Teaching repertoire

Undergraduate Instruction

HIST113
Europe and the Modern World (HIST113) - an entry level course on Europe and its global engagements from the wars of religion to the present. As the course title suggests, course content concerns Europe, but also looks outward to consider European expansion and engagement in Africa, the Americas, and Asia.
HSTEU210
Paris (HSTEU210) - an interdisciplinary historical, cultural, and urban studies approach to the city of Paris; the course serves as a general introduction to the modern metropole - art, architecture, social geography, infrastructure, urbanism.
HSTEU303
Modern Europe (HSTEU303) - upper division survey of major problems, events, ideas, and themes in the history of Europe from the 18th century to the contemporary era. Recommended for majors and anyone interested in the history of Europe from the apogee of European influence to its place in the contemporary multipolar world.
HIST4xx
The Global Modern (HIST4xx) - An episodic survey of the passages, personalities, ambitions, fashions, technologies, and commodities that linked the world and define the modern.
HSTEU422
French Revolution (HSTEU422) - At its core, this course is about the French Revolution from the twilight of the old regime to the defeat of Napoléon. However, the Revolution's impact extended well beyond Europe. It prompted slave revolt in the Caribbean, weakened the hold of Europe on the Americas, and shook the status quo in Russia, Central Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Feminism, secularism, and human rights were founded or sharply inflected by the Revolution. In almost every sense that matters, political modernity begins in 1789.

Graduate Instruction

Professor Jonas offers advanced content seminars ("field courses") as well as training in historical research.

Historical research - methods, sources, theory, exposition - is the subject of History 595 "Historical Practices." Historical Practices is open to students in all fields of history. It is also open to graduate students in allied disciplines - Anthropology, Art History, L&L, Sociology, etc. - on a space-available basis. It is offered in alternating years.

Field courses - current and prospective students interested in completing a field with Professor Jonas should contact him directly regarding field content and field definition, as well as upcoming field course offerings.

Spring 2013 - Europe and the Modern World