How to Register
To register for HIST 498, email the instructor for permission (email addresses are indicated below for the instructor for each section). The instructor can then give permission by email to the academic advisor, Paloma Boykin boykin1@arizona.edu, to enroll you in the course.
Capstone Options for Fall 2025
HIST 498: "Culinary Travelers of the World"
Prof. Ryan Kashanipour (rykash@arizona.edu)
In Person: TH, 2-4:30pm
Cuisine is far more than the foods we eat. It is a uniquely human enterprise filled with meaning. To borrow from the French theorist Claude Levi-Strauss, food is a language of the past that is experienced in the present. In this capstone course, we will explore the culinary circulation of food around the world. We will consider the cultural ideas and systems imbedded in foodways and consider how particular foods moved and evolved in global contexts. Using travel accounts, this research seminar will examine food as key lens on globalization, from the ancient to early modern to contemporary world.
HIST 498: "Toilets are Primary Sources, Too: Using Material Artefacts to Write History"
Prof. John Senseney (jsenseney@arizona.edu)
In Person: MW, 11-12:15pm
War, famine, and pandemic! Earthquakes and eruptions. Crash, collapse, and depression! When the slavers or colonists came. ‘Fear, fire, flood, and foes!’ The historical memory of societies is almost invariably structured at some level around catastrophic events. This capstone research seminar for history majors will investigate the history of disaster in any world region or time period before Y2K.
HIST 498: TBD
Prof. Kevin Gosner (kgosner@arizona.edu)
TBD