Registering for the History Major: Choose An Advisor
Registering for the History Major: Fill Out the Forms
Fall 2023 Course Offerings
Spring 2024 Course Offerings
Faculty On Leave / Faculty Leave Projections
Important Dates
Registering for the History Major: Choose an Advisor to register for Fall 2023.
Please make an advising appointment with a History faculty member teaching in Spring 2023 sometime between April 26 – May 5. Even if your first choice or current Advisor is someone who is on leave, any of the faculty listed below can help you register.
Magnus Bernhardsson
Alexander Bevilacqua
Jessica Chapman
Christine DeLucia
Aparna Kapadia
Roger Kittleson
Karen Merrill
Joel Pattison
Anne Reinhardt
Tyran Steward
Benjamin Twagira
Carmen Whalen
Registering for the History Major: Fill Out The Forms
Please complete this form before (and sometimes during) your meeting with your Advisor. Once your Advisor has approved the form, please send the completed form to Linda Grandshaw, Departmental Administrative Assistant.
Important Note About PDF Forms: The most reliable way to use this form is to download it to your computer and open it in Adobe Acrobat.
For new Major Declarations, please be sure to fill out the Registrar’s form. This will ensure that your information is put into PeopleSoft.
First Year Seminars and Tutorials
HIST 112T – The Asia-Pacific War (Shmagin)
HIST 117 – Bombay/Mumbai:Making of a Modern Metropolis (Kapadia)
HIST 128 – Protest after Fascism: Youth, Revolution, and Protest in 1960s West Germany (Kiechel)
HIST 137 – Victorian Britain and the Anglo-Afghan Wars (Waters)
HIST 156 – The Manifesto in US Politics (Merrill)
Introductory Survey Courses
HIST 207 – The Modern Middle East (Bernhardsson)
HIST 217 – Premodern Japan (Shmagin)
HIST 224 – Introduction to Medieval Europe (Pattison)
HIST 239 – Germany in the Twentieth Century (Kohut)
HIST 254 – Sovereignty, Resistance, and Resilience: Native American Histories to 1865 (DeLucia)
HIST 286 – Conquests and (Im)migrations: Latina/o History, 1848 to the Present (Whalen)
Major Seminars
HIST 301B – Approaching the Past: Contemplating American Power (Chapman)
HIST 301D – Approaching the Past: The Historian’s Task (Bevilacqua)
Advanced Electives
HIST 308 – The Nile (Bernhardsson)
HIST 319 – Gender and the Family in Chinese (Reinhardt)
HIST 325 – Faith and Profit in the Medieval Mediterranean (Pattison)
HIST 328 – The Making and Unmaking of the United Kingdom (Waters)
HIST 336 – Nationalist-Socialist Germany (Kohut)
HIST 340 – Anticolonial Europe: A History of Transnational Solidarity (Kiechel)
HIST 388 – Decolonization and the Cold War (Chapman)
Advanced Seminars and Tutorials
HIST 417 – The Treaty System and Treaty Ports of China, 1840-1945 (Reinhardt)
HIST 422 – Festivities in the Early Modern World: Performance, Knowledge, & Difference (Bevilacqua)
HIST 455 – Material Cultures in North American History (DeLucia)
HIST 488T – Sites of Memory and American Wars (Merrill)
HIST 493 – Thesis Research Seminar (Kapadia)
HIST 497 – Independent Study (Kittleson)
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Fall 2023 Cross-Listed Courses (Offered by Other Programs/Departments)
HIST 222 – Greek History (Felipe Soza)
HIST 264 – Environmental History (Laura Martin)
HIST 273 – Going Nuclear: American Culture in the Atomic Age (James Nolan)
HIST 302 – Islamic Law: Past and Present (Saadia Yacoob)
HIST 352 – American Maritime History (Sofia Zepeda)
HIST 366 – What They Saw in America (James Nolan)
First Year Seminars and Tutorials
HIST 116 – Understanding 9/11 and the War in Iraq (Bernhardsson)
HIST 122 – The Black Death (Pattison)
HIST 143 – Soccer and History in Latin America: Making the Beautiful Game (Kittleson)
HIST 163 – Communications in Early America (DeLucia)
Introductory Survey Courses
HIST 203 – Modern Japan (Shmagin)
HIST 221 – South Asia: Colonialism to Independence, 1750-1947 (Kapadia)
HIST 226 – Early Modern Europe (Bevilacqua)
HIST 232 – Twentieth-Century Europe: Nationalism, War, and Empire (Kiechel)
Major Seminars
HIST 301A – Approaching the Past: Economic and Labor Histories in the Making of the U.S. (Whalen)
HIST 301E – Approaching the Past: National, Transnational, and Postcolonial Histories (Kittleson)
Advanced Electives
HIST 309 – Fire and Ice: The History of Modern Iceland (Bernhardsson)
HIST 312 – The Mughal Empire: Power, Art, and Religion in India (Kapadia)
HIST 321 – A Global History of Manga and Anime (Shmagin)
HIST 326 – The Crusades: 1050-1550 (Joel Pattison)
HIST 342 – At the Crossroads of Race and Nation: Borders and Frontiers in Latin America and the Caribbean (Cordero)
HIST 361 – The Atlantic World: Connections, Crossings, and Confluences (DeLucia)
Advanced Seminars and Tutorials
HIST 430 – Postcolonial Reparations: Trauma, History, and Memory after European Imperialism (Kiechel)
HIST 470 – Latinx Migrations: Stories and Histories (Whalen)
HIST 492T – Making Race in Early Modern Europe (Bevilacqua)
HIST 494 – Thesis Writing Seminar (Kapadia)
HIST 498 – Independent Study (Kittleson)
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Spring 2024 Cross-Listed Courses (Offered by Other Programs/Departments)
HIST 237 – The Life of Ancient Cities: Building, Belonging, Trading and Dying in Greece and Rome (Felipe Soza)
HIST 352 – American Maritime History (Sofia Zepeda)
Fall 2023 – Faculty Leave Projections
Sara Dubow
Alexandra Garbarini
Gretchen Long
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Tyran Steward
Benjamin Twagira
Spring 2024 – Faculty Leave On Leave
Jessica Chapman
Sara Dubow
Alexandra Garbarini
Gretchen Long
Karen Merrill
Anne Reinhardt
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Tyran Steward
Benjamin Twagira
Chris Waters
April 25 – Student Reception (Pizza Party) – Griffin 3 – 7:00 pm – Meet with faculty and other majors and enjoy a slice of pizza!
April 27 to May 5 – 2023-2024 Pre-Registration Period
May 2 and 3 – History Thesis Presentations – Faculty Club – 6:30 pm
June 4 – Class of 2023 Majors and Family Reception – 10:30 am – Stetson Reading Room
Megamenu Social