2024-2025 University Catalog
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: 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
Michelle Diane Brock, Ph.D.—(2014)-2024
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
Alana Holland, Ph.D.—(2024)-2024
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Sarah Horowitz, Ph.D.—(2008)-2020
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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
Nicolaas A. Rupke, Ph.D.—(2012)-2012
Johnson Professor of History
Ph.D., Princeton University
Franklin Sammons, Ph.D—(2021)-2023
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Melissa E. Vise, Ph.D.—(2018)-2023
Associate 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: Incas/Aztecs to Independence
- • HIST 131 - Modern Latin America: Independence to Today
- • 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 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 201 - Violence in Pre-Modern Europe
- • HIST 203 - The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Setting
- • HIST 204 - The Age of Reformation
- • HIST 206 - Gender & Sexuality in Modern Europe
- • HIST 208 - France: Old Regime and Revolution
- • HIST 209 - France in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- • HIST 211 - Scandal, Crime, and Spectacle in the 19th Century
- • HIST 212 - Crime and Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- • 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 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 229 - Topics in European History
- • HIST 230 - Discovering W&L’s Origins Using Historical Archaeology
- • HIST 231 - Darwin and His Critics: The Theory of Evolution from 1755 Till Today
- • HIST 232 - Popular Culture in Latin America
- • HIST 235 - Historical Memory in Latin America
- • HIST 236 - The Indigenous South
- • HIST 237 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
- • HIST 238 - Anthropology of American History
- • HIST 239 - Collective Memory: Society, Culture, Identity and Power
- • HIST 240 - Early American History to 1788
- • HIST 241 - Empire of Liberty? Revolutionary America 1763-1830
- • 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 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 259 - Introduction to African American History to 1877
- • HIST 260 - Introduction to African American History from 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 - Radicals, Witches, and Revolutions: Britain in the Seventeenth Century
- • HIST 275 - African Women in Comparative Perspective
- • HIST 278 - Great Moments in the History of Medicine
- • HIST 279 - Africa in the Western Imagination
- • 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: Eunuchs, Concubines and Patriarchs: Family and State in Imperial China
- • 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 309 - Seminar: The French Revolution
- • HIST 310 - Seminar: Speech and Censorship in the Middle Ages
- • HIST 312 - Seminar on Nazism and the Third Reich
- • HIST 322 - Seminar in Russian History
- • HIST 337 - Seminar: Revolutions in Latin America
- • HIST 344 - Seminar: Sectionalism & Secession, 1840-1861
- • HIST 345 - The Myth(s) of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
- • HIST 346 - Reconstruction America, 1865-1877
- • HIST 350 - Seminar: Cold War Politics and Culture
- • HIST 355 - Seminar: America in the 1960s: History and Memory
- • HIST 359 - African American Intellectual History
- • HIST 366 - Seminar: Slavery in the Americas
- • HIST 377 - Terrorism in Contemporary Africa
- • HIST 386 - Seminar: Managing Mongols, Manchus, and Muslims: China’s Frontier History (16th-20th Centuries)
- • HIST 387 - Seminar: The Struggle Over China’s Environment
- • HIST 388 - The Devil in The Western World
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