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Karen Viars

Research & Instruction Librarian

Karen Viars

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My Guides

*Africana & Black Studies*

*Independent College Programs (Haverford)*

*Islamic Studies*

18th-Century Sources (Tri-Co)

Advanced Research Strategies (HC)

AFST/HIST 214: The Black Power Movement (HC)

Assessment (HC)

Bala Cynwyd Middle School: Researching Leaders in History

Black History: New Scholarship (HC)

Chesick Program: Visualizing Europe/The European Union/The United States of Europe (HC)

Classics: Exploring the Discipline (HC)

COML 200: Introduction to Comparative Literature: Researching The Name of the Rose (HC)

COML 259 Vikings: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies (HC)

CPGC Student Research Funding and IRB 2019-2020

CSTS & COML 202: Bawdy Bodies: Comedies of the Grotesque in Antiquity and the Renaissance(HC)

CSTS 121: The Roman Revolution (HC)

CSTS 206: Narratives of Ethical Leadership from the Past (HC)

CSTS 209: Classical Mythology (HC)

CSTS 211: What Does Ancient Rome Taste Like? (HC)

CSTS 216: Sex and Power in the Ancient World (HC)

CSTS 217: Unruly Bodies: Narratives of Disability in Greece and Rome (HC)

CSTS 218: Animals and Androids in Greek and Latin Literature (HC)

CSTS 221: The Ancient Novel (HC)

CSTS 227: Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World (HC)

CSTS 233: Going Green in the Classical Imagination (HC)

CSTS 257: Antigone's Echoes: Activism and the Law from Ancient Greece to Today (HC)

CSTS 398 Senior Seminar (HC/BMC)

CSTS/COML 212: Refashioning the Classics: Dramatization and Illustration (HC)

CTY: Center for Talented Youth Library Resources (HC)

Database Searching and Strategies (HC)

Dictionaries & Grammars: Foreign Language

Digital Literacy: Countering Bias, Misinformation and Disinformation (HC)

ENGL 301: Pre-Modern Women Writers (HC)

ENGL 301: Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages (HC)

ENGL 399: Senior Conference (HC)

ENVS/ICPR 205: Queer Ecologies: Occupying Space and Time in Disorderly Bodies (HC)

GREK 101: Introduction to Greek Literature: Worlds of Wonder (HC)

GREK 102: Introduction to Greek Poetry: Homer (HC)

GREK 202: Advanced Greek: Tragedy (HC)

GREK 350: Poetics and Poiesis: Philosophy, Performance, and the Crafts (HC)

Henry James Resources (HC)

HIST 111: Ruin and Renewal: Europe to 1500 (HC)

HIST 114: Origins of the Global South (HC)

HIST 115: Postcards from the Atlantic World (HC)

HIST 118: Introduction to the History of Science - Historical Maps (HC)

HIST 122: Modern Japanese History: Culture, Empire and Everyday Life (HC)

HIST 123 Intro to African Diaspora History (HC)

HIST 125: Latin American and LatinX History (HC)

HIST 203: The Age of Jefferson and Jackson, 1789-1850 (HC)

HIST 204: Women, Gender and American Society to 1870 (HC)

HIST 208: Decolonizing Colonial Latin American and Caribbean History (HC)

HIST 209: Modern Latin America (HC)

HIST 210: Opioids, A Global History (HC)

HIST 211: The Viet Nam Wars (HC)

HIST 213: Astrology: History & Practice (HC)

HIST 218: Women and War in the Ancient World (HC)

HIST 221: Slavery, Agency and Ideologies (HC)

HIST 228: The French Revolution (HC)

HIST 229: Spectacles of Power in Europe, 1550-1700 - Louis XIV (HC)

HIST 229: Spectacles of Power in Europe, 1550-1700 (HC)

HIST 231: Imagining Enlightenment in 18th-Century Europe (HC)

HIST 237: Geographies of Witchcraft and the Occult in Early Modern Europe (HC)

HIST 239: American Revolutions, 1763-1815 (HC)

HIST 246: History of Sexuality in the U.S. (HC)

HIST 247: Revolutionary Ideas, 1770s-1840s (HC)

HIST 254: Harvest of Empire, U.S. History, 1898 to the Present (HC)

HIST 257: Inventing Modern Science (HC)

HIST 258: Plagues, Diseases, and Epidemics in History (HC)

HIST 259: Cultures of Collecting (HC)

HIST 263: The Chinese Revolution (HC)

HIST 268: War and Military Culture in China (HC)

HIST 268: Warriors and Outlaws in China and England: Water Margin and Robin Hood (HC)

HIST 270: From Empire to Nation: The Ottoman World Transformed (HC)

HIST 273: East Asia's Global Wars: Opium War to Vietnam (HC)

HIST 274: History of the Andes (HC)

HIST 286: Gender and the Construction of Science in America, 1700-1900 (HC)

HIST 287: Reading Modern Korean History through Film (HC)

