Courses

Course Number

Title

Description

Name of Faculty

Time and Days

AFAM 459

ER&M 402

AMST 479

The Displaced: Migrant and Refugee Narratives of the 20th and 21st Centuries

This course examines a series of transnational literary texts and films that illuminate how the displaced—migrants, exiles, and refugees— remake home away from their native countries. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have produced massive displacements due to wars, genocides, racial, ethnic and religious conflicts, economic and climate change, among other factors. Our course focuses on several texts that explore questions of home, nation, and self in the context of specific historical events such as the Holocaust, civil rights movements in the U.S., internment, the Indian partition, African decolonization, and Middle Eastern/Arab ethno-religious conflicts and wars. We examine these events alongside the shifting legal and political policies and categories related to asylum, humanitarian parole, refugee, and illegal alien status. Exploring themes such as nostalgia, longing, trauma, and memory, we look at the possibilities and limitations of creating, contesting, and imagining home in the diaspora. Our objective is to debate and develop the ethical, political, geographic, and imaginative articulations of home in an era of mass displacements and geo-political crises. We examine how notions of home are imagined alongside and against categories of race, gender, and sexuality.

Leah Mirakhor

T

1:30pm-3:20pm

AMST 439

ER&M 439

Fruits of Empire

Readings, discussions, and research on imperialism and “green gold” and their consequences for the imperial powers and their colonies and neo-colonies. Spatially conceived as a world-system that enmeshes the planet and as earth’s latitudes that divide the temperate from the tropical zones, imperialism as discourse and material relations is this seminar’s focus together with its implantations—an empire of plants. Vast plantations of sugar, cotton, tea, coffee, bananas, and pineapples occupy land cultivated by native and migrant workers, and their fruits move from the tropical to the temperate zones, impoverishing the periphery while profiting the core. Fruits of Empire, thus, implicates power and the social formation of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation.

Gary Okihiro

W

1:30pm-3:20pm

AMST 272

WGSS 272

HIST 183

ER&M 282

Asian American History, 1800 to the Present

An introduction to the history of East, South, and Southeast Asian migrations and settlement to the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Major themes include labor migration, community formation, U.S. imperialism, legal exclusion, racial segregation, gender and sexuality, cultural representations, and political resistance.

Mary Lui

M & W

11:35am-12:25pm

AMST 301

ER&M 382

HIST 325J

Researching Mexican American Histories

A survey of recent scholarship on Mexican American history. Students write a research paper based on primary sources and explore issues related to migration, education, detention, religion, urban communities, ethnic politics, and youth activism since the mid-nineteenth century.

Stephen Pitti

W

3:30pm-5:20pm

AMST 345

AMST 775

WGSS 613

ANTH 612

ER&M 409

WGSS 408

Latinx Ethnography

Consideration of ethnography within the genealogy and intellectual traditions of Latinx Studies. Topics include: questions of knowledge production and epistemological traditions in Latin America and U.S. Latino communities; conceptions of migration, transnationalism, and space; perspectives on “(il)legality” and criminalization; labor, wealth, and class identities; contextual understandings of gender and sexuality; theorizations of affect and intimate lives; and the politics of race and inequality under white liberalism and conservatism in the United States.

Ana Ramos-Zayas

Th

1:30pm-3:20pm

ANTH 414

ANTH 575

EAST 417

Hubs, Mobilities, and World Cities

Analysis of urban life in historical and contemporary societies. Topics include capitalist and postmodern transformations; class, gender, ethnicity, and migration; and global landscapes of power and citizenship.

Helen Siu

T

1:30pm-3:20pm

ANTH 441

WGSS 430

MMES 430

MMES 399

Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East

This seminar explores the gendered and ethnic-based social processes and forms of power that citizenship, statelessness, and migration crises fuel, and are fueled by, in the Middle East and North Africa. The history of gender and citizenship in the region is imbricated in ethnosexual and orientalist colonial legacies that articulate a racialized problematic of “modernity.” Part of these legacies involve obscuring the role that women, sexual minorities, and gender, more broadly, have played in framing citizenship and statehood in the Middle East in global, regional, and local imaginations not only as border policing and legal doctrine, but as signifier—and reifier—of culture, race, and ethnicity. By examining the gendered and sexual dimensions of war, conflict, and partition, and the formation of modern citizenship in the Middle East, the seminar presents ethnographic, historical, literary and visual scholarship that theorizes the role of kinship and citizenship in gendered and racialized narratives of the nation and political sovereignty.

Eda Pepi

W

1:30pm-3:20pm

ARCH 327

URBN 327

ARCH 4247

Difference and the City

Four hundred and odd years after colonialism and racial capitalism brought twenty and odd people from Africa to the dispossessed indigenous land that would become the United States, the structures and systems that generate inequality and white supremacy persist. Our cities and their socioeconomic and built environments continue to exemplify difference. From housing and health to mobility and monuments, cities small and large, north and south, continue to demonstrate intractable disparities. The disparate impacts made apparent by the COVID-19 pandemic and the reinvigorated and global Black Lives Matter movement demanding change are remarkable. Change, of course, is another essential indicator of difference in urban environments, exemplified by the phenomena of disinvestment or gentrification. This course explores how issues like climate change and growing income inequality intersect with politics, culture, gender equality, immigration and migration, technology, and other considerations and forms of disruption.

