Postgraduate History Modules

Please note: Not all modules listed may be available every year. Please contact the relevant module convenor or department office.

Running 2021/22

• Advanced Cuneiform Texts: The Earliest Literature
• Colonial curricula: empire and education at SOAS and beyond
• Community, Religion, and Conflict in South Asian History
• Debating Pasts, Crafting Histories
• Dissertation in Ancient Near Eastern Languages
• Dissertation in History
• Empire and Reform in the Modern Middle East, 1789-1914
• Empire, Law, and Citizenship in the Middle East and the Balkans
• Environmental History of Asia
• Gender and Empire in Early Modern China
• Gender, Law, and the Family in the History of Modern South Asia
• Historical Perspectives on Gender in Asia, Africa and the Middle East
• Independent Research Essay in History 1
• Introductory Akkadian
• Introductory Sumerian (Masters)
• Iran and the Persianate World 1400 to 1800
• Islam In South Asia
• Modernity And The Transformation Of The Middle East 1839-1958
• Nationalism and Revolution in the Modern Middle East, 1914-1979
• Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern China
• Race, Segregation, and Apartheid in Twentieth-century South Africa (PG)
• Sources And Research Design In Historical Research
• The Afghanistan Wars, 1979 to the Present
• The Body and the Making of Colonial Difference in British India 940: Expansion And Impact
• The Making of the Contemporary World
• The Origin of Islam: Sources and Perspectives
• White Supremacy and African Resistance in Colonial Southern Africa