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Sarah Foss

Associate Professor

History

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  • Associate Professor
    History
  • 405-744-5678 (Work)
  • Department of History, 108 Social Sciences and Humanities, Stillwater, OK, 74708, United States
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TEACHING SUMMARY

I enjoy teaching courses on colonial and modern Latin American history and thematic courses that discuss immigration and transnational community formation, Indigenous histories of Latin America, histories of food commodities, and U.S.-Latin American foreign relations. My course HIST3303 Nations on the Move was created with funding from the Stanton Foundation's Applied History Course Grant.

Courses Taught
HIST 1103 Survey of American History
HIST 1823 World History 1500-present
HIST/AMST 2513 Plantation to Plate: Sugar, Bananas, and Coffee in the Americas
HIST/AMST 3303 Nations on the Move: Latin American Migration and Latinx Communities in the U.S.
HIST3453 Colonial Latin America
HIST3463 Modern Latin America
HIST 3980 American History Through the Image

HIST3890 Puerto Rico: An American History 
HIST4903 History Senior Seminar
HIST 4980 Latin American Borderlands and Frontiers (Independent Study)
HIST 5140 Indigenous Latin America (Graduate Readings Seminar)
HIST 5140 Atlantic World History (Graduate Readings Seminar)

HIST 5240 Graduate Research Seminar

 

