H601, Introduction to the Professional Study of History, Fall 2021

Readings:

Lichtenstein, Alex.  “Decolonizing the AHR.”  American Historical Review 123:1 (January 2018): xiv–xvii.

Fielder, Brigette.  “Your Predominantly White Academic Organization (Yes, Even Yours) Is Exactly One Live-Tweeted Racist Event Away from Public Disgrace.”  Avidly: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, July 22, 2020.

Steinmetz-Jenkins, Daniel.  “Beyond the End of History.”  Chronicle of Higher Education, August 14, 2020.

Moyd, Michelle.  “From the Editor’s Desk.”  American Historical Review 125:4 (October 2020): xv–xix.

Blight, David W.  “The Fog of History Wars.”  New Yorker, June 9, 2021.

Readings:

Weld, Kirsten.  Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Weld, Kirsten.  “No Democracy Without Archives.”  Boston Review, July 9, 2020.  Reprinted in Archives and Human Rights, Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, and Antonio Gonzalez, eds.  London: Routledge, 2021.  309-319.

Readings:

Hernandez, Kelly Lytle.  City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Hartman, Saidiya.  Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2019.

Videos:

Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Historian | 2019 MacArthur Fellow

Saidiya Hartman, Literary Scholar and Cultural Historian | 2019 MacArthur Fellow

Readings:

Beckert, Sven.  Empire of Cotton: A Global History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Green, Nancy L.  The Limits of Transnationalism.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Ogle, Vanessa.  The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Putnam, Lara.  “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast.”  American Historical Review 121 (2016): 377-402.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.  Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Readings:

Trivellato, Francesca.  The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Latour, Bruno.  Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Readings:

Chakrabarty, Dipesh.  “The Climate of History: Four Theses.”  Critical Inquiry 35:2 (Winter 2009): 197-222.

Ghosh, Amitav.  The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Nixon, Rob.  Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Readings:

Siegelberg, Mira L.  Statelessness: A Modern History.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Zahra, Tara.  The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families After World War II.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Video:

Tara Zahra, Historian of Modern Europe | 2014 MacArthur Fellow

Readings:

Harris, Cheryl I.  “Whiteness as Property.”  Harvard Law Review 106:8 (Jun. 1993): 1707-1791.

Chatelain, Marcia.  Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.  New York: Liveright, 2020.

Pinto, Samantha.  “Public Thinker:  Marcia Chatelain on Feminism, Fast Food, and First Gens.”  Public Books, Septebmer 16, 2020.

Readings:

Chauncey, George.  Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.  Updated ed.  New York: Basic Books, 2019 (originally 1994).

Kunzel, Regina.  “The Power of Queer History.”  American Historical Review 123:5 (December 2018): 1560-1582.

Najmabadi, Afsaneh.  Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Readings:

Hecht, Gabrielle.  Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012.

Readings:

Stanley, Amy.  “Maidservants” Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600–1900.”  American Historical Review 121:2 (April 2016): 437-460.

Stanley, Amy.  Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World.  New York: Scribner, 2020.

Readings:

Elliott, Colin P.  Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.