This course is an advanced introduction to war in the modern world, encompassing its political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions. It adopts a “war and society” approach in that it covers the ways in which society shapes war and, in turn, how war shapes society. It situates “war and society” in an historically evolving global context, attending to the nature of war in both the core and the periphery of world politics. Topics include the totalization and industrialization of war; civil-military relations; modernity, reason and war; “small war”; and race, culture and war.
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War and Society in World Politics AS.190.615 (01)
This course is an advanced introduction to war in the modern world, encompassing its political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions. It adopts a “war and society” approach in that it covers the ways in which society shapes war and, in turn, how war shapes society. It situates “war and society” in an historically evolving global context, attending to the nature of war in both the core and the periphery of world politics. Topics include the totalization and industrialization of war; civil-military relations; modernity, reason and war; “small war”; and race, culture and war.
Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.630 (01)
Interpretation and Critique of Political Ideas
Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Simon, Josh David
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2023
This is a graduate seminar on the interpretive and critical problems that arise when political theorists read and write about texts from long, long ago or far, far away. The first part of the course will consider approaches to the history of European political thought influenced by Marx, Foucault, Strauss, Skinner, and Arendt, amongst others. Readings will include both major methodological statements and examples of interpretive and critical scholarship undertaken by proponents of these different schools of thought. In the second part of the course, we will ask whether and how methods developed to analyze and learn from the history of political thought can be applied to the study of political thinkers who lived and wrote outside western Europe and North America. Major questions for consideration in both parts of the course include: Can old ideas help us solve problems arising in contemporary politics and political theory? What can we learn from intellectual traditions unconnected to our own? What do we have to do in order to understand the ideas contained within a given text? Do we have to understand a text for it to be useful to us?
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Interpretation and Critique of Political Ideas AS.190.630 (01)
This is a graduate seminar on the interpretive and critical problems that arise when political theorists read and write about texts from long, long ago or far, far away. The first part of the course will consider approaches to the history of European political thought influenced by Marx, Foucault, Strauss, Skinner, and Arendt, amongst others. Readings will include both major methodological statements and examples of interpretive and critical scholarship undertaken by proponents of these different schools of thought. In the second part of the course, we will ask whether and how methods developed to analyze and learn from the history of political thought can be applied to the study of political thinkers who lived and wrote outside western Europe and North America. Major questions for consideration in both parts of the course include: Can old ideas help us solve problems arising in contemporary politics and political theory? What can we learn from intellectual traditions unconnected to our own? What do we have to do in order to understand the ideas contained within a given text? Do we have to understand a text for it to be useful to us?
Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Simon, Josh David
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.648 (01)
Writing for Research
W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Amat Matus, Consuelo; Lieberman, Robert C
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2023
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 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo; Lieberman, Robert C
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.676 (01)
Field Survey of International Relations
W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Marlin-Bennett, Renee E; Schmidt, Sebastian
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2023
This course provides a scaffold for the study of international relations theory, organized historically and by major approaches. The focus is on close reading and discussion of exemplars of important bodies of theory. Intended for doctoral students with IR as their major or minor field. Graduate students only.
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Field Survey of International Relations AS.190.676 (01)
This course provides a scaffold for the study of international relations theory, organized historically and by major approaches. The focus is on close reading and discussion of exemplars of important bodies of theory. Intended for doctoral students with IR as their major or minor field. Graduate students only.
Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E; Schmidt, Sebastian
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.691 (01)
The Hopkins Seminar on Racial Politics
M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Spence, Lester; Valdez, Inés
Macaulay 101
Fall 2023
Race and racism are political productions and—as such—have significantly shaped the study of political science, whose origins in the race science and eugenics milieu of the late nineteenth century (largely at Johns Hopkins) led to a discipline that evolved to systematically exclude and distorts serious consideration of race and racism as constitutive of politics. This exclusion and distortion has resulted in a social science that fails to effectively predict, explain, and diagnose political phenomenon. In this seminar, we will explore both the formative effect of racism in political science and its implications for how political science subfields study race as a political concept and practice, and the tradition of racial capitalism, “written out” of political science until very recently. Students will emerge from this seminar with a solid account of the racial foundations of political science, a critical view on existing approaches to the study of politics, and a grasp of a sidelined tradition of the joint study of race and capitalism.
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The Hopkins Seminar on Racial Politics AS.190.691 (01)
Race and racism are political productions and—as such—have significantly shaped the study of political science, whose origins in the race science and eugenics milieu of the late nineteenth century (largely at Johns Hopkins) led to a discipline that evolved to systematically exclude and distorts serious consideration of race and racism as constitutive of politics. This exclusion and distortion has resulted in a social science that fails to effectively predict, explain, and diagnose political phenomenon. In this seminar, we will explore both the formative effect of racism in political science and its implications for how political science subfields study race as a political concept and practice, and the tradition of racial capitalism, “written out” of political science until very recently. Students will emerge from this seminar with a solid account of the racial foundations of political science, a critical view on existing approaches to the study of politics, and a grasp of a sidelined tradition of the joint study of race and capitalism.
Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Spence, Lester; Valdez, Inés
Room: Macaulay 101
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.693 (01)
Directed Readings: Research Methods & Perspectives on China
Th 9:30AM - 11:30AM
Ang, Yuen Yuen
Mergenthaler 366
Fall 2023
Focusing on directed readings, this PhD seminar will first explore the logic of research design in the social sciences, before applying these techniques to China. Then we will survey the history of Chinese studies in the United States, the evolution of data sources, research methods, and compare perspectives in the study of Chinese politics and political economy. Taught in conjunction with speaker events at 555 Penn, the first half of the course will be taught at Homewood and the other half at 555.
