Professors: Mark C. Carnes (Ann Whitney Olin Professor), Joel Kaye, Dorothy Ko, Robert A. McCaughey (Janet H. Robb Chair in the Social Sciences), Jose Moya, Rosalind N. Rosenberg (Ann Whitney Olin Professor), Herbert Sloan (Ann Whitney Olin Professor) (Chair), Deborah Valenze, Nancy Woloch (Adjunct)
Associate Professor: Lisa Tiersten, Owen Gutfreund
Assistant Professors: Deborah R. Coen, Elizabeth Esch, Abosede George, Nara Milanich, Anupama Rao, Carl Wennerlind
Other officers of the
University offering courses in History:
Professors: Volker Berghahn, Richard Billows, Elizabeth Blackmar, Casey Blake, Alan Brinkley, Richard Bulliet, Nicholas Dirks, Barbara Fields, Eric Foner, Carol Gluck, Victoria de Grazia, William V. Harris, Martha Howell, Kenneth Jackson, Alice Kessler-Harris, Rashid Khalidi, William Leach, Manning Marable, Mark Mazower, Mae Ngai, Susan Pedersen, Christopher Porown, David Rosner, David J. Rothman, Simon Schama, Pamela Smith, Michael Stanislawski, Nancy Leys Stepan, Anders Stephanson, Marc Van De Mieroop, Mark von Hagen, Isser Woloch, Richard Wortman, Marcia Wright, Yosef H. Yerushalmi, Madeleine Zelin
Associate Professors: Bradley Abrams, Charles Armstrong, Matthew Connelly, Matthew Jones, Adam Kosto, Gregory MannAdam McKeown, Samuel Moyn, Pablo Piccato
Assistant Professors: Janaki Bakhle, Evan Haefeli, Rebecca Kobrin, Natasha Lightfoot, Gregory Mann, Christine Philliou, Sarah Phillips, Caterina Pizzigoni, Samuel Roberts, Neslihan Senocak, Emma Winter
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
History encompasses the whole of human experience, helping us understand ourselves in the context of our times and traditions through the study of times and traditions other than our own. History means not only the record of the past but also the discipline of investigating and interpreting the past. The study of history develops habits of critical thinking and effective writing, as well as it cultivates the careful analysis of various types of quantitative and qualitative evidence. It should be of value not only to undergraduates who intend to pursue advanced degrees in the field, but also to students interested in exploring the diversity and complexity of the human past, even as they hone their analytical and expository skills.
Students who intend to major in history should consult a member of the department in their sophomore year to plan their academic programs. The history major requires a minimum of eleven courses, eight in the area of concentration and three outside the area of concentration.
The three principal areas of concentration are European, American, and Asian history, but majors may, in consultation with their advisers and with the approval of the chair, concentrate in some other field, such as ancient, medieval, Jewish, or African history. *Majors may also, in consultation with their advisers, choose a transnational thematic concentration, such as urban history, empires and colonialism, nationalisms, science and society, money and markets, or gender, sexuality, and the family.
Majors in history may now choose to concentrate either in a world region (for example, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the US) or select a transnational thematic concentration (examples are listed below). For both regional and transnational thematic concentrations, two related courses may be chosen from outside the History Department (examples are listed below each concentration).