Justin Moore

F

9am-10:50am

ECON 475

EP&E 286

Discrimination in Law, Theory, and Practice

How law and economic theory define and conceptualize economic discrimination; whether economic models adequately describe behaviors of discriminators as documented in court cases and government hearings; the extent to which economic theory and econometric techniques aid our understanding of actual marketplace discrimination.

Prerequisites: introductory microeconomics and at least one additional course in Economics, African American Studies, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, or Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Gerald Jaynes

T

9:25am-11:15am

ANTH 386

GLBL 393

Humanitarian Interventions: Ethics, Politics, and Health

Analysis of humanitarian interventions from a variety of social science disciplinary perspectives. Issues related to policy, legal protection, health care, morality, and governance in relation to the moral imperative to save lives in conditions of extreme adversity. Promotion of dialogue between social scientists and humanitarian practitioners.

Catherine Panter-Brick

Sigridur Benediktsdottir

W

1:30pm-3:20pm

HMRT 400

Advanced Human Rights Colloquium

This course is the culminating seminar for Yale College seniors in the Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights (Human Rights Scholars). The goal of the colloquium is to help students conceive and produce a meaningful capstone project as a culmination of their work in the program. It is a singular opportunity for students to pursue in-depth research in human rights.

Jim Silk

W

6:30pm-8:20pm

GLBL 236

PLSC 182

The Politics of International Law and Cooperation

This course focuses on the political processes and institutions that facilitate cooperation among states. Students examine the obstacles to cooperation in the international arena, the reasons for the creation of international laws and institutions, and the extent to which such institutions actually affect state policy. Students also explore the tension between international cooperation and concerns about power, state sovereignty, and institutional legitimacy. Course materials draw from a variety of substantive issues, including conflict prevention, trade, human rights, and environmental protection.

Tyler Pratt

T & Th

4:30pm-5:20pm

PLSC 123

Political Economy of Foreign Aid

Introduction to modern quantitative research methods in international political economy, with a focus on empirical evidence related to foreign aid. The state of knowledge regarding the effects of development assistance on democratization, governance, human rights, and conflict. The challenges of drawing causal inferences in the domain of international political economy.

Peter Aronow

W

1:30pm-3:20pm

HIST 311J

MMES 303

Social Movements in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

How have social movements and grassroots networks shaped politics, culture, and day-to-day realities in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA)? This seminar addresses such driving questions by way of readings and discussion on a range of movements and ideological currents in the MENA region from the late nineteenth century to present, including labor, socialism, feminism, Islamism, Third Worldism, and nationalism in its various forms. Moving between local, national, regional, and global perspectives, we explore the social and political contexts in which these movements developed; the various ways in which they negotiated structures of power; and their impact on culture, sociality, and politics.

Hamzah Baig

Th

1:30pm-3:20pm

AFAM 196

AMST 196

SOCY 190

EVST 196

ER&M 226

Race, Class, and Gender in American Cities

Examination of how racial, gender, and class inequalities have been built, sustained, and challenged in American cities. Focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics include industrialization and deindustrialization, segregation, gendered public/private split, gentrification, transit equity, environmental justice, food access, and the relationships between public space, democracy, and community wellbeing. Includes field projects in New Haven.

Laura Barraclough

M & W

10:30am-11:20am

AFST 175

Africa in International Relations

This course examines key facets of how African countries interact with the rest of the world, and with other countries on the continent. Focusing mostly on Sub-Saharan African countries, it looks at international economic relations (focusing on aid but also addressing trade, investment, and debt); peacemaking and peacebuilding; and regional governance institutions.

David Simon

T & Th

1pm-2:15pm

ER&M 200

Introduction to Ethnicity, Race, and Migration

Historical roots of contemporary ethnic and racial formations and competing theories of ethnicity, race, and migration. Cultural constructions and social practices of race, ethnicity, and migration in the United States and around the world.

Alicia Schmidt Camacho

T & Th

11:35am-12:50pm

ECON 467

GLBL 307

Economic Evolution of the Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Facets of contemporary economic globalization, including trade, investment, and migration. Challenges and threats of globalization: inclusion and inequality, emerging global players, global governance, climate change, and nuclear weapons proliferation.

Ernesto Zedillo

M

9:25am-11:15am

PLSC 188

GLBL 275

Approaches to International Security

Introduction to major approaches and central topics in the field of international security, with primary focus on the principal man-made threats to human security: the use of violence among and within states, both by state and non-state actors.

Dawn Brancati

M & W

2:30pm-3:45pm

MMES 121

PLSC 121

International Relations of the Middle East

This course explores the multiple causes of insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa, a region of paramount geostrategic interest, whose populations have suffered from armed conflicts both within and across national borders. The first half of the course interrogates traditional security concepts like war, terrorism, and revolution, as well as the political, economic, and social contexts which give rise to these phenomena. The course then turns to foreign policy analysis in case studies of the region’s major states. Previous coursework in international relations and/or Middle East politics or history recommended but not required.

Nicholas Lotito

M & W

10:30am-11:20am

PLSC 464

Immigration, Integration, and Multiculturalism in the West

Do immigrants integrate? What determines the attitudes of native-born communities toward immigrants? Are immigrants good or bad for local economies? Does the presence of immigrants fuel far-right movements? Which policy tools encourage integration, and which can spur backlash? These are some of the questions we investigate together by reviewing the evidence base on immigration, integration, and multiculturalism. This course emphasizes research design and statistical methods for moving beyond correlations and toward understanding the causal effects of immigration and immigration policy.

