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What are the Police? In this colloquium, we will develop an historical and theoretical understanding of police power from a world historical perspective. Each week is organized thematically and will address a dimension of the history of police power in the modern world, engaging with literature from various regions of the world such as the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. Themes will include theoretical discussions of the nature of police power, its unfolding within structures of racial capitalism, the nature of police work, the lives of police workers, the policing forms in colonial empires and in histories of decolonization, police brutality, intelligence history, and urban policing. Students from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome.

This graduate seminar will explore the growing field of Transpacific History by reading both foundational texts and cutting-edge scholarship on the topic. Our thematic focus will be on Pacific empires, specifically the United States and Japan. The seminar will investigate previously overlooked connections rather than well-known rivalries and conflicts between the two Pacific powers through commodity flows, migration, and scientific and technological exchange as well as Cold War politics.

"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." The writer Edna O'Brien's portrait of Irish life encapsulates a history shaped by colonialism, famine, forced migration, and enduring political struggle. This course explores the global story of Ireland, a small land of 4.8 million that since 1800 has produced a diaspora of some 10 million people worldwide. Colonized and colonizers, freedom fighters and slave-owners, the starving and the wealthy, pious and irreverent-- the Irish reveal their past through memoirs, poetry, novels, music, film, and television.

In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With these big questions in mind, the primary focus will be on the history of Europe and European empires, but substantial readings deal with other parts of the world, particularly China and the Indian Ocean. HISTORY 307C is a prerequisite for HISTORY 402 (Spring quarter).

Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deepening transhistory through further historical inquiry.

This course analyzes the evolution and nature of revolutionary and totalitarian polities through the reading of monographs on the Puritan Reformation, French Revolutionary, turn of the 20th Century, interwar, and Second World War eras. Among topics explored are the essence of modern ideology and politics, the concept of the body national and social, the modern state, state terror, charismatic leadership, private and public spheres, totalitarian economies, and identities and practices in totalitarian polities.

Designed along the lines of the PBS series, "In the Actor's Workshop," students will meet weekly with some of the leading literary biographers writing today. Included this spring will be "New Yorker" staff writer Judith Thurman -- whose biography of Isak Dinesen was made into the film "Out of Africa" -- as well as Shirley Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin, now at work on a book about Anne Frank. Professor Zipperstein will share with the class drafts of the biography of Philip Roth that he is now writing. Critics questioning the value of biography as an historical and literary tool will also be invited to meetings with the class.

Nationalism has been one of the most powerful and contested forces in modern history. It has inspired revolutions and unifications, justified wars, fueled exclusions, and animated art, literature, and music. This course explores nationalism as an idea, ideology, and lived experience across two centuries, asking: What makes a nation, and who belongs? Must nations always become states? How have myths, monuments, gender, and religion shaped national identity? What happens when nationalism turns violent or when it is reimagined as liberation? The course unfolds in three acts. Act I: 'Imagining Nations' traces the revolutionary and romantic origins of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe. Act II: 'Institutionalizing Nations' examines how nationalism was embedded in schools, armies, religion, and memory, and how exclusions of race, antisemitism, and gender defined its boundaries. Act III: 'Nations Unbound' confronts the crises and reinventions of nationalism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from fascism and Soviet nation-making to anti-colonial liberation and globalization. We will read classic theorists, novels and poetry, and engage with films and art. With a mix of discussion, analysis, and creative assignments - including the chance to "invent your own nation" - this course offers a journey through the drama of modern nationalism.

This course examines the evolving nature of warfare and its impact on society across the Eurasian continent up to the Gunpowder Revolution and rise of the nation-state. Beginning with an attempt to define war, it will trace the evolution of military technology from the Stone Age through the rise of the chariot, the sword, and the mounted rider, and examine how changing methods of conducting warfare were inextricably linked to changes in the social order and political structures.