
Graduate Courses Related to Latin America and the Carribean
2009-2010
Following is a list of courses that may be of interest to graduate students interested in Latin America and the Caribbean. Contact Jean Silk, CLAIS Program Manager, at jean.silk@yale.edu, for a list with detailed descriptions.
Students are advised to confer with the professor to confirm that the course is appropriate to your academic objectives
African American Studies
AFAM 723a/AMST 645a
Caribbean Diasporic Intellectuals
Hazel Carby
AFAM 728bu/AFST 778bu/HSAR 778bu
From West Africa to the Black Americas: The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition
Robert Thompson
AFAM 729au/HSAR 779au
New York Mambo: Microcosm of Black Creativity
Robert Thompson
AFAM 739a/AFST 781a/HSAR 781a
Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture I: Africa
Robert Thompson
AFAM 739b/AFST 781b/HSAR 781b
Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture II: The Black Americas
Robert Thompson
AFAM 749b/AMST 648b/WGSS 735b
Transnational Imaginaries
Hazel Carby
AFAM 814au/PLSC 823a
Race and Ethnicity
Khalilah Brown-Dean
[AFAM 847b/AFST 847b/CPLT 947b/FREN 947b
African-Caribbean Connections in French]
AFAM 851b/CPLT 989b/FREN 943b
Creole Identities and Fictions
Christopher L. Miller
African Studies
AFST 778bu/AFAM 728bu/HSAR 778bu
From West Africa to the Black Americas: The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition
Robert Thompson
AFST 781a/AFAM 739a/HSAR 781a
Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture I: Africa
Robert Thompson
AFST 781b/AFAM 739b/HSAR 781b
Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture II: The Black Americas
Robert Thompson
AFST 816b/REL 816b
World Christianity
Lamin Sanneh
American Studies
AMST 622a and 623b
Working Group on Globalization and Culture
Michael Denning
AMST 644a
Race and Memory
Alicia Schmidt Camacho
AMST 645a/AFAM 723a
Caribbean Diasporic Intellectuals
Hazel Carby
AMST 648b/AFAM 749b/WGSS 735b
Transnational Imaginaries
Hazel Carby
AMST 649b/HIST 763b
Readings in Latina/o History
Stephen Pitti
AMST 653b
Recording Vernacular Music
Michael Denning
AMST 741b/HIST 752b
Indians and Empires
Ned Blackhawk
AMST 775a/HIST 757a
Culture in U.S. International and Transnational Histories
Seth Fein
AMST 777b/HIST 758b
Research Seminar in U.S. International and Transnational Histories
Seth Fein
AMST 786a/HIST 744a/WGSS 744a
Readings in the History of Gender
Joanne Meyerowitz
AMST 807b/AFAM 735b
Performance Historiography
Paige McGinley
AMST 813au/FILM 736au
Contemporary Documentary Film and Video
Charles Musser
Anthropology
ANTH 501b
Anthropology and Contemporary Social Theory
Sean Brotherton
ANTH 541a/F&ES 80054a/HIST 965a/PLSC 779a
Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Peter Perdue, James Scott
ANTH 557au
Culture, Power, and Identity in the Caribbean
Sean Brotherton
ANTH 561a/F&ES 80061a
Anthropology of the Global Economy for Development and Conservation
Carol Carpenter
ANTH 569bu
Economic Anthropology
Enrique Mayer
ANTH 572b/F&ES 80176b
Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches to Environmental Perturbation and Change
Michael Dove
ANTH 582b/F&ES 83073b
Households, Communities, Gender (for Development and Conservation)
Carol Carpenter
ANTH 597a/F&ES 83056a
Social Science of Development and Conservation
Carol Carpenter
ANTH 598b/F&ES 80157b
Social Science of Development and Conservation: Advanced Readings
Carol Carpenter, Michael Dove
ANTH 674bu
Anthropologies of Insurgency
Michael McGovern
ANTH 684bu/WGSS 660bu
Men, Manhood, and Masculinity
Graeme Reid
ANTH 748u/ARCG 748u
Contemporary Archaeological Theory
Richard Burger
ANTH 774au/ARCG 774au
Origins of Peruvian Civilization
Richard Burger
Archaeological Studies
ARCG 774au/ANTH 774au
Origins of Peruvian Civilization
Richard Burger
ARCG 232b/ANTH 232b
Ancient Civilizations of the Andes
Richard Burger
Comparative Literature
CPLT 942b/SPAN 912b
The Borges Effect
Roberto González Echevarría
CPLT 962b
Latin American Intellectual Debates of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Moira Fradinger
CPLT 989b/AFAM 851b/FREN 943b
Creole Identities and Fictions
Christopher L. Miller
Economics
ECON 582a
General Economic History: Latin America
Public Health
HPA 599b/INRL 524b/PHIL 705b/PLSC 594b
Global Health Ethics, Politics, and Economics
Thomas Pogge, Jennifer Ruger
French
FREN 943b/AFAM 851b/CPLT 989b
