Courses

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Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.010.327 (01)	Asia America: Art and Architecture	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This course examines a set of case studies spanning the last century that will enable us to explore the shifting landscape of Asian transnational art and architecture. Each week will focus on a different artist, group, exhibition, architect, urban space, or site to unpack artistsʼ and architectsʼ engagements with the changing landscape of immigration policies, movements to build solidarity with other artists of color, and campaigns for gender and sexual equality. The course will situate these artists within American art, and build an expansive idea of Asia America to include the discussion of artists whose work directly addresses fluidity of location and transnational studio practice. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.070.318 (01)	Black Atlantic Worlds	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Angelini, Alessandro; White, Alexandre Ilani Rein	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar explores the formation of Black Atlantic worlds through a selection of historical and ethnographic texts, material artifacts, and films. We will encounter familiar themes of slavery, revolution, commodity production, and imperial power recast in the minor key of the Black experience. Exploring major works by anthropologists, particularly key figures from Johns Hopkins, the course also examines how studies of transatlantic movements have reshaped our very understanding of history and culture, not simply as static or official forms but as fields of contention. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/18 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI, CES-BM
AS.100.107 (01)	History of the Global War on Terror	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Hodson 316; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: The United States and its allies launched the Global War on Terror in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack. But it quickly exceeded the scope of neutralizing al-Qaeda, the organization behind that attack, leading to military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and across numerous countries in Africa and elsewhere. This course will examine the historical background of the Global War on Terror, including its relationship to prior stages of colonialism and the Cold War. It will delve into the post-9/11 wars and examine the relationship between US foreign policy and regional politics in Asia and Africa. This course is sequential to AS.100.106, The History of the Global Cold War, though that course is not a prerequisite. This course will introduce students to concepts and methods in the study of recent history, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-MIDEST, CDS-EWC, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.107 (02)	History of the Global War on Terror	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Hodson 316; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: The United States and its allies launched the Global War on Terror in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack. But it quickly exceeded the scope of neutralizing al-Qaeda, the organization behind that attack, leading to military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and across numerous countries in Africa and elsewhere. This course will examine the historical background of the Global War on Terror, including its relationship to prior stages of colonialism and the Cold War. It will delve into the post-9/11 wars and examine the relationship between US foreign policy and regional politics in Asia and Africa. This course is sequential to AS.100.106, The History of the Global Cold War, though that course is not a prerequisite. This course will introduce students to concepts and methods in the study of recent history, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-MIDEST, CDS-EWC, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.119 (01)	Introduction to U.S. Immigration History and Law	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Lim, Julian	Hodson 313	Spring 2026	Description: Many Americans celebrate the United States as a “nation of immigrants,” but defining which immigrants to include and exclude in the nation has always been a contentious process. This course will put some of today’s immigration debates in historical perspective, examining how past Americans debated questions about the “fitness” of immigrants for freedom and citizenship, and how those debates in turn shaped immigrant experiences, the law, and American identity. Topics that we will cover include colonialism and slavery; immigrant labor; families; gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality; immigration law; borders and deportation; refugees and asylum seekers; and citizenship and belonging. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/30 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP, CES-RI, CES-LC, CES-BM, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.171 (01)	Europe since 1945	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Bloomberg 274	Spring 2026	Description: This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as the Cold War, the European welfare state, Europe’s volatile relations with the US and the Soviet Union/ Russia, decolonization, 1989 and neoliberalism, racism, European integration and the role of the European Union in international politics. Expect to spend 25% of class time in group work, where we discuss the assigned literature, movies, documentaries, textual and visual primary sources. