History of the Field, Part 1

Undergraduate / Graduate

This graduate seminar explores recent work in the critical history of various academic disciplines and departments in the United States. Apart from the large-scale conditions that inform the politics of knowledge in areas of the humanities and social sciences (viz., Western imperial expansion, Cold War geopolitics, etc.), the course gives particular attention to problems of race and gender in the constitution and reproduction of institutional and disciplinary norms. Fields interrogated include Anthropology, Asian/Middle East Studies, Classics, Intellectual History, Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, South Asian Studies, and Critical University Studies.