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Spring 2012 Undergraduate History Seminars

Students Admitted and Waitlisted

 

Course: HIST W 4007 The Development of the Greek City-State OPEN

Instructor: Richard Billows

Day(s)/Time: Thursday 2:10-4:00 PM

Field(s):  *ANC

Students Admitted:

1.      Aurrichio, Alexander

2.      Bagwell, Reid

3.      Diaz, Zaraida

4.      Ramos, Andrew

5.      Shapiro, Eliza

6.      Siegfried, Matthew

7.      Suh, Hyung-Min

8.      Vogel, Katherine

9.      Wowk, Adam

10.  Zhuraw, Sean

 

Course: HIST W 4061 Medieval Society, Politics, and Ethics: Major Texts OPEN

Instructor: Adam Kosto

Day(s)/Time: Wednesday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): MED

Students Admitted:

1.      Leach, Julia Andrea

2.      Muller, Colin

3.      Prasifka, William

 

Course: HIST W 4063 Love and Hate in the Early Medieval Societies OPEN

Instructor: Régine Le Jan

Day(s)/Time: Tuesday 9:00-10:50 AM

Field(s): MED

Course Description: This course will examine the role of love and hate and their changing place in the culture of the elite groups from Late Antiquity to the twelfth century. Medieval chronicles, poems, letters and legal texts, both religious and civil, will be used, deconstructed and decoded with a special attention to gender and to the emotional relations between men and women.

 

Course: HIST W 4125 Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Early Modern Europe OPEN

Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach

Day(s)/Time: Monday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): EME

Course Description: 

1.      Biller, Lauren

2.      Daly, Joe

3.      Greenstein, Leah

4.      Jaffe, Samara

5.      Kutscher, Eric

6.      Porrino, Gabriella

 

Course: HIST W 4197 You Are What You Eat: A History of Thinking about Food CLOSED

Instructor: Steven Shapin

Day(s)/Time: Thursday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): EME

Students Admitted: 

1.      Conroy, Aida

2.      Diaz, Zaraida

3.      Eckersley, Benjamin

4.      Levenson, Jessica

5.      Lew, Alexander

6.      Mackus, Brian

7.      Magun, Ella

8.      Manson, Emma

9.      Ngai, Stephanie

10.  Powell, Robert

11.  Rubin, Kimberly

12.  Shollenberger, Jessica

13.  Spitzer-Rubenstein, Michael

14.  Srulowitz, Rebecca

 

Waiting List:

1.      Colangelo, Juliana



Course: HIST W 4223 Personality and Society in 19th-Century Russia OPEN

Instructor: Richard Wortman

Day(s)/Time:  Monday 4:10-6:00 PM

Field(s): MEU

Students Admitted:

1.      Higgins, Taylor

2.      Hall, Morgan

3.      O'Connell. Mariel

4.      Friedman, Leah

5.      Magun, Ella

6.      Warther, Nicholas

7.      Vaillancourt, Eva

8.       

 

 

 

Course: HIST W 4225 The Future of the Soviet Union: New Approaches to the Soviet Past OPEN

Instructor: Tarik Amar

Day(s)/Time: T 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): MEU

Students Admitted:

1.      Clarke, Diana

2.      Donahoe, Brian

3.      Sikhuashvili, Valerian

 

Course: HIST BC 4366 Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied Europe: Complicating the Picture CLOSED

Instructor: PanteleymonAnastasakis

Day(s)/Time: Thursday 4:10-6:00 PM

Field(s): MEU

Students Admitted:

1.      Abramson, Michael

2.      Bennett, James

3.      Bubar, Jonathan

4.      Ciprian-Matthews, Toni

5.      Damplo, Danica

6.      Fok, Shuang Hong

7.      Jaffe, Samara

8.      Moerdler, Charleen

9.      Pfau, Jeremy

10.  Rosekind, Barry

11.  Rosen, Rachel

12.  Terhorst, Natasha

13.  Williams, Kurt

14.  Wurzburg, Amee

15.  Yukins, Margaret

 

Students Waitlisted:

1.      Bain, Zoe

2.      Schwartz, David

3.      Losembe Botumbe, Severine

4.      Vlaanderen, Margaretha

5.      Murata, Aimee

6.      Zucchi, John

 

 

Course: HIST W 4383 European Sexual Modernities OPEN

Instructor: Judith Surkis

Day(s)/Time: Monday 2:10-4:00 PM

Field(s): MEU

Students Admitted:

1.      Butterfield, Judith

2.      Cant, Lisa

3.      Conteh, Bintu

4.      Edmoundson, Brittany

5.      Froomkin, David

6.      Galeotti, Marc

7.      Kutscher, Eric

8.      Lei, Caroly

9.      Losembe Botumbe, Severine

10.  Otilia, Aionesei

11.  Rafferty, Tess

12.  Rubashkin, Hannah

13.  Tolge, Emily

 

 

Course: HIST BC 4411 Race and the Making of the United States CLOSED

Instructor: Elizabeth Esch

Day(s)/Time: Tuesday 2:10-4:00 PM

Field(s): US

Course Description: ***Please note that the course description has changed. 