Urban History
1. BC 3980 World Migration
2. BC 4651 Jewish Immigration: New York, Paris, Buenos Aires
3. BC TBA Immigrant New York
4. BC 4320 The City in Europe
5. BC 4327 Consumer Culture in Modern Europe
6. BC 4360 London: From Great Wen to World City
7. BC 3496 History of American Cities
8. BC 3525 20^th -Century Urbanization in Comparative Perspective
9. BC 4401 Reinventing American Cities
10. BC 4335 Poverty and the Social Order in Europe
11. BC 4332 The Politics of Leisure in Modern Europe
12. W 4417 African-American Urban History
13. W3535 History of the City of New York
14. W3441 Making of the Modern American Landscape
Related courses from other departments
1. AH C3643 The American City: Urban Form and City Planning
2. ARCH V3114 Making the Metropolis: Urban Design and Theories of the
City Since 1850
Gender, Sexuality, and the Family
1. BC 3323 European Women in the Age of Revolution
2. BC 3567 American Women in the 20th Century
3. BC 4468 American Women in the 1920s
4. BC 4466 Progressive Women, 1890-1920
5. BC 4402 Selected Topics in American Women's History
6. BC 3681 Women and Gender in Latin America
7. BC 4861 Body Histories: Footbinding
8. BC 3840 Gender, Caste, and Nation in South Asia
9. BC 4671 History of the Family in Global Perspective, 1500-Present
10. W4032 Family and Sexuality in Greece and Rome
11. W3460 Topics in the History of American Women and Gender
12. W 4103 Gender, Sex, and Commerce in Europe, 1200-1800
13. W 4886 Gender, Passions, and Social Order in China Since 150
14. W 4120 Witchcraft and the State
15. W 4103 Gender, Sex
16. W 4105 Homosexuality in the Classical World
17. W 4032 Family and Sexuality in Greece
18. W 4110 Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece
Related courses from other departments
1. HSEA W4886 Gender, Passions, and the Social Order in China Since 1500
2. HSEA W4893 Family in Chinese History
3. WMST BC3509 The Sex of Science: Gender and Knowledge in Modern History
Labor
1. BC 4335 Poverty and the Social Order
2. BC 4332 The Politics of Leisure in Modern Europe
3. BC 4410 Approached by Sea: Early American Maritime Culture
4. BC 3323 European Women in the Age of Revolution
5. BC 3180 Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the Making of Atlantic
Capitalism, 1600-1800
6. W 3582 Labor and Class Formation in African-American History,
1865-1950
7. W 4596 Labor and Class Formation in the Americas
8. W4426 People of the Old South
9. W 3528 Radical Tradition in America
10. W 4443 Society and Politics in the Gilded Age
11. W 4770 Women's Work in 20^th -Century South Africa
12. W 4884 Economic History of Modern China
13. W 3102 The Origins of Capitalism
14. W 3411 American Society in the Age of Capital
Empires and Colonialism
1. BC 3180 Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the Making of Atlantic
Capitalism, 1600-1800
2. BC 4410 Approached By Sea: Early American Maritime History
3. BC 3321 Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Culture of Empire
4. BC 3494: The Era of Independence in the Americas
5. BC 1801 Colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia
6. BC 4905 Capitalism, Colonialism, Culture
7. W3719 History of the Modern Middle East
8. W 4591 Slavery in the Atlantic World
9. W 3491 US Foreign Relations, 1890-1970
10. W 1020 The Romans, 754 B.C. to 565 A.D.
11. W3222 The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
12. W3434 The America West
13. W 4404 Native American History
14. W 3764 History of East Africa, 1850 to present
15. W3772 West African History
16. W 3220 Imperial Russia
17. W 3020 Roman Imperialism
18. W 3719 The History of the Modern Middle East
19. W 3760 Main Currents in African History
20. W 3762 South Africa in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries
21. W 3800 Gandhi's India I
22. W 3801 Gandhi's India I
23. W 3956 Globalization in History
24. W 3970 Global Inequality
25. W 4310 Europe and the End of Empires
26. W 4419 Age of Discovery
27. W 4404 Native American History
Related courses from other departments
1. ANCS W 4001 Ancient Empires
2. HSEA W 3898 The Mongols in History
3. ANTH V 3921 Anti-Colonialism
Money and Markets
1. BC 4062 Medieval Economic Life and Thought
2. BC 3116 Filthy Lucre: A History of Money
3. BC 4327 Consumer Culture in Modern Europe
4. BC 4886 Fashion
5. BC 4119 Capitalism and Enlightenment
6. BC 4905 Capitalism, Colonialism, and Culture: A Global History
7. BC 4332 The Politics of Leisure in Modern Europe
8. BC 3180 Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the Making of Atlantic
Capitalism, 1600-1800
