologystudies (STS), history, philosophy, anthropology, architecture, communications and urban studies.The class begins with an introduction to various methodologies used by historians of technology, andwe will maintain a focus on methodology throughout.
History 7900 Colloquium in Historiography and Critical Theory
Instructor: Anderson, Greg
Days/Time: T, 2:15pm – 5:00pm
Description
This is the History Department's required foundation course foradvanced study in the discipline. It off ers a broad introduction to contemporary ways of exploringand interpreting realities past and present. To do this, it combines an overview of the evolution ofhistory as a discipline with discussion of the currents of social/critical theory which have shaped themore infl uential modes of historical analysis along the way. The course focuses in particular onhistoriographical and theoretical developments of the past fi fty years or so. And to supportDepartment’s express commitment to anti-racism, it foregrounds theoretical currents that seek toexpose forms of systemic racism, both in conventional modern historical practice and in the moderncapitalist world as a whole. Ultimately, the class aspires to help students prepare themselves for thejob market, both as critically self-aware citizen-historians and as critically informed evaluators of thethought and work of others.
History 7902 * Name/Content Change to “Critical Archive Theories and Methods”
Instructor: Delgado, Jessica
Days/Time: W, 11:00am – 2:00pm
Description (* New)
In this seminar, we will read critical theoretical, methodological, and historiographical work on the construction, production, and use of
archives. Some of the questions we will consider are: How does power shape the archives with which we work? How should scholars approach the silences and distortions built into the archives? What constitutes an archive? What are the possibilities and pitfalls of alternative and non-traditional archives? How do we as embodied actors shape the archives with which we engage—as historians, critical scholars, participants, and curators?
History 7910 Prospectus Writing & Professional Development
Instructor: Smith, Stephanie
Days/Time: R, 5:30pm – 8:15pm
Online
Description
This seminar is dedicated to researching and writing your dissertationprospectus. We also will discuss professional development skills, including grant writing, building aresume and planning a career, writing and presenting a conference paper, and book reviews. By theend of this course, you will have produced a dissertation prospectus that you will present to yourcommittee at the time of your generals. A prospectus is a detailed plan of your intellectual journey:from prospectus to the archives, from your research to your dissertation, from the dissertation toarticles and book. Your prospectus will engage your analytical, imaginative, and literary skills, not tomention discipline and endurance. Your journey can be both exhilarating and daunting.
History 8801 Seminar in History
Instructor: Breyfogle, Nicholas
Days/Time: M, 2:15pm – 5:00pm
Description
This research/writing seminar provides an opportunity to undertake an original, primary-source research project. The writing
project could be a chapter of a dissertation or MA thesis, an article, etc. The seminar is open to graduate students who work in any field of history. We will focus on identifying and describing a good topic, reflecting on sources, and applying the appropriate methodologies, as well as working through the writing process together. The class will be organized around cycles of discussion, reading writing, and revision. The seminar will include exercises and presentations to give students guidance and feedback while they pursue their own research. All students will be expected to participate regularly in class discussions, and to provide constructive criticism to fellow students who present work in the seminar. Meetings will be in person, but if students are not in Columbus, they have the option of joining the class remotely. Please make prior arrangements with the instructor if this will be the case.