“Fascism” has returned to the political vocabulary of the times suddenly and without much intellectual preparation. This graduate seminar proposes to put on a firmer conceptual footing the possibility of understanding the present political and social crisis as the “return” of fascism as a political culture across the Euro-American world and beyond. We shall examine historical and contemporary developments in (and encounter texts from) a range of regions across the world: Western Europe, the United States, Russia, and India. We shall read works of literature, theory and philosophy, literary and linguistic analysis, and sociology by such figures as Sinclair Lewis, Bertolt Brecht, Filippo Marinetti, Julius Evola, Ezra Pound, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Georges Bataille, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Margaret Atwood, and Alexander Dugin, among others.
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Fascism in Theory and Practice AS.060.690 (01)
“Fascism” has returned to the political vocabulary of the times suddenly and without much intellectual preparation. This graduate seminar proposes to put on a firmer conceptual footing the possibility of understanding the present political and social crisis as the “return” of fascism as a political culture across the Euro-American world and beyond. We shall examine historical and contemporary developments in (and encounter texts from) a range of regions across the world: Western Europe, the United States, Russia, and India. We shall read works of literature, theory and philosophy, literary and linguistic analysis, and sociology by such figures as Sinclair Lewis, Bertolt Brecht, Filippo Marinetti, Julius Evola, Ezra Pound, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Georges Bataille, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Margaret Atwood, and Alexander Dugin, among others.
Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mufti, Aamir
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.150.613 (01)
Between Hegel and Marx
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Moyar, Dean
Gilman 288
Spring 2024
This course will follow the development in German philosophy between G.W.F. Hegel's death and Karl Marx's break from the Hegelian tradition (1831-1844). Special attention will be given to developments in philosophy of religion and political philosophy. We will read texts by Ludwig Feuerbach, David Strauss, Bruno Bauer, Moses Hess, Max Stirner, Friedrich Engels, and Marx.
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Between Hegel and Marx AS.150.613 (01)
This course will follow the development in German philosophy between G.W.F. Hegel's death and Karl Marx's break from the Hegelian tradition (1831-1844). Special attention will be given to developments in philosophy of religion and political philosophy. We will read texts by Ludwig Feuerbach, David Strauss, Bruno Bauer, Moses Hess, Max Stirner, Friedrich Engels, and Marx.
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Moyar, Dean
Room: Gilman 288
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-SEM, PHIL-ETHICS, PHIL-MODERN
AS.190.601 (01)
Qualitative Research
T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Parkinson, Sarah
Mergenthaler 366
Spring 2024
This class is designed to introduce students to qualitative methodology. Practically, students will gain first hand experience with qualitative research methods via research design, ethics review, in-depth interviewing, participant observation, and archival/primary source research. They will learn to deploy analytical techniques such as discourse analysis and process tracing. Students will also be asked to consider the merits of qualitative approaches more generally, and discuss the relative advantages of qualitative, experimental, and quantitative approaches. Questions that we will discuss include: What place should qualitative research have in a research design? Can qualitative research test hypotheses, or only generate them? Can qualitative research explain social phenomena, or only interpret them? What are the disadvantages and advantages of qualitative approaches compared to quantitative approaches? For what kinds of research questions are ethnographic techniques best suited? Is replicability possible for ethnographic field research? What criteria of evidence and analytical rigor apply on this terrain?
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Qualitative Research AS.190.601 (01)
This class is designed to introduce students to qualitative methodology. Practically, students will gain first hand experience with qualitative research methods via research design, ethics review, in-depth interviewing, participant observation, and archival/primary source research. They will learn to deploy analytical techniques such as discourse analysis and process tracing. Students will also be asked to consider the merits of qualitative approaches more generally, and discuss the relative advantages of qualitative, experimental, and quantitative approaches. Questions that we will discuss include: What place should qualitative research have in a research design? Can qualitative research test hypotheses, or only generate them? Can qualitative research explain social phenomena, or only interpret them? What are the disadvantages and advantages of qualitative approaches compared to quantitative approaches? For what kinds of research questions are ethnographic techniques best suited? Is replicability possible for ethnographic field research? What criteria of evidence and analytical rigor apply on this terrain?
Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.605 (01)
Enviromental racism
T 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Brendese, PJ Joseph
Mergenthaler 366
Spring 2024
Environmental racism has largely been understood in terms of environmental policy-making that discriminates against people of color, particularly with respect to the state-sanctioned siting of toxic waste facilities, the distribution of pollutants, food-deserts, and the exclusion of non-white peoples from leading positions in the environmental movement. This graduate seminar explores environmental racism more broadly, pushing beyond its conventional, place-based understandings and approaching the corresponding logics that produce human disposability and environmental waste from the standpoint of both space and time. Examining colonial legacies of coding racial others in terms natural disasters, epidemics, infestations, non-human animals and dirt, we shall investigate how the natural world is subjected to exploitation and domination in tandem with the subordination of racial subjects historically identified with nature and rendered expendable. In other words, we shall illuminate the logics of power through which race-making coincides with waste-making. Accordingly, we will explore political and theoretical challenges to environmental racism in multiple registers; such as those posed by indigenous studies, decolonial thinkers and Afro-diasporic theories contesting the intersection of racial biopolitics, ecological crises and racial capitalism in an era of proliferating human disposability. Authors considered may include; Mbembe, Du Bois, Hage, Glissant, Césaire, Wynter & Chakrabarty.
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Enviromental racism AS.190.605 (01)
Environmental racism has largely been understood in terms of environmental policy-making that discriminates against people of color, particularly with respect to the state-sanctioned siting of toxic waste facilities, the distribution of pollutants, food-deserts, and the exclusion of non-white peoples from leading positions in the environmental movement. This graduate seminar explores environmental racism more broadly, pushing beyond its conventional, place-based understandings and approaching the corresponding logics that produce human disposability and environmental waste from the standpoint of both space and time. Examining colonial legacies of coding racial others in terms natural disasters, epidemics, infestations, non-human animals and dirt, we shall investigate how the natural world is subjected to exploitation and domination in tandem with the subordination of racial subjects historically identified with nature and rendered expendable. In other words, we shall illuminate the logics of power through which race-making coincides with waste-making. Accordingly, we will explore political and theoretical challenges to environmental racism in multiple registers; such as those posed by indigenous studies, decolonial thinkers and Afro-diasporic theories contesting the intersection of racial biopolitics, ecological crises and racial capitalism in an era of proliferating human disposability. Authors considered may include; Mbembe, Du Bois, Hage, Glissant, Césaire, Wynter & Chakrabarty.
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.614 (01)
Frontiers of Empirical Political Science
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Teele, Dawn Langan
Wyman Park N325F
Spring 2024
This advanced level course is intended to help students understand the frontiers of empirical political science research – that is, research concerned with answering causal questions – as presented in recent books by (for the most part) junior scholars. The books represent the substantive and methodological pluralism of our field, with books coming from American, Comparative, IR, and Political Economy. We will give two weeks’ treatment to most books on the syllabus, spending the first week reading “motivating” or classic material that inspired the book project, as well a companion of a key methodological text that inspired the research design. Along with reading the materials that help to situate the book in larger debates in its subfield we will read the first several chapters of the book. In the second week of discussion we will read the second half of the book – the evidence chapters and the conclusion – and focus on understanding whether and how the evidence that is presented matches with the theoretical and empirical claims made in the book’s beginnings.
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Frontiers of Empirical Political Science AS.190.614 (01)
This advanced level course is intended to help students understand the frontiers of empirical political science research – that is, research concerned with answering causal questions – as presented in recent books by (for the most part) junior scholars. The books represent the substantive and methodological pluralism of our field, with books coming from American, Comparative, IR, and Political Economy. We will give two weeks’ treatment to most books on the syllabus, spending the first week reading “motivating” or classic material that inspired the book project, as well a companion of a key methodological text that inspired the research design. Along with reading the materials that help to situate the book in larger debates in its subfield we will read the first several chapters of the book. In the second week of discussion we will read the second half of the book – the evidence chapters and the conclusion – and focus on understanding whether and how the evidence that is presented matches with the theoretical and empirical claims made in the book’s beginnings.
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
Room: Wyman Park N325F
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.616 (01)
American Political Development
W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Sheingate, Adam
Mergenthaler 366
Spring 2024
An examination of state-building and nation-building throughout American political history. (AP)
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American Political Development AS.190.616 (01)
An examination of state-building and nation-building throughout American political history. (AP)
Days/Times: W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.640 (01)
States and Democracy
Th 9:30AM - 11:30AM
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Mergenthaler 366
Spring 2024
The focus of the seminar is on the formation and transformation sates and regimes. The perspective is both historical and comparative, covering Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and the US as a “non exceptional” case. This is fundamentally a Comparative Politics course, but APD students will almost certainly benefit from it.
