History of American Civilization
Faculty of the Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization
John Stauffer, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies (Chair) (on leave fall term)
Sven Beckert, Professor of History
Ann D. Braude, Senior Lecturer in American Religious History (Divinity School)
Lisa T. Brooks, Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of Folklore and Mythology (on leave 2007-08)
Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies (on leave 2007-08)
Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History
Margaret Lee Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory (Design School)
Christine Desan, Professor of Law (Law School)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor (on leave spring term)
David D. Hall, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History (Divinity School)
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Morton J. Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History (Law School)
Walter Johnson, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies (on leave 2007-08)
Robin E. Kelsey, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy (Kennedy School)
James T. Kloppenberg, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, Department Chair of History
Jill M. Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Department Chair of History and Literature (on leave 2007-08)
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History
Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English (on leave 2007-08)
Susan E. O’Donovan, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of History
Carol J. Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
Julie A. Reuben, Professor of Education (Education School)
Jennifer L. Roberts, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2007-08)
Marc Shell, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies (on leave spring term)
Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African American Studies
Rachel St. John, Assistant Professor of History (on leave 2007-08)
Jason W. Stevens, Assistant Professor of English (on leave 2007-08)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor (on leave spring term)
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Law School)
Other Faculty Offering Instruction in the History of American Civilization
Allan M. Brandt, Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, and Professor of the History of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (on leave fall term)
Davíd L. Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America (FAS, Divinity School)
Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
Bradley S. Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Philip J. Fisher, Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English, Harvard College Professor (on leave spring term)
William W. Fisher, Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law (Law School)
Donald Fleming, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus
Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, Charles Warren Research Professor of American History
Barbara E. Johnson, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
Despina Kakoudaki (on leave spring term)
Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History (Business School)
Elisa New, Professor of English
Susan E. O’Donovan, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of History
John R. Stilgoe, Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development
Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Folklore and Mythology
Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop Professor of History (on leave spring term)
Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor
Ruth R. Wisse, Harvard College Professor, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature
This program is interdisciplinary. Students are also referred to course offerings at the Design School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kennedy School, and 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 200 (formerly *American Civilization 370). Major Works in the History of American Civilization]
Catalog Number: 3662
Walter Johnson
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of the field, with an emphasis on the range of interdisciplinary methods in the humanities, history, and social sciences.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. Required of first and second-year graduate students in American Civilization and open to others by permission of the instructor.
*American Civilization 201 (formerly *American Civilization 371). Themes in the History of American Civilization
Catalog Number: 6797
David D. Hall (Divinity School)
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Interdisciplinary study of one or several topics.
Note: Required of first and second-year graduate students in American Civilization and open to others by permission of the instructor.
Graduate Courses
*American Civilization 398. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 1710
