Fall 2026 Graduate Courses

(Tentative schedule; subject to change)

Course No. & Name	Professor/Lecturer	Day/Time	Course Description
HIST C200F: Topics in Historiography: World History: Getting Rich in South Africa and South Asia	Prof. H. Frederick Wint	T, 4pm- 6:50pm	The financial crisis of 2008 renewed scholarly and popular interest in the structures, ideologies, histories, and practices that constitute the phenomenon of “global capitalism”. Yet these ‘new’ histories of capitalism often neglect the perspectives of those living in and writing about the Global South. Scholars of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, however, have long been concerned with the economic transformations of the modern and early modern eras. Historians, anthropologists, and political activists emphasize the innovative ways that people living in the Global South “get rich” through their participation in and resistance to global markets. The everyday actions that shape the life of global capital are our starting point for examining histories and historiographies of wealth, capital, and globalization. Rather than testing the applicability of Western-centric concepts, then, our goal is to explore analytical frameworks that emerge from the historical, ethnographic, and comparative study of African, South Asian, and other Global South societies.
HIST 201I: Topics in History: Latin America: Research on Brazil and Latin America	Prof. W. Summerhill	M, 12pm-2:50pm	Designed for PhD students doing research on Brazil or Latin America, and for students conducting master’s degree research in Latin American studies.
HIST C201Q: Topics in History: Theory of History: Historical Narration of Craft, Art and Uprising	Prof. S. Stein	W, 9am-11:50am	Scholars of history have narrated inventively for generations, with ever evolving goals, approaches, styles, and motivations. This graduate seminar, open to graduate students in History and other disciplines, explores creative approaches to historical storytelling and encourages students to sharpen their own writerly voice. Together, we will explore a range of narrative strategies from various fields focused on various time periods (but mostly the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries), considering how narration is deployed as a method and to what shifting, radical ends. Students will experiment with narrative form in written assignments, drawing on sources and cases from their own fields.
*HIST 204A: Departmental Seminar: Approaches, Methods, Debates, Practices (*required for first year students)	Prof. K. Terraciano	T, 2pm-4:50pm	Required of all first-year departmental graduate students. Introduction to range of important methodological approaches and theoretical debates about writing of history that are influential across fields, geographical contexts, and temporal periods to stimulate conversation and connection across fields, inviting students to think collectively and expansively about study and praxis of history. Introduction to sampling of scholarship produced by department faculty members with whom students may work.
HIST 246A: Introduction to U.S. History: Colonial Period	Prof. C. Pestana	M, 3pm-5:50pm	Seminar, three hours. Graduate survey of significant literature dealing with U.S. history from the Colonial period to the present. Each course may be taken independently for credit.
HIST 282A: Seminar: Chinese History: Seminar 1	Prof. U. McMillan	W, 2pm-4:50pm	Seminar, three hours. Course 282A is requisite to 282B. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 282B).