Current Courses

NOTE: All courses numbered 011-099 have prerequisites: you must have taken an introductory history course here at Swarthmore (#001-010) .

Distribution Requirements

Fall 2024

HIST 001U. First-Year Seminar: Defining an "Us": Nationalism, Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe
- Eligible for Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
- Brown.
HIST 029. The Great Depression: A Global History
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Capitalism, Culture and Identity
- Shokr.
HIST 035. The Nationality Question in Russia, 1917 to the Present: Nation-Building, Empire, and Decolonization
- Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
- McGeever. Weinberg.
HIST 050. Healing in the Black Atlantic
- Eligible for BLST, LALS. Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality; Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Mitchell.
HIST 069. History of TV in the Americas
- Eligible for FMST.
- Almeida.
HIST 089. The Environmental History of Africa
- Eligible for BLST. Concentrations: Empires and Nations, Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Burke.
HIST 091. Senior Research Seminar
- Brown. Weinberg.
HIST 094A. Archives and Activism: Theory and Practice
- Patnaik. Shokr.
HIST 116B. Decolonizing the Renaissance
- Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Method/Theory
- Azfar.

Spring 2025

HIST 001A. First-Year Seminar: History, Slavery, and the Digital Turn
- Eligible for BLST, LALS. Method/Theory. Concentrations: Migration, Diaspora, and Space
- Mitchell.
HIST 002A. War, Religion, Revolution: Europe, 1096-1789
- Eligible for Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
- Azfar.
HIST 003B. Modern Europe, 1918 to the Present: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, Culture Wars
- Eligible for GMST, GLBL-Paired. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
- Weinberg.
HIST 007A. Black Atlantic History I: Slavery and Revolutions
- Eligible for BLST, GSST, LALS. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Mitchell.
HIST 009B. Modern China: Reformers, Revolutionaries, and Rebels
- Eligible for ASIA. Concentration: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
- Chen.
HIST 023B. Climate Enlightenments
- Eligible for ENVS. Method/Theory. Concentrations: Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Azfar.
HIST 035A. Antisemitism: Theory and Politics
- Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance; Empires and Nations
- McGeever.
HIST 082. Cultural Histories of Digital Media
- Eligible for FMST. Concentrations: Capitalism, Culture and Identity
- Burke.
HIST 084. Gender, Science, and Technology
- Eligible for GSST. Method/Theory. Concentrations: Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Chen.
HIST 090S. Surveillance, Privacy, and Transparency: A History, A Debate, Some Futures
- Eligible for FMST, INTP. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Burke.
HIST 149. Reform and Revolutions in Modern Latin America
- Eligible for GLBL-Paired, LALS, PEAC. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Armus.

Fall 2025

HIST 001A. First-Year Seminar: History, Slavery, and the Digital Turn
- Eligible for BLST, LALS. Method/Theory. Concentrations: Migration, Diaspora, and Space
- Mitchell.
HIST 004. Latin American History
- Eligible for LALS, GLBL-paired. Concentrations: Capitalism, Empires and Nations
- Armus.
HIST 016. Abnormal: Queer Theory for Historians
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality; Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Azfar.
HIST 025. Colonialism and Nationalism in the Middle East
- Eligible for GLBL-paired, INTP, ISLM. Method/Theory. Concentrations: Empires and Nations
- Shokr.
HIST 029. The Great Depression: A Global History
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Capitalism, Culture and Identity
- Shokr.
HIST 030. Glory Days? Western Europe's Postwar 1945-1975
- Eligible for Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
- Brown.
HIST 053. History of the Black Body
- Eligible for BLST, GSST. Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality, Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Mitchell.
HIST 056. Police, Prisons, & Protests
- Eligible for Eligible for PEAC, ESCH. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance
- Truong.
HIST 060. Nature, Art, and the Science of Power in Mughal India and Renaissance Europe
- Eligible for ASIA, GLBL-Paired. Concentrations: Empires and Nations, Migration, Diaspora, and Space
- Azfar.
HIST 090X. Divided America: History of the Culture Wars
- Eligible for Concentration: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Dorsey.
HIST 091. Senior Research Seminar
- Dorsey. Truong.
HIST 126. Internationalism, Supranationalism, and Transnationalism in Modern Europe
- Eligible for GLBL - Paired. Concentrations: Empires and Nations
- Brown.