Salma Mousa

TTh

11:35am-12:25pm

AFAM 352

AMST 438

ER&M 291

LITR 295

WGSS 343

Caribbean Diasporic Literature

An examination of contemporary literature written by Caribbean writers who have migrated to, or who journey between, different countries around the Atlantic rim. Focus on literature written in English in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, both fiction and nonfiction. Writers include Caryl Phillips, Nalo Hopkinson, and Jamaica Kincaid.

Fadila Habchi

T

1:30pm-3:20pm

30171-01

Advanced International Refugee Assistance Project

Advanced International Refugee Assistance Project (30171). 2 or 3 units. A fieldwork option. Students may enroll for 2 units (the default) for fieldwork only without a seminar and not for experiential credit or for 3 units with a required seminar and experiential credit. Prerequisite: International Refugee Assistance Project. Open only to JD students. Permission of the instructors required. S. Poellot and J.M. Kornfeld.

Julie M. Kornfeld

Stephen T. Poellot

HTBA

20547-01

Immigration Law

Immigration Law (20547). 3 units. This survey course will provide a foundation in the basics of the immigration law system, the policy choices it reflects, and the constitutional principles governing the regulation and rights of non-citizens. The course will then explore various topical legal and policy issues related to immigrants’ rights and immigration reform as well as the normative values informing contemporary treatment of documented and undocumented immigrants. The course will draw on the instructor’s involvement in many current issues and extensive background litigating on behalf of the constitutional and civil rights cases of non-citizens in federal courts nationwide and recent service as senior policy adviser in government. Among the issues that will be covered are: detention of immigrants; state and local immigration regulation; discrimination against non-citizens in employment and public benefits; the intersection of criminal and immigration law; federal enforcement and non-enforcement policies; access to the courts and the right to judicial review; and labor and workplace rights of undocumented workers. Guest speakers will address areas of expertise. No prior course or background in immigration law is expected. Enrollment capped at forty-five. Self-scheduled examination. L. Guttentag.

Lucas Guttentag

Tue

2:10 PM-3:35 PM

Thu

2:10 PM-3:35 PM

20611-01

Immigration Law

Immigration Law (20611). 4 units. This survey of immigration law and policy explores several broad and complex questions: Who is a citizen of the United States and what does citizenship mean? What are the criteria and processes for noncitizens to come to the United States on a temporary or permanent basis? Under what circumstances may noncitizens be forced to leave the United States? Which actors and institutions have authority to establish, administer, and enforce rules concerning immigration and citizenship? What substantive and procedural rights do noncitizens have? To examine these questions, we will study a variety of different sources of law—constitutional provisions, statutes, regulations and other administrative materials, judicial opinions, and treaties and other sources of international law—and materials placing the contemporary immigration law regime in historical, political, and social context. Specific topics will include the constitutional authority to regulate immigration, the legal and institutional frameworks governing admission and expulsion of noncitizens, the role of the judiciary in ensuring the legality of official action, the criteria and processes for naturalization, the issues arising from unauthorized migration, the relationship between the immigration and criminal law systems, the role of states and localities in regulating immigration-related matters, the intersection between immigration and national security law, a brief introduction to refugee and asylum law, and contemporary proposals for immigration reform.

Anil Kalhan

Mon

10:10 AM-12:00 PM

Wed

10:10 AM-12:00 PM

30173-01

Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic

Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic (30173). 4 units. Students will work on a variety of human rights projects, generally in support of advocacy efforts of human rights organizations. Projects are designed to give students practical experience with the range of activities in which lawyers engage to promote respect for human rights; to help students build the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective human rights advocates; and to integrate the theory and practice of human rights. Class sessions will include an overview of basic human rights standards and their application; instruction in human rights research and writing skills; and critical examination of approaches to human rights advocacy and enforcement. The clinic will have one or more student directors. Permission of the instructors required. J.J. Silk, H.R. Metcalf, and K. Beckerle.

James J. Silk

                Hope R. Metcalf

                Kristine Beckerle

Tue

10:10 AM-12:00 PM

Fri

10:10 AM-12:00 PM

30127-01

(Seminar)

30129-01

(Seminar; Advanced)

30130-01 (Fieldwork)

Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic: Seminar

Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (30127) and Fieldwork (30128). 2 units, graded or credit/fail, at student option, for each part (4 units total). Students will represent immigrants and low-wage workers in Connecticut in labor, immigration, and other civil rights areas, through litigation for individuals and non-litigation advocacy for community-based organizations. In litigation matters, students will handle cases at all stages of legal proceedings in Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. District Court, the Second Circuit, and state courts. The non-litigation work will include representation of grassroots organizations, labor and faith organizations in regulatory and legislative reform efforts, media advocacy, strategic planning, and other matters. The seminar portion is a practice-oriented examination of advocacy on behalf of workers and non-citizens and of social justice lawyering generally. The course will be a two-term offering (4 units each term). The clinical course and fieldwork must be taken simultaneously in both terms. Enrollment limited. Permission of the instructors required. M.J. Wishnie, M. Orihuela, and S. Zampierin.

