Courses

The following is from http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/courses/HistoryofAmericanCivilization.html, but American Civilization students are by no means limited to this set of courses. The full FAS course catalog is available here.)

Faculty of the Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization

James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard College Professor and David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History (Chair)
Sven Beckert, Professor of History
Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Joyce E. Chaplin, Professor of History
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies (on leave 2005-06)
Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History
Margaret Lee Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory (Design School)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities
David D. Hall, 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 (on leave 2005-06)
Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies (on leave fall term)
Morton J. Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History (Law School)
Robin E. Kelsey, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy (Kennedy School)
Jill M. Lepore, Professor of History
Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language
Elisa New, Professor of English and American Literature and Language
Carol J. Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
Robert A. Orsi, Charles Warren Professor of History of Religion in America (Divinity School)
Julie A. Reuben, Professor of Education (School of Education) (on leave 2005-06)
Jennifer L. Roberts, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2005-06)
Charles E. Rosenberg, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences (on leave spring term)
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
John Stauffer, Professor of English and American Literature and Language
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard College Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

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)
Davíd L. Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America (FAS, Divinity School) (on leave fall term)
Bradley S. Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (on leave 2005-06)
Philip J. Fisher, Harvard College Professor and Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature
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 Research Professor of American History
Barbara E. Johnson, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society (on leave 2005-06)
Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History (Business School)
Marc Shell, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English
John R. Stilgoe, Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development (on leave spring term)
Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop Professor of History (on leave 2005-06)
Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor (on leave 2005-06)
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, 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
Jill M. Lepore
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 2006–07. 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
John Stauffer
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, Lawrence Buell 2655, Joyce E. Chaplin 1058, Lizabeth Cohen 3627 (on leave 2005-06), Nancy F. Cott 4261, Margaret Lee Crawford (Design School) 3934, Bradley S. Epps 2880 (on leave 2005-06), 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 (on leave 2005-06), Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Akira Iriye 1968, Barbara E. Johnson 7626 (on leave 2005-06), Robin E. Kelsey 4132, James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Jill M. Lepore 4830, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Louis Menand 4752, Ingrid Monson 1591, Elisa New 2428, Carol J. Oja 4599, Robert A. Orsi (Divinity School) 4242, Julie A. Reuben (School of Education) 4428 (on leave 2005-06), Jennifer L. Roberts 4407 (on leave 2005-06), Werner Sollors 7424, John Stauffer 1006, Stephan Thernstrom 4141 (on leave 2005-06), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, and Helen Vendler 7226 (on leave 2005-06)

*American Civilization 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertation
Catalog Number: 8803
Sven Beckert 2415, Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655, Davíd L. Carrasco (FAS, Divinity School) 4213 (on leave fall term), Joyce E. Chaplin 1058, Lizabeth Cohen 3627 (on leave 2005-06), 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 (on leave 2005-06), Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Akira Iriye 1968, Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School) 4323, James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Jill M. Lepore 4830, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Robert A. Orsi (Divinity School) 4242, Julie A. Reuben (School of Education) 4428 (on leave 2005-06), Jennifer L. Roberts 4407 (on leave 2005-06), Charles E. Rosenberg 3784 (on leave spring term), Marc Shell 3176, Werner Sollors 7424, John Stauffer 1006, John R. Stilgoe 8032 (on leave spring term), Stephan Thernstrom 4141 (on leave 2005-06), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, and Ruth R. Wisse 3177

Cross-listed Courses

African and African American Studies 131. African-American Literature to the 1920s
[*Comparative Literature 172 (formerly *Comparative Literature 269). Paralysis]
English 17x. 19th-Century American Novel
English 17y. Hawthorne and His Precursors
English 17z. American Poetry from Bradstreet through Frost
*English 90mt. Mark Twain and His World
English 177. Art and Thought of the Cold War
English 196. Literature of Migration and Ethnicity: The Case of the United States
*English 271. Poetry in America: Graduate Seminar
*English 276. Space, Place, and Imagination: Graduate Seminar
*English 292. Issues in the Study of American Literature: Graduate Seminar
Government 2392. American Political Ideologies
History 1610. Confronting Objects/Interpreting Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America: Conference Course
[History 1632. Gilded Age America: Economy, Society, and Politics: Conference Course]
[History 1664. African American Intellectual History: Conference Course]
History 1666. The World of William James: Conference Course
[History 2600. Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary America: Proseminar]
History 2602. Readings in the History of the US in the 19th Century: Proseminar
[History 2606. 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 2630hf. Intellectual History: Seminar
[*History 2640hf. Workshop in 20th-Century US History]
History 2650hf. The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism
*History 2662hf. Readings in American Thought
[History 2664. Race and African-American Intellectual History: Seminar]
[History of Art and Architecture 19x. Introduction to African American Art History]
[History of Art and Architecture 175w. Pop Art]
Music 194rs. Topics in Music from 1800 to Present: Proseminar
[Music 218r. 20th-Century Music: Seminar]
Religion 1439 (formerly Religion 1514). The History of Christianity: An Introduction to Interpretive Issues
Religion 1468. Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s
[Religion 1526. Religion in America from c. 1865 to the 1970s]
Religion 2464. Radical Religion in England and America, 1550–1750: Seminar
Social Analysis 66. Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States
[Spanish 243 (formerly Spanish 143). Foundational Fiction and Other Cultural Agents]

Graduate Program in the History of American Civilization
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