History: History MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the department's list of current course offerings.

Course CodeCourse Title
Topics in History
Theory and History
History and Biopolitics
HIS1005HReading Queer and Trans Histories of North America
Theories, Histories, Imaginaries: Themes in Technoscience
The Practice of Public History and Archival Research
Empire and Governmentality: Economy, Culture, and Liberal Governance
New Historiographies of Capitalism: Globality and Making Space, Time, Subjects
Queer and Trans Oral History
HIS1012HIndigenous and Decolonial Science and Technology Studies
HIS1013HIntellectuals and Decolonization
HIS1014HNeoliberalism in North America
Oral History Theory and Practice
HIS1016HHistorical Readings in Gender and Sexuality
HIS1017HHistory and Social Media: Critical Histories for Big Publics
HIS1018HHistory as Creative Nonfiction
HIS1019HScience, Nature, and Empire
HIS1021HEnvironment and History
HIS1022HAnimals, Culture, and History
Images as History: Photography, Historical Method, and Conceptualizing Visuality
Modernity and Its Visual Cultures
Maps in History: Power and Identity, Conflict and Imagination
Topics in Canadian Social History
Canada: Colonialism/Postcolonialism
Canada By Treaty: Alliances, Title Transfers, and Land Claims
Canadian Foreign Relations, 1940–2003
History of the Sex Trade in Canadian and Comparative Contexts
Race in the USA and Canada
Readings in European Intellectual History
Jus Commune
Topics in Medieval Church History
HIS1205HThe Communist Experience in Central and Eastern Europe
Medieval Institutes of Perfection
Social Change in Medieval England, 1154–1279
Topics in Early Modern European Social History
HIS1228HRevolutions in History: The Annales School in Context
European Colonialism, 1870–1970: A Comparative History
Colonial Urbanism in the Mediterranean World, 1800–1950
Readings in Early Modern French History
HIS1235HHistories in the Mediterranean: From Braudel to Post-Colonialism
HIS1236HModern French Colonial History
France: 1870–1968
HIS1245HGender in Europe 1500–1950
HIS1265HAtrocities and Memory in Postwar Europe and North America
The Holocaust and World War II
The Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Topics in Twentieth-Century European History
HIS1273HTaking the Waters: Spas and Water Cures in History
Imperial Germany, 1871–1918
Topics in 20th C German History
World War II in East Central Europe
History of Real Socialism
Categories of Imperial Russian Social History
Polish Jews Since the Partitions of Poland
Russia's Empire
The Cold War Through Its Archives
Topics in Imperial Russian History
Stalinism and After: Beyond Cold War History
History of Food and Drink
Early Modern English Popular Culture, 1500–1800
Studies in Victorian Society
HIS1441HIreland, Race, and Empires
American Political History Since 1877
American Foreign Policy in the Cold War
Gender and International Relations
Reading in U.S. History
HIS1555HGender and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 17th to 19th Century
Rethinking Modernity Through Japan
Religion and Society in Southeast Asia
Critical Historiography of Late Imperial and Modern China
Imperial Circulation and Diasporic Flows in the British Empire
Empire and Nation in Modern East Asia
War and Memory in Twentieth-Century East Asia
Colonial Violence: Comparative Histories
Colloquium in Latin American and Caribbean History
Trends in Women and Gender History in the Global South
Topics in African History
Space and Power in Modern Africa
HIS1710HSlave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
Topics on the History of Ethiopia
Topics in Latin American History: Race, Gender, and Citizenship
HIS1783HJews of the Premodern Islamic World
The Islamic Revolution
International Relations in the Middle East
HIS1786HThe Middle East and Europe in 19th-Century
Travel Literature
Global Histories of the Archives
HIS1802HSlavery in North America
Human Rights and Empire
Histories of the Carceral State
HIS1810HIndigenous Economies and Imperialism
Law, Space, and History
Changing Skylines: (Re)mapping Urban History in the Global Age
Critical Approaches to Historical Anthropology
Global Rights: A Critical History
Regimes of Value
History in International Affairs
Approaches and Methodologies in Contemporary International History
The Practice of History
Reading Course
Reading Course
Directed Research
Comparative Totalitarian Culture

Cross-Listed Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
BKS2000HAdvanced Seminar in Book History and Print Culture
CIN3008HTopics in Film and Media History
ERE1175HOne Hundred Years of Cultures of Refugees in Europe, 1920–2020
FAH1965HThe Sixties Revisited
JHL1680HRevolutionary Women's Cultures in East Asia, Early to Mid 20th Century
Introduction to Medieval Medicine
Monastic Rules and Customaries
Medieval Sicily
HPS4110HMedicine, Science, and Mobility in the Mediterranean World
WGS1021HBlack Diaspora Feminisms, Modernity, Freedom, Belonging
WGS1031HGendering Racial Capitalism

Other Departments

Students may take courses from other departments for graduate history credit with permission of the Associate Chair, Graduate. Interested students should consult the appropriate calendar entries and departmental websites for current course offerings.