Michael J. Wishnie

Marisol Orihuela

Sara Zampierin

Thu

10:10 AM-12:00 PM

30194-01 (Seminar)

30195-01 (Fieldwork)

30203-01

(Fieldwork; Advanced)

Legal Assistance: Immigrant Rights Clinic: Seminar

New Haven Legal Assistance is a historic non-profit civil legal services office with a robust immigration practice. Under the supervision of attorneys at New Haven Legal Assistance, students in the New Haven Legal Assistance Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) have represented noncitizens in defensive removal proceedings before the immigration court, in appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals, and in petitions for review before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. This semester and in upcoming semesters, there will likely be an opportunity for clinic students to represent noncitizens in federal civil rights litigation against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement agencies. Enrollment limited to six new students. Permission of the instructors required. D. Blank and B. Haldeman.

Diana Blank

Benjamin M. Haldeman

HTBA

PLSC 746

The Economics and Politics of Migration

This course provides an introduction to contemporary social science research on immigration and emigration. Key questions we examine include: (1) Why do people migrate (or not)? Who migrates and why? Where do people migrate? (2) What are the consequences of migration for migrants and for the broader economy/society? for politics? (3) What is the relationship between migration and conflict? (4) How do different types of migration (for example, female vs. male migration, high-skill vs. low-skill migration, refugee flows vs. “economic” migrants, internal vs. international migrants, etc.) differ and how do those differences matter for public policy? (5) What are some of the methodological challenges associated with measuring and studying migration? (6) What are some of the political challenges associated with creating migration policies? Throughout, we review important methods and theories for the social-scientific study of migration. We also read new work on the research frontier of this topic, drawing on examples from both developed and developing countries across the world. Students have the opportunity to develop their own research projects on the politics and economics of migration.

Emily Sellars

HTBA

GLBL 719

Turning Points in Peace-Building

This course examines the myriad challenges that must be addressed when the fighting has stopped. Once a peace agreement is signed, the real deal-making begins. Former rebels negotiate with their military commanders about relinquishing arms and working for a living; communities look for “peace dividends”; refugees weigh options to return home; governments try to assert authority despite their new role or how weakened they have become; and compatriots who opposed the peace settlement relentlessly try to undermine it. The international community, which often leads the warring parties to the table, takes on a new role as well, informing and sometimes deforming outcomes. Led by a veteran U.S. diplomat, this course considers peace-building processes from the perspectives of formerly warring parties, diplomats, NGOs, civil society, and the media, providing students an opportunity to develop strategies for building durable peace following conflict.

Bisa Williams

HTBA

GLBL 505

Environmental Security in the Middle East

This course examines how environmental, water, food, energy, and climate change have increasingly become linked to human and national security in the Middle East. It begins by exploring the state of the environment in the region and how the policies of the Middle East governments have led to serious environmental degradation and subsequent loss of jobs, migration, social tension, violence, and regional conflicts. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of contemporary case/country studies, students learn how these problems can serve as major human and national security threats. This interdisciplinary course is of interest to students with background/interest in environmental science/engineering, ecology, geography, geosciences, social/political sciences, public policy, security and peace building, international relations, diplomacy, and global affairs.

TBC

HTBA

REL 935

Theologizing Immigration: Latinxs and the Catholic Tradition

National politics and the COVID-19 pandemic have led to policies and rhetoric that limit human mobility to the United States and impose significant harms on migration at the U.S. southern border. What do migration experts and Latinx theologians say about the current moment? How do Latinx biblical and theological scholars engage critically and imaginatively the issues of human mobility, through biblical and theological reflection on current immigration realities? This seminar presents various perspectives on human mobility of migrants from Latin America to the United States and the reception these migrants receive upon arrival to the United States. We read leading immigration experts and Latinx theologians (including biblical scholars) and study how they respond to the most pressing issues of the day—including deterrence policies, the pandemic, xenophobia, gender, racialization, child migration, human trafficking, queer migrations, and forced migrations, to name a few. The course also examines the Catholic Church’s pastoral writings on migrants and immigration. Area V.

TBC

T

3:30pm-5:20pm

AMST 622

CPLT 622

Working Group on Globalization and Culture

A continuing yearlong collective research project, a cultural studies “laboratory.” The group, drawing on several disciplines, meets regularly to discuss common readings, develop collective and individual research projects, and present that research publicly. The general theme for the working group is globalization and culture, with three principal aspects: (1) the globalization of cultural industries and goods, and its consequences for patterns of everyday life as well as for forms of fiction, film, broadcasting, and music; (2) the trajectories of social movements and their relation to patterns of migration, the rise of global cities, the transformation of labor processes, and forms of ethnic, class, and gender conflict; (3) the emergence of and debates within transnational social and cultural theory. The specific focus, projects, and directions of the working group are determined by the interests, expertise, and ambitions of the members of the group, and change as its members change.

The working group is open to doctoral students in their second year and beyond. Graduate students interested in participating should contact michael.denning@yale.edu.

Michael Denning

M

1:30pm-3:20pm

FREN 958

WGSS 783

Social Mobility Today

The seminar examines the representation of upward mobility, social demotion, and interclass encounters in contemporary literature and cinema. Topics include emancipation and determinism; inequality, precarity, and class struggle; social mobility and migration; the interaction between social class and literary style; intersectionality; mixed couples; labor and the workplace; homecomings. We also discuss ways of approaching a contemporary corpus. Works by Angot, Eribon, Ernaux, Houellebecq, Linhart, Louis, NDiaye, Taïa. Films by Cantet, Diop, Kechiche, Klotz. Theoretical readings by Berlant, Bourdieu, Foucault, Nancy, Rancière. Members of the seminar have the opportunity to compare French mobilities to other literary traditions. Conducted in English. No knowledge of French required.