9. W 3102 The Origins of Capitalism
10. W 3411 American Society in the Age of Capital
11. W3582 Labor and Class Formation in African-American History, 1865-1950
12. W 4318 Globalizing American Consumer Culture
13. W 4766 Slaves and Subjects in African History
Related courses from other departments
1. HSEA 4884 Economic History of Modern China
2. ECON BC 2014 Topics in Economic History
3. ECON BC 3013 Economic History of the United States
Science and Society
1. BC 4368 History of the Senses
2. BC 3305 Science, Technology, and Modernity
3. BC 4903 Reacting III/Science and Society
4. BC Science Across Cultures
5. BC 4909 History of Environmental Thinking
6. BC 4064 Medieval Science and Society
7. BC 4592 American Maritime History Since 1865
8. W 4582 Looking at Nature
9. W 3112 The Scientific Revolution in Western Europe
10. W 3441 Making of the Modern American Landscape
11. W 4584 History of American-American Health and Health Movements
12. W 4910 Technology and History
13. W 3404 Americans and the Natural World
14. W 4305 The European Enlightenment
15. W 4314 Animals from Aristotle to Agamben
16. W 4906 Nuremberg and Beyond: Human Rights and Medicine
17. W 3103 Alchemy, Magic, and Science
Related courses from other departments
1. WMST BC 3509 Sex and Science: Gender and Knowledge in Modern History
Nationalisms
1. BC 1801 Colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia
2. BC 4672 Perspectives on Power in 20^th -Century Latin America
3. W 4664 Mexican Revolution
4. W3719 History of the Modern Middle East
5. W3222 The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
6. W 3434 The American West
7. W 3376 The Balkans Since 1800
8. W 3628 History of the State of Israel
9. W 3762 Twentieth-Century South African History
10. W 4310 Europe and the End of Empires
11. W 3606 Messianic Movements I
12. W 3607 Messianic Movements II
13. W 3650 Gandhi's India
14. W 3719 The History of the Modern Middle East
Related courses from other departments
1. HSME W 3650 Gandhi's India
War, Revolution, and Social Change
1. BC 3494 The Era of Independence in the Americas
2. BC 3323 European Women in the Age of Revolution
3. BC 3180 Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the Making of Atlantic
Capitalism, 1600-1800
4. BC 4672 Perspectives on Power in 20^th -Century Latin America
5. W 4762 Islam and Africa
6. W3300 Europe in the Age of Revolutions, 1789-1850
7. W4483 American Military History and Policy
8. W3320 The European Catastrophe, 1914-45
9. W3663 Mexico from Revolution to Democracy
10. W 4518 Slavery and Emancipation in the United States
11. W 4509 Problems in International History
12. W 3432 US in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
13. W 4865 The Vietnam War as International History
14. W 3997 World War II in History and Memory
15. W 4382 The French Revolution
16. W 3412 Revolutionary America 1750-1815
17. W 3434 The American West
18. W 3491 US Foreign Relations
19. W 4664 Mexican Revolution
20. W 4060 Laws of War
Related courses from other departments
1. ANTH W 4019 Southeast Asia: War, Remembrance, Forgetting
2. SOC V 3235 Social Movements
Rights, Citizenship, and the Law
1. BC 3423 The Constitution in Historical Perspective
2. BC 4423 Origins of the Constitution
3. BC 4546 The Fourteenth Amendment and its Uses
4. BC 3329 Crime and Punishment in Modern Europe
5. BC 4672 Perspectives on Power in 20^th -Century Latin America
6. W 4518 Slavery and Emancipation in the United States
7. W 3432 US in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
8. W 4404 Native American History
9. W 4804 Political Modernity: Themes in the Study of Colonial and
Postcolonial South Asia
10. W 3926 Historical Origins of Human Rights
11. W 4864 International Law and East Asia
12. W 4305 The European Enlightenment
13. W 4906 Nuremberg and Beyond: Human Rights and Medicine
14. W 4659 Modern Crime and Punishment in Historical Perspective
15. W 4314 Animals from Aristotle to Agamben
Related courses from other departments
1. ANTH V 3921 Anti-Colonialism
2. RELI VC 3650 Religion and the Civil Rights Movement
Intellectual History
1. BC 3466 American Intellectual History Since 1865
2. BC 3423 The Constitution in Historical Perspective
3. BC 4546 The Fourteenth Amendment and Its Uses
4. BC 4119 Capitalism and Enlightenment
5. BC 4542 Education in American History
6. BC 4543 Higher Learning in America
7. BC 3457 A Social History of Columbia University
8. BC 4064 Medieval Science and Society
9. BC 4062 Medieval Economic Life and Thought
10. BC 4324 Vienna and the Birth of the Modern
11. BC 4909 History of Environmental Thinking