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States and Democracy AS.190.640 (01)
The focus of the seminar is on the formation and transformation sates and regimes. The perspective is both historical and comparative, covering Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and the US as a “non exceptional” case. This is fundamentally a Comparative Politics course, but APD students will almost certainly benefit from it.
Days/Times: Th 9:30AM - 11:30AM
Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.682 (01)
The Politics of the Regulatory State
Th 7:00AM - 9:00AM
Yasuda, John Kojiro
Mergenthaler 366
Spring 2024
This graduate seminar considers regulatory politics in both the developing and developed world. Topics will explore the role of independent agencies, soft paternalism, co-regulation, regulatory failure, and other topics, across a host of sectors.
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The Politics of the Regulatory State AS.190.682 (01)
This graduate seminar considers regulatory politics in both the developing and developed world. Topics will explore the role of independent agencies, soft paternalism, co-regulation, regulatory failure, and other topics, across a host of sectors.
Days/Times: Th 7:00AM - 9:00AM
Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.689 (01)
Marxisms: Ecological, Feminist, Racial, and Latin American Approaches to Historical Materialism
T 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Valdez, Inés
Macaulay 101
Spring 2024
This seminar explores the intellectual origins and ongoing intellectual productivity of the historical materialist account of political economy inaugurated with Karl Marx. It considers, in particular, how fatal couplings between power and difference are leveraged by capitalism as a tool of accumulation. Women’s labor and social reproduction, nature’s availability for mastery and the destructive exploitation of land and natural resources, racial inferiority and exploitative conditions of labor, and Global South peoples conscription into hyper-exploitative labor. The seminar will explore and interrogate the political dimensions of these transformations: how are relationships of political rule entangled with capitalist priorities of accumulation and which peoples/political subjects get to do the ruling and why? How did patriarchal and racial arrangements came to be, how do they relate to the production of value, and how are they sustained politically today? How do historical political transformations (including formal decolonization, democratic transitions, and the onset of free trade and structural adjustment, among others) inaugurate new forms of accumulation and how do these forms and their politics take different shape in the North and the Global South? A sample of the readings include Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, W. E. B. Du Bois, Silvia Federici, Andreas Malm, Ruy Mauro Marini, and others.
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Marxisms: Ecological, Feminist, Racial, and Latin American Approaches to Historical Materialism AS.190.689 (01)
This seminar explores the intellectual origins and ongoing intellectual productivity of the historical materialist account of political economy inaugurated with Karl Marx. It considers, in particular, how fatal couplings between power and difference are leveraged by capitalism as a tool of accumulation. Women’s labor and social reproduction, nature’s availability for mastery and the destructive exploitation of land and natural resources, racial inferiority and exploitative conditions of labor, and Global South peoples conscription into hyper-exploitative labor. The seminar will explore and interrogate the political dimensions of these transformations: how are relationships of political rule entangled with capitalist priorities of accumulation and which peoples/political subjects get to do the ruling and why? How did patriarchal and racial arrangements came to be, how do they relate to the production of value, and how are they sustained politically today? How do historical political transformations (including formal decolonization, democratic transitions, and the onset of free trade and structural adjustment, among others) inaugurate new forms of accumulation and how do these forms and their politics take different shape in the North and the Global South? A sample of the readings include Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, W. E. B. Du Bois, Silvia Federici, Andreas Malm, Ruy Mauro Marini, and others.
Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Instructor: Valdez, Inés
Room: Macaulay 101
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.694 (01)
Planetary Geo-Technics, Utopian-Dystopian Futurism & Materialist World Order Theories
W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Deudney, Daniel Horace
Mergenthaler 366
Spring 2024
There is a widespread recognition that the prospects for contemporary civilization and humanity are shadowed by a range of catastrophic and existential threats, a major subset of which are anthropogenic and technogenic in character. (In the simplest terms these threats arise from the collision between scientific-technological modernity and the geography of the planet Earth.) At the same time, the two most powerful institutional complexes on the planet (market capitalism and the war state system) are committed to further rapidly advancing technology for power and plenty, and anticipate further great elevations of the human estate. Over the last long century, a great debate has emerged, across many disciplines, on the ‘terrapolitan question’(TQ): given the new and prospective material contexts for human agency, what world orders are needed to assure human survival, prosperity and freedom? Practical agency responsive to the new horizon of threat and benefit depends upon getting an adequate answer to this question.