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/45 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, CDS-MB, CDS-SSMC, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.225 (01)	Mansa Musa’s Gold: the History of African Muslims	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Thiam, Madina	Krieger 307	Spring 2026	Description: Today about one third of the world’s Muslims live in Africa, a continent where Islam has a long history. This course follows African Muslims as they traveled and migrated, built communities and states, produced literature and scholarship, and contended with slavery and empire. Our historical investigations will take us all over the African continent as well as across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, following the paths of African Muslim pilgrims, scholars, slaves, soldiers, merchants, rulers, and revolutionaries. No prerequisites needed. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/20 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.322 (01)	Asian Americans and the Law	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Lim, Julian	Shaffer 301	Spring 2026	Description: This course will explore the prominent role that Asian Americans have played in U.S. legal history. Paying close attention to the relationship between immigration, citizenship, law, and society, we will dive more deeply into the legal histories of numerous groups of Asian descent in the American past and present. We will also place these experiences within the more heterogeneous and complicated landscape of race relations in the United States, as well as considering international relations and transnational connections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-ASIA, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.412 (01)	Baltimore, Basketball, and the Legacy of Bentalou	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: In this community-engaged sports history seminar, we partner with co-educator Coach Paul Franklin and an after-school youth basketball program in Bentalou, West Baltimore, founded in 1970. This class provides crucial lessons about US and sports history in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will study the history of urban planning, public health, law and order, and politics in Baltimore through the lens of this program and seek to better understand its significance for the community. Our group is tasked with researching the program’s evolution: we will speak with experts, sports figures, organizers and community leaders in the city, conduct interviews with past and current players, coaches, and supporters, explore relevant archives, newspapers, photos and film. Expect 90% group work and, instead of class, attend some U10 & U12 games. Collectively, we will decide on the deliverables to be presented to parents and players at the end-of-the-season celebration in April. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-EWC, CDS-SSMC
AS.100.423 (01)	History of the Carceral State	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: This course will cover the state of the field in the history of the carceral state in the United States. It will cover key texts from the past few decades, as well as some of the latest works, on policing, surveillance, incarceration, migrant detention, border control and deportation, etc. Some works in the fields of Law, Political Science, Sociology, and Geography may also be included. Students will write an essay on the field in this course. Open to advanced undergraduates by permission of instructor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-EWC, CES-LC, CES-RI
AS.190.337 (01)	Politics of the Korean Diaspora	T 4:00PM - 6:30PM	Chung, Erin	Krieger 308	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar explores some of the core questions in the study of citizenship, migration, and racial and ethnic politics through the lens of Korean diasporic populations in the United States, Japan, China, and the former Soviet Union. We will examine how immigration, citizenship, and minority policies have structured and constrained the relationship of Korean communities to both the receiving and sending states. As a diasporic group, is there a collective self-identification among members of Korean communities that transcends territorial, hemispheric, linguistic, and cultural differences? Or is the Korean ethnic identity more a reflection of racial and ethnic politics in the receiving society? What factors determine the assimilability of a particular group at a given historical moment? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: INST-CP, CDS-MB, POLI-CP
AS.190.411 (01)	The Politics of Political Surveillance	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Luff, Jennifer D	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Description: Mass political surveillance is a hallmark of modern life. All contemporary regimes practice some form of surveillance. Yet the politics of surveillance vary. This seminar investigates the technologies, purposes, and significance of political surveillance in the 20th century in different polities. We will explore perspectives on surveillance from various approaches—historical, sociological, anthropological, and in political science. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: POLI-CP, CDS-EWC, CES-LSO, CES-TI, INST-CP
AS.215.427 (01)	The African Diaspora in Early Modern Iberia	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Johnson, Paul Michael	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Description: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain was home to a sizeable Black African, Afro-diasporic, and Afro-descendant population that scholarship has only recently begun to acknowledge substantively. The historical legacy of these communities reveals that Afro-Iberians, enslaved as well as free, experienced often violent forms of racial discrimination and oppression, but that they also contributed meaningfully to a shared cultural landscape of art, literature, drama, dance, and music. Early modern writers of fiction likewise depicted Afro-diasporic characters not only as servants but also as sovereigns, soldiers, scholars, and saints. This advanced undergraduate seminar will grapple with these ambivalences by surveying a wide, multidisciplinary range of cultural products. In surveying the historical and literary complexities of the African diaspora in early modern Iberia, we will ask how these communities were subjected to the violence of empire, colonialism, racism, human trafficking, and enslavement, while at the same time generating creative vectors of pride, freedom, agency, and resistance. Class will be conducted in Spanish. (If AS.210.311 has not been taken, the student may submit an SPE score: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/spanish-and-portuguese/undergraduate/get-started/) Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: MLL-SPAN, INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, CDS-MB, CES-BM, CES-RI
