Derek Chang
Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies
Academic Interests:
- Comparative and Transnational
- Migration and Citizenship
- Race and Ethnicity
- Social
The Department of History is committed to pursuing excellence in historical scholarship and teaching across many different time periods and research interests. Its outstanding faculty specializes in a wide array of historical issues and themes that transcend particular regions and periods. Courses connect undergraduate and graduate students with the excitement of historic discovery and provide a rigorous training in researching and analyzing the human past.
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Are you interested in becoming a history major? You can now apply online, after securing your own major advisor. For more information: history-major-application-information. Paper Applications are available in McGraw Hall, fourth floor.
Important notices:
Codes for pre-1800 and World Areas courses are included with the course descriptions in the Class Roster and Courses of Study.
To search for courses under specific Major Requirement Codes, go to Courses of Study and enter the code in Search.
HIST 4673 Vienna and the Birth of the Modern (also JWST 4673) (ALC-AS, HST-AS) (HEU) Tuesday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Cristina Florea This course takes Vienna’s history as a starting point for studying how the modern mind fought to liberate itself from a past deemed o...
Read moreHIST 4196 From the Bible to the Museum: Jewish Memory and Public History (also NES 4196, RELST 4196, JWST 4196) (ALC-AS)(HST-AS) (HPE, HTR) Wednesday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Mayer Juni How has the remembrance of the past shaped the evolution of Jewish religion, identi...
Read moreHIST 3770 Latinos and the United States, 1492-1880 (also AMST 3775, LSP 3770) (HST-AS, SCD-AS) (HPE, HNA) Tuesday and Thursday: 10:10-11:25 plus Independent Research Professor Camille Suarez In this course, we will answer two major questions: What is Latino history? And how should we write ...
Read moreHIST 3653 International Development in African History (GLC-AS, HST-AS) (HGS) Monday and Wednesday: 2:55-4:10 (3-credits) Professor Rachel Sandwell This lecture course examines the history of the idea and practice of development in twentieth century Africa. Since the 1990s, the US, with som...
Read moreHIST 3436 History of the Cops: Racialized Policing in the US (also AMST 3436) (HST-AS) (HNA) Tuesday and Thursday: 10:10-11:25 plus Independent Research Professor Edward Baptist The course will study the history of policing and race in the US. Beginning with the origins of American policing...
Read moreHIST 2852 Judaism and the Origins of Christianity (also JWST 2852, RELST 2852) (HST-AS) (HPE, HEU) Monday and Wednesday: 10:10-11:25 (3-credits) Professor Olga Litvak Most people think of Christianity as the “daughter religion” of Judaism. In this course, we will see that what we now know a...
Read moreHIST 2631 The Global History of Time (HST-AS)(HPE, HTR) Tuesday and Thursday: 11:40-12:55 (3-credits) Dr. Justin Clark We often define history as change over time, while overlooking that our ways of measuring, thinking about, and using time are themselves an important part of history. This ...
Read moreHIST 2452 Dress, Cloth and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora (also ASRC 2452, HIST 6452) (HST-AS) (HGS) Tuesday and Thursday: 2:55-4:10 plus Independent Research Professor Judith Byfield This course uses a multi-disciplinary approach to examine the importance of textiles in African social...
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