History of American Civilization
The 2009-10 membership of this committee has not yet been finalized. Complete membership information for 2009-10 will be posted as soon as it becomes available.
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)
David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History
Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History
Robin M. Bernstein, Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of History and Literature
Steven Biel, Senior Lecturer on History and Literature
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
Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Stephen Louis Burt, Associate Professor of English
Daniel P. Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government
Glenda R. Carpio, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies
Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History
Christine Desan, Professor of Law (Law School)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics (on leave spring term)
Ruth Marie Griffith
David Neil Hempton, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies (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)
Andrew Jewett, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies (on leave 2009-10)
Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies
Robin E. Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography
Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law (Law School)
Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy (Kennedy School)
James T. Kloppenberg, Charles Warren Professor of American History
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Visual and Environmental Studies
Jill M. Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History
Lisa M. McGirr, Professor of History
Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English (on leave fall term)
Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law (Law School)
Carol J. Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
Julie A. Reuben, Professor of Education (Education School)
Jennifer L. Roberts, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
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
Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies (on leave 2009-10)
Rachel St. John, Associate Professor of History
Jason W. Stevens, Assistant Professor of English
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Law School)
Joanne van der Woude, Assistant Professor of English and of History and 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
John Stauffer
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5.
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 2010–11. 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
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4.
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, Robin M. Bernstein 5411, Ann M. Blair 2467, Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655, Glenda R. Carpio 4408 (fall term only), Joyce E. Chaplin 1058, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Nancy F. Cott 4261, Margaret Lee Crawford (Design School) 3934, Bradley S. Epps 2880, Philip J. Fisher 1470, William W. Fisher (Law School) 4257, Donald Fleming 1831, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, Claudia Goldin 2667 (on leave spring term), David D. Hall (Divinity School) 2510, Janet E. Halley (Law School) 4431, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Akira Iriye 1968, Despina Kakoudaki 3979 (spring term only), Robin E. Kelsey 4132, Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School) 4323, James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Carrie Lambert-Beatty 5283 (fall term only), Jill M. Lepore 4830, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Louis Menand 4752 (on leave fall term), Ingrid Monson 1591 (on leave 2009-10), Elisa New 2428, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Carol J. Oja 4599, Robert A. Orsi (Divinity School) 4242 (spring term only), Julie A. Reuben (Education School) 4428, Jennifer L. Roberts 4407, Marc Shell 3176 (fall term only), Werner Sollors 7424, Rachel St. John 5328, John Stauffer 1006, Maria Tatar 3645, Stephan Thernstrom 4141, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, Helen Vendler 7226, and Joanne van der Woude 6069
*American Civilization 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertation
Catalog Number: 8803
Sven Beckert 2415, Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655, Davíd L. Carrasco 4213, Joyce E. Chaplin 1058, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Nancy F. Cott 4261, Philip J. Fisher 1470, William W. Fisher (Law School) 4257, Donald Fleming 1831, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, David D. Hall (Divinity School) 2510, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Akira Iriye 1968, Walter Johnson 5616, Despina Kakoudaki 3979, Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School) 4323, James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Carrie Lambert-Beatty 5283 (fall term only), Jill M. Lepore 4830, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Louis Menand 4752 (on leave fall term) (fall term only), Carol J. Oja 4599, Robert A. Orsi (Divinity School) 4242, Julie A. Reuben (Education School) 4428, Jennifer L. Roberts 4407, Charles E. Rosenberg 3784 (on leave fall term), Marc Shell 3176, Werner Sollors 7424, John Stauffer 1006, John R. Stilgoe 8032, Stephan Thernstrom 4141, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, and Ruth R. Wisse 3177
Cross-listed Courses
[Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 13 (formerly Spanish 180). Cultural Agents]
African and African American Studies 131. African-American Literature to the 1920s
African and African American Studies 133. Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston - (New Course)
*African and African American Studies 301. Graduate Proseminar
Comparative Literature 248. American Multilingual Literature in a Transnational Context - (New Course)
Economics 1356. Economics of Work and Family - (New Course)
*English 269. Literatures of Immigration - (New Course)
*Government 2305. American Government and Politics: Field Seminar
[Historical Study A-84. American Constitutional History from the Framing to the Present]
Historical Study A-86. Men and Women in Public and Private: the US in the 20th Century
*History 74c. Bodily Functions: Histories of Bare Life and Bio-Power
*History 74e. North American Borderlands History
*History 74f. U.S. Environmental History
*History 84b. The American Revolution
[*History 84c (formerly *History 1610). Confronting Objects/Interpreting Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America]
*History 84l (formerly History 1666). The World of William James
History 1330 (formerly History 1661). Social Thought in Modern America
History 1457. History of American Capitalism - (New Course)
*History 2340 (formerly *History 2662 & *History 2662hf). Readings in American Thought
History 2400 (formerly History 2600). Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary America: Proseminar
[History 2402. American Food: Seminar]
History 2403. Harvard Collections in World History (Graduate Seminar in General Education) - (New Course)
History 2405. Politics, Social Life, and Law in Jeffersonian America: Seminar - (New Course)
History 2442 (formerly History 2602). Readings in the History of the US in the 19th Century: Proseminar
[*History 2461 (formerly *History 2601). The US in the 20th Century: Seminar]
[History 2462 (formerly History 2607). Readings in the US in the 20th Century: Proseminar]
History 2463 (formerly History 2661). Graduate Readings in 20th-Century African-American History: Seminar
*History 2470hf (formerly *History 2640hf). Workshop in 20th-Century US History
History 2480hf (formerly History 2650hf). The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Seminar
[*History 2966 (formerly *History 2616). The Art and Craft of Historical Writing: Seminar]
[History 2969 (formerly History 2920). Readings in Gender History: Seminar]
*History and Literature 90q. Performing America - (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 175w. Pop Art
History of Art and Architecture 197g. Colonial Art
[*History of Art and Architecture 277s. Circa 1970]
[Music 194rs. Special Topics: Proseminar]
Music 218r. 20th-Century Music: Seminar
[*Religion 2501. The Religious History of American Women: Seminar]
Religion 2550. Women and Religion in Contemporary America: Seminar
[Social Analysis 66. Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States]
[Spanish 243. Foundational Fiction and Film]
[United States in the World 12 (formerly History of Art and Architecture 17y). American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860]