Morgane Cadieu

Th

9:25am-11:15am

COURSE NUMBER

TITLE

DESCRIPTION

NAME OF FACULTY

TIME AND DAYS

AFAM 459

ER&M 402

AMST 479

The Displaced: Migrant and Refugee Narratives of the 20th and 21st Centuries

This course examines a series of transnational literary texts and films that illuminate how the displaced—migrants, exiles, and refugees— remake home away from their native countries. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have produced massive displacements due to wars, genocides, racial, ethnic and religious conflicts, economic and climate change, among other factors. Our course focuses on several texts that explore questions of home, nation, and self in the context of specific historical events such as the Holocaust, civil rights movements in the U.S., internment, the Indian partition, African decolonization, and Middle Eastern/Arab ethno-religious conflicts and wars. We examine these events alongside the shifting legal and political policies and categories related to asylum, humanitarian parole, refugee, and illegal alien status. Exploring themes such as nostalgia, longing, trauma, and memory, we look at the possibilities and limitations of creating, contesting, and imagining home in the diaspora. Our objective is to debate and develop the ethical, political, geographic, and imaginative articulations of home in an era of mass displacements and geo-political crises. We examine how notions of home are imagined alongside and against categories of race, gender, and sexuality.

Leah Mirakhor

T

1:30pm-3:20pm

Online

AFST 378

EVST 378

S&DS 138

AFST 570

Foreign Assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa: Archival Data Analysis

This course reviews the many years of U.S. development assistance to Africa using archival data from the Agency for International Development (USAID), nonprofit organizations, and specialized agencies such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture and nineteen U.S. government agencies involved in development assistance to Africa. Students analyze the effectiveness, perception, and shifting development paradigms of such assistance, looking at four specific areas: agriculture, water and sanitation, child survival, and refugee relief. Advanced text-mining analysis in the R package tm and web-scraping algorithms in Python are applied to both archival and current data to enhance analysis.

Russell Barbour

TTh

2:30pm-3:45pm

Online

GLBL 341

PLSC 450

The Geopolitics of Democracy

The threats to liberal democracy are being widely debated, from the US and Europe to developing nations.   In order for democracy to continue to thrive as the cornerstone of Western governance, it must adapt and be relevant to citizens of the 21st century. This course examines our appreciation of what constitutes democracy today and how to apply those understandings to the challenges of the 21st century. Our discussions look at the characteristics of democratic leaders and debate whether America, the bulwark of liberal democracy in the 20th century, is still an exporter of democracy and how that matters in today’s world. We then look at how to protect and adapt democratic institutions such as free elections, civil society, dissent, and the free press in the face of a rising wave of populism and nationalism. The course examines how refugee crises from conflict regions and immigration impact democracies and debate the accelerating paradigm shifts of income inequality and technology on democratic institutions.  We conclude the course with a discussion of the forms of democratic governance that are meaningful in the 21st century and the practicalities of designing or reforming democratic institutions to confront current challenges.

Lauren Young

T

1:30pm-3:20pm

Online

GLBL 613

How to Analyze, Design, and Fund a Project: A Case Study of Regeneration of Umm Qais in Jordan

This course gives students a chance to explore and practice three important components of running development projects: practical action, designing the project (the detail, not the theory), and presenting and fundraising for it. This is done through a case study of Turquoise Mountain’s project in Jordan to regenerate the historic area of Umm Qais, on the very northern tip of Jordan, overlooking the Golan Heights, the Sea of Galilee, and Syria. This area includes the ancient city of Gadara, which is now a huge archaeological site; the historic and ruined Ottoman village of Umm Qais; and the new town of Umm Qais, which is home to Jordanians and Syrians. We explore the complexities of working with refugees in host countries, working with the government, getting buy-in from the community. And we practice presenting the project to different audiences, which is a critical skill for anyone working in development. Students also, in small groups, research and present the key dimensions of the project, including preservation of cultural heritage; revenue generation at historic sites; tourism—the visitor experience; and sustainability, infrastructure, and the financial model. Each group focuses on comparable models/success stories, pitfalls/traps, and suggestions.

Shoshana Stewart

Th

9:25am-11:15am

HLH55 HORCHOW - HLH55 HORCHOW

GLBL 685

Arab Spring, Arab Winter, and U.S. Policy in the Middle East and North Africa

This seminar reviews how the United States has responded to weakening states and unrest in the MENA region. Each session examines a particular policy challenge, examining dynamics on the ground, what Washington understood to be its national security interest, and how it developed its policies in terms of strategies and tactics to achieve the perceived national interest. The seminar ranges from the 2013 coup d’état in Egypt to American approaches to political Islam to wars in Yemen, Libya, and Syria. One session examines the American drive to promote federalism in Iraq and the outcomes there, and another assesses the American counterterrorism campaign in the region since 2011. We also examine the challenge of increased refugee flows and the increasing problems connected to climate change, particularly water. Students should leave the course with an understanding of the pressures operating on Arab states and the difficulties American policy makers have addressing these pressures. The seminar should also give students a strong grasp of the policy-making process in the American foreign policy establishment. For those students interested, there are exercises in short-memo writing applicable to the government sector. Also LAW 21104.