AS.220.213 (01)	Community-Based Learning: Incarceration, Reentry, and Personal Storytelling	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Robinson, Shannon L	Gilman 138D	Spring 2026	Description: The United States incarcerates more people than any other democratic country in the world; Baltimore City has the highest incarceration rate in Maryland, with 1 in every 100 residents locked up in a state prison. In this publicly-engaged course, students will learn about mass incarceration in the United States—its history, its dysfunction, and its current impact on the Baltimore community. In addition to reading and reflecting on personal narratives from the American Prison Writing Archive (housed at the JHU Sheridan Libraries), we will interact with organizers, activists, educators, and writers working with and on behalf of currently and formerly incarcerated people. In partnership with a Baltimore reentry program serving formerly incarcerated women, students will perform interviews and assist individual memoir projects. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: CSC-CE, CDS-EWC, AGRI-ELECT
AS.220.220 (01)	Reading Korean Literature in Translation: A Survey	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kim, Kyeong-Soo	Mergenthaler 431	Spring 2026	Description: An introduction for students unfamiliar with the Korean language but interested in Korean culture / literature. Students will read a variety of translated texts, especially of works written in the 20th and early 21st centuries by authors including Kim Tong-in, Hwang Sun-wŏn, Pak Wansŏ, Hwang Sŏk-yŏng and Han Kang; there will also be classes on traditional sijo poetry. Students will become familiar with Korean literary genres and formal features, and develop a broad understanding of the historical and sociocultural context of Korean literature. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ, CDS-MB
AS.300.412 (01)	Indigenous Ecologies: Thinking with Indigenous Worldviews	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	El Guabli, Brahim	Mergenthaler 431	Spring 2026	Description: Indigenous people represent an important share of planet Earth’s inhabitants. Totaling almost 500 million people in the entire world, Indigenous people speak a variety of languages, produce knowledge in their mother tongues, and have deep connections to their lands and cultures. However, neither their demographic significance nor their long histories spared them the tragedies of settler colonialism and its aftermaths of dispossession, exclusion, and segregation. Since the early twentieth century, Indigenous people have been at the helm of a Global Indigeneity Movement that has mobilized both scholarship and activism in search of a better world. Despite their best efforts, the rich histories of indigenous activism, environmental practices, and cultural production as well as the worldviews they sustain remain confined to very limited circles. Building on the notion of "indigenous ecologies," which spans a wide range of approaches and fields, this course will interrogate some of the salient questions related to activism, literature, translation, extraction, environmentalism, and social justice from the perspective of Indigenous creators. Students will engage with materials produced by Indigenous thinkers, filmmakers, activists, and academic scholars to gain a deeper understanding of indigeneity across cultures and continents as well as the myriad critical ways in which its proponents approach pressing issues that face Indigenous peoples from myriad perspectives and positionalities. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/12 Tags: ENVS-MAJOR, CDS-GI, MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MINOR, CTAL-TEXT
AS.305.270 (01)	African Perspectives in Planetary Health	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Blanks Jones, Jasmine	Bloomberg 276	Spring 2026	Description: This community-based learning course is in partnership with Baltimore Green Justice Workers Cooperative and the African School of Storytelling in Arusha, Tanzania. In centering African perspectives on human-environment interaction, students are challenged to reimagine how we can live, work and play in beautiful places. Through partnerships with Baltimore farmers and environmental justice advocates and Tanzanian filmmakers and research artists, students come together with local and global communities to advance solutions to conserve the natural beauty all around us. Through a focus on water, food, and education, students will be able to connect the increasing climate challenges to everyday public health impacts on communities. Indigenous communities across Africa have grappled with changing climatic environments for centuries and have built adaptive cultural strategies to sustain the health of their communities. Students will explore the affective and sensorial dimensions of planetary health through topics including: water conservation, food as medicine, and land rights. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: CDS-GI, CDS-SSMC, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, CSC-CE
