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Course # (Section)
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Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
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AS.190.670 (01)
The Dream of the 90s: Political Theory, 1990-1995
Th 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Chambers, Samuel Allen
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-PT
The Dream of the 90s: Political Theory, 1990-1995 AS.190.670 (01)
This graduate seminar will explore works from this extraordinary period in contemporary political theory.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: Th 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): POLI-PT
AS.190.626 (01)
Quantitative Methods for the Study of Politics
TTh 10:00AM - 11:00AM
Kocher, Matthew A
Mergenthaler 366
Quantitative Methods for the Study of Politics AS.190.626 (01)
This course is intended as Ph.D.-level introduction to applied statistics, with a focus on the identification of causal effects in the tradition of the Neyman/Rubin potential outcomes framework. Prior coursework in applied statistics or quantitative methods will be useful but is not required. Upon completion of the course, students will be in a position to understand and critically assess scholarship that uses instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, and other quasi- and natural-experimental research designs. Formal mathematical proof will be kept to a minimum. Students will be asked to adapt existing code and write some of their own code in R.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:00AM - 11:00AM
Instructor: Kocher, Matthew A
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.648 (01)
Writing for Research
W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Teele, Dawn Langan, Zackin, Emily
Mergenthaler 366
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.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan, Zackin, Emily
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.675 (01)
Nuclear Weapons and Global Politics: History, Strategy, Race and Gender
M 1:00PM - 3:00PM
David, Steven R, Schmidt, Sebastian
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-IR
Nuclear Weapons and Global Politics: History, Strategy, Race and Gender AS.190.675 (01)
This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: David, Steven R, Schmidt, Sebastian
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.691 (01)
The Hopkins Seminar on Racial Politics
M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Lieberman, Robert C, Shilliam, Robbie
Mergenthaler 366
The Hopkins Seminar on Racial Politics AS.190.691 (01)
This class surveys the ways in which racial politics has become an increasingly salient topic for Political Science. We examine how racial politics has been engaged with in various sub-fields, and how the study of racial politics might be pursued through cross-sub-field and inter-disciplinary interventions. The class also situates these investigations in the historical importance of Hopkins as a key site in the emergence of a racist discipline and, alternatively, as a site from which important interventions have been launched towards formulating an anti-racist Political Science.
Explores how information and knowledge flow through political/social/economic configurations, forming and reforming the politics of everyday engagements at different scales. Topics such as mis/disinformation, commodification of information, embodied information, surveillance, and cyber-mediated information provide the context for analyzing practices, power, agency, and ethics. Critical security studies scholarship provides an overarching template, and we will also draw theoretical insights from multiple disciplines. The format will combine elements of seminar and workshop, and the emphasis will be on collaborative participation in the research process.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.666 (01)
Political Economy Of Development
W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Chung, Erin
Mergenthaler 366
Political Economy Of Development AS.190.666 (01)
Graduate students only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Chung, Erin
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.681 (01)
Race and Politics of Punishment in the U.S.
W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Weaver, Vesla
Mergenthaler 366
Race and Politics of Punishment in the U.S. AS.190.681 (01)
Contact with criminal justice has become a primary way that many Americans see and experience government, particularly those from race-class subjugated communities. Yet, our field has been slow to appreciate the development of the carceral state or to consider its manifold impacts for citizenship. In this graduate seminar, we will survey key debates around punishment, state violence, and surveillance, with a particular focus on research that takes institutional development, history, and racial orders seriously. Why did the carceral state expand in “fits and starts” and with what consequence for state-building? We explore its (racialized and gendered) relationship to other key systems: foster care, social provision, labor relations and the labor market, and immigration enforcement. A core preoccupation of this course will be to understand the ways in which the criminal justice system “makes race” and how debates about crime and punishment were often debates about black inclusion and equality. How does exposure to criminal justice interventions shape political learning, democratic habits, and racial lifeworlds? In addition to policy, political discourse, and racial politics, we will employ works from a range of fields – history, sociology, law, and criminology – and a range of methods (ethnography, historical analysis, quantitative and qualitative). Required books include: Khalil Muhammad’s Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, David Oshinsky’s Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, Bruce Western’s Punishment and Inequality in America, and Michael Fortner’s Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Weaver, Vesla
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.686 (01)
The Right to the City
M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Spence, Lester
Mergenthaler 366
The Right to the City AS.190.686 (01)
Over the past decade, political, economic, and cultural struggles in and over the city have become more important than ever before. Protests against the growing carceral state, against increasing wealth inequality, as well as revanchist attempts to rollback multicultural societal shifts all have the city as its core. While some Marxist thinkers suggest these struggles represent larger struggles over use- versus exchange-value, Black Radical thinkers connect these struggles to anti-black racism. In the wake of one world challenging movement – Black Lives Matter – and one world altering crisis – the Covid-19 pandemic - this course will reflect critically on these two traditions of thinking about the city and to rethink the Marxist tradition through the Black Radical tradition. We will anchor these conversations in an exploratory dialogue between two exemplars of each tradition - the French geographer Henri Lefebvre, and Detroit movement intellectuals James and Grace Lee Boggs. This class will be a vital component of the 2022-23 Sawyer Seminar.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Spence, Lester
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.668 (01)
Rethinking Western Thought
W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Brendese, PJ Joseph, Connolly, William E
Mergenthaler 366
Rethinking Western Thought AS.190.668 (01)
The history of Euro-American Political Thought has been criticized for its orientations to race, gender, class, Christianity, the subject, capitalism, colonialism, sociocentrism, and humanist exceptionalism. How deeply are those themes ensconced in early Christian traditions, secular orientations to the earth, practices of capitalism, and contemporary images of “the political”? What openings are discernible? The seminar starts with Hesiod’s Theogony and a chapter from Tim Whitmarsh on atheism in ancient Greece. It then explores how Augustine consolidates sharp shifts in orientations to faith, divinity, nature, discipline, time and the earth. An agent of the first conquest of paganism. Readings in The City of God: Against the Pagans and The Confessions in relation to Foucault’s newly translated book, Confessions of The Flesh. Then we turn to what might be called the second Christian/imperial conquest of paganism, launched during the 15th century Spanish invasion of the Americas. How did that conquest re-enact and differ from the first? Texts by Todorov, The Conquest of America, alongside essays by C.L.R. James and perhaps de Castro. Followed by essays from Kant, Marx, Arendt, or Deleuze/Guattari, to see how each consolidates or turns earlier western theories. The seminar then engages Dipesh Chakrabarty in The climate of history in a planetary age as he criticizes Euro-centered thought (“the political”, the earth as background to politics, racism, exceptionalism, etc) and some currents in post-colonial thought. Critiques and augmentations will be explored, too.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph, Connolly, William E
