For more detailed information about each course offered this term, see Courses@Brown.
Overview of Courses
History 150s and Gateway Intro Lectures
History 0150s are thematic courses on topics that cut across time and space and are open to all Brown undergraduates. They introduce students to methods of historical analysis, interpretation, and argument. Gateway courses are designed to offer students an introduction to problems and questions within a particular geography and generally across a shorter time period.
150 Courses
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 0150C | Locked Up: A Global History of Prison and Captivity | T, Th 1-2:20pm | Amy Remensnyder |
Gateway Intro Lecture Courses
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 0233 | Colonial Latin America | T, Th 9-10:20am | Jeremy Mumford |
HIST 0244 | Understanding the Middle East: 1800s to Present | T, Th 2:30-3:50pm | Faiz Ahmed |
HIST 0255A | Mexican American History | T, Th 10:30-11:50am | Mark Ocegueda |
HIST 0285A | Modern Genocide and Other Crimes against Humanity | T, Th 1-2:20pm | James Wang |
HIST 0930R / CLAS 0650 | War and Society in Ancient Greece (Interested students must register for CLAS 0650) |
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Graham Oliver |
HIST 0930W / CLAS 0320 | 21st Century Classics (Interested students must register for CLAS 0320) | T, Th 2:30-3:50pm | Graham Oliver |
HIST 0930Y / EAST 0309 | Courtesans, Concubines and Wives: Gender Relations in Imperial China (Interested students must register for EAST 0309) | T, Th 9-10:20am | Beverly Bossler |
150 Courses
None Offered
Gateway Intro Lecture Courses
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 0234 | Modern Latin America | M, W, F 11-11:50am | Daniel Rodriguez |
HIST 0256 | Introduction to LatinX History | T, Th 1-2:20pm | Mark Ocegueda |
HIST 0273B | Religion and European Colonialism, 1700-1900 | T, Th 2:30-3:50pm | Shahzad Bashir |
HIST 0276 | Global History of Atomic Age | M, W, F 11-11:50am | Kerry Smith |
HIST 0286A | History of Medicine I: Medical Traditions in the Old World before 1700 | M, W, F 9-9:50am | Harold Cook |
HIST 0930G / JUDS 0050M | Judaism Christianity Middle Ages Today (Interested students must register for JUDS 0050M) | T, Th 10:30-11:50am | Adam Teller |
HIST 0930S / EAST 0010 | Beyond Orientalism: Understanding East Asia (Interested students must register for EAST 0010) | T, Th 9-10:20am | Beverly Bossler |
HIST 0930X / COLT 0711L | The Quran and its Readers (Interested students must register for COLT 0711L) | T, Th 10:30-11:50am | Elias Muhanna |
HIST 0930Z / COLT 0510K | The 1001 Nights (Interested students must register for COLT 0510K) | M, W, F 10-10:50am | Elias Muhanna |
First-Year and Second-Year Seminars
History Department first-year seminars (FYS) and second-year seminars (SYS) (restricted to first-years and sophomores) provide first-years and sophomores an introduction to a topic and to historical methods in a small class setting.
First Year Seminars
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 0558C | LatinX Social Movement History | M 3-5:30pm | Mark Ocegueda |
HIST 0559A | Culture and U.S. Empire | F 3-5:30pm | Naoko Shibusawa |
HIST 0940D / ETHN 0090A | The Border / La Frontera | Th 4-6:30pm | Evelyn Hu-DeHart |
HIST 0940F / EDUC 0610 | Brown vs. Board of Education (Interested students must register for EDUC 0610) | M 3-5:30pm | Tracy Steffes |
HIST 0940M / EAST 0140 | Catastrophic Japan (Interested students must register for EAST 0140) | W 3-5:30pm | Kerry Smith |
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 0522O | The Enlightenment | M 3-5:30pm | Neil Safier |
HIST 0574A | The Silk Road, Past/Present | W 3-5:30pm | Cynthia Brokaw |
Second-Year and Non-Capstone Seminars
Second-Year Seminars
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 0622A | Information Overload in Early Modern Europe | T 4-6:30pm | Amanda Arceneaux |
HIST 0624 | Coexistence and Violence in Europe: Jews, Muslims, Roma and their Neighbors | T, Th 1-2:20pm | Harry Merritt |
HIST 0623B | The Russian Revolution | F 3-5:30pm | Ethan Pollock |