Sven Beckert 2415, Allan M. Brandt 3031 (on leave fall term), Vincent Brown 4638 (spring term only), Lawrence Buell 2655, Joyce E. Chaplin 1058, Lizabeth Cohen 3627 (on leave 2007-08), Nancy F. Cott 4261, Margaret Lee Crawford (Design School) 3934, Bradley S. Epps 2880, Philip J. Fisher 1470 (on leave spring term), William W. Fisher (Law School) 4257, Donald Fleming 1831, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899 (on leave spring term), David D. Hall (Divinity School) 2510, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Akira Iriye 1968, Andrew Jewett 5878 (spring term only), Barbara E. Johnson 7626, Walter Johnson 5616 (on leave 2007-08) (spring term only), Despina Kakoudaki 3979 (on leave spring term), Robin E. Kelsey 4132, Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School) 4323, James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Jill M. Lepore 4830 (on leave 2007-08), Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Lisa M. McGirr 2543 (spring term only), Louis Menand 4752 (on leave 2007-08), Ingrid Monson 1591, Elisa New 2428, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Carol J. Oja 4599, Robert A. Orsi (Divinity School) 4242, Julie A. Reuben (Education School) 4428, Jennifer L. Roberts 4407 (on leave 2007-08), Tommie Shelby 3863 (spring term only), Marc Shell 3176 (fall term only), Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave spring term), John Stauffer 1006 (on leave fall term), Maria Tatar 3645, Stephan Thernstrom 4141 (on leave spring term), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886 (on leave spring term), and Helen Vendler 7226
*American Civilization 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertation
Catalog Number: 8803
Sven Beckert 2415, Allan M. Brandt 3031 (on leave fall term), Lawrence Buell 2655, Davíd L. Carrasco (FAS, Divinity School) 4213, Joyce E. Chaplin 1058, Lizabeth Cohen 3627 (on leave 2007-08), Nancy F. Cott 4261, Philip J. Fisher 1470 (on leave spring term), William W. Fisher (Law School) 4257, Donald Fleming 1831, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899 (on leave spring term), David D. Hall (Divinity School) 2510, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Akira Iriye 1968, Walter Johnson 5616 (on leave 2007-08), Despina Kakoudaki 3979 (on leave spring term), Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School) 4323, James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Carrie Lambert-Beatty 5283 (on leave spring term) (fall term only), Jill M. Lepore 4830 (on leave 2007-08), Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Louis Menand 4752 (on leave 2007-08), Carol J. Oja 4599, Robert A. Orsi (Divinity School) 4242, Julie A. Reuben (Education School) 4428, Jennifer L. Roberts 4407 (on leave 2007-08), Charles E. Rosenberg 3784, Marc Shell 3176, Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave spring term), John Stauffer 1006 (on leave fall term), John R. Stilgoe 8032, Stephan Thernstrom 4141 (on leave spring term), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886 (on leave spring term), and Ruth R. Wisse 3177
Cross-listed Courses
African and African American Studies 131. African-American Literature to the 1920s
*English 292. Issues in the Study of American Literature: Graduate Seminar
*Government 2305. American Government and Politics: Field Seminar
[Government 2335. Power in American Society]
Government 2392. American Political Ideologies
Historical Study A-84. American Constitutional History from the Framing to the Present
[Historical Study A-85. The United States since World War II]
[Historical Study A-86 (formerly History 1692). Men and Women in Public and Private: the US in the 20th Century]
[Historical Study B-49 (formerly History 1651). History of American Capitalism]
[*History 1610. Confronting Objects/Interpreting Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America: Research Seminar]
[History 1629. Empire for Liberty: The US in the Nineteenth Century]
*History 1661. Social Thought in Modern America
History 2600. Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary America: Proseminar
[*History 2601. The US in the 20th Century: Seminar]
[History 2602. Readings in the History of the US in the 19th Century: Proseminar]
[History 2606 (formerly History 2606hf). Early American Social History: Seminar]
History 2607. Readings in the US in the 20th Century: Proseminar
[History 2610. Race in Early America: Status, Identity, and Power: Seminar]
[History 2616. The Art and Craft of Historical Writing: Seminar]
[*History 2640hf. Workshop in 20th-Century US History]
History 2650hf. The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Seminar
History 2652hf. Politics and Social Movements in North America: Seminar - (New Course)
*History 2662 (formerly *History 2662hf). Readings in American Thought
History 2920. Readings in Gender History: Seminar - (New Course)
[History of Art and Architecture 172w. American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965]
[History of Art and Architecture 175k. American and European Art, 1945–1975]
[*History of Art and Architecture 175s. Art and Science in Early America]
[History of Art and Architecture 197g. Colonial Art]
[*Literature 172 (formerly *Comparative Literature 172). Paralysis]
Literature and Arts A-57. State and Nation: Languages in Conflict
Music 194rs. Special Topics: Proseminar
Music 218r. 20th-Century Music: Seminar
[Religion 1439. The History of Christianity: An Introduction to Interpretive Issues]
Religion 1468. Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s
Religion 2464. Radical Religion in England and America, 1550–1750: Seminar
Social Analysis 66. Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States
Spanish 180. Cultural Agents in the Americas - (New Course)
Spanish 243. Foundational Fiction and Film