AS.305.288 (01)	The Aesthetics of Resistance	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Todarello, Josh	Krieger 307	Spring 2026	Description: This course surveys the stories and storytellers of key moments of resistance or revolution, such as the 1848 Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution, the 1968 Student Movement, Occupy, Arab Spring, and Women Life Freedom. We will critically examine how such moments are, or become, narratives and how, as such, they may or may not acquire afterlives. To this end we will investigate a variety of materials, produced from a variety of points of view: the press, participants, observers, commentators, instigators, theorists, and those reconstructing the events after the fact as histories or fictions. Key themes include notions of personhood, citizenship, solidarity, equality, and futurity, as well as the aesthetics of how social uprisings are represented in a variety of media. Readings might include texts by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Alejo Carpentier, C.L.R James, Peter Weiss, Manuel Puig, Carlos Fuentes, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Audre Lorde, Joshua Clover, and others. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: CDS-SSMC
AS.389.305 (01)	Oral History: Recording Voices Today for the Archives of Tomorrow	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Roome, Kristine	Gilman 10	Spring 2026	Description: Oral Histories are a means by which history is both generated and preserved. Talking to and recording people in their own voices is immensely valuable but also brings challenges. This course equips students with the theoretical framework, methods and an awareness of the ethics of making and interpreting oral histories and provides hands-on experience researching, designing and creating an archival record of our time to professional standards. Our project focuses on Baltimore's Confederate monuments. We will interview key stakeholders in debates that led to their removal and in ongoing conversations about what to do with them now. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/10 Tags: MSCH-HUM, CDS-SSMC, ARCH-RELATE
AS.389.314 (01)	Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Dean, Gabrielle		Spring 2026	Description: This course addresses the historic role of the African American cemetery as sacred and political space, with important links to other Black institutions. Operating in partnership with Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, owned and operated by the Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, we will visit the cemetery and related locations in Baltimore throughout the semester. Our collective goal is to research and share stories that further the interests of these important and vulnerable sites. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 8/8 Tags: PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM, CDS-SSMC
AS.389.445 (01)	The Political Lives of Dead Bodies	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Hester, Jessica Leigh; Lans, Aja Marie	Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: Taking its name from the work of scholar Katherine Verdery, who investigates why and how certain corpses took on a political life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, this course examines ways that human bodies have been collected, displayed, concealed and disappeared across cemeteries, museums, universities and other sites. We will trace various valuations (and devaluations) imposed on bodies across the life course and examine how some bodies are made to matter more than others in both life and death. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives across anthropology, Black studies, history of medicine and more, we will engage with case studies from across the globe, from the 18th century to the present day. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, CDS-SSMC, ARCH-ARCH, MSCH-HUM
AS.060.320 (01)	Coming to America: The West Indian Immigrant Novel	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Wellington, Shalima Z	Gilman 55	Fall 2026	Description: At various points in the twentieth century, the United States saw large numbers of immigrants from the British West Indies. As these immigrants settled, they began to form communities and develop literature that reflected their experiences in their new home. With special attention to the novel, this course examines how this literature tackled the complicated relationship between race, immigration, and citizenship. To investigate this relationship, this course may examine novels like Claude McKay's Home to Harlem, Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones, Elizabeth Nuñez's Beyond the Limbo Silence, and Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/15 Tags: ENGL-GLOBAL, CDS-MB
AS.061.201 (01)	Intermediate Digital Production: Mitigation Video	Th 10:00AM - 1:00PM	Bae, Wonjung	The Centre 218	Fall 2026	Description: In this course, you will produce a 7–10 minute mitigation video to be used in a Maryland resentencing hearing as part of the state’s Decarceration Initiative. Working in a two-person Maysles-style camera/mic unit ideally one film student and one social science student as a team, you will collaborate with Maryland Office of the Public Defender attorneys and social workers to interview an incarcerated client inside a correctional facility, document the lives of their family and community members, and craft a character-driven narrative grounded in care, accuracy, and ethical responsibility. The class is designed to conduct an intensive 10-day production outside of class consisting of: 1 day Orientation at the Baltimore City Office of the Public Defender + 2 days on-site pre-production + 4 days Primary filming + 2 days Pick-up shoots + 1 day Community screening for fact-checking and final consent. Throughout the semester, you will complete weekly production assignments, maintain professional communication with stakeholders, and develop a legal, sociological, and human understanding of how individual life histories are shaped by structural forces such as race, class, policing, and incarceration. Students who have completed at least one of the following will be given priority: AS.061.150, AS.061.152, AS.100.423, AS.220.213, AS.362.204, AS.362.127, AS.191.365, AS.145.360, AS.360.111, AS.060.315, AS.362.115, AS.362.335, AS.190.300. Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 2/8 Tags: FILM-PROD, CDS-EWC
AS.070.345 (01)	Violence, Race and the Unruly Body	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Mohamed, Sabine	Mergenthaler 439	Fall 2026	Description: What is violence? Ubiquitous as a concept, it remains difficult to define both its essences and boundaries. How do we distinguish between criminality, organized, and unorganized violence? Is violence the antithesis of society, or a central component of it? In this course, we will disscuss the concept of violence, the challenges of writing about it and explore the potentials that emerge from bodies subjugated to racialized/gendered forms of violence. We will examine a number of different ethnographic spaces, including genocide in Rwanda, conflict resolution among the Nuer, the concept of criminality in Indonesia, largescale massacres in Thailand, and police violence in the United States Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: INST-CP
AS.100.111 (01)	Making America: Blacks in the Twentieth Century	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Connolly, Nathan D	Shaffer 306	Fall 2026	Description: This survey course explores the role of African-descended people and social-political responses directed at those people in the development of modern American society. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 34/48 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-SSMC
AS.100.160 (01)	Colonial Latin America	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Luis, Diego Javier	Gilman 132; Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: The colonial period in Latin America was one of dynamic collision and convergence, drastic ruptures and surprising continuities. The several hundred years between the early invasions and Latin American independence are often dismissed as blank pages of Baroque stagnation, glacial change, and economic decadence. These assumptions, though, are misleading, for at the crossroads of the Atlantic and Pacific, Latin America was at the center of the early modern world. In this course, we investigate not only the violence of conquest and enslavement, but also how Indigenous and Afro-diasporic peoples adapted to new colonial realities. In so doing, we will see how the limitations (not dominance) of European influence defined the development of multiethnic societies in the hemisphere. Our timeframe covers from the consolidation of the Mexica and Inca empires in the early 1400s to the period just before the wars of independence in the early 19th century. We will also pay attention to the difficulty of defining (if at all possible) the “end” of the colonial period, and during the last weeks of the semester, we will consider the lingering presence of the colonial past in the 21st century. Overall, the course uses close analysis of primary- and secondary-source documents to examine the broader processes of invasion, religion, hierarchy, rebellion, liminality, and memory. In the evaluation of each topic, we will consider diverse perspectives, such as those of enslaved Africans, Indigenous intellectuals, women, mestizos, and Iberian newcomers. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 19/19 Tags: HIST-LATAM, CDS-GI, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.160 (02)	Colonial Latin America	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Luis, Diego Javier	Gilman 132; Maryland 114	Fall 2026	Description: The colonial period in Latin America was one of dynamic collision and convergence, drastic ruptures and surprising continuities. The several hundred years between the early invasions and Latin American independence are often dismissed as blank pages of Baroque stagnation, glacial change, and economic decadence. These assumptions, though, are misleading, for at the crossroads of the Atlantic and Pacific, Latin America was at the center of the early modern world. In this course, we investigate not only the violence of conquest and enslavement, but also how Indigenous and Afro-diasporic peoples adapted to new colonial realities. In so doing, we will see how the limitations (not dominance) of European influence defined the development of multiethnic societies in the hemisphere. Our timeframe covers from the consolidation of the Mexica and Inca empires in the early 1400s to the period just before the wars of independence in the early 19th century. We will also pay attention to the difficulty of defining (if at all possible) the “end” of the colonial period, and during the last weeks of the semester, we will consider the lingering presence of the colonial past in the 21st century. Overall, the course uses close analysis of primary- and secondary-source documents to examine the broader processes of invasion, religion, hierarchy, rebellion, liminality, and memory. In the evaluation of each topic, we will consider diverse perspectives, such as those of enslaved Africans, Indigenous intellectuals, women, mestizos, and Iberian newcomers. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 19/19 Tags: HIST-LATAM, CDS-GI, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.233 (01)	History of Modern Germany	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Hodson 313	Fall 2026	Description: There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role within Europe and the world from the 18th century, through imperialism, WWI and WWII, the Cold War to German unification, the ‘Refugee Crisis’, the rise of the AfD, and EU politics today. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/35 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-GERM, MLL-ENGL, CDS-MB, CES-BM, CES-PD
AS.100.386 (01)	Sports History of the Cold War	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Gilman 308	Fall 2026	Description: This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports constructed, reinforced, and challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview JHU alumni and former athletes who made a career out of sports. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, CDS-MB, MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.190.304 (01)	Latinos and the American Political Landscape	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Bautista-Chavez, Angie M.	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: This course examines Latinos and the American political landscape – taking seriously the political lives of Latinos to sharpen accounts of American political development. In Part I: Latinos and American Empire, we will examine how American state building, American racial capitalism, and American empire created a varied set of racialized citizenship regimes that shaped the legality and membership of Latinos – depending on the interplay between domestic racial hierarchies and international projects. In Part II: Latinos and the Administrative State, we will examine how the regulation of Latino immigrants and asylum seekers from Latin America and the Caribbean have been an engine for American political development – including the making of border bureaucracies, networked policing that harnesses the institution of federalism, and the development of ocean-spanning detention infrastructure. In Part III: Latinos as Targets, we will examine how Latinos became racialized as ‘illegals’ and became the prime targets of state action – and how state efforts have led to the suppressing of political agency, mobilization of collective action, and even integration of Latinos into the enforcement apparatus. In Part IV: Latinos, Hierarchies, and Power, we will examine the political power of those most marginalized among the Latino population – including Black, Trans, Queer, Immigrant, and Undocumented Latinos – to learn about how these groups contend with intragroup and intergroup hierarchies, their role in intersectional movements, and their organizing under repressive conditions. In Part V: Latinos and Placemaking, we conclude with Latino placemaking across the United States to examine how Latinos – in relation with and to, and in coalition with Black, Indigenous, and Asian organizing – are cultivating and asserting political and policy influence in the face of climate change, policing, detention, and gentrification. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-AP, CES-LSO, CES-PD, CES-RI, POLI-AP
AS.190.402 (01)	Environmental Racism	W 2:00PM - 4:30PM	Brendese, PJ Joseph	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2026	Description: This course is an advanced undergraduate political theory seminar that examines the disproportionate impact of environmental destruction on racially stigmatized populations. Environmental racism has largely been understood in terms of environmental policy-making that discriminates against people of color, particularly with respect to the state-sanctioned siting of toxic waste facilities, the distribution of pollutants, food-deserts, and the exclusion of non-white peoples from leading positions in the environmental movement. In this seminar, we will explore environmental racism more broadly, pushing beyond its conventional, place-based understandings and approaching the corresponding logics that produce human disposability and environmental waste from the standpoint of both space and time. Examining colonial legacies of coding racial others in terms natural disasters, epidemics, infestations, non-human animals, and dirt, we shall investigate how the natural world is subjected to exploitation and domination in tandem with the subordination of racial subjects historically identified with nature and rendered expendable. In other words, we shall illuminate the logics of power through which race-making coincides with waste-making. Accordingly, we will explore political and theoretical challenges to environmental racism in multiple registers, such as those posed by Indigenous communities, decolonial thinkers and Afro-diasporic theories contesting the intersection of racial biopolitics and ecological crises. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/10 Tags: INST-PT, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, CDS-GI, CES-LE, CES-RI
AS.190.403 (01)	Bureaucracy and the American Political Landscape	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Bautista-Chavez, Angie M.	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2026	Description: In this course, we will revisit canonical understandings of the American bureaucracy as a provider of public goods and as accountable to elected officials within a system of democratic governance. The course will examine the role and operation of the executive branch bureaucracy across key phases of American political development. In Part I: Expansion, we will examine the role of the bureaucracy in territorial consolidation and the overseas expansion of the American state. In Part II: Removals, we will examine the role of the bureaucracy in managing populations. In Part III: Surveillance, we will examine the role of the bureaucracy in monitoring and surveilling citizens and noncitizens alike. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/10 Tags: POLI-AP, CDS-EWC, CDS-MB, CES-BM, CES-PD, CES-LSO, INST-AP
