Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professors: Tiya Miles & Walter Johnson Th - 12:45pm to 2:45pm This seminar will convene scholars, public-facing intellectuals, writers, and practitioners whose work falls under the broad umbrella of ecological study and care...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Sky Hopinka W - 12:45pm to 2:45pm This seminar looks at contemporary and historical documentary, narrative, and experimental films made by Indigenous filmmakers and artists. The focus is primarily on North America...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Mandy Izadi W - 3:00pm to 5:45pm The first Americans met Europeans on their shores over five hundred years ago. They made the continent theirs millennia prior. And yet, Indigenous Americans are often missing, or...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Mandy Izadi M - 12:45pm to 3:00pm The study of North America, at its root, is the study of Native America and African America. Typically, scholarship on the first Americans—and Africans and their descendants—are...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Adriana Zenteno Hopp T - 3:00pm to 5:45pm How might Montezuma, the Aztec ruler, or Atahuallpa, the Inca emperor, have told the story of their respective encounters with Europeans? Too often, indigenous voices are...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Morgan Ridgway M - 3:00pm to 5:00pm How do gender and sexuality shape Indigenous life? What does it mean for the body to be a site for both colonial violence and imaginative futures? How have constructions, ideas...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Alan Niles T - 9:45am to 11:45am Harvard’s beginnings included a promise to educate both “English and Indian youth.” From its inception, however, Harvard’s endowment included Native lands expropriated through war...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Hannah Waits Th - 3:00pm to 5:00pm This course explores the culture and politics of imperialism in the Americas from the early 19th century to the present, with particular attention to race and ethnicity. We will...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Adrienne Stang TH - 4:30pm to 7:15pm *Lottery-based Enrollment* Engaging in conversations about racism, past and present, is essential to building bridges and promoting democratic values. Many educators wish to...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Antonia Maioni W - 9:45am to 11:45am This course is an introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines key governmental institutions, the parliamentary systems, and how demands are identified...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Brenda Croft M - 3:00pm to 5:45pm Australian First Nations’ arts and cultural practices and cosmological beliefs span 60,000+ years, with Australian First Nations' Peoples standing firm in the belief that they...
Semester: Winter Offered: 2024 Professor: Halla Logadottir M-F - 9:00am to 5:00pm Climate change is transforming the Arctic region. The region is warming at least twice as fast as the global average, and as the ice retreats on the top of our planet, it is...