Any theory capable of illuminating these realities and choices, and answering the TQ, must be significantly materialist in character. Explicitly materialist theories are very old, and very diverse, and material factors appear in virtually every body of thought, yet are still significantly underdeveloped in contemporary international and world order theory.
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Planetary Geo-Technics, Utopian-Dystopian Futurism & Materialist World Order Theories AS.190.694 (01)
There is a widespread recognition that the prospects for contemporary civilization and humanity are shadowed by a range of catastrophic and existential threats, a major subset of which are anthropogenic and technogenic in character. (In the simplest terms these threats arise from the collision between scientific-technological modernity and the geography of the planet Earth.) At the same time, the two most powerful institutional complexes on the planet (market capitalism and the war state system) are committed to further rapidly advancing technology for power and plenty, and anticipate further great elevations of the human estate. Over the last long century, a great debate has emerged, across many disciplines, on the ‘terrapolitan question’(TQ): given the new and prospective material contexts for human agency, what world orders are needed to assure human survival, prosperity and freedom? Practical agency responsive to the new horizon of threat and benefit depends upon getting an adequate answer to this question.
Any theory capable of illuminating these realities and choices, and answering the TQ, must be significantly materialist in character. Explicitly materialist theories are very old, and very diverse, and material factors appear in virtually every body of thought, yet are still significantly underdeveloped in contemporary international and world order theory.
Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.695 (01)
Global Politics
T 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Shilliam, Robbie
Mergenthaler 366
Spring 2024
The only academic discipline which has as its central focus the ‘international’ is International Relations (IR). In that discipline, the international is conceived primarily as a space of strategic interaction between sovereign states. In Raymond Aron’s view, it is populated mainly by diplomats, soldiers and businesspeople. Even when IR scholars add other actors like NGOs, IGOs, and MNCs, or norms and principles that encourage cooperation among states, the international remains a relatively spare or thin social space in comparison to domestic societies. This course begins from the opposite presumption, that the global is a thick space of social co-constitution. The course centers global phenomena such as capitalism, imperialism, race and ecology; situates them in historical and sociological perspective; and approaches them as productive of international orders and of the entities—states, societies, empires, colonies, and others—which populate it. Whereas IR focuses on the problem of anarchy among formally equal sovereigns, for global politics the central problematic is that of hierarchies of power, wealth and race. Arguably, this re-problematization returns the field to some of its originating concerns. This course draws on wider scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to reconceive the study of world politics.
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Global Politics AS.190.695 (01)
The only academic discipline which has as its central focus the ‘international’ is International Relations (IR). In that discipline, the international is conceived primarily as a space of strategic interaction between sovereign states. In Raymond Aron’s view, it is populated mainly by diplomats, soldiers and businesspeople. Even when IR scholars add other actors like NGOs, IGOs, and MNCs, or norms and principles that encourage cooperation among states, the international remains a relatively spare or thin social space in comparison to domestic societies. This course begins from the opposite presumption, that the global is a thick space of social co-constitution. The course centers global phenomena such as capitalism, imperialism, race and ecology; situates them in historical and sociological perspective; and approaches them as productive of international orders and of the entities—states, societies, empires, colonies, and others—which populate it. Whereas IR focuses on the problem of anarchy among formally equal sovereigns, for global politics the central problematic is that of hierarchies of power, wealth and race. Arguably, this re-problematization returns the field to some of its originating concerns. This course draws on wider scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to reconceive the study of world politics.
Data-analysis for Social Science & Public Policy I
MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Corrigan, Bryce
Gilman 381
Spring 2024
We will gain experience with data-analysis geared towards understanding the social world. Our scope ranges from simple descriptions and predictions under strong assumptions to intervention analyses that provide a more trustworthy foundation for quantifying causal effects. The course will be offered in a hybrid modality and will have a heavy focus on computation. We will alternate between discussion sessions devoted to fundamental concepts, and lab sessions devoted to a combination of web- and instructor-led data-analyses. Whenever possible, examples using both R and Stata and using a range of national and cross-national data-sources relevant to the study of democracy will be provided.
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Data-analysis for Social Science & Public Policy I AS.196.600 (01)
We will gain experience with data-analysis geared towards understanding the social world. Our scope ranges from simple descriptions and predictions under strong assumptions to intervention analyses that provide a more trustworthy foundation for quantifying causal effects. The course will be offered in a hybrid modality and will have a heavy focus on computation. We will alternate between discussion sessions devoted to fundamental concepts, and lab sessions devoted to a combination of web- and instructor-led data-analyses. Whenever possible, examples using both R and Stata and using a range of national and cross-national data-sources relevant to the study of democracy will be provided.
Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Corrigan, Bryce
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.196.601 (01)
Data-analysis for Social Science & Public Policy II
MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Corrigan, Bryce
Gilman 381
Spring 2024
We will gain experience with data-analysis geared towards understanding the social world. Our scope ranges from simple descriptions and predictions under strong assumptions to intervention analyses that provide a more trustworthy foundation for quantifying causal effects. The course will be offered in a hybrid modality and will have a heavy focus on computation. We will alternate between discussion sessions devoted to fundamental concepts, and lab sessions devoted to a combination of web- and instructor-led data-analyses. Whenever possible, examples using both R and Stata and using a range of national and cross-national data-sources relevant to the study of democracy will be provided.
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Data-analysis for Social Science & Public Policy II AS.196.601 (01)
We will gain experience with data-analysis geared towards understanding the social world. Our scope ranges from simple descriptions and predictions under strong assumptions to intervention analyses that provide a more trustworthy foundation for quantifying causal effects. The course will be offered in a hybrid modality and will have a heavy focus on computation. We will alternate between discussion sessions devoted to fundamental concepts, and lab sessions devoted to a combination of web- and instructor-led data-analyses. Whenever possible, examples using both R and Stata and using a range of national and cross-national data-sources relevant to the study of democracy will be provided.
Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Corrigan, Bryce
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.604 (01)
Cicero and Deleuze
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Bennett, Jane; Butler, Shane
Gilman 208
Spring 2024
A comparative study of the philosophy, rhetoric, and naturalism of Marcus Tullius Cicero (Rome, 106–43 BCE) and Gilles Deleuze ( 1925–1995). Texts include Cicero’s On Fate and On Divination and Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. The seminar will explore themes pertaining to the environmental humanities and eco-criticism, semiotics, materialisms, stoicism, and the practice of cross- and trans-historical comparison and invention.
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Cicero and Deleuze AS.300.604 (01)
A comparative study of the philosophy, rhetoric, and naturalism of Marcus Tullius Cicero (Rome, 106–43 BCE) and Gilles Deleuze ( 1925–1995). Texts include Cicero’s On Fate and On Divination and Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. The seminar will explore themes pertaining to the environmental humanities and eco-criticism, semiotics, materialisms, stoicism, and the practice of cross- and trans-historical comparison and invention.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Bennett, Jane; Butler, Shane
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/22
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.631 (01)
Race War: Theories and Histories
Th 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Brendese, PJ Joseph
Mergenthaler 431
Spring 2024
In modern times, wars become sites of race making. In turn, racializations become projects of war, violence, and extraction. This seminar explores this mutual implication of race in war and war in race. It attends to the entwinement of dehumanization and humanization in race war across specific historical contexts. These include the eras of European expansion; the world wars; US-American hegemony; and contemporary ecological crisis. We shall investigate settler-colonial racializations of Indigenous peoples; racializations of Afro-Diasporic and Asian peoples; the constitution and transformation of the White races, as well as those of humanity and the Human race, all in contexts of war and extractive violence. The course takes a “history and theory” approach, one attentive to the ways in which the events, practices and theories of race war emerge and develop together in co-constitutive ways over time. Notably, alongside practitioners of race war and their theorizations, race war has been a key site for the development of critical theory, anti-colonial thought, Black radical thought, and other traditions of critique and resistance. In these and other ways, the course explores the contours of race war in modern political and social thought, amid empire building and world-ordering projects, total wars and genocides, and capitalist and ecological crises.
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Race War: Theories and Histories AS.360.631 (01)
In modern times, wars become sites of race making. In turn, racializations become projects of war, violence, and extraction. This seminar explores this mutual implication of race in war and war in race. It attends to the entwinement of dehumanization and humanization in race war across specific historical contexts. These include the eras of European expansion; the world wars; US-American hegemony; and contemporary ecological crisis. We shall investigate settler-colonial racializations of Indigenous peoples; racializations of Afro-Diasporic and Asian peoples; the constitution and transformation of the White races, as well as those of humanity and the Human race, all in contexts of war and extractive violence. The course takes a “history and theory” approach, one attentive to the ways in which the events, practices and theories of race war emerge and develop together in co-constitutive ways over time. Notably, alongside practitioners of race war and their theorizations, race war has been a key site for the development of critical theory, anti-colonial thought, Black radical thought, and other traditions of critique and resistance. In these and other ways, the course explores the contours of race war in modern political and social thought, amid empire building and world-ordering projects, total wars and genocides, and capitalist and ecological crises.
Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Brendese, PJ Joseph
Room: Mergenthaler 431
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.801 (01)
Summer Research
Bennett, Jane
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (01)
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Instructor: Bennett, Jane
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AS.190.801 (02)
Summer Research
Allan, Bentley
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (02)
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Instructor: Allan, Bentley
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Status: Open
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AS.190.801 (03)
Summer Research
Chambers, Samuel Allen
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (03)
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Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
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Status: Open
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AS.190.801 (04)
Summer Research
Chung, Erin
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (04)
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AS.190.801 (05)
Summer Research
Connolly, William E
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (05)
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AS.190.801 (06)
Summer Research
Brendese, PJ Joseph
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (06)
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AS.190.801 (07)
Summer Research
Culbert, Jennifer
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (07)
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AS.190.801 (08)
Summer Research
David, Steven R
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (08)
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Instructor: David, Steven R
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Status: Open
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AS.190.801 (09)
Summer Research
Deudney, Daniel Horace
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (09)
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AS.190.801 (10)
Summer Research
Ginsberg, Benjamin
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (10)
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AS.190.801 (11)
Summer Research
Zackin, Emily
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (11)
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AS.190.801 (12)
Summer Research
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (12)
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AS.190.801 (13)
Summer Research
Lieberman, Robert C
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (13)
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Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
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Status: Open
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AS.190.801 (14)
Summer Research
Jabko, Nicolas
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (14)
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Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
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Status: Open
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AS.190.801 (15)
Summer Research
Katz, Richard Stephen
Summer 2024
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Summer Research AS.190.801 (15)
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Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
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Status: Open
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AS.190.801 (16)
Summer Research
Lawrence, Adria K
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (17)
Summer Research
Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (18)
Summer Research
Sheingate, Adam
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (19)
Summer Research
Spence, Lester
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (20)
Summer Research
Teles, Steven Michael
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (21)
Summer Research
Parkinson, Sarah
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (22)
Summer Research
Schlozman, Daniel
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (23)
Summer Research
Schmidt, Sebastian
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (24)
Summer Research
Weaver, Vesla Mae
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (26)
Summer Research
Shilliam, Robbie
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (27)
Summer Research
Han, Hahrie
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (28)
Summer Research
Yasuda, John Kojiro
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (29)
Summer Research
Simon, Josh David
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (30)
Summer Research
Teele, Dawn Langan
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (31)
Summer Research
Amat Matus, Consuelo
Summer 2024
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AS.190.801 (32)
Summer Research
Barkawi, Tarak Karim
Summer 2024
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AS.190.610 (01)
Process Philosophies and Political Manifestos
Th 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Bennett, Jane; Connolly, William E
Gilman 208
Fall 2024
What do the process philosophies of Bergson, Whitehead and Daoism have to say to political manifestos advanced by writers such as Marx and Engels, Naomi Klein, Hardt and Negri, Dziga Vertov, Haitian and French revolutionaries, Folco Portinari. How, in turn, can the latter illuminate, deform, or inform them? The readings in this seminar bounce back and forth between the cosmic politics of process philosophy and a variety of short manifestos designed to speak to the vicissitudes of today.
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Process Philosophies and Political Manifestos AS.190.610 (01)
What do the process philosophies of Bergson, Whitehead and Daoism have to say to political manifestos advanced by writers such as Marx and Engels, Naomi Klein, Hardt and Negri, Dziga Vertov, Haitian and French revolutionaries, Folco Portinari. How, in turn, can the latter illuminate, deform, or inform them? The readings in this seminar bounce back and forth between the cosmic politics of process philosophy and a variety of short manifestos designed to speak to the vicissitudes of today.
Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Bennett, Jane; Connolly, William E
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.621 (01)
Free Speech and The Law in Comparative Perspective
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Katz, Richard Stephen; Zackin, Emily
Gilman 377
Fall 2024
This class explores the ideas and legal doctrines that define the freedom of speech. We will examine the free speech jurispurdence of the U.S. in comparison to that of other system, particularly the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Free Speech and The Law in Comparative Perspective AS.190.621 (01)
This class explores the ideas and legal doctrines that define the freedom of speech. We will examine the free speech jurispurdence of the U.S. in comparison to that of other system, particularly the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen; Zackin, Emily
Room: Gilman 377
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.643 (01)
Comparative Politics
Th 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Teele, Dawn Langan
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2024
This course offers a graduate-level introduction to the field of comparative politics, focusing on the substantive questions that drive contemporary research. Issues will include: state formation and state capacity; regime typology, democratization, and democratic backsliding; party systems and political behavior; political economy and economic development; racial, ethnic, and religious politics; and revolutions and political violence. Readings include both classic and recent works, selected to help students both prepare for major or minor comprehensive exams and frame their own research projects.