Students Admitted:

1.      Arnaud, Emmanuel

2.      Birmingham, Nkili

3.      Conteh, Bintu

4.      Eddy, Jessica

5.      Fignola, Alexandre

6.      Geiger, Jessica

7.      Raiani, Yasmini

8.      Ramirez, Breana

9.      Rippel, Katherine

10.  Roberts, Dana

11.  Rodrigues, Patricia

12.  Rosenberg, Leah

13.  Searle, Nora

14.  Shepherd, Kimberly

15.  Szablewski, Christopher

16.  Torres, Amanda

17.  Williams, Kurt

 

 

Course: HIST W 4412 Americans and the Good Life, 1750-1910 CLOSED

Instructor: William Leach

Day(s)/Time: Tuesday 2:10-4:00 PM

Field(s): US

Students Admitted:

 

1.      Armstrong, Angus

2.      Bennett, James

3.      Cook, Dane

4.      Corley, Caroline

5.      Higgins, Taylor

6.      Kloepfer, Hannah

7.      Kuenstner, Elizabeth

8.      Ngu, Sarah

9.      Petito, Robert

10.  Robb, Marilyn

 

 

Course: HIST W 4420 The U.S. in the Progressive Era, 1890-1919 CLOSED

Instructor: Mae Ngai

Day(s)/Time: Wednesday 9:00-10:50 AM

Field(s): US

Students Admitted:

 

1.      Ley, Alexandria

2.      O’Reilly, Kelly

3.      Roberts, Dana

4.      MacBain, Charles

5.      Klug, Samuel

6.      Manson, Emma

7.      Joseph, Madeline

8.      Nelson, Todd

9.      Barker, Timothy

10.  McWilliams, Kevin

11.  Verma, Phillip

12.  Garvin, Claire

 

Students Waitlisted:

1.      Gordon, Molly

2.      Brennan-Sawyer, Noah

3.      Spitzer Rubenstein, Michael

 

 

Course: HIST W 4429 Telling About the South OPEN

Instructor: Barbara Fields

Day(s)/Time: Thursday 4:10-6:00 PM

Field(s): US

Students Admitted:

1.      Bell, Jason

2.      Boozer, Constance

3.      Brennan-Sawyer, Noah

4.      Goldenberg, Jacob

5.      Montgomery, Carrie

6.      Renick, Matthew

7.      Tomioka, Chihiro

8.      Torres, Amanda

 

 

Course: HIST W 4483 Military History and Policy CLOSED

Instructor: Kenneth Jackson

Day(s)/Time: Monday 6:10-8:00 PM

Field(s): US

Students Admitted:

1.      Abramson, Michael

2.      Aurrichio, Alexander

3.      Bogner, Kenneth

4.      Borzak, Shira

5.      Byewitz, Suzanne

6.      Cohen, Raanan

7.      Damplo, Danica

8.      Doyle, Brendan

9.      Epstein, Zachary

10.  Gingrich, Jessica

11.  Gladstone, Matthew

12.  Goldenberg, Jacob

13.  Johnson, Matt

14.  Lowery, Patrick

15.  McWilliams, Kevin

16.  Mysock, Sam

17.  Page, Michelle

18.  Petito, Robert

19.  Piscina, Thomas

20.  Prasifka, William

21.  Roth, Sam

22.  Stallone, Jessica

23.  Stern, Henri

 

Course: HIST W 4509 Problems in International History OPEN

Instructor: Anders Stephanson

Day(s)/Time: Wednesday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): INTL

Students Admitted:

 

1.      Armstrong, Angus

2.      Bacchus, Denisha

3.      Cleary, Michele

4.      Fine, David

5.      Gyory, Spencer

6.      Jorgensen, Lauren

7.      Kent, Cem

8.      Pak, Justine

9.      Van Dijk, Boyd

 

 

 

Course: HIST W 4597 Memory and American Narratives of the Self OPEN

Instructor: Eric Wakin

Day(s)/Time: Wednesday 4:10-6

Field(s): US

Students Admitted:  

1.      Brosnan, Phoebe

2.      Clark, Louise

3.      Grossman, Aminadav

4.      Luo, Yanyi

5.      Mackus, Brian

6.      Mann. Dominique

7.      Ngu, Sarah

8.      Stathers, Nicola

9.      Tromski, Jennifer

 

