More than a simple blending of fields, the joining of anthropology and history has engendered intellectual innovations in both disciplines. To better appreciate what the practitioners of these disciplines have to learn from each other, the first part of this course focuses on a key topic or theme and examines historical and anthropological work on this subject. This year the topic will be globalization. During the second part of the course, students will develop independent research projects related to this topic, in theory and in method. Student projects should bring both disciplines to bear on a particular problem of special interest. Research may be based on deep reading in the literature on a topic, on ethnographic fieldwork, on archival investigation, or on a combination of these methods. By undertaking this work, students will gain a better grasp of how new knowledge is created and of what transdisciplinary approaches have to contribute to understanding the world in which we live. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor or 79-200, 79-201, and 79-209.