HIST 288: Religious and Cultural History of Modern Korea (HC)

HIST 291: Indigenous Women: Gender, Ethnicity and Feminism in Latin America (HC)

HIST 292: Material Culture in China (HC)

HIST 293: Manchus in China (HC)

HIST 294: Wealth and Poverty in China and the Ottoman Empire (HC)

HIST 307: Gender, Race, and Class in the Americas (HC)

HIST 309: Knowledge, Power and the Production of History in Latin America (HC)

HIST 310: Political Technologies of Race and the Body (HC)

HIST 313: Time, Space and Modernity in East Asia (HC)

HIST 314: Land and the Left in the Americas (HC)

HIST 317: Religion, Power and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean (HC)

HIST 317: Rio de Janeiro, Past and Present (HC)

HIST 317: The Latin American Baroque (HC) Spring 2018

HIST 317: Visions of Mexico (HC)

HIST 321: Power and Paranoia: Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern World (HC)

HIST 333: Call Me Ishmael (HC)

HIST 333: History and Fiction (HC)

HIST 340: Voices for Justice - Seven African American Lives (HC)

HIST 341: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Early America (HC)

HIST 347: The Art of Governance in High Qing China (HC)

HIST 347: China and the Early Modern World Order, 1500-1700 (HC)

HIST 347: The Mongol Empire (HC)

HIST 347: The Opium War as Global History (HC)

HIST 350 and 354: Technologies as Politics in Early Modern Europe and Technologies of Information in Early Modern Europe (HC)

HIST 350: Astrology (HC)

HIST 350: Courtly Science in Premodern Europe (HC)

HIST 350: Decolonial Histories of Mathematics and Astronomy (HC)

HIST 350: Divination (HC)

HIST 350: Madness (HC)

HIST 354: Amazons and Viragos: Gender and Power in Early Modern Europe (HC)

HIST 354: Discipline and Pleasure in the Early Modern City (HC)

HIST 354: Law, Crime, and Police in Early Modern Europe (HC)

HIST 358: Libertinage and Liberty (HC)

HIST 358: The Remarkable Body of Marie Antoinette (HC)

HIST 358: The Self before the Selfie (HC)

HIST 399: Active History: History of Black Lives Matter (HC)

HIST 400: Senior Thesis Seminar (HC) 2024-25

HIST/ EALC 347: WWII in East Asia ca. 1900-1950 (HC)

HIST/EALC 126: Global Asian Diasporas (HC)

HIST/EALC 295: China in the World, 1895-1921 (HC)

HIST/EALC 297: Social Protest in Modern China (HC)

HIST/EALC 316: East Asia's Cold War (HC)

HIST/EALC 346: Race and Ethnicity in Modern East Asia (HC)

History and Haverford College (HC)

History: The Past as Laboratory for the Present (HC)

ICPR 274: History of the Middle East (HC)

ICPR/POLS 301: Development, Human Rights, and Transnational Injustices (HC)

Incunabula in Special Collections (HC)

Internships and Study Abroad (HC)

Introduction to Areas of Study (HC)

Introduction to Library Resources and Research (HC)

ISO Workshop - Research Strategies and Resources (HC)

Israel and Palestine: Resources (HC)

LATN 102: Introduction to Latin Literature (HC)

LATN 102: Introduction to Latin Literature: Comedy (HC)

LATN 104: Introduction to Latin Literature: Friends and Enemies of Rome (HC)

LATN 201: Advanced Latin Literature: Ovid (HC)

LATN 201: Advanced Latin Literature: Vergil (HC)

LATN 211: Advanced Latin Literature: Friendship (HC)

LATN 350: Seminar in Latin Literature: Ovid (HC)

LATN 350: Seminar in Latin Literature: Terence (HC)

LATN 350: Seminar in Latin Literature: The (Mostly) Latin Epigram (HC)

LibKey Nomad - Browser Extension for Accessing Digital Resources

Libraries and You

Library Liaisons Workshop - Research Skills II (HC)

Library Resources and Research (HC)

MMUF Workshop - Research Strategies and Resources (HC)

Monumental Brasses (HC)

MSP Workshop - Research Strategies and Resources (HC)

Origin Stories: Initiations, Identities, and Indigenous Imaginations (HC)

PEAC 101: Introduction to Peace Justice and Human Rights (HC)

POLS 217: Education Reform in America: Politics and Policy (HC)

POLS 121: American Politics (HC)

POLS 131: Introduction to Comparative Politics (HC)

POLS 151: International Politics (HC)

POLS 161: Global Political Economy: Race, Labor, Power (HC)

POLS 171: Introduction to Political Theory (HC)

POLS 208: Political Thought in the Global South: The Case of Latin America (HC)

POLS 212: Health Politics (HC)

POLS 213: Oil, Politics, Economy, and Society (HC)

POLS 214: Bureaucracy and Democracy (HC)

POLS 215: Constitutional Law and Civil Rights: Gender, Sexuality, and Race (HC)

