2022-2023 University Catalog archived
History (HIST)
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History
Honors: The History Department offers an Honors Program in history for qualified students; see the department head or department web page for details.
Department Head: Mary (Molly) Michelmore
Faculty
First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.
Kameliya Atanasova, Ph.D.—(2017)-2017
Assistant Professor of History and Religion
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Henryatta Ballah, Ph.D.—(2020)-2020
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D, The Ohio State University
David A. Bello, Ph.D.—(2004)-2016
Elizabeth Otey Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Richard H. Bidlack, Ph.D.—(1987)-2011
Martin and Brooke Stein Professor of History
Ph.D., Indiana University
Michelle Diane Brock, Ph.D.—(2014)-2018
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Nneka D. Dennie, Ph.D. —(2020)-2020
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Romina Green, Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Sarah Horowitz, Ph.D.—(2008)-2020
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Mary C. (Molly) Michelmore, Ph.D.—(2006)-2020
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Barton A. Myers, Ph.D.—(2013)-2022
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Georgia
William Patch, Ph.D.—(2005)-2005
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History
Ph.D., Yale University
Nicolaas A. Rupke, Ph.D.—(2012)-2012
Johnson Professor of History
Ph.D., Princeton University
Melissa E. Vise, Ph.D.—(2018)-2018
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Note: History courses are numbered according to the following scheme. Within the 200 and 300 levels, the last two digits indicate the following groupings:
00-29 European History
30-69 United States, Canadian, and Latin American History
70-89 African, Asian and Global History
Major
- • HIST 100 - European History, 325-1517
- • HIST 101 - European History, 1500-1789
- • HIST 102 - European History, 1789 to the Present
- • HIST 103 - China: Origins to 20th-Century Reforms
- • HIST 104 - Japan: Origins to Atomic Aftermath
- • HIST 105 - Scenes from Chinese History
- • HIST 107 - History of the United States to 1876
- • HIST 108 - History of the United States Since 1876
- • HIST 111 - Roman History
- • HIST 130 - Latin America: Mayas to Independence
- • HIST 131 - Modern Latin America: Túpak Katari to Tupac Shakur
- • HIST 170 - The World of Islam: Origins to 1500
- • HIST 171 - The World of Islam: 1500 to the Present
- • HIST 172 - Muslims in the Movies
- • HIST 174 - Global History since 1300: Connections and Change from Genghis Khan to Boko Haram
- • HIST 175 - History of Africa to 1800
- • HIST 176 - African History Since 1800
- • HIST 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
- • HIST 190 - Bibliographical Resources
- • HIST 195 - Topics in History for First-years and Sophomores
- • HIST 200 - Dante: Renaissance and Redemption
- • HIST 201 - Violence in Pre-Modern Europe
- • HIST 203 - The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Setting
- • HIST 204 - The Age of Reformation
- • HIST 205 - Public and Private in Europe, 1700-1900
- • HIST 206 - Gender & Sexuality in Modern Europe
- • HIST 207 - Dreaming of Paris (Revised as a result of COVID-19)
- • HIST 208 - France: Old Regime and Revolution
- • HIST 209 - France in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- • HIST 210 - Paris: History, Image, Myth
- • HIST 211 - Scandal, Crime, and Spectacle in the 19th Century
- • HIST 212 - Crime and Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- • HIST 213 - Germany, 1815-1914
- • HIST 214 - Dictatorship and Democracy in Germany, 1914-2000
- • HIST 215 - From Weimar to Hitler: Modernism and Anti-Modernism in German Culture after the First World War
- • HIST 216 - The Making of Modern Scotland: Braveheart to Brexit
- • HIST 217 - History of the British Isles to 1688: Power, Plague, and Prayer
