Undergraduate course

Semester: Spring Offered: 2018 This course examines the history of Russia from the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan in the sixteenth century to the revolutions of 1917. Topics include the pattern and process of imperial expansion, the nature of autocratic...

Semester: Fall Offered: 2017 The history of maps and mapping from the age of Enlightenment to the era of GIS and GeoJSON. We will examine the way states and individuals have used maps to create ideas, shape policies, and generate political and cultural...

Semester: Fall Offered: 2017 Course iSite: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k83952 Link: Catherine's Russia: a collection of student-curated Omeka exhibits

Semester: Spring Offered: 2014 Link: SW52 Course iSite SW52 Syllabus

Semester: Fall Offered: 2011 Though many would say that the age of empires is over, it has surely left an indelible mark on the way many of us think about the past, on the way we conceptualize space, and on the way we define the boundaries between the...