Courses

Intended for incoming graduate students, this course introduces students to the key tools, analogue and digital, forms of writing, scholarly and non-scholarly, used by historians, and to the fundamental political and ethical challenges facing scholars, especially at this moment when the an academic already in crisis finds itself gravely challenged. Student will be equipped with the fundamental tools needed to undertake long term research programs at the end of the course; in gaining experience with newer digital tools and fora for historical discussion and work, they will likewise gain literacy with more traditional historical tools and genres.