Current Courses

Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Atlantic World

Historians' recent investigations of the centrality of racialized chattel slavery to the origins of capitalism -- along with activists' efforts to expose the ongoing legacy of New World slavery -- inspire a broad reconsideration of the connections between capitalism, race, and coerced labor. This co...

Politics of Violence:A History

This course focuses on recent historical approaches to the relationship between violence, politics and context in modern and contemporary history with special reference to transnational history. This graduate seminar also examines the contextual role of violence and violence in critical theory from ...

Ecologies of Empire

Taking as its starting point an understanding of capitalism as significantly more than an economic system but, rather, as a world re-making force, what Jason Moore has described as ?capitalism as world ecology,? this course inquires into the relationship between imperial formations and environmental...

Grammars of Time

This is a seminar about one of the seemingly most banal and quotidian concepts with which we live, and the most ambiguous, abstract, and precise concepts: time. In the fields of knowledge production from history, anthropology, philosophy, geology, literature, and physics, to name a few are contests ...

Reasoning About Borders

Historiography and Historical Practice

This course focuses on US history to explore current permutations of historiographical interests, practices, and methodologies. Over the last few decades, US history has been a particularly fertile ground for rethinking the historical although many of these topics and themes have shaped the study of...

Janey Workshop Latin American Studies

The Janey workshop supports the global perspective of The New School for Social Research and of Latin American studies in The New School as a whole. The program?s ongoing workshop, Latin America: History, Economy, and Culture, provides an interdisciplinary space for students and faculty from the Int...

Law, Race, and Empire

The long shadow of colonialism and empire draws our attention to the need to re-think the foundational concepts and institutions of the contemporary world. Rather than viewing the post-WWII international order of independent, postcolonial nation-states with distinct legal systems as a given in inqui...