 

Course: HIST W 4615 ‘Tradition, Tradition’: Growing Up in the Shtetl OPEN

Instructor: David Assaf

Day(s)/Time: Thursday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): JEW

Students Admitted:

1.      Biller, Lauren

2.      Bonner, Daniel

3.      Clarke, Diana

4.      Dawson, Julie

5.      Friedman, Leah

6.      Hopkins, Lauren

7.      Keller, Gilana

 

 

Course: HIST W 4659 Crime in Latin America OPEN

Instructor: Pablo Piccato

Day(s)/Time:  Tuesday 2:10-4:00 PM

Field(s): LA

Students Admitted:  

1.      Alvarado, Irene

2.      Conroy, Declan

3.      Hashmi, Zehra

4.      Pizano, Luis

5.      Vaillancourt, Eva

6.      Weingarten, Liza

 

 

Course: HIST W 4755 Oil and the History of Arab Gulf States OPEN

Instructor: Rosie Bsheer

Day(s)/Time: Thursday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): ME

Course Description: This seminar focuses on how the discovery and exploitation of petroleum at the turn of the 20th century has shaped the formation and consolidation of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, permanently changing the geo-political and social landscape of the Arabian Peninsula. We will study economic, social, and political formations across the Gulf on the eve of the discovery of oil and the attendant transformations that accompanied its exploitation. We will also pay close attention to the role that imperial rivalries and foreign oil companies played in shaping the Gulf states, their economies, systems of rule, foreign relations, borders, and built environment. We also study the populist, anti-imperialist movements of the mid-twentieth century in the context of the Arab Cold War. Saudi Arabia has received more academic attention than the other Gulf states and thus takes up a larger part of the course, but we will also cover Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Oman. We will read historical, anthropological, literary and political economy studies and oil firm histories, drawing on works on Yemen, Iraq, Iran and the US, to follow transformations in political, social and economic life in this understudied region that has played a central role in world politics and economy since the 1900s.

 

 

Course: HIST BC 4830 Bombay/Mumbai and its Urban Imaginaries OPEN

Instructor: Anupama Rao

Day(s)/Time: Thursday 4:10-6:00 PM

Field(s): SA

Students Admitted:

1.      Bhaman, Salonee

2.      Fine, David

3.      Searle, Nora

4.      Siegel, Gabriela

5.      Stam, Charles

6.      Verma, Philip

7.      Weingarten, Liza

 

 

Course: ANHS 4855 Gender and the Politics of Feminism in South Asia: An Anthropological History OPEN

Instructor: Janaki Bakhle

Day(s)/Time:  Monday 2:10-4:00 PM

Field(s): SA

Students Admitted:

 

1.      Asplund, Eva

2.      Begum, Farida

3.      Friedan, Nataya

4.      Pak, Justine

5.      Samad, Ra'anaa

 

 

Course: HIST BC 4870 Gender and Migration: A Global Perspective OPEN

Instructor: Jose Moya

Day(s)/Time: Wednesday 2:10-4:00 PM

Field(s): INTL

Students Admitted:

1.      Butterfield, Judith

2.      Choi, Catherine

3.      Friedman, Madeline

4.      Gordon, Molly

5.      Lei, Carolyn

6.      Poliak, Shira

7.      Salazar, Maria

8.      Scheinman, Sarah

9.      Siegel, Gabriela

10.  Tomioka, Chihiro

11.  Wurzburg, Aimee

 

Course: HSEA W 4875 Japanese Imperialism in East Asia OPEN

Instructor: Lisbeth Brandt

Day(s)/Time: Monday 4:10-6:00 PM

Field(s): EA

Students Admitted:

1.      Adachi, Michie

2.      Lund, Nadia

3.      Otilia, Aionesei

4.      Sabel, Claire

 

 

Course: HSEA 4881 Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Social History on Chinese Religion OPEN

Instructor: Robert Hymes

Day(s)/Time: Monday 6:10-8 PM

Field(s): *EA

Admitted Students:

1.      Knight, Sarah Ramos

2.      Lin, Penelope

3.      Thomas, Alexander  

 

Course: HIST BC 4886 Fashion CLOSED

Instructor: Dorothy Ko

Day(s)/Time: Tuesday 4:10-6:00 PM

Field(s): EA

Students Admitted:

1.      An, Julia

2.      Begum, Farida

3.      Duh, Katherine

4.      Fox, Lianna

5.      Gao, Cynthia

6.      Ivanova, Elena

7.      Kleinpeter-Ross, Adair

8.      McGrath, Anne

9.      Nguyen, Simone

10.  Srulowitz, Rebecca

11.  Yin, Nicci

 

