Atlantic History Course Offering

2024-2025

We are pleased to announce classes related to Atlantic History. This list will be continuously updated.

Spring

  • History 138B – Revolutionary America, 1760-1800
  • History 8C: Latin American Social History
  • History 161: Topics in Latin American History
  • History 165: Topics in African History

Winter 2024

  • History 144: America in the World
  • History 150C: Introduction to Afro-American History

Fall 2024

  • History 187E: Latin America: Monsters in Latin American History with Robin L. Derby

2023-24

Spring 2024

  • History 8C: Latin American Social History with Robin L. Derby

Winter 2023

  • History 14A: History of the Atlantic World 1492-1830 with Carla Gardina Pestana

2020-21

Winter 2021

  • HIST 96W:3: History of the U.S. and Its Colonial Origins: 19th Century (Marino)
  • HIST 187: Terroir: Place, Craft, Taste (Derby)
  • HIST 200I.2: Advanced Historiography: Latin America (Terraciano)
  • HIST 200O: Advanced Historiography: Science/Technology (Porter)
  • HIST C201H.1: Topics in History: U.S. (Hudson)
  • HIST 213D: Transnational Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Marino)
  • HIST 246B: Nations, Revolutions, Empires: 19th-Century America in Local & Global Perspectives (Kim)

Spring 2021

  • HIST 8C: Latin American Social History (Perez-Montesinos)
  • HIST 14C: Introduction to Atlantic History (Pestana)
  • HIST 201E.1: Readings in Modern Cultural History, Europe and the World in the Fin-de-Siecle (Silverman)
  • HIST 201O: Things and Images (Chadarevian)

Fall 2020

  • HIST 96W.3: Introduction to Historical Practice: Race-Making in the Caribbean: Colonial Histories of Hierarchy and Difference (Griffin)
  • HIST 96W.6: Introduction to Historical Practice: Humans and other Animals in the Atlantic World: Cultural and Environmental History of Colonial Spanish America (Bride)
  • HIST 101: Cultural History of Food in the Atlantic World (Derby)
  • HIST 201I.1: Brazil Research Seminar (Summerhill)
  • HIST 201I.2: Animals in the Atlantic World (Derby)

2019-20

Fall 2019

  • WL Arts 104: World arts and cultures – Representations (Roberts)
  • WL Arts 200: World Arts and Cultures – Theories of Culture (Roberts)
  • HIS 275A: Theory and Method in African History (Apter)
  • AH 100 Art History Theory and Methods (Nair)
  • HIS 13A: US History and its Colonial Origins (Pestana)
  • HIS 246A: Introduction to US history: Colonial Origins (Pestana)

Winter 2020

  • WL Arts 104: World arts and cultures – Representations (Roberts)
  • WL Arts 200: World Arts and Cultures – Theories of Culture (Roberts)
  • Geography 247: Advanced topics in cultural geography (Carney)
  • AH 203: Architecture Theory: Gender and Archeology (Nair)
  • AH 185: Women and Art in the Ancient Americas (Nair)

Spring 2020

  • C142 & C242: World Arts and Cultures – Myth and Ritual (Roberts)
  • HIS 200I: Advanced Historiography of Latin America (Derby)
  • HIS 8C: Latin American Social History (Derby)
  • AH C140: Moche Art and Architecture (Nair)

2018-19

Fall

  • 8A: Colonial Latin America (Terraciano)
  • 13A: History of the U.S. and its Colonial Origins: Colonial Origins (Yirush)
  • M151D: Chicana Historiography (Espino)
  • 164E: Topics in African History: Africa 1945 to Present: Africa Postcolony (Apter)
  • 179A: Medical History (Lo)
  • 201L: Topics in History: Latin America: Cuba: from Colony to Revolution (Derby)
  • 246A: Introduction to U.S. History: Colonial Period (Yirush)

Winter

  • M10A: History of Africa to 1800
  • 14A: Introduction to Atlantic History (Pestana)
  • 164D: Topics in African History: Africa and Diaspora in Global and Comparative Perspective
  • 275A: Colloquium: African History

Spring

  • 10B: History of Africa, 1800 to Present
  • 129A: Social History of Spain and Portugal: Age of Silver in Spain and Portugal, 1479 to 1789
  • M150C: Introduction to Afro-American History
  • 201W: Readings in Atlantic History (Pestana)

2017-18

Fall

  • 13A-1: History of the U.S. and Its Colonial Origins: Colonial Origins and First Nation Building Acts (Pestana)
  • 96W-1: Introduction to Historical Practice: Historical Representation in Caribbean: Slavery, Whiteness, Colonization, and Power (Schneider)
  • 96W-3: Introduction to Historical Practice: Africa: Space of Resistance, Ideological Innovation, and Trauma, 1890 to 1999 (Osei-Opare)
  • 138A-1: Colonial America, 1600 to 1763 (Yirush)
  • 141A-1: American Economic History, 1790 to 1910 (Yeager/Goux)
  • 149A-1: North American Indian History, Precontact to 1830 (Madley)
  • M151A-1: History of Chicano Peoples (Gomez-Quinones)
  • 164E-1: Topics in African History: Africa, 1945 to Present (Hiribarren)
  • 187D-2: Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: U.S.: Explaining Salem Witchcraft (Pestana)
  • 191E-1: Capstone Seminar: History — Latin America (Summerhill)
  • 246A-1: Introduction to U.S. History: Colonial Period (Pestana)

