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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

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale