Courses

This course explores Global Asia over two millennia up to the onset of industrial modernity in the nineteenth century. Students acquire a view of History in the long run that throws new light on our world of nation states.

This course explores the histories of Old World regions all across Afro-Eurasia from ancient to early modern times through studies of spatial mobility and territorial powers that shape cultural environments, material conditions, economic development, and social power relations, from Europe to China, all around the Silk Road and Indian Ocean.

This course is based on the simple fact that Asia’s dynamic role in world today provides a new starting point for studies of History.

This course is about globalization (a historical process of spatially expansive human mobility and communication, which brings distant peoples closer together, creating more densely connected human spaces, and eventually covers the planet.)

Fall 2023

We focus primarily on the spatial, social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of pandemics, on their Asian connections, and on their entanglements with empire, capitalism, and globalization.

This course aims to survey the geographically extensive; ethnically, culturally and religiously diverse; and politically dynamic empires of the early modern Global Asia through the eyes of their people.

This course seeks to expand understanding of the seventeenth-century Dutch empire and its global legacy.

This capstone History Seminar explores the history of health environments in the modern world of globalization, focusing particularly on the ways in which inequalities of power, knowledge, and wealth influence health among social groups inside spaces of mobility and territoriality.

This course is a guided research seminar with participation from the NYU New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai. It uses a team-based research program (VIP) piloted by Georgia Tech and coordinated through NYU Tandon School of Engineering.