History of American Civilization
Faculty of the Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies (Chair)
Sven Beckert, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History
Lawrence Buell, Harvard College Professor and the John P. Marquand Professor of English (on leave spring term)
Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin, Professor of History
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies (on leave 2001-02)
Catherine A. Corman, Assistant Professor of History
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities
David D. Hall, Professor of American Religious History on the Bartlett and the Emerson Fund for Unitarian Universalist Studies (Divinity School)
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies (on leave fall term)
Jennifer L. Hochschild, Professor of Government
Morton J. Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History (Law School)
Yunte Huang, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language (on leave spring term)
James T. Kloppenberg, Professor of History
Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of American History
Charles E. Rosenberg, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Social Sciences (on leave 2002-03)
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Afro-American Studies
Marc Shell, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English
Doris Sommer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave 2001-02)
John Stauffer, Associate Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of History and Literature
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard College Professor and the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
Cornel West, Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor
Other Faculty Offering Instruction in the History of American Civilization
Allan M. Brandt, Professor of the History of Science (FAS) and Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine (Medical School)
Philip J. Fisher, Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature
Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History
Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History (Business School)
Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor (on leave spring term)
This program is interdisciplinary. Students are also referred to course offerings at the Law School. For further information about the variety of course offerings in specific departments, consult the office of the Committee, Barker Center 225, 12 Quincy Street.
Primarily for Graduates
*American Civilization 370 (formerly American Civilization 270). Colloquium in American Civilization
Catalog Number: 3662
Members of the Committee
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5.
Note: The Colloquium is required of and limited to all first-year graduate students in American Civilization.
Graduate Courses of Reading and Research
*American Civilization 398. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 1710
Richard Charles Adams 1665, K. Anthony Appiah 3067, Sven Beckert 2415, Sacvan Bercovitch 7638 (on leave fall term), Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655 (on leave spring term), Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin 1058, Lizabeth Cohen 3627 (on leave 2001-02), Catherine A. Corman 1096, Bradley S. Epps 2880, Philip J. Fisher 1470, William W. Fisher (Law School) 4257, Donald Fleming 1831, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, William E. Gienapp 2109, David D. Hall (Divinity School) 2510, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517 (on leave fall term), Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Yunte Huang 3160 (on leave spring term), William R. Hutchison (Divinity School) 4061, Akira Iriye 1968, Barbara E. Johnson 7626 (on leave 2001-02), James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Marc Shell 3176, Werner Sollors 7424, John Stauffer 1006, Stephan Thernstrom 4141, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, Helen Vendler 7226 (on leave spring term), and Cornel West 1212
*American Civilization 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 8803
Sacvan Bercovitch 7638 (on leave fall term), Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655 (on leave spring term), Lizabeth Cohen 3627 (on leave 2001-02), Philip J. Fisher 1470, William W. Fisher (Law School) 4257, Donald Fleming 1831, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, William E. Gienapp 2109, David D. Hall (Divinity School) 2510, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517 (on leave fall term), Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, William R. Hutchison (Divinity School) 4061, Akira Iriye 1968, Sheila S. Jasanoff (Kennedy School, Public Health) 2248, James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Marc Shell 3176, Werner Sollors 7424, John R. Stilgoe 8032 (on leave 2001-02), Stephan Thernstrom 4141, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, Cornel West 1212, and Ruth R. Wisse 3177 (on leave spring term)
Cross-listed Courses
[Comparative Literature 182. Comparative Cultures of Money]
*Comparative Literature 269. Paralysis: Seminar
English 175h. American History/American Fiction
English 187d. American Literatures in Languages Other than English
*English 291b. Language Disorders and the Literary Tradition: Graduate Seminar
*English 292. Issues in the Study of American Literature: Graduate Seminar
[History 1618. Material Life in Early America]
History 1632. Gilded Age America: Economy, Society and Politics: Conference Course
[History 1640 (formerly History 1660). The United States since World War II]
History 1644. Reconstruction, 1865-1877
History 1649. The American West: 1780-1930
[History 1653. Baseball and American Society, 1840–Present]
[History 1656. The 19th-Century Bourgeoisie: Western Europe and the U.S.: Seminar]
[History 1660. Using Primary Sources in African-American History: Conference Course]
History 1951. 19th-Century Capitalism: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan: Conference Course
History 1952. Comparative Colonialism: Conference Course
History 2600 (formerly History 2605). Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary America: Proseminar
[History 2601. The U.S. in the 20th Century: Seminar]
[History 2602. Readings in the United States in the 19th Century: Proseminar]
[History 2606. Early American Social History: Seminar]
History 2607 (formerly History 2603). Readings in the United States in the 20th Century: Proseminar
History 2612 (formerly History 2602). 19th-Century United States: Research Seminar
[History 2630. Intellectual History]
History 2662. Readings in American Thought
[Religion 1465. Liberalism and Orthodoxy, 1600–1870]
Religion 1504. Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s
Religion 1514. Interpretations in American Religious History: An Introduction to the Historical Literature: Colloquium
[Religion 1515. Religion and Culture in 19th-Century America and Europe: Seminar]
[Religion 1525. Radical Movements in Modern America]
Religion 1526. Religion in America from c. 1865 to the 1970s
[Religion 2464. Radical Religion in England and America, 1550–1750: Seminar]
[Spanish 165. Bilingual Arts]
[Spanish 186. Tobacco and Sugar]
[Spanish 268. A Rhetoric of Particularism ]