Course: HIST W 4900 The Historian’s Craft OPEN

Instructor: Casey Blake

Day(s)/Time: Tuesday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): METHODS

Students Admitted:

1.      Eckersley, Benjamin

2.      Parker, Hugh

3.      McWilliams, Kevin

4.      Spencer, Gyory

5.      Trumbach, Tyler

 

Students Waitlisted:

1.      Trujillo, Jonathan

 

Course: HIST BC 4901 Reacting to the Past II OPEN

Instructor: Mark Carnes

Day(s)/Time: Monday and Wednesday 2:40-3:55 PM

Field(s): INTL

Admitted Students:

1.      Alexandre, Fignola

2.      Bain, Zoe

3.      Birmingham, Nkili

4.      Blank, Jessica

5.      Burstein, Arielle

6.      Elvis, Camilla

7.      Fischman, Rafaela

8.      Gedal, Anna

9.      Geiger, Jessica

10.  Hassine, Aliza,

11.  Laifer, Tamar

12.  Lieberman, Sophie

13.  Light, Peter

14.  Pagni, Ludovica

15.  Savits, Juliet

16.  Swartz, Shelby

17.  Tydings, Sam

18.  Zinkow, Maya

 

 

Course: HIST W 4902 WWII CLOSED

Instructor: Carol Gluck

Day(s)/Time: Tuesday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): INTL

Students Admitted: 

1.      Bonner, Daniel

2.      Choi, Catherine

3.      Fink, William

4.      Ghadimi, Amin

5.      Greenstein, Leah

6.      Jones, Alex

7.      Keller, Gilana

8.      Kilian, Helen

9.      Korn, Hallen

10.  Larin, Natalie

11.  Martin, Alexander

12.  Moed, Jonathan

13.  Moerdler, Charleen

14.  Ruvkun, Carolyn

15.  Shapiro, Michael

16.  Teo, Glenn

17.  Varsavsky, Alexandra

18.  Zucchi, John


Waitlisted Students:

1.      Lund, Nadia

2.      Vlaanderen, Margaretha

 

Course: HIST BC 4913 From Madness to Prozac: The Science of Self in the Modern Era OPEN

Instructor: Michal Shapira

Day(s)/Time: Wednesday 2:10-4:00 PM

Field(s): INTL

Students Admitted:

1.      Ruvkun, Carolyn

2.      Friedan, Nataya

3.      Kohn-Gardner, Kara

4.      Murata, Aimee

5.      Rafferty, Tess

6.      Zhuraw, Sean

 

 

Course: HIST W 4914 The Future As History OPEN

Instructor: Matthew Connelly

Day(s)/Time: Tuesday 6:10-8:00 PM

Field(s): INTL

Students Admitted:  

1.      Edmoundson, Brittany

2.      Keating, Kester

3.      Luo, Yanyi

4.      Rothstein, Leah

5.      Sabel, Claire

6.      Stathers, Nicola

 

 

Course: HIST W 4928 Comparative Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World OPEN

Instructor: Natasha Lightfoot

Day(s)/Time:  Wednesday 4:10-6:00 PM

Field(s): US/LA

Students Admitted:

1.      Gurian, Nico

2.      Kirschenbaum, Kimberly

3.      Montgomery, Carrie

4.      Renick, Matthew

 

 

Course: HIST BC 4973 20th Century Cities: Americas and Europe CLOSED

Instructor: Gergely Baics

Day(s)/Time: Tuesday 4:10-6:00 PM

Field(s): INTL

Students Admitted:  

1.      Alvarado, Irene

2.      Barrett, Caitlin

3.      Deng, Peng

4.      Deshpande, Anjali

5.      Elvis, Camilla

6.      English, Jonathan

7.      Jorgensen, Lauren

8.      Kirschenbaum, Kimberly

9.      Lewis, Gabrielle

10.  Moukattaf, Austin

11.  Myers, David

12.  Roach, Liberty

13.  Rubashkin, Hannah

14.  Shapiro, Eliza

15.  Shartrand, Emily

 

 

Students Waitlisted:

 

1.      Gingrich, Jessica

2.      Dragone, Angela

3.      Skupien, Sophia

4.      Schwartz, Shelby

 

 

Course: HIST W 4985 Citizenship, Race, Gender and the Politics of Exclusion OPEN

Instructor: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Day(s)/Time: Wednesday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM

Field(s): INTL

Students Admitted:

1.      Amsterdam, Lauren

2.      Dragone, Angela

3.      Gedal, Anna

4.      Hashmi, Zehra

5.      Mosner, Amanda

6.      Stevens, Elisabeth

7.      Yukins, Margaret

 

 

 

 
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