Politics

Malick W. Ghachem

Head of History

Professor of History

Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies
Christopher Capozzola

Professor of History

Elting Morison Professor

MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning
Catherine Clark

Associate Professor of History and French Studies

Director of MIT Digital Humanities
Tanalís Padilla

Professor of History

Leverett Howell Cutter ’07 and William King Cutter ’39 Professorship
Jeffrey S. Ravel

Emeritus

Professor of History
Elizabeth A. Wood

Ford International Professor of History

Subjects Offered

Offered Spring 2025

Catalog	Subject	Faculty	Level	HASS	Category
21H.201	The American Revolution T 2-5, E51-393	Marjoleine Kars	Intermediate	HASS-H

Not Offered This Term

Catalog	Subject	Faculty	Level	HASS	Category
21H.001	How to Stage a Revolution	Staff	Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.061	The History of American Presidential Elections Not offered regularly; consult department	Christopher Capozzola	Intermediate		Half term subject
21H.101	American History to 1865 Not offered regularly; consult department	Staff	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.102	American History since 1865	Staff	Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.141	Renaissance to Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800 Not offered regularly; consult department	Staff	Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.143 21G.056	The “Making” of Modern Europe: 1789 – Present	Elena Kempf	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.157	Modern South Asia	Sana Aiyar	Introductory	HASS-S
21H.170 17.55 21A.130 21G.084	Introduction to Latin American Studies	Tanalís Padilla	Introductory	HASS-S	CI-H
21H.173	Socialism in Latin America, from Che Guevara to Hugo Chavez	Tanalís Padilla	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.181 17.035	Libertarianism	Malick W. Ghachem	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.187	US Environmental Governance: from National Parks to the Green New Deal	Megan A. Black	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.203	The History of American Presidential Elections Not offered regularly; consult department	Christopher Capozzola	Intermediate	HASS-S
21H.211	The United States in the Cold War Era Not offered regularly; consult department	Caley Horan	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.213 17.28	The War at Home: American Politics and Society in Wartime	Christopher Capozzola Adam Berinsky	Intermediate	HASS-S
21H.214	War and American Society Not offered regularly; consult department	Christopher Capozzola	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.227	History of the US Supreme Court Not offered regularly; consult department	Christopher Capozzola	Intermediate	HASS-S
21H.245 21G.086 17.57	Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 1917 to the Present	Elizabeth A. Wood	Intermediate	HASS-S	CI-H
21H.260	Cities in the Middle East: History, Politics and Society Not offered regularly; consult department	Staff	Intermediate	HASS-S
21H.262	Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict	Pouya Alimagham	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.319	Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law	Malick W. Ghachem	Seminar	HASS-S
21H.320	Gender and the Law in US History Not offered regularly; consult department	Christopher Capozzola	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.381 WGS.222	Women and War	Lerna Ekmekcioglu	Seminar	HASS-S
21H.388 U 21H.988 G	Global Commodities, American Dreams	Megan A. Black	Graduate Seminar	HASS-H

Politics

Malick W. Ghachem

Christopher Capozzola

Catherine Clark

Tanalís Padilla

Jeffrey S. Ravel

Elizabeth A. Wood

Subjects Offered

Offered Spring 2025

The American Revolution

Not Offered This Term

How to Stage a Revolution

The History of American Presidential Elections

American History to 1865

American History since 1865

Renaissance to Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800

The “Making” of Modern Europe: 1789 – Present

Modern South Asia

Introduction to Latin American Studies

Socialism in Latin America, from Che Guevara to Hugo Chavez

Libertarianism

US Environmental Governance: from National Parks to the Green New Deal

The History of American Presidential Elections

The United States in the Cold War Era

The War at Home: American Politics and Society in Wartime

War and American Society

History of the US Supreme Court

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 1917 to the Present

Cities in the Middle East: History, Politics and Society

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law

Gender and the Law in US History

Women and War

Global Commodities, American Dreams

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