Robert Ford

M

3:30pm-5:20pm

Online

GLBL 719

Turning Points in Peace-Building

This course examines the myriad challenges that must be addressed when the fighting has stopped. Once a peace agreement is signed, the real deal-making begins. Former rebels negotiate with their military commanders about relinquishing arms and working for a living; communities look for “peace dividends”; refugees weigh options to return home; governments try to assert authority despite their new role or how weakened they have become; and compatriots who opposed the peace settlement relentlessly try to undermine it. The international community, which often leads the warring parties to the table, takes on a new role as well, informing and sometimes deforming outcomes. Led by a veteran U.S. diplomat, this course considers peace-building processes from the perspectives of formerly warring parties, diplomats, NGOs, civil society, and the media, providing students an opportunity to develop strategies for building durable peace following conflict.

Bisa Williams

T

9:25am-11:15am 

HLH55 HORCHOW - HLH55 HORCHOW

GLBL 304

Four Conflicts: Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan

This course focuses on four recent conflicts—Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen—using human rights as a sustaining theme. The instructor uses her on-the-ground knowledge to delve into the roots of the conflicts; the specific battles; turning points; the case studies of human rights abuse; and finally, possible political solutions and post-conflict resolution. We use a mix of video footage from reputable journalists as well as testimonies, texts, and articles from the time. An important dimension is lessons learned from previous wars, and the diplomatic and international response. There will be guest speakers who were directly involved in the individual conflicts.

Janine di Giovanni

T

1:30pm-3:20pm

Online

HIST 365J

MMES 366

Frontiers and Borderlands in the Modern Middle East

This course examines various types of frontiers and borderlands in the early modern and modern Middle East. Beginning with an examination of imperial competition and national identity in borderland contexts, it then addresses boundaries of religious and settled and nomadic populations, before concluding with a case study on the Iran-Iraq border dispute and war in the 1980s.

Sophomore Seminar: Registration preference given to sophomores. Not normally open to first-year students.

Kevin Gledhill

TTh

2:30pm-3:45pm

Online

AMST 623

CPLT 822

Working Group on Globalization and Culture

A continuing yearlong collective research project, a cultural studies “laboratory.” The group, drawing on several disciplines, meets regularly to discuss common readings, develop collective and individual research projects, and present that research publicly. The general theme for the working group is globalization and culture, with three principal aspects: (1) the globalization of cultural industries and goods, and its consequences for patterns of everyday life as well as for forms of fiction, film, broadcasting, and music; (2) the trajectories of social movements and their relation to patterns of migration, the rise of global cities, the transformation of labor processes, and forms of ethnic, class, and gender conflict; (3) the emergence of and debates within transnational social and cultural theory. The specific focus, projects, and directions of the working group are determined by the interests, expertise, and ambitions of the members of the group, and change as its members change.

There are a small number of openings for second-year graduate students. Students interested in participating should contact michael.denning@yale.edu.

Michael Denning

M

1:30pm-3:20pm

Online

ANTH 453

HLTH 425

GLBL 553

Global Health: Equity and Policy

Current debates in global health have focused specifically on health disparities, equity, and policy. This advanced undergraduate seminar class is designed for students seeking to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of health research, practice, and policy.  Each week, we address issues of importance for research and policy, and apply theory, ethics, and practice to global health debates and case studies. The class encourages critical thinking regarding the promotion of health equity. 

Catherine Panter-Brick

W

1:30pm-3:20pm

Online

HIST 277J

Memory and History in Modern Europe

An interdisciplinary study of memory as both a tool in and an agent of modern European history. Collective memory; the media of memory; the organization and punctuation of time through commemorative practices. Specific themes vary but may include memory of the French Revolution, the rise of nationalism, World Wars I and II, the Holocaust, decolonization, the revolution of 1968, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War.

Jennifer Allen

T

9:25am-11:15am

Online

PLSC 118

The Moral Foundations of Politics

An introduction to contemporary discussions about the foundations of political argument. Emphasis on the relations between political theory and policy debate (e.g., social welfare provision and affirmative action). Readings from Bentham, Mill, Marx, Burke, Rawls, Nozick, and others.

Ian Shapiro

TTh

11:35am-12:50pm

Online

PLSC 377

SAST 344

WGSS 397

PLSC 772

Political Economy of Gender in South Asia

This course focuses on the political and economic underpinnings and implications of gender inequality in South Asia. We draw on evidence from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India to guide our theoretical and empirical inquiry into the following broad questions: What is gender, and what approaches do social scientists use to study gender inequality? How does gender inequality manifest in different social, economic, and political spheres e.g. the household, the labor market, the electorate, the government? What are the cultural and structural drivers of gender inequality? How effective are different approaches to tackling gender inequality in South Asia?

Sarah Khan

T

3:30pm-5:20pm

Online

ECON 449

EP&E 244

PLSC 374

The Economic Analysis of Conflict

Since the end of WWII the overwhelming majority of war casualties have been the result of internal conflict. This includes insurgency situations in which foreign powers prop up a weak internal government. In this course we apply microeconomic techniques, theoretical and empirical, to the analysis of internal conflict, its causes and consequences. Topics include forced migration, ethnic conflict, long-term consequences of war and individual choices to participate in violence. Readings comprise frontier research papers and students will learn to critically engage with cutting-edge research designs.

Gerard Padro

Th

9:25am-11:15am

Online

AFAM 305

ENGL 258

African American Autobiography

Examination of African American autobiography, from slave narratives to contemporary memoirs, and how the genre approaches the project (and problem) of knowing, through reading, the relationships of fellow humans. Chronological consideration of a range of narratives and their representations of race, of space, of migration, of violence, of self, and of other, as well as the historical circumstances that inform these representations.

