This course and lab course will create a research and teaching network across academic divisions, foster individual student work, and engage faculty, local Middletown and New England resources including libraries and museums.
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to key landmarks in the visual history of environmentalism from the 18th century to the recent past across a variety of linked geographic regions focusing both on images of nature and on the nature of images.
This course visits some of the groundbreaking TV series that presented humanities and sciences to global mass audiences in the 1960s and 1970s, when color television emerged as a cultural presence. We study the role of television as a still new and potentially disruptive medium, and examine works of art Read more…
This seminar introduces students to major developments in the legal history of photography in transatlantic society, from the first law cases involving photography in 1840 to contemporary legal debates about such topics as cameras in the courtroom, sexting, surveillance, photographing police, dash cam and body cam videos, and more.
Drawing on a wide range of primary and selected secondary sources, this course surveys major developments in modern British history and empire from 1688 to the recent past.
This course introduces students both to historical developments in photography and to a range of different theoretical tools and approaches for using photographs as modes to explore and think critically and creatively about history.
This course provides a theoretical and historical overview of gender, class, and race relations in modern Europe. We explore changing political practices, employment, health, education, ideologies of sex differences, social movements, feminism and socialism, and much more.
This tutorial sequence analyzes the formation of modern European nations, empires, and societies from the late 18th to the last quarter of the 20th century. Students use primary and secondary sources to explore the social and political consequences of the French Revolution and industrialization, the dynamics of empire, the origins Read more…
This course examines the ways in which science and technology are shaped by and in turn help constitute various notions of gender, defined intersectionally to include race, sexuality, and class, among other axes.
This course offers students the opportunity to explore aspects of the social and cultural history of London across the 19th century, including the city as a global capital, a center of immigration and ethnic politics, empire, political reform, capitalism and consumption, sexual politics, social criticism, and mass social movements.
