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Nathalie Barton

Nathalie Barton



PhD '24 (US 1900–Present)
nbarton@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Twentieth-century US history; urban history; race; the built environment; domesticity; real estate and housing, especially rental housing; residential segregation

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Orit Bashkin



Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History
Phone: (773) 834-8346
oritb@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Iraqi history, the history of Iraqi Jews, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century, the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature

Jared Berkowitz

Jared Berkowitz



Assistant Instructional Professor, Law Letters and Society, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Harper 393
jsberokwitz@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Nineteenth and twentieth century United States; legal history; history of capitalism; business history; political thought; critical legal studies; law and political economy

Prachi Bhagwat



South Asia, 2021 (PhD Student)
prachib@uchicago.edu
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William Birdthistle



US 1900–Present, 2019 (PhD Student)
birdthistle@uchicago.edu
Interests:

US 1900-Present; history of the corporation; legal history; history of capitalism; history of investment funds

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Leila Blackbird



PhD '25 (U.S. & Atlantic)
leila_blackbird@brown.edu
Interests:

Longue durée US history; vast early America; the Atlantic world; the French Antilles; the Spanish Caribbean; Spanish borderlands; French North America; the postcolony and the Anglosphere; comparative empire; European imperial history and settler states; the United States in the world; Native American and Indigenous studies; Black studies; comparative race and ethnic studies; Afro/Indigenous futures; Latinidad/créolité; (post/de)colonialism and ecocriticism; colonialism and slavery; historical trauma, state violence, and genocide; gendered and racialized violence; displacement and diaspora; the long 18th century; human/civil rights and the history of the present; climate, migration, and resilience; equity, power, and conflict; the rule of law and transitional justice; sociolegal and environmental histories; critical theory and epistemic violence; the archive; digital and spatial humanities

George Bobyk

George Bobyk



East Asia, 2025 (PhD Student)
gbobyk@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Legal and social history of late imperial and modern China; gender and sexuality; ethnicity and the state; cultural history of the body; everyday life. 

Dain Borges

Dain Borges



Associate Professor Emeritus of History and the College
Office: Social Science Research Building, room 507 Mailbox 35
Phone: (773) 834-0284
dborges@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Modern Latin America, especially Brazil and the Caribbean; intellectual history; history of the family

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John W. Boyer



Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College
Office Hours: By appointment. Contact Prof. Boyer's Assistant, Jacqueline Mendoza, Jmendoza2@uchicago.edu
Office: Edward Levi Hall, room 511 Mailbox 122
Phone: 773-702-3366
jwboyer@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European political and cultural history, particularly in Germany and the Habsburg Empire; religion and politics in modern European history; the history of the universities

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Mark Philip Bradley



Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College
Office: Social Science Research Building, room 502 Mailbox 19
Phone: (773) 702-3558
mbradley@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Twentieth-century US international history; global history of human-rights politics; postcolonial Southeast Asia

Gail Bratcher

Gail Bratcher



Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Self, Culture, and Society (2025-27)
Interests:

History of the Soviet Union; 20th Century Central Asia; environmental history; agricultural history; history of science and technology

Cyndee Breshock

Cyndee Breshock



Administrator for Chair and Faculty Affairs
Office: Social Science Research Building, room 331
Phone: (773) 702-8394
c-breshock@uchicago.edu

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