HIST 0657A | Early American Lives | Th 4-6:30pm | Christopher Grasso |
HIST 0658D | Walden and Woodstock | W 3-5:30pm | Ken Sacks |
Non-Capstone Seminars
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 1952B | Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Family in U.S. | M 3-5:30pm | Robert Self |
HIST 1956S | History of Artificial Intelligence | Th 4-6:30pm | Holly Case |
HIST 1981P / COLT 1310J | The Arab Renaissance (Interested students must register for COLT 1310J) | W 3-5:30pm | Elias Muhanna |
HIST 1981S / AFRI 1170 | African American Women's History | Th 4-6:30pm | Keisha Blain |
HIST 1981T / RELS 1530H | Problems in Islamic Studies: Shaking up the Study of the Islamic World | M 3-5:30pm | Nancy Khalek |
Second-Year Seminars
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 0623D | The Great Patriotic War: The Soviet Experience of World War II | T 4-6:30pm | Harry Merritt |
HIST 0656A | History of Intercollegiate Athletics | M 3-5:30pm | Howard Chudacoff |
HIST 0659A | Excessive Force: State Violence, Vigilantism, and the History of “Law and Order” in America | T 4-6:30pm | Aaron Jacobs |
HIST 0678A | What Do Concubines Have to Do with It? Gender, Sexuality, and Status in the Premodern World | T 4-6:30pm | Stacey Murrell |
Non-Capstone Seminars
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 1942A | Taiwan’s Geographies | Th 4-6:30pm | Rebecca Nedostup |
HIST 1953Q | Hindus and Muslims: Readings in South Asian History | T, Th 6:40-8pm | Vazira Zamindar |
HIST 1956A | Thinking Historically | Th 4-6:30pm | Ken Sacks |
HIST 1980B / ENVS 1916 | Animals and Plants in Chinese History (Interested students must register for ENVS 1916) | Th 4-6:30pm | Brian Lander |
HIST 1980R / EDUC 1720 | Urban Schools in Historical Perspective (Interested students must register for EDUC 1720) | M 3-5:30pm | Tracy Steffes |
HIST 1981Q / POBS 1601K | Early Modern Global History at the John Carter Brown Library (Interested students must register for POBS 1601K) | Th 4-6:30pm | Gabriel Rocha |
HIST 1981R / ETHN 1750D | Transpacific Asian American Studies (Interested students must register for ETHN 1750D) | M, W 8:30-9:50am | Evelyn Hu-DeHart |
Other Lecture Courses
History lecture courses address topics of broad interest chronologically, geographically and thematically defined. These courses are designed for History concentrators and non-concentrators alike. Our courses over 1000 are organized geographically as follows:
- 1000-1099 courses on Africa
- 1100-1199 courses on East Asia
- 1200-1299 courses on Europe
- 1300-1399 courses on Latin America
- 1400-1499 courses on Middle East
- 1500-1599 courses on North America
- 1600-1699 courses on South Asia
- 1700-1799 Global courses
- 1800-1899 Thematic courses
Course Number | Coures Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 1101 | Chinese Political Thought | T, Th 9-10:20am | Cynthia Brokaw |
HIST 1120 | At China’s Edges | M, W, F 11-11:50am | Rebecca Nedostup |
HIST 1156 | Postwar Japan | M, W, F 12-12:50pm | Kerry Smith |
HIST 1266C | English History, 1529-1660 | M, W, F 2-2:50pm | Tim Harris |
HIST 1272D | The French Revolution | T, Th 10:30-11:50am | Joel Revill |
HIST 1320 | Rebel Island: Cuba, 1492-Present | T, Th 10:30-11:50am | Jennifer Lambe |
HIST 1360 | Green Inferno: Amazonia from the Prehuman to the Present | M, W, F 1-1:50pm | Neil Safier |
HIST 1381 | Latin American History and Film: Memory, Narrative and Nation | M, W, F 11-11:50am | Daniel Rodriguez |
HIST 1507 | Politics and Culture in the U.S. since 1945 | T, Th 1-2:20pm | Robert Self |
HIST 1515 | American Slavery | M, W, F 12-12:50pm | Emily Owens |
HIST 1553 | Empires in America to 1890 | M, W, F 2-2:50pm | Naoko Shibusawa |
HIST 1800 | Religion and Power in North America to 1865 | M, W, F 10-10:50am | Christopher Grasso |
HIST 1830B | Sigmund Freud to QAnon | T, Th 2:30-3:50pm | Michael Steinberg |
HIST 1931G / CLAS 1330 | Roman Religion | MWF 11-11:50am | John Bodel |
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 1202 | Formation of the Classical Heritage: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims | T, Th 10:30-11:50am | Ken Sacks |
