Barbie has been breaking barriers for over 60 years—but can she be characterized as a feminist?
Barbie Through the Decades: A History of Barbie, Feminism, and the New Barbie Movie
Global Human Rights and Memory in the Public History Classroom
Teaching about historical and public memory should challenge students to think and interpret outside the classroom. This course empowered students to serve as producers of their own sites of memory.
HIST 211: Post-1945 United States Memory and Human Rights—Syllabus
This course explores historical "happenings" and their interpretations after 1945 with a heightened focus on if/how the United States has maintained, strengthened, and perpetuated its image of global excellence.
What Does Decolonizing Russian History Mean?: Moving from “Colonization but” to “Colonization and” Frameworks
Many Russian historians have advanced a “colonization but” argument—Russia history is a history of colonization but not the same kind of colonization that the UK, France, and others undertook. The task is to move to a “colonization and” stance. Yes, it was colonization, and we must write histories that confront power with truth.
America in the 1990s—Syllabus
This course traces the history of the United States during the 1990s. It pays particular attention to the politics of the era, as well as the cultural texts (songs, films, and other phenomena) that both reflected and shaped the period.
History of Emotions & Senses—Syllabus
This course introduces students to the history of emotions and senses. Students explore theories and methods for studying emotions in history, as well as scholarship on emotions or senses in specific historical contexts.
Strikers, Octopi, and Visible Hands: The Railroad and American Capitalism
In popular culture and American historiography, the railroad corporation has long been a site where Americans have grappled with larger questions of political economy.
Sports, not Politics?: Contextualizing Qatar in the History of Controversial Sporting Events
The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar has faced unprecedented criticism due to allegations of corruption and wide scale human rights abuses in the country in the lead up to the tournament. Criticism of Qatar must be seen in the wider historical context of corruption and "sportswashing," which reveals that global sporting bodies are inherently political despite claims of being apolitical.
“Stockholders Have Civil Rights, Too”
Wilma Soss emerged from the midcentury zeitgeist because she had the right experience and contacts to champion stockholder rights.
Extremism in the United States: From the Ku Klux Klan to January 6—Syllabus
This course provides a historical overview of extremism in the United States from Reconstruction through the present. Students will explore primary sources ranging from political pamphlets to diaries, religious tracts, government records, and films, alongside scholarly literature, to equip them with a foundational knowledge of the history of extremism in the US during the long twentieth century.
Clio and the Contemporary 