Sarah Mahurin

MW

11:35am-12:50pm

Online

ANTH 388

ANTH 588

Politics of Culture in Southeast Asia

The promotion of national culture as part of political and economic agendas in Southeast Asia. Cultural and political diversity as a method for maintaining a country’s cultural difference in a global world.

Erik Harms

T

9:25am-11:15am

Online

AMST 452

ER&M 452

Movement, Memory, and U.S. Settler Colonialism

This research seminar examines and theorizes the significance of movement and mobility in the production and contestation of settler colonial nation-states. To do so, it brings together the fields of settler colonial studies, critical indigenous studies, ethnic studies, public history, and mobility studies. After acquainting ourselves with the foundations and some of the key debates within each of these fields, we examine four case studies: The Freedom Trail and the Black Heritage Trail in Boston; the Lewis and Clark expedition and its recuperation as a site of healing and education for tribal nations in the Upper Midwest and Northwest; the Trail of Tears and the contest over southern memory; and the relationships between settlement, labor migration, and regional racial formation in California. Students then conduct their own research projects that integrate primary source research on a particular organized movement (of people, non-human animals, ideas, practices) with two or more expressions of memory about that movement (in the form of public history installations, popular culture, literature, music, digital memes, etc.).

Laura Barraclough

Th

3:30pm-5:20pm

Online

AMST 348

ER&M 381

EVST 304

Space, Place, and Landscape

Survey of core concepts in cultural geography and spatial theory. Ways in which the organization, use, and representation of physical spaces produce power dynamics related to colonialism, race, gender, class, and migrant status. Multiple meanings of home; the politics of place names; effects of tourism; the aesthetics and politics of map making; spatial strategies of conquest. Includes field projects in New Haven.

Laura Barraclough

W

3:30pm-5:20pm

Online

ECON 483

PLSC 159

SAST 483

The Political Economy of Migration

Immigration flows are a defining political concern throughout the world, and internal migration is reshaping the political and economic landscape of the developing world. This class aims to bring students to the forefront of political and economic research on migration, with a specific focus on the region of South Asia. Studying the political aspects of migration involves engaging with formal models on the incentives of governments to facilitate or stymie internal and international movement. Studying the economic aspects of migration requires learning about the economic theories underlying location choice. Students continue with the studying of the role that infrastructure plays in regulating movement.

Zack Barnett-Howell

M

9:25am-11:15am

Online

ANTH 216

Migration & Development: Critical Perspectives

Whether international migration, through the remittances of migrant workers, can result in development or in fact obstructs it has been subject to intensive debate in development policy. This course steps outside the policy paradigm, to critique its assumptions, to ask whose welfare is to be served, and to examine migration and development in the context of broader notions of modernity, globalization and neoliberalism. Centered on anthropological scholarship, we consider the making and implementation of migration and development as an international policy field, and the processes through which sending states attempt to shape and regulate out-migration for development. We connect this with readings on the experiences and aspirations of male and female migrants, the situations out of which they migrate, and the ways in which their journeys, labor and remittances shape economic and social change in their home communities. Through these engagements we situate perspectives on and experiences of migration and development in changing historical contexts of global capitalism, inequality, and post-colonial hierarchies.

Jacob Rinck

W

9:25am-11:15am

Online

ER&M 200

Introduction to Ethnicity, Race, and Migration

Historical roots of contemporary ethnic and racial formations and competing theories of ethnicity, race, and migration. Cultural constructions and social practices of race, ethnicity, and migration in the United States and around the world.

Alicia Schmidt Camacho

TTh

11:35am-12:50pm

Online

ECON 465

EP&E 224

GLBL 330

Debating Globalization

Facets of contemporary economic globalization, including trade, investment, and migration. Challenges and threats of globalization: inclusion and inequality, emerging global players, global governance, climate change, and nuclear weapons proliferation.

Ernesto Zedillo

M

9:25am-11:15am

Online

HIST 337

SAST 330

The Indian Ocean World

This lecture course provides a survey of the Indian Ocean’s history, from medieval to contemporary times. By foregrounding oceanic connections, the class links the histories of South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Long before the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean was “global”—it was a crossroads of trade and commerce, following the monsoon winds. We study the centuries-long movement of material culture, of cultural and religious ideas across the ocean’s arc of port cities. We examine how the Indian Ocean became a crucible of competition between empires, as Europeans hungered for its spices and fabled riches, and eventually established dominion. We examine the vast migration of people across the Indian Ocean that followed—indentured, indebted, and free migrants whose labor shaped the modern world. The legacies of that movement that can be seen to this day, in the multicultural but divided societies around the ocean’s rim. In the first half of the twentieth century, the Indian Ocean became a hotbed of political activism; anticolonial movements learned from each other and diasporas became a conduit for new political ideas about nation, race, and equality. Today the Indian Ocean is at the forefront of strategic competition between India and China; perhaps even more significantly, it stands at the front line of climate change and its growing impact. In the last part of the course, we seek to understand how both of these features of the contemporary Indian Ocean world are shaped by a deeper history. Throughout the course, we emphasize how the Indian Ocean world provides a distinctive vantage point from which to understand key processes in global history—slavery and unfree labor, the rise and fall of empires, the formation of diasporas, and massive environmental transformation.