Winter

  • M10A-1: History of Africa to 1800 (Lydon)
  • 96W-1: Introduction to Historical Practice: Resistance and Ideological Innovation in Africa, 1890 to 1999 (Osei-Opare)
  • 96W-4: Introduction to Historical Practice: Black Magic in Afro-Atlantic: African Rituals in Americas (Withers)
  • 97C-2: Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History: Citizenship and Human Rights (Nasiali)
  • 97D-2: Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History: Americans and Empires (Salman)
  • 138B-1: Revolutionary America, 1760 to 1800 (Yirush)
  • M150B-1: Introduction to Afro-American History (Stevenson)
  • 161-1: Topics in Latin American History: Slavery and Abolition in Caribbean and Latin America (Wicks)
  • 164D-1: Topics in African History: Africa and Diaspora in Global and Comparative Perspective: Explorations in Black Atlantic History and Culture (Apter)
  • 187E-1: Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: Latin America: Indigenous People in Making of Modern Latin America (Perez-Montesinos)
  • 191D-3: Capstone Seminar: History — U.S.: Justifying American Revolution: Patriots, Loyalists, Indians, and Africans Debate Independence (Yirush)
  • 200I-1: Advanced Historiography: Latin America (Terraciano)
  • 200N-1: Advanced Historiography: Africa (Worger)
  • 275A-1: Colloquium: African History (Lydon)

Spring

  • 96W-1: Introduction to Historical Practice: Africa: Revolutionary People, 1890 to 1999 (Osei-Opare)
  • 97D-1: Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History: Americans and Empires (Salman)
  • M150C-1: Introduction to Afro-American History (Kelley)
  • 166B-1: History of West Africa: West Africa since 1800 (Lydon)
  • 191J-1: Capstone Seminar: History — Africa: Superheroes and Apartheid (Worger)
  • 275B-1: Colloquium: African History (Lydon)

2016-17

Fall

  • History 138A:  Colonial America (Yirush)
  • History M150A:  Comparative Slavery Systems (Roth)
  • History 201I:  Brazil research seminar (Summerhill)

Winter

  • History 97C:  Citizenship and Human Rights (Nasiali)
  • History 101-4:  Slave Ships in the Atlantic World (Taylor)
  • History M142C:  U.S. Religious History [1585-1830] (Pestana)
  • History 161-2:  Economic History of Latin America (Summerhill)
  • History 162A:  Modern Brazil (Summerhill)
  • History 187E:  Indigenous People in the Making of Modern Latin America (Perez-Montesinos)
  • History 275B:  Theory and Method in African History

Spring

  • History 187:  The Caribbean: History and Culture (Derby)
  • History 191:  Slavery and Abolition in Latin America and the Caribbean (Summerhill)
  • History 191C:  Imperial Cities (Nasiali)
  • History 201:  Latin America: History, Memory, Identity (Derby)

2015-16

Fall

  • General Education Clusters (GE CLST) 20A:  Interracial Dynamics in American Culture and Society (Scot Brown)

Winter

  • General Education Clusters (GE CLST) 20B:  Interracial Dynamics in American Culture and Society (Scot Brown)
  • History 101:  The Cultural History of Food (Robin Derby)
  • History M158B:  African American Studies and History: Intro to Afro-American History (Robin G. D. Kelley)
  • African American Studies (AF AMER) M200A:  Advanced Historiography: African American (Scot Brown)
  • History M200V:  Advanced Historiography: African American (Scot Brown)

Spring

  • History 201:  Animals in the Atlantic World (Robin Derby)
  • History M158A:  Comparative Slavery (Henry Lovejoy)

Winter or Spring

  • History 164E/ History 161-1:  Race, Class and Nationalism in the Caribbean (Henry Lovejoy)
  • History 161-2:  Cuba and West Africa in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Henry Lovejoy)

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Robert Hill and Aisha Finche will also be teaching Atlantic-themed courses this year and we will list them as they become available.

2014-15

Fall

  • History 246A:  Two Quarter Research Seminar in Atlantic History (Pestana)

Winter

  • History 97:  Death and the Afterlife in the Caribbean (Derby)
  • History 246B:  Two Quarter Research Seminar in Atlantic History (Pestana)

Spring

  • History 214:  Studies in Black Atlantic History and Culture (Apter)
  • History 201I:  Animals in the Atlantic World (Derby)
  • History 191:  Latin American Environmental History (Derby)

2013-14

Fall

  • History 19-4:  (Fiat Lux Seminar) The Adventures of Henry Pitman (Pestana)
  • History 275:  Colloquium in African History: Theory and Method in African History (Apter)
    Winter
  • History 101:  Topics in World History: The Atlantic World, 1492 to 1830 (Pestana)
  • History 132-1:  Men and Women of Fashion: Politics of Dress in Age of Atlantic Revolution (Koscak)
  • History 201I-2:  Brazil Research Workshop (Summerhill)
  • History 201I-3:  Power of Images in the Iberian Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (Terraciano)
  • History 201I-5:  Dissolution of Spanish Monarchy and Formation of Latin American Nations (Vazquez Semadeni)

Spring

  • History M150E:  African-American Nationalism in the first half of the 20th Century (Hill)
  • History 164B:  Africa & the Slave Trade (Bardeen)
  • History 201I-1:  Debates in Caribbean Historiography (Derby)