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Robert Travers

Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies

Attention Undergraduates:

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.

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Codes for pre-1800 and World Areas courses are included with the course descriptions in the Class Roster and Courses of Study.

Pre-1800 is coded as HPE
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Several Arts & Sciences faculty members are among the 14 2023-24 fellows by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).

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'A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated.'

HIST 4761 Albion: Post-Roman, Pre-Norman

3/15/2023

HIST 4761 Albion: Post-Roman, Pre-Norman (also MEDVL 4761) (HB)(ALC-AS, HST-AS)(HPE, HEU) Thursday: 12:20-2:00 plus Independent Research Professor Oren Falk The people who invaded the isle of Britain after the withdrawal of Roman government in the early fifth century, and who dominated it u...

HIST 4346 Revolts Against the Roman Empire

3/15/2023

HIST 4346 Revolts Against the Roman Empire (also CLASS 4346, JWST 4346, NES 4346) (GHB)(GLC-AS, HST-AS)(HPE, HEU) Tuesday and Thursday: 2:55-4:10 plus Independent Research Professor Barry Strauss This class will study an important example of resistance, that is, several armed revolts agains...

HIST 4337 The 1980s: Polotics, Culture, and Memory in the United States

3/15/2023

HIST 4337 The 1980s: Politics, Culture, and Memory in the United States (also AMST 4337)(ALC-AS, HST-AS) (HNA) Tuesday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Stephen Vider This seminar will examine U.S. culture and politics in the 1980s as a pivotal decade in shaping our contemporar...

HIST 4303 Nationalism & Decoloniation in Africa

3/15/2023

HIST 4303 Nationalism & Decolonization in Africa (also ASRC 4303) (GB)(HST-AS)(HGS) Thursday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Judith Byfield This course examines the rise of nationalism as well as the process and aims of decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on film...

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HIST 4265 Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World

3/15/2023

HIST 4265 Gender, Sexuality, and the U.S. in the World (also AMST 4264, ASRC 4265, FGSS 4265) (HST-AS) (HNA) Thursday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Ruth Lawlor This seminar explores the intertwined histories of sex, sexuality, and gender at the intersection of major themes ...

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