AS.190.437 (01)	Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Weaver, Vesla Mae	Gilman 55	Fall 2026	Description: Race has been and continues to be centrally important to American political life and development. In this course, we will engage with the major debates around racial politics in the United States, with a substantial focus on how policies and practices of citizenship, immigration law, social provision, and criminal justice policy shaped and continue to shape racial formation, group-based identities, and group position; debates around the content and meaning of political representation and the responsiveness of the political system to American minority groups; debates about how racial prejudice has shifted and its importance in understanding American political behavior; the prospects for contestation or coalitions among groups; the “struggle with difference” within groups as they deal with the interplay of race and class, citizenship status, and issues that disproportionately affect a subset of their members; and debates about how new groups and issues are reshaping the meaning and practice of race in the United States. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: INST-AP, POLI-IR, CES-LSO, AGRI-ELECT, CDS-SSMC, HIST-LAW
AS.191.354 (01)	The Global Politics of Migration and Mobilities	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Engelhard, Alice	Bloomberg 172	Fall 2026	Description: From pirates to settlers, enslaved people to nomads, tourists to migrants, global politics are made by the overlapping routes of people on the move, and by attempts to put some people on the move, while containing others in place. In an international world order of nation-states constituted through histories of mobility, questions of movement are amongst the most pressing political issues facing students of international relations. The course will explore some of these questions through engagement with academic texts as well as fiction, film, and archival materials, to ask: What does the study of world politics look like if movement is treated as a primary rather than an exceptional condition? How do contemporary regimes of (im)mobility function to put some people on the move, and attempt to contain others in place? How do processes of colonization and decolonization unfold through questions of mobility? How are questions of belonging framed in relation to movement and stasis, for example, in relation to those rendered ‘migrants’ and ‘natives’? Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/15 Tags: INST-IR, CES-BM
AS.215.318 (01)	Race, Migration, and Diaspora in Premodern Spain	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Johnson, Paul Michael	Gilman 413	Fall 2026	Description: Migrant and diasporic communities transformed medieval and early modern Spanish society. Focusing on Jews and conversos, Muslims and moriscos, and enslaved and free Afro-Europeans, this course trains a critical eye on early racialized systems that policed various boundaries of difference. Through legal documents, literature, and visual culture, students will grapple with the complex intersections of religious persecution, economic opportunity, and imperial expansion. By analyzing how premodern diasporic communities navigated social hierarchies, we will attempt to understand how migration and displacement shaped enduring racial and national identities, as well as how an array of cultural products both reinforced and challenged official ideologies. Class will be conducted in Spanish. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: CES-BM, CES-LSO, CES-RI
AS.220.220 (01)	Reading Korean Literature in Translation: A Survey	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kim, Kyeong-Soo	Gilman 75	Fall 2026	Description: An introduction for students unfamiliar with the Korean language but interested in Korean culture / literature. Students will read a variety of translated texts, especially of works written in the 20th and early 21st centuries by authors including Kim Tong-in, Hwang Sun-wŏn, Pak Wansŏ, Hwang Sŏk-yŏng and Han Kang; there will also be classes on traditional sijo poetry. Students will become familiar with Korean literary genres and formal features, and develop a broad understanding of the historical and sociocultural context of Korean literature. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ
AS.230.388 (01)	Caribbean Baltimore	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Edwards, Zophia	Bloomberg 178	Fall 2026	Description: Caribbean immigrants have long been an integral part of Baltimore’s rich and diverse Black community, shaping the city’s neighborhoods, politics, culture, and movements for justice. In this community-based learning course, students will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of Caribbean immigrants in Baltimore, with particular attention to migrants from the Anglophone Caribbean. Moving beyond the classroom, students will engage directly with Caribbean activists, educators, artists, and cultural workers whose lives and labor animate the city. Through oral history interviews, ethical and reflexive community engagement, and justice-driven archival practices, students will gain hands-on experience researching and co-creating an archival record of Caribbean immigrant life in Baltimore. This course is taught in partnership with Nati Kamau-Nataki of Everyone’s Place Bookstore and African Cultural Center. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/10 Tags: CDS-SSMC, CDS-MB, CSC-CE