Sunil Amrith

MW

10:30am-11:20am

Online

GLBL 376

GLBL 552

Asia Now: Human Rights, Globalization, Cultural Conflicts

This course examines contemporary and global issues in Asia (east, southeast, northeast, south), in a historical and interdisciplinary context, that include international law, policy debates, cultural issues, security, military history, media, science and technology, and cyber warfare. Course is co-taught with a guest professor.

Jing Tsu

T

3:30pm-5:20pm

Online

HMRT 100

PLSC 148

Theories, Practices, and Politics of Human Rights

Introduction to core human-rights issues, ideas, practices, and controversies. The concept of human rights as a philosophical construct, a legal instrument, a political tool, an approach to economic and equity issues, a social agenda, and an international locus of contestation and legitimation. Required for students in the Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights.

Ryan Thoreson

MW

1:30pm-2:20pm

Online

AFST 316

MMES 316

GLBL 416

PLSC 436

Public Opinion and Political Behavior in the Middle East

This course introduces students to the empirical study of Middle East and North African politics and society. Increasingly, policymakers, journalists, and experts are using new sources of data to analyze regional politics. The sources of protest and revolution, the determinants of electoral behavior, the appeal of political Islam, and the salience of identity are all questions that are amenable to data-driven analysis. In recent years, the amount of available data and the rise of publicly-available tools for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing these data have increased significantly. With a few clicks, students can now analyze the nature of support for Islamist parties across and within countries, explore the use of social media in mobilizing citizens for protest, and investigate the relationship between ethnic and communal identity and patterns of distributive politics. This course introduces students to these tools and the principles behind their use in the context of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. It encourages students to combine insights from social and political theory with the methodologies of quantitative social science to probe some of the biggest questions animating the contemporary politics of the region. The course assumes some prior knowledge of and training in technical aspects of quantitative research methods.

Daniel Tavana

MW

1pm-2:15pm

Online

MMES 364

PLSC 396

Politics of the Contemporary Middle East

This course is an overview of contemporary politics of the Middle East, and is organized thematically and (more or less) chronologically. We examine prominent explanations for the democratic deficit in the Middle East, and challenge the notion that the region is completely devoid of competitive and meaningful politics. We also explore the ways in which a variety of factors—including foreign intervention, persistent authoritarianism, oil, and Islam, among others—has affected domestic politics. We consider different aspects of domestic politics, including redistribution, gender politics, and public opinion. We end the course by building on what we learned to make sense of the 2010-2011 ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings, in an effort to understand whether these developments mark change or continuity.

Elizabeth Nugent

TTh

10:30am-11:20am

Online

ANTH 361

MMES 315

NELC 318

Decolonizing Kurdistan: People, History and Politics

This seminar explores key themes around decolonization literature and focuses on socio-political and historical developments, discussions, and current situations of the Kurds, an indigenous people of the Middle East living within the nation-state borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Their historical homeland, called Kurdistan, has been a battleground between two competing empires, the Ottomans and the Safavids, from the 16th century onwards and paved the way to the current volatile situations following the fall of these empires, the rise of nation-states, and the subsequent British and French colonization of today’s Iraq and Syria in the 19th and early 20th century. The Kurdish population is estimated around 40 to 45 million people, consisting 15 to 20 per cent of overall populations of the nation-states they live in. They are often dubbed as the biggest stateless people in the world, but overlooked and understudied by the scholars of Turkish, Iranian, and Arab Studies, despite the fact that they pose many challenges to the existing scholarship and overall nation-state and nation-building narratives surrounding them. The seminar leads to understanding of the complexities of this understudied area, at a time when the Kurds have been at the center of public and political debate in the Middle East, Europe, the USA, and beyond. It also contributes to the growing literature that looks at decolonization processes and epistemologies as well as the de-exceptionalization of the Middle East, and the Kurds, from these discussions.

Mehmet Kurt

W

1:30pm-3:20pm

Online

GLBL 620

Global Crises Response

With a special emphasis on the United States, this course explores how the international community responds to humanitarian crises and military interventions. We examine the roles and responsibilities of members of the diplomatic corps, senior military officials, nongovernmental organizations, and international financial organizations in order to understand the skill sets required for these organizations to be effective. Through readings, discussions, role-play, writing exercises, and other tools, we learn how organizations succeed and sometimes fail in assisting individuals and nations in peril. We examine emerging regional hot spots, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. We explore the challenges facing the governments, civil society organizations, and businesses in the aftermath of crises and the impact on citizens. We review the effectiveness of regional organizations like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the African Union (AU) in assisting governments rebuild and stabilize their societies. We have several role-playing simulations during which students play the role of an individual or organization responsible for briefing counterparts on key events.

Harry Thomas

Th

1:30pm-3:20pm

Online

PLSC 221

American Extremism in Comparative Perspective

This course interrogates the rise of violent extremism in the United States from a political science perspective. The course draws from research on terrorism and political violence to explain current trends in extremism. We compare made-in-America ideologies like white nationalism and the “alt-right” to extremist movements abroad, from the Red Army Faction to the Islamic State.

Nicholas Lotito

M

9:25am-11:15am

Online

GLBL 288

PLSC 465

Civil-Military Relations and Democratization

This course explores the role of the military in politics, with a focus on processes of democratization. It introduces students to concepts of civilian control, professionalization, and military intervention. The course introduces significant cases from twentieth-century history and surveys contemporary military politics. Topics include coups d’etat, responses to revolution, and democratic transition.

Nicholas Lotito

W

9:25am-11:15am

Online

Stephen Poellot

Julie Kornfeld

T

4:10 PM-6:00 PM

Online