Creole Identities and Fictions
Christopher L. Miller
History
HIST 550a
Topics in Medieval Social History
Paul Freedman
HIST 718a/INRL 622a
Social Movements in Comparative Perspective
Becky Conekin
HIST 757a/AMST 775a
Culture in U.S. International and Transnational Histories
Seth Fein
HIST 758b/AMST 777b
Research Seminar in U.S. International and Transnational Histories
Seth Fein
HIST 763b/AMST 649b
Readings in Latina/o History
Stephen Pitti
HIST 805a
Social and Cultural History of Colonial Latin America
Stuart Schwartz
HIST 812b/WGSS 752b
Race, Nation, and Imperialism in Modern Latin America
Lillian Guerra
HIST 820b
Problems in Modern Mexican History: People, State, and Nation in Historical Motion
Gilbert Joseph
HIST 930a/HSHM 701a
Problems in the History of Medicine
John Harley Warner
HIST 965a/ANTH 541a/F&ES 80054a/PLSC 779a
Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Peter Perdue, James Scott
History of Art
HSAR 744a
Aztec Art and Architecture
Barbara Mundy
HSAR 778bu/AFAM 728bu/AFST 778bu
From West Africa to the Black Americas: The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition
Robert Thompson
HSAR 779au/AFAM 729au
New York Mambo: Microcosm of Black Creativity
Robert Thompson
HSAR 781a/AFAM 739a/AFST 781a
Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture I: Africa
Robert Thompson
HSAR 781b/AFAM 739b/AFST 781b
Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture II: The Black Americas
Robert Thompson
HSHM 647bu
Medicine and Public Health in Latin America, 1820–2000
Mariola Espinosa
HSHM 730a
Disease and Medicine in the Caribbean, 1492–2000
Mariola Espinosa
International Relations
INRL 524b/HPA 599b/PHIL 705b/PLSC 594b
Global Health Ethics, Politics, and Economics
Thomas Pogge, Jennifer Ruger
INRL 525au
Global Health Research: Methodological and Ethical Considerations
Kaveh Khoshnood
INRL 528bu
Strategic Topics in Global Health
Elizabeth Bradley, Leslie Curry, Michael Skonieczny
INRL 541b
Presidentialism and the Comparative Study of Legislatures
Fernando Limongi
INRL 551b
The Politics of Institutional Choice
Fernando Limongi
INRL 565a
The Comparative Political Economy of Latin America
Marcus Andre Melo
INRL 595a/PLSC 736a
Formal Models of Comparative Politics
Thad Dunning
INRL 622a/HIST 718a
Social Movements in Comparative Perspective
Becky Conekin
INRL 640a
Democracy Promotion: Theory and Practice
Susan Hyde
INRL 707b
Emerging Markets
Allison Kingsley
INRL 730au
The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Security
Jean Krasno
Political Science
PLSC 565au/LAW 20538
Democracy and Distribution
Ian Shapiro, Michael Graetz
PLSC 620au/PHIL 656au
John Rawls on Social Justice
Thomas Pogge
International Relations
PLSC 651bu
The Balance of Power: Theory and Practice
Nuno Monteiro
PLSC 653au
Anti-Americanism in World Politics
Jessica Weiss
PLSC 654au
International Relations Theory
Nuno Monteiro
Comparative Politics
PLSC 714a
Corruption, Economic Development, and Democracy
Susan Rose-Ackerman
PLSC 736a/INRL 595a
Formal Models of Comparative Politics
Thad Dunning
PLSC 741bu
Armed Groups and Violence Patterns
Elisabeth Wood
PLSC 775bu
Patronage and Clientelism in Democratic Systems
Susan Stokes
PLSC 777a
Comparative Politics I
Elisabeth Wood
PLSC 778b
Comparative Politics II
Stathis Kalyvas
PLSC 779a/ANTH 541a/F&ES 80054a/HIST 965a
Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
James Scott, Peter Perdue, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Political Economy
PLSC 712b
Comparative Political Economy
Frances Rosenbluth
PLSC 721b/ECON 792b
Political Economy of Institutions and Development
Alexandre Debs
PLSC 920
Comparative Politics Workshop
Stathis Kalyvas
PLSC 921
Political Theory Workshop
Seyla Benhabib
PLSC 922
Order, Conflict, and Violence (OCV) Seminar Series
Stathis Kalyvas
PLSC 924
Leitner Political Economy Seminar Series
Kenneth Scheve
PLSC 926
International Relations Workshop
Bruce Russett
Religious Studies
RLST 875au/ REL 810a
Indigenous Traditions and Ecology
John Grim
Spanish and Portuguese
PORT 975bu
Brazilian Concrete Poetry
K. David Jackson
SPAN 500a
History of the Spanish Language
Kevin Poole
SPAN 815a
Spanish American Literature from the Baroque to Romanticism
Rolena Adorno
SPAN 912b/CLPT 942b
The Borges Effect
Roberto González Echevarría
SPAN 974b
Narrative and Journalism in Spanish America: Bicentennial Readings
Aníbal González