AS.230.430 (01)	Sociology of Policing and Resistance in Race-Class Subjugated Communities	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Weaver, Vesla Mae	Mergenthaler 431	Fall 2026	Description: Policing has become a primary way that many Americans see and experience government, particularly those from race-class subjugated communities, and has been a site of resistance and freedom struggles since the first Reconstruction. In this undergraduate seminar, we will survey key debates around policing and social movements, with a particular focus on research that takes institutional development, history, and racial orders seriously. A core preoccupation of this course will be to understand the ways in which policing “makes race” and how debates about crime, surveillance, and safety were often debates about black inclusion and equality. We will explore changes in the racial logics of policing over time, debates over how policing helped construct the racial order, and the consequences of several shifts in policing for communities. From broken windows policing in New York to the emergence of the new vagrancy-style banishment laws in urban Seattle to the men who live under constant surveillance in Philadelphia and to the large share of blacks in Ferguson with outstanding warrants for ‘failure to appear”, these policies and policing regimes have helped remake the government in the eyes of the urban poor. How does exposure to criminal justice interventions shape political learning, racial lifeworlds, and community social capital? The course will include a range of methods (ethnography, historical analysis, quantitative and qualitative). Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/12 Tags: CDS-EWC, CES-LC, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.305.246 (01)	Out of Place: Diasporic Stories, Real and Imagined	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Todarello, Josh	Gilman 381	Fall 2026	Description: How do displaced people turn their experiences into stories? What can narratives of displacement teach us about the formation of individual and collective memory, the construction of personhood, and the placeness of diaspora, at once real and imagined? In this seminar, we examine the facts, fables, and fictions of displacement to and from the United States as constructed in literature, film, visual art, popular media, and personal accounts. Our investigations may include Chinese labor on the transcontinental railroad; Germans fleeing fascism in Los Angeles; Black Americans’ self-exile; forced displacement after Hurricane Katrina; Latin American immigration; and migration patterns in Silicon Valley. Working though these events, we will map differences and commonalities in modes of displacement and analyze the structure and quality of their narratives. Theoretical texts will orient and deepen our investigations; these may include works by Homi Bhabha, Richard Wright, Mike Davis, Cherríe Moraga, Fred Moten, Louise Pratt, Theodor Adorno. Student assignments will present opportunities for informal and formal writing and small group collaborations. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: CDS-MB, CDS-SSMC, CES-RI, CES-LC, CES-BM
AS.305.336 (01)	Insurgency and Counterinsurgency	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Bloomberg 278	Fall 2026	Description: The term “counterinsurgency” is typically associated with the disastrous US wars in Vietnam or Iraq. But is counterinsurgency always doomed to fail and insurgency guaranteed to succeed? This course will give students an overview of key literature in counterinsurgency and internal security, as well as representative literature produced by and for insurgents, revolutionaries, and guerrillas/terrorists. A central task will be to define these vexed terms and track their shifting meaning over time, including the importance of cultural, racial, and gendered significations to those definitions. The course will also include a large-scale simulation of an insurgency and efforts to control or extinguish it, comprising the student assignments and requiring active participation of every student in the course. Each student will be assigned roles that will require specific creative actions. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/20 Tags: CDS-EWC
AS.305.350 (01)	Immigrant Justice and Resources Lab	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lim, Julian	SNF Agora 107	Fall 2026	Description: This seminar offers students an opportunity to combine historical research skills and community engagement for real-world, public impact. Through collaborative research and partnering with an immigrant justice organization, students in the seminar will gain a deeper understanding of immigration history, gather and analyze research for community stakeholders, and transform scholarly discussions into applicable resources for use in immigrant rights and justice cases today. Students who wish to take this course should have previously enrolled in at least one course covering immigration, but that is not a formal prerequisite. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: CDS-MB, CSC-CE, HIST-LAW
AS.305.510 (01)	Independent Study		Angelini, Alessandro		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (02)	Independent Study		Bautista-Chavez, Angie M.		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (03)	Independent Study		Han, Clara		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (04)	Independent Study		Chung, Erin		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (05)	Independent Study		Furstenberg, Francois		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (06)	Independent Study		Hickman, Jared W		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (07)	Independent Study		Crisostomo, Johaina Katinka		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (08)	Independent Study		Lim, Julian		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (09)	Independent Study		Gil'Adí, Maia		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (10)	Independent Study		Pandey, Nandini		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (11)	Independent Study		Connolly, Nathan D		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (12)	Independent Study		Brendese, PJ Joseph		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (13)	Independent Study		Schrader, Stuart Laurence		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (14)	Independent Study		Weaver, Vesla Mae		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.305.510 (15)	Independent Study		Edwards, Zophia		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.389.201 (01)	Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Kingsley, Jennifer P	Gilman 219	Fall 2026	Description: This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 16/25 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE, CDS-SSMC