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Comparative Politics AS.190.643 (01)
This course offers a graduate-level introduction to the field of comparative politics, focusing on the substantive questions that drive contemporary research. Issues will include: state formation and state capacity; regime typology, democratization, and democratic backsliding; party systems and political behavior; political economy and economic development; racial, ethnic, and religious politics; and revolutions and political violence. Readings include both classic and recent works, selected to help students both prepare for major or minor comprehensive exams and frame their own research projects.
Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): POLI-CP
AS.190.648 (01)
Writing for Research
W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Amat Matus, Consuelo; Simon, Josh David
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2024
This course is designed to help graduate students in political science craft an original piece of high-quality writing. This class is open to students in their first, second, or third years of the graduate program. We will work on developing the skill of academic writing step by step, focusing first on the question of how to identify and articulate a good question, second on the skill of literature review, third on the art of theoretical engagement, and fourth on the presentation of evidence. During the semester, students may choose to turn a set of interests and questions into a prospectus draft. Alternatively, they may decide to use the class to turn a seminar paper into a dissertation chapter, or a revise a dissertation chapter into an article manuscript. Special sessions will bring other faculty to the class to talk about writing a dissertation and the peer-review process.
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Writing for Research AS.190.648 (01)
This course is designed to help graduate students in political science craft an original piece of high-quality writing. This class is open to students in their first, second, or third years of the graduate program. We will work on developing the skill of academic writing step by step, focusing first on the question of how to identify and articulate a good question, second on the skill of literature review, third on the art of theoretical engagement, and fourth on the presentation of evidence. During the semester, students may choose to turn a set of interests and questions into a prospectus draft. Alternatively, they may decide to use the class to turn a seminar paper into a dissertation chapter, or a revise a dissertation chapter into an article manuscript. Special sessions will bring other faculty to the class to talk about writing a dissertation and the peer-review process.
Days/Times: W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo; Simon, Josh David
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.652 (01)
Urban Politics
T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Spence, Lester
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2024
Over the past ten years the urban has become an increasingly important space with which to understand politics, whether examined through the subfields of international politics, comparative politics, political theory, or American politics. In this course we will examine the role the urban plays in producing politics at various scales, and simultaneously consider the urban as a particular byproduct of politics at various scales. How might we understand contemporary shifts in political economy through the urban? How does the urban become a particularly important site of racialization? Why have movements from Occupy Wall Street to Arab Spring begun in cities? What are the opportunities and challenges involved in comparing cities across national contexts? How have scholars used the city to theorize about politics more broadly? We will tackle these and other related questions in this course.
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Urban Politics AS.190.652 (01)
Over the past ten years the urban has become an increasingly important space with which to understand politics, whether examined through the subfields of international politics, comparative politics, political theory, or American politics. In this course we will examine the role the urban plays in producing politics at various scales, and simultaneously consider the urban as a particular byproduct of politics at various scales. How might we understand contemporary shifts in political economy through the urban? How does the urban become a particularly important site of racialization? Why have movements from Occupy Wall Street to Arab Spring begun in cities? What are the opportunities and challenges involved in comparing cities across national contexts? How have scholars used the city to theorize about politics more broadly? We will tackle these and other related questions in this course.
Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Spence, Lester
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.656 (01)
Humanitarianism and World Politics
W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Ross, Andrew
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2024
Humanitarianism has become a pervasive form of moral and political action in world politics. Over the course of the twentieth century and beyond, humanitarian logics infused the conduct of war and informed global governance in many areas—from refugee relief and post-conflict reconstruction, to peacekeeping and development, to migration, ecological security, and recovery from natural disasters. And yet, while often celebrated as an achievement, humanitarianism involves ambiguities, contradictions, and pathologies demanding critical scrutiny. This seminar aims, first, to interrogate critically the history of humanitarian practices and, second, to refine and revise concepts used to study and evaluate those practices. We pursue these aims in part with an eye to understanding mutations of humanitarian politics accompanying contemporary challenges to the post-WWII liberal international order. Topics include: (1) the invention of “humanity” as an idea/ideal; (2)humanitarianism, war and empire; (3) varities of humanitarianism; (4) humanitarian violence; (5) humanitarian expertise and institutions; (6) humanitarianism, media, and technology;
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Humanitarianism and World Politics AS.190.656 (01)
Humanitarianism has become a pervasive form of moral and political action in world politics. Over the course of the twentieth century and beyond, humanitarian logics infused the conduct of war and informed global governance in many areas—from refugee relief and post-conflict reconstruction, to peacekeeping and development, to migration, ecological security, and recovery from natural disasters. And yet, while often celebrated as an achievement, humanitarianism involves ambiguities, contradictions, and pathologies demanding critical scrutiny. This seminar aims, first, to interrogate critically the history of humanitarian practices and, second, to refine and revise concepts used to study and evaluate those practices. We pursue these aims in part with an eye to understanding mutations of humanitarian politics accompanying contemporary challenges to the post-WWII liberal international order. Topics include: (1) the invention of “humanity” as an idea/ideal; (2)humanitarianism, war and empire; (3) varities of humanitarianism; (4) humanitarian violence; (5) humanitarian expertise and institutions; (6) humanitarianism, media, and technology;
Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Ross, Andrew
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/9
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.658 (01)
Global climate politics: Net-zero industrial policy and world order
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Allan, Bentley
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2024
This course will survey the history of geopolitics and green industrial from China’s wind and solar push in the 1990s to the Inflation Reduction Act and beyond. We will seek to understand the determinants of industrial policy, best practices for industrial policy, and the effects of industrial policy on climate politics. The lens of geopolitics and industrial policy provides a unique avenue to understand world order. Through this lens, we will see how energy systems and technology competition animate and structure global politics.
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Global climate politics: Net-zero industrial policy and world order AS.190.658 (01)
This course will survey the history of geopolitics and green industrial from China’s wind and solar push in the 1990s to the Inflation Reduction Act and beyond. We will seek to understand the determinants of industrial policy, best practices for industrial policy, and the effects of industrial policy on climate politics. The lens of geopolitics and industrial policy provides a unique avenue to understand world order. Through this lens, we will see how energy systems and technology competition animate and structure global politics.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Allan, Bentley
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/6
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.697 (01)
Modern Political Thought
Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Valdez, Inés
Macaulay 101
Fall 2024
This course is a survey of modern political thought for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students. Its purpose is to (1) introduce some of the most significant texts in early modern European political theory, (2) survey a selection of the most important recent scholarly studies of these sources, and (3) develop theoretical and methodological skills at analyzing and interpreting the texts and the scholarship they have inspired.
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Modern Political Thought AS.190.697 (01)
This course is a survey of modern political thought for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students. Its purpose is to (1) introduce some of the most significant texts in early modern European political theory, (2) survey a selection of the most important recent scholarly studies of these sources, and (3) develop theoretical and methodological skills at analyzing and interpreting the texts and the scholarship they have inspired.
Days/Times: Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Instructor: Valdez, Inés
Room: Macaulay 101
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.698 (01)
Archival Turns in the Social Sciences
M 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Luff, Jennifer D
Greenhouse 110
Fall 2024
In recent decades, scholars across the social sciences and humanities have negotiated an “archival turn” in their disciplines. Yet the “archival turn” has taken different forms. Some scholars have approached archival research as a source of empirical evidence and as a qualitative method. For others, the “archive” itself has become a focus of inquiry as a site of epistemological, political, and social power relations. This seminar explores canonical works and new scholarship on archival approaches and archival turns in a wide range of disciplines, including political science and political theory, anthropology, sociology, and literary studies. We will investigate the intersections and disjunctures in these disparate literatures, equipping students to engage in dialogue across subfields and academic specialisms.
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Archival Turns in the Social Sciences AS.190.698 (01)
In recent decades, scholars across the social sciences and humanities have negotiated an “archival turn” in their disciplines. Yet the “archival turn” has taken different forms. Some scholars have approached archival research as a source of empirical evidence and as a qualitative method. For others, the “archive” itself has become a focus of inquiry as a site of epistemological, political, and social power relations. This seminar explores canonical works and new scholarship on archival approaches and archival turns in a wide range of disciplines, including political science and political theory, anthropology, sociology, and literary studies. We will investigate the intersections and disjunctures in these disparate literatures, equipping students to engage in dialogue across subfields and academic specialisms.
Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Luff, Jennifer D