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Directed Readings: Research Methods & Perspectives on China AS.190.693 (01)
Focusing on directed readings, this PhD seminar will first explore the logic of research design in the social sciences, before applying these techniques to China. Then we will survey the history of Chinese studies in the United States, the evolution of data sources, research methods, and compare perspectives in the study of Chinese politics and political economy. Taught in conjunction with speaker events at 555 Penn, the first half of the course will be taught at Homewood and the other half at 555.
Days/Times: Th 9:30AM - 11:30AM
Instructor: Ang, Yuen Yuen
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (01)
Independent Study
Bennett, Jane
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (01)
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Instructor: Bennett, Jane
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (02)
Independent Study
Allan, Bentley
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (02)
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Instructor: Allan, Bentley
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (03)
Independent Study
Chambers, Samuel Allen
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (03)
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Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (04)
Independent Study
Chung, Erin
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (04)
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Instructor: Chung, Erin
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (05)
Independent Study
Connolly, William E
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (05)
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Instructor: Connolly, William E
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (06)
Independent Study
Brendese, PJ Joseph
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (06)
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Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (07)
Independent Study
Culbert, Jennifer
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (07)
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Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (08)
Independent Study
David, Steven R
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (08)
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Instructor: David, Steven R
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (09)
Independent Study
Deudney, Daniel Horace
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (09)
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Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (10)
Independent Study
Ginsberg, Benjamin
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (10)
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Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (11)
Independent Study
Zackin, Emily
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (11)
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Instructor: Zackin, Emily
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (12)
Independent Study
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (12)
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Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (13)
Independent Study
Lieberman, Robert C
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (13)
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Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (14)
Independent Study
Jabko, Nicolas
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (14)
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Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (15)
Independent Study
Katz, Richard Stephen
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (15)
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Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (16)
Independent Study
Lawrence, Adria K
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (16)
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Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (17)
Independent Study
Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
Fall 2023
×
Independent Study AS.190.800 (17)
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Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (18)
Independent Study
Sheingate, Adam
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (18)
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Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (19)
Independent Study
Spence, Lester
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (19)
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Instructor: Spence, Lester
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (20)
Independent Study
Teles, Steven Michael
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (20)
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Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (21)
Independent Study
Parkinson, Sarah
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (21)
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Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (22)
Independent Study
Schlozman, Daniel
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (22)
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Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (23)
Independent Study
Schmidt, Sebastian
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (23)
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Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (26)
Independent Study
Shilliam, Robbie
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (26)
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Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (27)
Independent Study
Yasuda, John Kojiro
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (27)
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Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (28)
Independent Study
Barkawi, Tarak Karim
Fall 2023
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Independent Study AS.190.800 (28)
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Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (01)
Graduate Research
Bennett, Jane
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (01)
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Instructor: Bennett, Jane
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (02)
Graduate Research
Allan, Bentley
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (02)
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Instructor: Allan, Bentley
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (03)
Graduate Research
Chambers, Samuel Allen
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (03)
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Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (04)
Graduate Research
Chung, Erin
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (04)
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Instructor: Chung, Erin
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (05)
Graduate Research
Connolly, William E
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (05)
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Instructor: Connolly, William E
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (06)
Graduate Research
Brendese, PJ Joseph
Fall 2023
×
Graduate Research AS.190.849 (06)
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Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (07)
Graduate Research
Culbert, Jennifer
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (07)
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Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (08)
Graduate Research
David, Steven R
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (08)
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Instructor: David, Steven R
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (09)
Graduate Research
Deudney, Daniel Horace
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (09)
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Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (10)
Graduate Research
Ginsberg, Benjamin
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (10)
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Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (11)
Graduate Research
Zackin, Emily
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (11)
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Instructor: Zackin, Emily
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (12)
Graduate Research
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (12)
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Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (13)
Graduate Research
Lieberman, Robert C
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (13)
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Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (14)
Graduate Research
Jabko, Nicolas
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (14)
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Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (15)
Graduate Research
Katz, Richard Stephen
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (15)
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Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (16)
Graduate Research
Lawrence, Adria K
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (16)
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Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (17)
Graduate Research
Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (17)
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Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (18)
Graduate Research
Sheingate, Adam
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (18)
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Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (19)
Graduate Research
Spence, Lester
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (19)
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Instructor: Spence, Lester
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (20)
Graduate Research
Teles, Steven Michael
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (20)
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Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (21)
Graduate Research
Parkinson, Sarah
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (21)
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Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (22)
Graduate Research
Schlozman, Daniel
Fall 2023
×
Graduate Research AS.190.849 (22)
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Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (23)
Graduate Research
Schmidt, Sebastian
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (23)
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Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (26)
Graduate Research
Shilliam, Robbie
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (26)
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Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (27)
Graduate Research
Han, Hahrie
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (27)
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Instructor: Han, Hahrie
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (28)
Graduate Research
Yasuda, John Kojiro
Fall 2023
×
Graduate Research AS.190.849 (28)
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Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (29)
Graduate Research
Simon, Josh David
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (29)
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Instructor: Simon, Josh David
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (30)
Graduate Research
Teele, Dawn Langan
Fall 2023
×
Graduate Research AS.190.849 (30)
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Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (31)
Graduate Research
Amat Matus, Consuelo
Fall 2023
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Graduate Research AS.190.849 (31)
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Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo
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Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.690 (01)
Fascism in Theory and Practice
W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Mufti, Aamir
Gilman 130D
Spring 2024
“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