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Craib and Fiani win graduate, professional teaching prize
“These professors have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to teaching and mentoring their students.”
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Book: Policymakers are failing ‘climate refugees’
The United States must transform its outdated migration policies to address the human devastation that is left in the wake of climate change and environmental catastrophe, Maria Cristina Garcia argues.
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Acclaimed sports historian to speak on 'the NFL’s Most Important Game'
Louis Moore, history professor and co-host of The Black Athlete podcast, will give this semester’s Seymour Lecture in Sports History on Oct. 6.
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HIST 4772 China Imagined: The Historical and Global Origins of the Chinese Nation
HIST 4772 China Imagined: The Historical and Global Origins of the Chinese Nation (also ASIAN 4478, CAPS 4772) (GHB) (HA-AS, GLC-AS, HST-AS) (HAN) Tuesday: 12:25-2:20 Professor Mara Du As China, with its “China Dream,” rises in power on the global stage, what “China” means to its inhabitant...
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HIST 4723 Scandal, Corruption, and the Making of the British Empire in India
HIST 4723 Scandal, Corruption, and the Making of the British Empire in India (also ASIAN 4465) (HB) (HA-AS, GLC-AS, HST-AS) (EC-SAP) (HTR) Thursday: 2:40-4:35 Professor Robert Travers As the English East India Company conquered vast Indian territories in the late 1700s, it was besieged wit...
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HIST 4157 Readings in Race and Nineteenth-Century American History
HIST 4157 Readings in Race and Nineteenth-Century American History (also AMST 4157)(HA-AS, HST-AS, SCD-AS) (HNA) Thursday: 12:25-2:20 Professor Tamika Nunley This seminar invites students to consider major debates and historiographical problems that emerge in the history of race in ninetee...
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HIST 3590 The Black Radical Tradition in the U.S.
HIST 3590 The Black Radical Tradition in the U.S. (also AMST 3590, ASRC 3590) (HA-AS, HST-AS) (HNA) Tuesday and Thursday: 1:00-2:15 Professor Russell Rickford This course provides a critical historical interrogation of what Black Marxism author Cedric Robinson called “the Black Radical Tra...
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HIST 2792 Monuments, Museums, and Memory: An Introduction to Public History
HIST 2792 Monuments, Museums, and Memory: An Introduction to Public History (also AMST 2792, SHUM 2792)(HA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS) (HNA) Tuesday and Thursday: 9:40-10:55 Professor Stephen Vider In this course we will examine how we have come to narrate social, cultural, and political history in...
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