History 5081 Storytelling for Social Justice (Name changing to Public History for Prison Abolition, effective SP26)
Instructor: Cook, DeAnza
Days/Times: Online, TR, 2:20pm – 3:40pm
Description
How do storytellers craft captivating narratives about tough topics most relevant to social justice issues? This seminar equips students with tools for creating community-engaged scholarship by exploring storytelling models championed by Black feminist scholars, community-based artists and educators, as well as oral historians, transformative justice activists, and imprisoned intellectuals.
Special Comments
This course is open to both graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students (Prereq for undergrads is any 3000-level History course or permission of instructor)
History 7000 Studies in Early American History to 1877
Instructor: Newell, Margaret
Days/Time: W, 5:00 pm – 7:45 pm
Topic: Native American and African American Citizenship
Description
Graduate readings in selected topics in Early American history to 1877
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Graduate standing or permission from instructor
History 7240 Studies in Early Modern European History
Instructor: Bond, Elizabeth
Days/Time: W, 10:00 am – 12:45 pm
Description
Selected topics in western European history of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Graduate standing or permission from instructor
History 7500 Studies in International History
Instructor: Marino, Julia
Days/Time: M, 5:00 pm – 7:45 pm
Topic: U.S. and East Asia Relations, 1945-Present
Description
This graduate seminar examines the history of U.S.–East Asia relations from 1945 to the present. We explore key moments from occupation and Cold War alliances through trade frictions, the 1980s "Japan panic," post–Cold War realignments, the Asian financial crisis, China's accession to the WTO, and nuclear diplomacy. Technology will also serve as central theme as we cover the history of semiconductor supply chains, electronics manufacturing, and the development of green industries. The course will also follow how ideas about Japan and China have circulated in the media and popular culture, fueling anxieties and shaping public policy.
History 7575 Theories of War and Strategy
Instructor: Grimsley, Mark
Days/Time: R, 12:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Description
This course focuses on an analysis and comparison of the most influential writers on the theory and practice of warfare including Thucydides, Machiavelli, Clausewitz, Jomini, Mahan, and Liddell Hart, but it also questions the utility of the 'greater thinkers' model in military history while applying theory to current events.
Prerequisites and Special Comments
Graduate students only
History 7650 Studies in World History
Instructor: McDow, Dodie and Van Beurden, Sarah
Days/Time: F, 10:00 am – 12:45 pm
Analysis of seminal works and concepts in the development of global-scaled integrative approaches to world history.
History 7700 Graduate Readings in Environmental History
Instructor: Curtis, Kip
Days/Time: R, 12:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Topic: Overview of the field of environmental history and its current inflection point
Description
Over the past four decades, environmental historians have reimagined human history within the context of nature and the environment. Scholars influenced by a sudden upsurge in environmental awareness in the 1960s and 1970s began rethinking history from an ecological perspective. They asked whether including nature – by which they meant both physical nature in all its multiple diversities and the many ideas, cultures, religions and so on by which humans have come to understand that physical nature – might shed new light on historical causes. The resulting scholarship has changed the way we think and write about the past and has spawned one of the most exciting and innovative fields in historical studies today. This seminar is designed to be a survey of the major themes, ideas, interpretations, and revisions that have emerged in the field of environmental history. It will suggest that the field is at an inflection point and guide students to begin thinking in terms of an environmental history 3.0 being developed right here at Ohio State University. Students will be encouraged to develop a specific focus on the themes, periods, or regions that are of most interest to them.
History 7711 Graduate Readings in the History of Medicine and Health
Instructor: Otter, Chris
Days/Time: M, 10:00am – 12:45pm
Topic: Body and Mind in Health and Disease
Description
This graduate seminar is designed to familiarize graduate students with some of the most important works and intellectual trends in the history of the body, broadly conceived.
History 7900 Colloquium in Historiography and Critical Theory
Instructor: Anderson, Greg
Days/Time: T, 2:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Description
This is the History Department's required foundation course for advanced study in the discipline. It offers a broad introduction to contemporary ways of exploring and interpreting realities past and present. To do this, it combines an overview of the evolution of history as a discipline with discussion of the currents of social/critical theory which have shaped the more influential modes of historical analysis along the way. The course focuses in particular on historiographical and theoretical developments of the past fifty years or so. And to support Department’s express commitment to anti-racism, it foregrounds theoretical currents that seek to expose forms of systemic racism, both in conventional modern historical practice and in the modern capitalist world as a whole. Ultimately, the class aspires to help students prepare themselves for the job market, both as critically self-aware citizen-historians and as critically informed evaluators of the thought and work of others.
Aims
- To gain a richer, more informed understanding of the practice of history by studying the discipline's historical evolution to the present day.
- To recognize that “theory” is fundamental to the practice of history, since it shapes all the questions we ask and all the answers we produce, whether we know it or not.
- To become especially familiar with major interpretive approaches employed by historians in the later 20th and 21st centuries, along with the theoretical rationales and assumptions which underpin those approaches.
- To become more sensitized to the intimate connections between the kind of world we live in and the kinds of histories we produce.
- To become more critically self-aware and self-consciously anti-racist in our own historical practice and interests, while expecting the same of others.
History 7910 Prospectus Writing and Professional Development
Instructor: Smith, Stephanie
Days/Time: ONLINE, R, 3:55 pm – 6:40 pm
Description
This seminar is dedicated to researching and writing your dissertation prospectus. Throughout the semester we will focus on the craft of historical writing, strategies, and the practicalities of launching a research project. As we move through the class, you will analyze various issues, including your topic/questions/significance; your argument/thesis; historiography; method and theory; primary and secondary sources; organization; timetable; research plan; funding; writing an abstract, and your bibliography. We also will consider such matters as grammar and style. By the end of this course, you will have produced a dissertation prospectus that you will present to your committee members.
In preparing your prospectus you will draw particularly on three areas of support:
- First, your fellow students are a valuable source for feedback. In this course you will help each other launch your projects.
- Second, I will read your drafts and offer advice.
- Third, your advisor and members of your dissertation committee are the experts to whom you will turn for substantive advice about archives, resources, and the feasibility of your project.
Assigned Readings
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Assignments
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Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
History 8210 Seminar in Ancient History
Instructor: Sessa, Kristina
Days/Time: M, 2:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Graduate Research Seminar in Greek, Roman, Late Antique, or Byzantine History.