Teaching

 

FREE ONLINE : HarvardX Module in "The Book" : Print and Manuscript in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East (1450-1650)


CURRENT COURSES (2023-24)

FALL 2023: GenEd 1034: Texts in Transition (co-taught with Prof. Leah Whittington, English Dept)-- site for fall 2023

 Canvas site for Fall 2019canvas site for Fall 2020 / canvas site for Fall 2021

For a video about the course taped in conjunction with the Harvard Art Museum see https://vimeo.com/489490675

 

FALL 2023: History/History of Science 2120: Histories of Material objects (co-taught with Hannah Marcus, History of Science Dept)

canvas site (Fall 2023, first iteration)
 

SPRING 2024: History 97b: What is Intellectual History? canvas site for spring 2024

Canvas site for Spring 2021 / canvas site for Spring 2022

 

ALL YEAR: History 3010: reading group for graduate students preparing field exams in Early Modern intellectual/cultural, Early modern French history, and/or Book History: canvas site 2023-24

canvas site for 2021-22 / canvas site for abridged 3010 in Book History in 2022-23

 

COURSES TO BE OFFERED AGAIN SOON:

Hist 1155: Early Modern Europe -- Canvas site for Spring 2020 / Canvas site (Spring 2018)

the course was also taught in Harvard Extension School as Hist E-1156 using the same syllabus

 

RETIRED COURSES
History 1318: History of the Book and of Reading; syllabus from 2017

Canvas site (Fall 2017) /  Canvas site (Spring 2018)

also taught in Extension school as Hist E-1151
Course isite (Fall 2013) [broken link]
Course website (2006-07 academic year) [broken link]


History 1151: Early modern France, 1500-1715 (formerly History 1450)
Includes an optional extra discussion section in French.
Canvas site (unedited)

 

Culture and Belief 20: Reason and Faith in the West
(formerly Historical Studies A-27) syllabus from Fall 2016
Course website [broken link]

History 97c: What is the History of History? Sophomore Tutorial
Course website

Graduate Seminars:

History 2321/English 259 (with Leah Price, English Dept): Methods in History of the Book

syllbus from fall 2015
Course website [broken link]

History 2121: Cultural History of Early Modern Europe

syllabus from Fall 2009
Course website [broken link]

Graduate Reading Lists:

Early Modern France and Early Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History

History of the Book

Past Conference Courses and Seminars:

History 81a (formerly History 1309): History in Early Modern Europe
syllabus

History 73b: Introduction to Intellectual History
syllabus

History 90b: Sophomore Tutorial in Early Modern European History
syllabus

History 98: Junior Tutorial on the History of Harvard
syllabus

History 90d: Sophomore Tutorial in Intellectual History
syllabus

History and Literature 97: Sophomore tutorial in Early Modern Europe (full year 2000-01)
Fall syllabus
Spring syllabus

The Two Cultures: the Sciences and the Humanities in Historical Perspective (Freshman Seminar, Spring 2000)
syllabus

Educational ideals and practices, from ancient Rome to the Enlightenment (conference course, Spring 1997)
Hist 1167 syllabus

Multicultural Switzerland (Freshman Seminar, Fall 1997)
syllabus

Crisis in European Consciousness, 1680-1715 (conference course, Fall 1997)
Hist 1452 syllabus

Graduate seminar in early modern French intellectual and cultural history
Hist 2320 syllabus

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