POLS 216: International Criminal Justice (HC)

POLS 216: The Supreme Court (HC)

POLS 218: The Criminal Justice System (HC)

POLS 223: American Political Process: The Congress (HC)

POLS 224: The American Presidency (HC)

POLS 231: Populism and the Crisis of Democracy: A Comparative Perspective (HC)

POLS 235: African Politics (HC)

POLS 237: Latin American Politics (HC)

POLS 240: Inter-American Dialogue (HC)

POLS 242: Women in War and Peace (HC)

POLS 243 Gender and Sexuality-Africa and the Middle East (HC)

POLS 247: Political Economy of Developing Countries (HC) [Fall 2014]

POLS 248: American Foreign Policy (HC)

POLS 253: Introduction to Terrorism Studies (HC)

POLS 261: Global Civil Society and Transnational Social Movements (HC)

POLS 264: International Organizations (HC)

POLS 266: Sovereignty (HC)

POLS 271: Comparative and Transnational Studies: From Kuala Lumpur to Kansas City (HC)

POLS 274: Ends and Means: Moral Choices in Politics (HC)

POLS 275: Political Behavior (HC)

POLS 278: The Earth: Ethics, Politics, and Economics (HC)

POLS 283: African Politics and Literature (HC)

POLS 289: Refugees and Forced Migrants (HC)

POLS 293: Public Policymaking and Analysis (HC)

POLS 311: Order and Institutions in American Politics (HC)

POLS 312: Political Ideologies in a World of Identities (HC)

POLS 313: Armed Non-State Actors in International Politics (HC)

POLS 315: Public Policy Analysis (HC)

POLS 316: Race, Poverty, and the U.S. Welfare State (HC)

POLS 317: International Law and the Laws of Nations (HC)

POLS 318: Contemporary Political Ideas amid Global Transformations (HC)

POLS 318: Contemporary Political Theory (HC)

POLS 320: Democracy in America (HC)

POLS 327: The Politics of the Creative Class in American Cities (HC)

POLS 330: Topics in Comparative Politics (HC)

POLS 331: Research and Writing in Comparative Politics (HC)

POLS 332: Short of War: Deterrence and Compellence in International Politics (HC)

POLS 333: International Security (HC)

POLS 334: Politics of Violence (HC)

POLS 336: Democracy and Democratization (HC)

POLS 340 Postcolonialism and the Politics of Nation-Building (HC)

POLS 342: Politics of Gender and Sexuality (HC)

POLS 345: Islam, Democracy, and Development (HC)

POLS 350: Topics in International Politics (HC)

POLS 357: International Relations Theory: Conflict and the Middle East (HC) [Spring 2017]

POLS 361: Democracy and Global Governance (HC)

POLS 362: Global Justice (HC)

POLS 366: Advanced Research in Global Governance (HC)

Quarantine R & R (Rest and Relaxation) (HC)

Research in Law and Political Science (HC)

Research: Resources and Strategies

Researching Art in the Middle Ages (HC)

Researching Women and Gender in the Middle Ages (HC)

Resources for Research

Starting the Senior Thesis in Classics (HC)

Starting the Senior Thesis in Political Science (HC)

Student Activism: Resources for Organizing

Study Abroad: Library Resources (HC)

Troubled Waters: Tracing Waste in the Delaware River: An Interdisciplinary Documentary Project

Video Game & Interactive Narrative Studies (TriCo)

WRPR 101: Finding a Voice - Researching Films (HC)

WRPR 101: Finding a Voice (HC)

WRPR 102: The Internet & Participatory Culture (HC)

WRPR 104: American Dreams (HC) Fall 2014

WRPR 109: Perspectives on Immigration and Education in the United States (HC) Fall 2014

WRPR 111: Power, Place, and Film (HC)

WRPR 114: Gender and Writing (HC)

WRPR 118: Portraits of Disability and Difference (HC)

WRPR 124: Writing and the Senses (HC) Spring 2014

WRPR 128: Reading Sacred Texts (HC) Spring 2013

WRPR 131: In the Wake of War (HC)

WRPR 133: The American West in Fact and Fiction (HC)

WRPR 148: Innovation, Rebellion, and Dissent (HC) Spring 2014

WRPR 154: Human Rights and the State (HC)

WRPR 159: Memory, Monuments, and Urban Space (HC) Spring 2015

WRPR 160: Borders, Walls and Bridges (HC)

WRPR 162: Immigration and Representation (HC)

WRPR 167: Globalization in the 21st Century (HC)

WRPR 173: Transnational Crossings (HC)

WRPR 174: Philadelphia Freedoms (HC)

WRPR 182: The American Family in Historical Perspective (HC)

WRPR 185: Language, Power, and Justice (HC)

WRPR 191 Constructions of Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World (HC)

WRPR 193: Slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome (HC)

WRPR 198: Arts of Extraction: Latin American Representations of Environmental Injustice (HC)

My Subject Specialties

Africana & Black Studies History Political Science