• HIUS 5232

    Oral History Workshop: A Hands-On Approach to Researching the Past
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    3.28

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    The course is run as a workshop, a space for students to learn oral history methodologies in a hands-on manner. In partnership with local/regional organizations, students will learn to conduct interviews and related research, which may include completing historical surveys, doing genealogical work, & completing archival or database research. Students will learn new skills while helping expand historical archives and knowledge of regional history.

  • HIST 5351

    The International Economy Since 1850
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    2.49

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This seminar will focus on key aspects of the development of the international economy since the mid-nineteenth century. Emphasis will be on the process of change, the impact of policy, and the operation of international institutions. Special focus will be paid to the economics of the Great Depression, the impact of the First and Second World Wars, and the drivers of growth.

  • HIST 5559

    New Course in General History
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    3.69

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of general history.

  • HISA 5559

    New Course in South Asian History
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    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of South Asian history.

  • HIEU 5585

    Advanced Topics in Modern European History
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    Spring 2025

    A seminar offering in-depth investigations of topics and research methodologies in modern European history and culture. Topics vary.

  • HIST 5706

    Race & Slavery at UVA's North Grounds
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    3.58

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This hands-on research seminar will explore the historical intersections of slavery, race, and law on UVA's North Grounds. Class readings, discussions, and field trips will investigate the history of this landscape within a broader historical context of enslavement in Virginia and at the University, land use in Virginia, and the Jim Crow South.

  • HIST 7001

    Approaches to Historical Study
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    3.81

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course is designed to introduce students to a wide range of historical approaches.

  • HIST 7004

    US in the World 1980s-present: Cold War, Human Rights, and Envir. History
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    Spring 2025

    The course explores the intersections of the late cold war and its aftermath, human rights history and environmental history. 

  • HIST 7020

    Twentieth Century World
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    3.83

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This graduate seminar for PhD students explores the recent scholarship in international and transnational history of the twentieth century. It exposes students to work on imperialism, ideologies of global war and peacemaking, radical political ideologies of the right and the left, global economic upheaval, genocide, refugee and humanitarian movements, decolonization, modernization, the United Nations, and the post-Cold War world.

  • HIEU 7031

    Proseminar in Ancient Studies
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    Fall 2025

    The aim of this course is to acquaint students with various facets of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity; to show students a range of approaches to ancient materials; and to introduce students of antiquity to each other and to the affiliated faculty in different departments (Classics, History, Art, Religious Studies).