American Political Development
AS.190.616 (01)

An examination of state-building and nation-building throughout American political history. (AP)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The Politics of Finance
AS.190.617 (01)

This graduate seminar considers the relationship between finance and state building in both the developing and developed world. Topics will explore the role of central banking, the development of equity and debt markets, bubble economy politics, the effects of financialization, and financial regulatory politics.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 10:30AM - 12:30PM
• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Stengers, Nietzsche and Whitehead: Three Process Philosophies
AS.190.620 (01)

This seminar explores the philosophies of Stengers, Nietzsche and Whitehead comparatively, focusing on their philosophies of agency, multitemporality, affect in ethics and politics, flirtations with panexperientialism, and accounts of planetary/culture imbrications. We will also read contemporary engagements with all three on subjectivity, biology and politics, the Anthropocene, democracy, the shapes of logic, and the visiccitudes of time. Primary texts by Stengers may be Another Science is Possible and Thinking with Whitehead, by Nietzsche Daybreak, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and the Late Notebooks. For Whitehead, Process and Reality and Modes of Thought. Presentation, class discussions, and a seminar paper.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane, Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-CP

Theories of Comparative Politics
AS.190.625 (01)

This seminar is intended for graduate students planning to take the comprehensive exam in comparative politics, either as a major or as a minor. In addition to exploring central methodological debates and analytic approaches, the seminar reviews the literature on state-society relations, political and economic development, social movements, nationalism, revolutions, formal and informal political institutions, and regime durability vs. transition. Graduate students only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

American Racial Politics
AS.190.629 (01)

Race is not a biological fact but rather a social construction. However, it is a social construction with very real consequences. Definitions of citizenship, allocation of state resources, attitudes about government and government policy, the creation of government policy, all shape and are shaped by race and racial classifications. Serving as a critical corrective to American politics treatments that ignore race, this class will examine how race functions politically in the United States. While not required, some knowledge of statistics is helpful.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Maryland 114
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

CLR James: Black Marxism, Pan-Africanism and International Relations
AS.190.646 (01)

This course uses the life and writings of famous Trinidadian Marxist CLR James to explore a set of analytical issues of importance to understanding Pan-Africanism and international relations, including: political economy and slavery, culture and freedom, and the fraught relationship between black intellectuals and black masses.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Shilliam, Robert
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR

Violence: State and Society
AS.190.658 (01)

This course will examine violence that occurs mainly within the territory of nominally sovereign states. We will focus on violence as an object of study in its own right. For the most part, we will look at violence as a dependent variable, though in some instances it will function as an independent variable, a mechanism, or an equilibrium. We will ask why violence starts, how it “works” or fails to work, why it takes place in some locations and not others, why violence take specific forms (e.g., insurgency, terrorism, civilian victimization, etc.), what explains its magnitude (the number of victims), and what explains targeting (the type or identity of victims).

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kocher, Matthew A
• Room: Hodson 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/4
• PosTag(s): n/a

White Supremacy
AS.190.669 (01)

This is an exploratory graduate seminar examining white supremacy in politics and theory. We shall be especially concerned with continuities and changes in racial formations of whiteness over time. This, in turn, will enable us to take up questions of how to best theorize and contest contemporary iterations of white supremacy made manifest in the discourse of race war, replacement theory, and hybrid biopolitical and necropolitical projects. We will investigate white disavowal of existential crises of climate change and pandemic threats within apocalyptic modes of whiteness where the end of white supremacy is imagined in world-ending terms. Readings may include: Fanon, Du Bois, Harris, Hartman, Césaire, Mbembe, Wynter, Moten, Moreton-Robinson, Painter, Olson, Baldwin, Foucault.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 5:30PM - 7:30PM
• Instructor: Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
• Room: Gilman 413
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-PT

Research and Inquiry in the Social Sciences
AS.190.671 (01)

How do we assess research in the social sciences? What makes one study more persuasive than another? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the main methods used in research in the social sciences? What are the elements that go into designing a research project? This course considers these questions, introducing students to the basic principles of research design.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): POLI-CP

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.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 10:30AM - 12:30PM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee, Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Law and Politics
AS.190.678 (01)

As a field, Law and Politics has evolved from the study of constitutional law and judicial politics to the political behavior of judges and their associates to the study of law and society, the operation of law and courts “on the ground” in the international arena as well as in the United States, historical institutionalism, and the carceral state. In this graduate course, we will review some of the classic texts in the field, with a focus on the tension between legal institutions and democratic politics. In particular, we will examine how that tension is manifest in the foundations of the American political system and in critical reflection on contemporary practices of American democracy. Students will turn in response papers every week on the reading. In addition, there will be two 10-20 page papers due during the semester. Graduate Students Only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer, Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (04)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (06)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (07)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (08)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (09)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (10)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (11)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (12)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (13)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (14)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (15)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (16)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (17)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (18)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (19)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (20)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (21)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (22)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (23)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (24)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.190.800 (26)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Shilliam, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Bennett, Jane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (02)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (03)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Chambers, Samuel Allen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (04)

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• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (05)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Connolly, William E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (06)

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• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (07)

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• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (08)

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• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
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Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (09)

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• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (10)

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• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (11)

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• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (12)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (13)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (14)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (15)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (16)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lawrence, Adria K
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (17)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (18)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (19)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (20)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (21)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (22)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
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• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (23)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (24)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate Research
AS.190.849 (26)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Shilliam, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Intermediate data-analysis for Social Science & Public Policy I
AS.196.600 (01)

We will gain experience with data-analysis at the intermediate level, handling data with multi-level and longitudinal structure. How can we draw valid statistical inferences with such data? What designs and methods enable us to infer the causal effects of interventions? The course will consist of alternating discussions and small-group and instructor-led demonstrations with a heavy emphasis on computation, using both Stata or R whenever possible.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Corrigan, Bryce
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/14
• PosTag(s): n/a

Intermediate data-analysis for social science & public policy 2
AS.196.601 (01)

We will gain experience with data-analysis at the intermediate level, handling data with multi-level and longitudinal structure. How can we draw valid statistical inferences with such data? What designs and methods enable us to infer the causal effects of interventions? The course will consist of alternating discussions and small-group and instructor-led demonstrations with a heavy emphasis on computation, using both Stata or R whenever possible.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Corrigan, Bryce
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees.
AS.300.618 (01)

Knowing who or what counts as a person seems straightforward, until we consider the many kinds of creatures, objects, and artificial beings that have been granted—or demanded or denied—that status. This course explores recent debates on being a person in culture, law, and philosophy. Questions examined will include: Should trees have standing? Can corporations have religious beliefs? Could a robot sign a contract? Materials examined will be wide-ranging, including essays, philosophy, novels, science fiction, television, film. No special background is required.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa Michele
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a