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Welcome! This is a new upper-level course in Gendered Innovations that explores how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research and design sparks discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, educational background, disabilities, geographic location, etc., where relevant. We will read new research touching on basic concepts, intersectional design, gendering social robots, new approaches to sustainability, what's new in biomedicine & public health, facial recognition, inclusive crash test dummies, and more. As Director of Gendered Innovations, I work with the European Commission, Wellcome Trust, and major journals on policy to support integrating sex, gender, and intersectional analysis into the design of research. The operative question is: how can this type of analysis lead to discovery & innovation while enhancing social equity and environmental sustainability? Students will read and report on new research in weekly sessions and present a paper on a topic of their choice. We welcome open and respectful discussion. This course is open to upper-level undergraduate students by application https://forms.gle/2KmxUUnRSG2LNNSS6 and to graduate students. Limited to 15.

Welcome! This is a new upper-level course in Gendered Innovations that explores how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research and design sparks discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, educational background, disabilities, geographic location, etc., where relevant. We will read new research touching on basic concepts, intersectional design, gendering social robots, new approaches to sustainability, what's new in biomedicine & public health, facial recognition, inclusive crash test dummies, and more. As Director of Gendered Innovations, I work with the European Commission, Wellcome Trust, and major journals on policy to support integrating sex, gender, and intersectional analysis into the design of research. The operative question is: how can this type of analysis lead to discovery & innovation while enhancing social equity and environmental sustainability? Students will read and report on new research in weekly sessions and present a paper on a topic of their choice. We welcome open and respectful discussion. This course is open to upper-level undergraduate students by application https://forms.gle/2KmxUUnRSG2LNNSS6 and to graduate students. Limited to 15.

This is a two quarter research seminar in which students will conduct research using primary sources with the goal of producing an original work of history.

Prerequisite: HISTORY 445A. This is the second half of a two quarter research seminar in which students conduct research using primary sources with the goal of producing an original work of history.

(Students enroll in 446A in Autumn and 446B in winter.) This graduate seminar investigates the lived experiences of Africans as enslaved persons in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds from 14th through 20th centuries, and how these lived experiences contributed to social, political, cultural, and economic transformations in these regions. Themes to be explored include comparative processes and demographics of slave trading; gender, sexuality, sexual violence, marriage and biological reproduction; slave labor and economic production; religion, belief, and slavery; and processes of freedom and abolition. Regions to be covered include: the Swahili Coast, the Horn of Africa, Great Lakes and West and West-Central Africa; the Anglophone Caribbean and Brazil; and the Ottoman Empire. Course materials will include scholarly texts, novels, and visual materials. This quarter will focus on the analysis and grasp of content from secondary source materials so that students are equipped to conduct primary source research and write a seminar paper in the winter quarter.

(Prerequisite: Enrollment in HISTORY 446A in autumn quarter.) This graduate seminar investigates the lived experiences of Africans as enslaved persons in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds from 14th through 20th centuries, and how these lived experiences contributed to social, political, cultural, and economic transformations in these regions. Themes to be explored include comparative processes and demographics of slave trading; gender, sexuality, sexual violence, marriage and biological reproduction; slave labor and economic production; religion, belief, and slavery; and processes of freedom and abolition. Regions to be covered include: the Swahili Coast, the Horn of Africa, Great Lakes and West and West-Central Africa; the Anglophone Caribbean and Brazil; and the Ottoman Empire. Course materials will include scholarly texts, novels, and visual materials. This quarter will focus on the analysis and grasp of content from secondary source materials so that students are equipped to conduct primary source research and write a seminar paper in the winter quarter.

( History 248S is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 448A is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Colonialism set in motion profound transformations of African societies. These transformations did not occur immediately following military conquest, nor did they occur uniformly throughout the continent. This research seminar will focus directly on the encounter between the colonial state and African societies. The seminar will examine problems of social transformation, the role of the colonial state, and the actions of Africans. Following four weeks of collloquim style discussion, students then embark on independent research on the encounter between one colonial state and its constituent African societies.

Second part of the research seminar offered in the Winter. Students continue their research and present their penultimate drafts in week 8.

This interdisciplinary course explores how modern African histories, bodies, and natures have been entangled with technological activities. Viewing Africans as experts and innovators, we consider how technologies have mediated, represented, or performed power in African societies. Topics include infrastructure, extraction, medicine, weapons, communications, sanitation, and more. Themes woven through the course include citizenship, mobility, labor, bricolage, in/formal economies, and technopolitical geographies, among others. Readings draw from history, anthropology, geography, and social/cultural theory. PhD Students in History completing the two-quarter graduate research seminar requirement should enroll in HISTORY 449A in Winter and 449B in Spring quarter.