- • HIST 218 - Rule Britannia, 1688- 1990: The History of Britain from the Glorious” Revolution to the Iron Lady”
- • HIST 219 - Seminar: The Age of the Witch Hunts
- • HIST 220 - Imperial Russia, 1682 to 1917
- • HIST 221 - Soviet Russia, 1917 to 1991
- • HIST 222 - Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and the Resurgence of Russia
- • HIST 223 - International Relations, 1815-1918: Europe and the World
- • HIST 224 - International Relations, 1919-2000: The End of European Hegemony
- • HIST 225 - The Reformation in Britain: Blood, Sex, and Sermons
- • HIST 226 - Pillage, Peddling and Piety: Travel in the Middle Ages
- • HIST 227 - Discover Scotland: History and Culture through Theater
- • HIST 228 - Women in Russian History
- • HIST 229 - Topics in European History
- • HIST 230 - Discovering W&L’s Origins Using Historical Archaeology
- • HIST 233 - U.S.-Latin American Relations from 1825 to Present
- • HIST 235 - Historical Memory in Latin America
- • HIST 236 - Afro-Latin America
- • HIST 237 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
- • HIST 238 - Anthropology of American History
- • HIST 240 - Early American History to 1788
- • HIST 242 - The United States, 1789-1840
- • HIST 243 - The Evolution of American Warfare
- • HIST 244 - The Art of Command during the American Civil War
- • HIST 245 - The American Civil War
- • HIST 246 - American Experience with Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency
- • HIST 247 - America in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
- • HIST 249 - The Scientist as National Hero
- • HIST 250 - Saints and Sinners in the Puritan Atlantic
- • HIST 251 - Science and the Supernatural
- • HIST 252 - Animal Behavior and Human Morality in Historical Perspective
- • HIST 254 - History of the U.S. Welfare State
- • HIST 255 - England in the Age of Shakespeare
- • HIST 256 - The History of Violence in America
- • HIST 257 - History of Women in America, 1609-1870
- • HIST 258 - History of Women in America, 1870 to the Present
- • HIST 259 - The History of the African-American People to 1877
- • HIST 260 - The History of the African-American People since 1877
- • HIST 261 - Women and Slavery in the Black Atlantic
- • HIST 262 - The Old South to 1860
- • HIST 264 - Morning in America? Society, Culture and Politics in The Age of Reagan
- • HIST 265 - The U.S. in the Era of World War II
- • HIST 266 - The American Century: U.S. History from 1945
- • HIST 268 - Building a Suburban Nation: Race, Class, and Politics in Postwar America
- • HIST 269 - Topics in United States, Latin American or Canadian History
- • HIST 271 - Islam in America: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- • HIST 272 - Victorian Britain and the World
- • HIST 275 - African Women in Comparative Perspective
- • HIST 276 - History of South Africa
- • HIST 277 - Speaking and Being Zulu in South Africa
- • HIST 278 - Great Moments in the History of Medicine
- • HIST 279 - Africa in the Western Imagination
- • HIST 280 - History of the Caucasus and Central Asia
- • HIST 282 - Picturing Muhammad? Perceptions of the Prophet from the Hijra to Hip-Hop
- • HIST 284 - Visions of Japan’s Empire in East Asia: 19th-Century Origins through World War II
- • HIST 285 - Seminar: The Yin and Yang of Gender in Late Imperial China (10th-19th centuries)
- • HIST 286 - History of Kyrgyzstan from the Silk Road to the Present: Crossroads of Empire, Culture, and Religion
- • HIST 288 - Key Thinkers on the Environment
- • HIST 289 - Topics in Asian, African, or Islamic History
- • HIST 295 - Seminar: Topics in History
- • HIST 304 - Seminar on Medieval Heresy and Inquisition
- • HIST 305 - Seminar: Religion and the Church in Medieval and Renaissance Politics and Society
- • HIST 306 - Seminar: Politics and Providence: Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought
- • HIST 307 - Seminar in Politics and History: The Machiavellian Moment
- • HIST 309 - Seminar: The French Revolution
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