Spring 2026

HIST 001U. First-Year Seminar: Defining an "Us": Nationalism, Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe
- Eligible for Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
- Brown.
HIST 005B. Modern American History
- Eligible for Concentration: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
- Truong.
HIST 006B. The Modern Middle East
- Eligible for ISLM, GLBL-Paired. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
- Shokr.
HIST 007B. Black Atlantic History 2: Freedom and Anticolonial Movements
- Eligible for BLST, LALS. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Mitchell.
HIST 014. Sex, Lies and Revolution: Democracy in Anglo-America, 1642-1776
- Eligible for Concentrations: Empires and Nations; Gender and Sexuality
- Azfar.
HIST 020. Leviathan and the Inquisition
- Azfar.
HIST 026. Frontiers of Capitalism
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Capitalism, Empires and Nations
- Shokr.
HIST 030A. Sex, Scandals, and Criminal Affairs in European History
- Eligible for Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Gender and Sexuality
- Brown.
HIST 044. American Popular Culture
- Eligible for FMST. Concentrations: Culture and Identity
- Dorsey.
HIST 047. Politics of Gender and Sexuality in America
- Eligible for Concentration: Gender and Sexuality
- Dorsey.
HIST 050. Healing in the Black Atlantic
- Eligible for BLST, LALS. Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality; Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Mitchell.
HIST 067. Digging Through the National Security Archive: South American "Dirty Wars" and the United States' Involvement
- Eligible for LALS, PEAC. Method/Theory. Concentrations: Empires and Nations
- Armus.
HIST 090A. History of the Future
- Eligible for Concentrations: Culture and Identity; Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Burke.
HIST 090T. African Nationalism and Postcolonialism: 1940-1980
- Eligible for BLST, GLBL-paired. Concentrations: Empires and Nations, Migration, Diaspora, and Space
- Burke.
HIST 114. Cities and Social Movements
- Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Migration, Diaspora, and Space
- Truong.

Fall 2026

HIST 001E. First-Year Seminar: Global History of Science
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Empires and Nations; Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Chen.
HIST 001U. First-Year Seminar: Defining an "Us": Nationalism, Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe
- Eligible for Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
- Brown.
HIST 002B. Comparative Empires: Mughals, Ottomans and Hapsburgs
- Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
- Azfar.
HIST 008C. From Leopold to Kabila: The Bad Twentieth Century in Central Africa
- Eligible for BLST. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Migration, Diaspora and Space
- Burke.
HIST 009A. Premodern China
- Eligible for ASIA. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
- Chen.
HIST 010. Asian American History
- Eligible for ASIA. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Truong.
HIST 022. The Passions and the Interests: The Wealth of Nations at 250
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Capitalism; Culture & Identity
- Azfar.
HIST 038. Angels of Death: Life under Lenin and Stalin
- Eligible for GLBL-paired. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance
- Weinberg.
HIST 054. Histories of Racial Capitalism
- Eligible for Concentrations: Capitalism; Gender and Sexuality
- Mitchell.
HIST 063. History from Below: Oral History and Community-based Archives
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance
- Truong.
HIST 090B. Sic Semper Tyrannis: Histories of Misrule
- Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance; Empires and Nations
- Burke.
HIST 091. Senior Research Seminar
- Brown. Mitchell.

Spring 2027

HIST 001D. First-Year Seminar: 1857: The Indian Mutiny in Global History
- Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance; Empires and Nations
- Azfar.
HIST 001N. First-Year Seminar: Chinatowns: Then & Now
- Eligible for ASIA. Concentration: Culture and Identity; Migration, Diaspora, and Space
- Truong.
HIST 003B. Modern Europe, 1918 to the Present: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, Culture Wars
- Eligible for GMST, GLBL-Paired. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
- Brown.
HIST 007A. Black Atlantic History I: Slavery and Revolutions
- Eligible for BLST, GSST, LALS. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Mitchell.
HIST 016. Abnormal: Queer Theory for Historians
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality; Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Azfar. Abeen.
HIST 026. Frontiers of Capitalism
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Capitalism, Empires and Nations
- Shokr.
HIST 031. France in Algeria, France and Algerians, 1830-present
- Eligible for BLST, ISLM, PEAC. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
- Brown.
HIST 055. The Black History of Public Health in Philadelphia
- Eligible for Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality; Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Mitchell.
HIST 056. Police, Prisons, & Protests
- Eligible for Eligible for PEAC, ESCH. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance
- Truong.
HIST 062. History of Reading
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Capitalism; Culture and Identity
- Burke.
HIST 075. Craft and Technology in China
- Eligible for ASIA. Concentrations: Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Chen.
HIST 079. Nature and Power: Environmental History of East Asia
- Eligible for ENVS. Concentrations: Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Chen.
HIST 085. The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
- Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance; Migration, Diaspora, and Space
- Burke.

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