Your October 2024 reads
This month’s titles, featured in Cornellians, include "Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section" by A&S alum Rachel Somerstein ’04.
Read moreThe Department of History thrives on its close relationship with many other departments, centers and area studies programs in the humanities and social sciences at Cornell. The faculty includes more than a dozen prize-winning authors as well as winners of Cornell’s prestigious teaching and advising awards.
This month’s titles, featured in Cornellians, include "Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section" by A&S alum Rachel Somerstein ’04.
Read moreHIST 4963 China's Early Modern (also ASIAN 4461, CAPS 4963, MEDVL 4963) (HAN) Thursday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor TJ Hinrichs Theories of modernization have inspired, informed, and plagued histories of middle and late imperial China. For the Song-Qing eras (roughly 10th...
Read moreHIST 4910 Approaches to Medieval Violence (Also MEDVL 4910) (HST-AS) (HPE, HEU) Tuesday and Thursday: 1:25-2:40 plus Independent Research Professor Oren Falk 'Violence' has become an unavoidable - and urgently troubling - buzzword in contemporary Western culture. We worry about its manifest...
Read moreHIST 4629 The Age of Revolution in Europe & the Caribbean: 1789 to 1825 (HST-AS) (HEU) Tuesday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Paul Friedland A wave of revolutions swept through Europe and the Caribbean, beginning with the French Revolution (1789-1815) and the Haitian Revo...
Read moreHIST 4422 Oral History: Theory, Practice, and Method (GLC-AS, HST-AS) (HTR) Monday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Rachel Sandwell This course explores the method of oral history in theory and practice, across different topics, contexts, and geographic/national terrains. It w...
Read moreHIST 4277 Modern European Cultural-Intellectual History through Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (ALC-AS, HST-AS) (HEU) Tuesday: 2:00-4:30 plus Independent Research Professor Claudia Verhoeven The premise of this senior seminar in European cultural-intellectual history is that we can le...
Read moreHIST 3801 War and Revolution in 20th Century Latino History (also AMST 3831, LATA 3801, LSP 3801) (GLC-AS, HST-AS) (HNA) Tuesday and Thursday: 1:25-2:40 Professor Maria Cristina Garcia This course examines war and revolution as drivers of migration from Latin America and the Spanish Caribbe...
Read moreHIST 3602 Cultural History of North America (also AMST 3602) (ALC-AS, HST-AS) (HNA) Monday and Wednesday: 2:55-4:10 Dr. Justin Clark This course examines the history of culture in North America from the pre-contact era to present. We will examine how Native, African, European, Asian, and La...
Read moreHistory is valuable as preparation for graduate, professional, or law school and for any career that requires critical thinking and good writing; the reputation of the faculty for scholarship, teaching, and advising; and most of all, the intrinsic interest of the discipline.
Cornell's Department of History has a topnotch faculty covering a wide range time periods, geographic regions and methodologies. As a student in our program, you will also be able to work with members of the wider Graduate Field of History, which includes scholars whose main appointment is in other colleges and programs at Cornell but who are able to supervise dissertations of Ph.D. students in History.
Connections through history
The Cornell Public History Initiative (CPHI) works to stimulate and deepen dialogue among undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and their wider communities about the sedimented histories that shape our contemporary world.