12. BC 4423 Origins of the Constitution
13. BC 4909 History of Environmental Thinking
14. W 3606 Messianic Movements I
15. W 3607 Messianic Movements II
16. W 3103 Alchemy, Magic, and Science
17. W 3528 The Radical Tradition in America
18. W 4305 European Enlightenment
19. W 3062 Medieval Intellectual Life
20. W 4060 Laws of War
21. W 4306 Philosophy and Politics
22. W 3926 Historical Origins of Human Rights
The Atlantic World
1. BC 3180 Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the Making of Atlantic
Capitalism, 1600-1800
2. BC 4592 Maritime History Since the Civil War
3. BC 4410 Approached by Sea: Early American Maritime Culture
4. BC 3980 World Migration
5. BC 3682 Modern Latin American History
6. BC 3494 Era of Independence in the Americas
7. W 4419 Age of Discovery
8. W 4404 Native American History
9. W 4591 Slavery in the Atlantic World
Related courses from other departments
1. CLEN W 3930 Caribbean Diaspora Literature
2. FR BC 3770 Negritude
3. MUSI V 3163 Sonic Texts of the Black Atlantic
4. SPAN V 3351 Literature and Culture of Latin America: Colonial
Through Modern
5. ANTH V 3983: Ideas and Society in the Caribbean
Premodern History
1. BC 1062 Introduction to Later Middle Ages
2. BC 4062 Medieval Economic Life and Thought
3. BC 3062 Medieval Intellectual Life
4. W 1061 Introduction to Early Middle Ages
5. W 3606 Messianic Movements I
6. BC 3980 World Migration
7. W 1010 The Ancient Greeks
8. W 1020 The Romans
9. W 3020 Roman Imperialism
10. W 4105 Homosexuality in the Classical World
11. W 4032 Family and Sexuality in Greece
12. W 4110 Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece
13. W 3711 Islamo-Christian Civilization
14. W 1002 Ancient History of Mesopotamia and Anatolia
15. W 3660 Latin American Civilization I
Related courses from other departments
1. Classics V 3162 Ancient Law
2. ASE V 2359 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations
3. HSEA W 4869 History of Ancient China
4. HSEA W 3862 The History of Korea to 1900
5. HSEA W 3898 The Mongols in History
6. ANCS W 4001 Ancient Empires
7. ANCS W 4001 Ancient Empires
8. HSME W 3854 East Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age
9. RELI 3140 Early Christianity
10. PHIL V 2101 History of Philosophy I: Pre-Socratics through Augustine
11. ANTH W 4344 The Inka Empire
Barnard history courses are numbered to reflect the type of course and world
region:
By course type:
1000-level: introductory lecture courses
3000-level: other undergraduate lecture courses
4000-level: undergraduate seminars
By world region/epoch:
x000-x059: Ancient
x060-x099: Medieval
x1xx-x199: Early Modern Europe
x2xx-x299: East Central Europe
x3xx-x399: Modern Western Europe
x4xx-x599: United States
x600-x659: Jewish
x660-x699: Latin America
x700-x759: Middle East
x760-x799: Africa
x800-x859: South Asia
x860-x899: East Asia
x9xx-x999: Research, Historiography, Trans-National
The 11 required courses must include:
1. Three introductory courses (i.e., 1000-level courses or their equivalent).
For Barnard Class of 1998 onwards, two of the introductory courses must be taken
in the field of concentration.
Students with AP credits may substitute an advanced course(s) for
introductory course(s), although AP credits may not be counted toward the 11
required courses.
2. Two seminars
3. The two-semester senior research seminar (HIS BC 4391-92, 4493-94). The
Senior Thesis must be taken in sequence over two semesters, beginning in the
Fall and continuing through the Spring.
Majors may, with the approval of their advisers, take two of their 11 courses
outside the department, provided that such courses are closely related to their
concentrations.
American Studies seminars may be substituted for history seminars.
The senior research seminar in which students write their senior essays (30-50 pages), represents the culmination of the undergraduate history major. Students should discuss tentative topics with their advisers by the end of the junior year. Halfway through the first semester of the senior year students must submit a formal prospectus defining the problem under investigation, outlining the issues involved, and identifying the primary and secondary sources consulted. They must draft part of the essay by the end of the Fall semester, then complete their research and writing in the Spring.
The minor in history requires five courses, four in an area of concentration and one outside the concentration. The five courses must include one seminar. Students planning to minor in history should consult the department chair.