
Douglas Ambrose
Douglas Ambrose’s interests include early America, the Old South and U.S. religious history.
Your studies will cultivate an understanding of the present that is informed by history. Expect to write extensively: Your courses will help you develop sophisticated writing and speaking skills. You also will hone an ability to think critically about complex issues and events of the past. And you’ll learn to conduct research, maybe even collaborating with a professor during the summer.
At Hamilton, history is a passionate struggle to understand the human past. Whether you are tracing the spread of Buddhism from India to Japan or exploring the intertwining of peoples and economies across the Atlantic world, the study of history is about understanding people, cultures and places as they change through time.
The professors at Hamilton will teach you that history is not irrelevant – that it is in fact a living enterprise with tangible consequences for civic life and citizenship in the 21st century.
Jacob Sheetz-Willard ’12 — history major
Hamilton history grads have moved on to careers in teaching, law, medicine, journalism, public policy and many other fields.
Douglas Ambrose’s interests include early America, the Old South and U.S. religious history.
Pankhuree Dube did archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in central India.
John Eldevik holds the Licence in Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
Grant is a historian of modern Britain and Ireland, European imperialism, and international humanitarianism.
Maurice Isserman's newest book, Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering, was published by Norton.
Shoshana Keller focuses on Soviet and Central Asian history and has written on the Stalinist campaign against Islam, women and women's education, and the creation of Soviet Uzbek history.
Alfred Kelly is researching a book on the legacy of the Franco-Prussian War.
Faiza Moatasim's interests include spatial equity and spatial organization and social control.
Celeste Day Moore teaches courses on race, empire and African-American history.
Peter Simons is an environmental historian of the United States.
Lisa Trivedi, a cultural and social historian of modern South Asia, received her doctorate from the University of California at Davis.
Thomas Wilson is an expert on Confucian ritual and the cult of Confucius.
Shiu On Chu focuses on the interaction of state power and transnational knowledge production in modern China.
Ivan the Terrible murdered his heir, and left Russia to face economic collapse and mass hunger without a stable government. Then things got really bad. Did Boris Godunov murder Tsarevich Dmitri? Was the First False Dmitri for real? Only Pushkin knew for sure, but it took Modest Mussorgsky to wrap it up in the greatest Russian opera of all time. This course will explore the relationships between history, art and national identity in Russia. Writing-intensive.
View All CoursesA survey of European exploration, imperial expansion and post-colonial society. Examines European debates over the principles and objectives of imperialism in the Americas, the Pacific and Africa. Illuminates changing views toward culture, economics, race, gender and nationality. Stress upon basic skills in the interpretation of historical texts and writing. Writing-intensive.
View All CoursesIntroduction to U.S. history and the exploration and settlement of British North America, the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans, the colonial era, the American Revolution, the Federalist Era, and 19th-century U.S. history including the growing national division over slavery, concluding with the onset of the Civil War.
View All CoursesThis seminar interrogates the role of cities in African-American life. Through course readings and assignments, we will develop an alternative genealogy of black urban life that pushes against predominant narratives of urban crisis and dysfunction to consider instead how cities have also fostered black community, culture, and creativity. At the end of course, using census data, newspapers, city directories, novels, photographs, and oral history interviews, students will work in groups to map the history of black social, cultural, and political institutions on the South Side of Chicago Writing-intensive.
View All CoursesAn intensive analysis of the philosophical ideals of the Founding Era (1763-1800) and their uneven realization. Social histories of various races, genders and classes will help illuminate the inherent ambiguities, weaknesses, strengths and legacies of the social and political philosophies of late 18th-century America.
View All CoursesThe USSR claimed to be a revolutionary political form: a state based on the voluntary union of workers from over 100 different nationalities. The Bolsheviks intended to lead Russian peasants, Kyrgyz nomads and Chechen mountaineers together into the bright Communist future. What they actually achieved is another question. Explores the concepts of nation, empire and modernization in the Soviet context. Writing-intensive.
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