The construction of gender in literary writings by and about women in select areas of premodern East Asia.

History, culture, values, and sociopolitical movements of the Islamic world from 1500 to the modern day; interconnections between power, politics, gender, and the arts in modern Islamic societies. Recommended as a basis for all other Islamic studies courses.

Reparative possibilities of art and art history as ways of sensing and responding to human impact on planetary life.

A survey of the artistic production by Indigenous peoples of North America from pre-contact times to the present.

Current theoretical developments explored through the practice of archaeology. Examples drawn from a range of times and places focusing on emerging technologies, food production, colonial encounters and culture contact, materiality and symbolic systems, social inequality and complexity, and human-environmental interactions.