East Asian history; The intersections of politics, religion, and visual culture in Japanese history; The philosophy of history; The history of art and architecture of Japan; The history of the environment and the Anthropocene; Nationalism and nostalgia; and, The history of ideas.

Development of human sciences in the nineteenth century; emergence of the religious sciences in France; relationship between the human sciences and the natural sciences, natural history, morphology, and embryology; social and political contexts of knowledge formation; dialogue between science and religion as part secularism in France

History of science and the body, human variation, quantification, history of colonialism and empire, modern European history, critical theory 

History of capitalism, law and legal history, state theory, political economy, modern Middle East, US and its allies, historical theory

History of science; Early modern England; history of medicine and the body; disability history; gender and sexuality studies

Cultural history, intellectual history, media and information technologies, advertising, propaganda and political art, Germany, the Soviet Union, capitalism and socialism, gender and sexuality

Modern Jewish history; 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe; liberalism, reformism and the Left; empire and revolution; Yiddish literature; Russian literature and film; philanthropy and social welfare; gender and sexuality; disability studies

Modern Korean history; East Asian political economy; international history

Modern United States social and political history, African American history, the American South, human rights, and legal history