HIST 1211 | Europe in the High Middle Ages | T, Th 9-10:20am | Amy Remensnyder |
HIST 1217 | The Cultural History of Democracy | T, Th 2:30-3:50pm | Michael Steinberg |
HIST 1262M | Truth on Trial | T, Th 1-2:20pm | Caroline Castiglione |
HIST 1266D | British History, 1660-1800 | M, W, F 2-2:50pm | Tim Harris |
HIST 1310 | History of Brazil | T, Th 1-2:20pm | Jim Green |
HIST 1333 | The Mexican Revolution | M, W 8:30-9:50am | Evelyn Hu-DeHart |
HIST 1340 | The History of the Andes | M, W, F 1-1:50pm | Jeremy Mumford |
HIST 1382 | Environmental History of Latin America | M, W, F 10-10:50pm | Gabriel Rocha |
HIST 1502 | Early Republic of the United States | T, Th 9-10:20am | Christopher Grasso |
HIST 1533 | Cities and Inequality Since 1920: The United States | M, W, F 12-12:50pm | Robert Self |
HIST 1554 | American Empire since 1890 | M, W, F 2-2:50pm | Naoko Shibusawa |
HIST 1820B | Environmental History of East Asia | T, Th 10:30-11:50am | Brian Lander |
HIST 1930U / CLAS 1120E | Slavery in the Ancient World (Interested students must register for CLAS 1120) | T, Th 1-2:20pm | John Bodel |
HIST 1931F / CLAS 1210 | Mediterranean Culture Wars: Archaic Greek History, c. 1200 to 479 BC | M, W, F 2-2:50pm | Graham Oliver |
Capstone Seminars
All concentrators must complete at least one capstone seminar (HIST 1960s & HIST 1970s series courses and selected HIST 1980 courses). These seminars are designed to serve as an intellectual culmination of the concentration. They provide students with an opportunity to delve deeply into a historical problem and to write a major research and/or analytical paper which serves as a capstone experience. Ideally, they will be taken in the field of focus and during the student’s junior or senior year. Students considering writing a senior honors thesis are advised to take a capstone in their junior year. These seminars are designed to serve as an intellectual culmination of the concentration. First-Year students are not advised to take these courses and only rarely are sophomores allowed to enroll.
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 1962F | Self, Family and Network in Chinese Landscapes | W 3-5:30pm | Rebecca Nedostup |
HIST 1964F | Early Modern Ireland | M 3-5:30pm | Tim Harris |
HIST 1968A | Approaches to the Middle East | T 4-6:30pm | Alexander Winder |
HIST 1968V | America and the Middle East: Histories of Connection and Exchange | W 3-5:30pm | Faiz Ahmed |
HIST 1974I | Central and Eastern Europe and the Trajectory of History | W 3-5:30pm | Holly Case |
Course Number | Course Title | Schedule | Instructor |
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HIST 1960S | North African History, 1800-Present | F 3-5:30pm | Jennifer Johnson |
HIST 1964L | Slavery in the Early Modern World | Th 4-6:30pm | Adam Teller |
HIST 1967C | Making Revolutionary Cuba, 1959 to Present | M 3-5:30pm | Jennifer Lambe |
HIST 1967L | Life in Brazil under Military Rule | W 3-5:30pm | Jim Green |
HIST 1977I | Gender, Race and Medicine in the Americas | W 3-5:30pm | Daniel Rodriguez |
HIST 1977J | War and Medicine Since the Renaissance | W 3-5:30pm | Harold Cook |
HIST 1981U / AFRI 1060V | Black Transnationalism | F 3-5:30pm | Keisha Blain |
Honors Courses
Honors courses are a three-part series. They are all offered each semester annually.
Learn more about the honors programs
HIST 1992 | History Honors Workshop for Prospective Thesis Writers
Recommended for all those thinking about researching and writing a senior thesis. Must have an A- average in history courses to be considered for the History Honors Program. Completion of a thesis prospectus that receives an A or A- is admitted into the History Honors Program.
HIST 1993 | History Honors Workshop for Thesis Writers
Limited to seniors and juniors who have been admitted to the History Honors Program. First semester of writing the honors thesis.
HIST 1994 | History Honors Workshop for Thesis Writers
Limited to seniors and juniors who have been admitted to the History Honors Program. Second semester of writing the honors thesis.