NYU’s McGhee Division is looking for an instructor for a section of Contemporary World in the spring of 2017. The course runs on Friday afternoons from 12:30pm to 3:00pm. The course usually has fewer than 20 students (max 25). If you are interested please contact Clif Hubby at clif.hubby@nyu.edu<mailto:clif.hubby@nyu.edu>.

The course description follows:

Contemporary World

An introduction to global history in the modern era, examining structures and processes of interaction among the world’s regions and peoples from 1800 to the present, as well as the historical craft itself. Major topics of study include the large-scale transformations wrought by the Industrial Revolution, the consequences of the democratic revolutions in the Atlantic World, the effects of European and American imperial expansion in the nineteenth century, the two World Wars in the twentieth century, the decolonization wave in Africa and Asia in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Cold War and its aftermath.