All Courses

  • 15.961 Independent Study in Management

  • 15.999 Internship

  • 21H.154 Inventing the Samurai

  • 21H.354 World War II in Asia

  • 21G.901 Korean I (Regular), Lecture 2

  • 21G.301 French I

  • 21G.904 Korean IV (Regular), Lecture 2

  • 12.091 Current Topics: EAPS

  • 12.S593 Spec Sem: Earth, Atmos, Planet

  • 12.S597 Spec Sem: Earth, Atmos, Planet

  • WGS.615 Feminist Queer and Indigenous Methodology

    While academic inquiry and research from the west/global north has been responsible for some of civilization's greatest achievements, it has also been a powerful tool of domination, oppression and erasure. This interdisciplinary graduate seminar seeks to explore non-normative research methodologies that are robust, ethical, and culturally informed to counter this history and to enhance our own comprehension and awareness. To begin, we will examine the types of questions asked, the assumptions that serve as foundations, the frameworks that structure the method of inquiry, and the values and power relations inherent in particular approaches. Working at both a theoretical and practical level, the seminar will train students to interrogate the ways that normative approaches to knowledge production - especially in Western contexts - contribute to a blunting of understanding and a silencing of already vulnerable communities. Drawing on in-class workshops, podcasts, art, film, global case studies, class visits from distinguished as well as promising young scholars, students will examine the underpinnings of cutting-edge methodological paradigms used throughout the world while gaining skills applicable to their own research inquiries/projects.

  • WGS.645 Race Sex and Ethics in the Peabody

    Convened at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, this course examines how historical relations of gender, sex, sexuality, and imperial/racialized power continue to be narrativized, hidden, and excavated in historical and contemporary anthropological projects. Using an interdisciplinary feminist lens, we will enter the urgent and complex web of conversations, within the Peabody and between the museum and its publics, about how to reckon with its past and how to move, with ethical alertness and rigor, into the future. Our shared questions include: What does it mean to collect human cultural and biological history? What are the roles of gender, sex, and race in shaping the politics of anthropological collection and study? How are human differences measured, and what do these systems of measurement say about the process of scientific knowledge production? Whose voices hold authority in adjudicating museum collections, and what forms of knowledge and authenticity govern their disposition and interpretation?

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