TEACHING

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Modern Latin America (GH)
    9 Mar 2026 - 1 May 2026
    Considers nation-state formation in Latin America, emphasizing 19th century dictators and liberal reform movements. Explores U.S. foreign policy, indigenous mobilizations, 20th century revolutions, and contemporary issues such as natural disasters, the drug trade, and immigration.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Thesis
    12 Jan 2026 - 1 May 2026
    Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Directed Readings in History
    9 Jun 2025 - 1 Aug 2025
    Readings in selected topics in history to develop factual knowledge, analytical skills, and interpretive understanding.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing or permission of instructor required.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Modern Latin America (HI)
    9 Jun 2025 - 1 Aug 2025
    Considers nation-state formation in Latin America, emphasizing 19th century dictators and liberal reform movements. Explores U.S. foreign policy, indigenous mobilizations, 20th century revolutions, and contemporary issues such as natural disasters, the drug trade, and immigration.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Thesis
    9 Jun 2025 - 1 Aug 2025
    Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    American History Through the Image: Honors
    13 Jan 2025 - 2 May 2025
    A supplemental Honors experience in History to partner concurrently with designated upper-division HIST courses. This course adds a different intellectual dimension to the designated course(s).Prerequisite(s): Honors Program participation and concurrent enrollment in a designated HIST course.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Senior Seminar
    13 Jan 2025 - 2 May 2025
    An introduction to historical research for senior history majors. Students will be required to select, research, and write a seminar paper based on primary documents and use standard footnoting and bibliographical methods. Previously offered as HIST 3973.Prerequisite(s): HIST 3903.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Thesis
    13 Jan 2025 - 2 May 2025
    Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Directed Readings in History
    19 Aug 2024 - 6 Dec 2024
    Readings in selected topics in history to develop factual knowledge, analytical skills, and interpretive understanding.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing or permission of instructor required.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Plantation to Plate: Sugar, Bananas, and Coffee in America (H)
    19 Aug 2024 - 6 Dec 2024
    Considers the historical impact that three food commodities – bananas, sugar, and coffee – have had on producing and consuming societies in Latin America and the United States. Analyzes the way food influenced the formation of racial and gender identities and examines different moments when these commodities influenced foreign policy and politics. Same course as AMST 2513.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Puerto Rico, An American History: Honors
    19 Aug 2024 - 6 Dec 2024
    A supplemental Honors experience in History to partner concurrently with designated History courses. This course adds a different intellectual dimension to the designated course(s).Offered for fixed credit, 1 credit hour.Prerequisite(s): Honors Program participation and concurrent enrollment in a designated HIST course.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Research Seminar in American History
    19 Aug 2024 - 6 Dec 2024
    Research in selected problems in American history.Offered for fixed credit, 3 credit hours, maximum of 24 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing or permission of instructor required.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Thesis
    19 Aug 2024 - 6 Dec 2024
    Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Modern Latin America (HI)
    10 Jun 2024 - 2 Aug 2024
    Considers nation-state formation in Latin America, emphasizing 19th century dictators and liberal reform movements. Explores U.S. foreign policy, indigenous mobilizations, 20th century revolutions, and contemporary issues such as natural disasters, the drug trade, and immigration.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    American History Through the Image: Honors
    16 Jan 2024 - 3 May 2024
    A supplemental Honors experience in History to partner concurrently with designated upper-division HIST courses. This course adds a different intellectual dimension to the designated course(s).Prerequisite(s): Honors Program participation and concurrent enrollment in a designated HIST course.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Nations on the Move: Latin American Migration and Latinx Communities in the US (DH)
    16 Jan 2024 - 3 May 2024
    Examines Latin American migration to the United States through a case study approach. Considers US foreign policy, questions of labor and economic motivations, political violence and persecution, changes in immigration law, environmental issues, histories of the process of migration, and the formation of new identities and transnational communities and activism in the United States. Same course as AMST 3303.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Nations on the Move: Latin American Migration and Latinx Communities in the US (DH)
    16 Jan 2024 - 3 May 2024
    Examines Latin American migration to the United States through a case study approach. Considers US foreign policy, questions of labor and economic motivations, political violence and persecution, changes in immigration law, environmental issues, histories of the process of migration, and the formation of new identities and transnational communities and activism in the United States. Same course as HIST 3303.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    World History 1500 to Present (H)
    16 Jan 2024 - 3 May 2024
    This course surveys world history from 1500 to the present day. The course will track the formation of the “modern” world through a study of changes in political situations, culture, and society. The course will examine topics such as changes in science and technology, culture and religion, the expansion and decline of empires, the growth of nationalism, and the continuing rise of globalization. The class will emphasize the role of changing definitions and roles of race, social class, and gender in shaping historical events. Previously offered as HIST 2223.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    American History Through the Image: Honors
    21 Aug 2023 - 8 Dec 2023
    A supplemental Honors experience in History to partner concurrently with designated upper-division HIST courses. This course adds a different intellectual dimension to the designated course(s).Prerequisite(s): Honors Program participation and concurrent enrollment in a designated HIST course.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Directed Readings in History
    21 Aug 2023 - 8 Dec 2023
    Readings in selected topics in history to develop factual knowledge, analytical skills, and interpretive understanding.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing or permission of instructor required.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Plantation to Plate: Sugar, Bananas, and Coffee in America (H)
    21 Aug 2023 - 8 Dec 2023
    Considers the historical impact that three food commodities – bananas, sugar, and coffee – have had on producing and consuming societies in Latin America and the United States. Analyzes the way food influenced the formation of racial and gender identities and examines different moments when these commodities influenced foreign policy and politics. Same course as AMST 2513.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Senior Seminar
    21 Aug 2023 - 8 Dec 2023
    An introduction to historical research for senior history majors. Students will be required to select, research, and write a seminar paper based on primary documents and use standard footnoting and bibliographical methods. Previously offered as HIST 3973.Prerequisite(s): HIST 3903.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Modern Latin America (HI)
    12 Jun 2023 - 4 Aug 2023
    Considers nation-state formation in Latin America, emphasizing 19th century dictators and liberal reform movements. Explores U.S. foreign policy, indigenous mobilizations, 20th century revolutions, and contemporary issues such as natural disasters, the drug trade, and immigration.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Doctoral Dissertation
    17 Jan 2023 - 5 May 2023
    Advanced research in history.Offered for variable credit, 1-19 credit hours, maximum of 30 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Modern Latin America
    17 Jan 2023 - 5 May 2023
    Graduate-level work under taken in association with upper-division lecture courses. Added component ordinarily entails a graduate-level research paper or historiographical essay of substantial length.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing.