New Graduate Student Orientation Department of History Bill Chase, Chair [email protected] Evelyn Rawski, Graduate Director [email protected] Tania Boster, CID Graduate Student Representative [email protected] Department of History Homepage New Graduate Student Orientation

The direction of our changes We have revisited the graduate program, evaluated its structural requirements and sought to adapt the intellectual, social and professional training of students in view of current circumstances. The direction of our changes: To affirm the Ph.D. as the beginning phase in a process of lifelong learning. To draw on the creative potential of students as well as faculty in a collaborative effort to research and teach history. To foster habits of collaboration in order to create transnational and transcultural histories. New Graduate Student Handbook The handbook has undergone a complete overhaul with the goal of providing a clear statement of expectations and an emphasis on the reciprocal obligations of faculty and graduate students in all aspects of the program. This includes teaching, coursework, and the fulfillment of requirements. Graduate Program Checklist This checklist was developed so that graduate students and their advisors can take a cooperative role in selecting courses and fulfilling requirements to ensure timely progress. More about our department The Department of History is unusual among departments in the United States in the relatively high number of faculty specializing in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Faculty and students draw on the rich resources provided by the Asian Studies Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, and the Center for West European Studies / European Union Center at the university. The department's comparative and transnational emphasis opens possibilities for students of United States history to explore subjects such as migration and diasporas; intellectual, social and political exchange in the Atlantic world, and the problematic relationship of economic development and rising inequality. Commonalities PowerPoint presentation from CID Convening, January 2004 Key Ideas PowerPoint presentation from CID Convening, January 2004

Transnational and Thematic Seminars Fall 2004: HIST 2711 Texts and Contexts New core seminar taught by Jonathan Scott and Ann Janetta. This seminar links aspects of the history of ideas to the modes of their transmission, and relates a variety of texts to the cultural as well as historical circumstances of their generation. syllabus HIST 2712 Race, Ethnicity and Gender New core seminar taught by Lara Putnam and Bruce Venarde. This seminar explores the social construction of race, ethnicity and gender in international and historical perspective. Each of these three kinds of hierarchical differences join together a set of ideas about natural and cultural essences that serve to define and justify social boundaries. syllabus HIST 2721 Atlantic History to 1800 Core readings seminar taught by Marcus Rediker. This graduate colloquium will introduce students to work in Atlantic history, both old and new, ranging from R.R. Palmer to newer scholarship that approaches the Atlantic world "from the bottom up." syllabus Coming in Spring 2005: Historiography/Methodology New seminar taught by Alejandro de la Fuente Capitalism and Empire New core seminar taught by Dick Oestreicher and Evelyn Rawski