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History 81e Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Scholar, Diplomat, Artist: Research Seminar

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2012

An investigation of how 21st-century responses to artworks by Rubens may relate to the development of historical understanding. The seminar will investigate the tensions between the specificity of Rubens’s artworks and other actions, and broader patterns and conventions of behavior in art, politics, and the western European social fabric more generally in the first half of the 17th century. Students will examine artworks associated with Rubens, including paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrated books in Harvard and Boston collections.

Expected to be given in 2012–13....

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History 84c Confronting Objects/Interpreting Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America: Research Seminar

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Spring

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2012

Working with museum collections as well as written documents, students will explore the interplay between particular objects and larger historical themes, such as colonialism, nationalism, scientific and ethnographic exploration, or expanding commerce. Employing a range of scholarly tools, emphasizing visual and material analysis and including archival research, students will help prepare materials for a future exhibit.

Postdoctoral Advising

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2011

Supervision of successive Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellows in the Harvard Art Museums.

PhD Advising

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2011

Administrative responsibilities prevent me from being a principal dissertation advisor, but I serve on PhD committees in several departments, including History, History of Art and Architecture, and Sociology.

Senior Thesis in History

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2011

Supervision of the preparation of senior theses.

(Interested students should be directly in touch with me.)

History 91r Supervised Reading and Research

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2011

Supervision of individual junior and senior history concentrators within a specially devised reading and research course.

(Interested students should be directly in touch with me.)

United States in the World 30 Tangible Things: Harvard Collections in World History (General Education Course)

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Spring

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2011

With Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. People make history through the things they make, collect, exhibit, exchange, throw away, or ignore. Over four centuries, Harvard has not only amassed books and manuscripts but art works, scientific instruments and specimens, ethnographic objects, and historical relics of all sorts. By learning how and why particular things arrived in Cambridge and what happened to them when they got here, students will discover how material objects have shaped academic disciplines,...

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