Early American history; Indigenous histories; settler colonialism; sovereignty; conspiracy theory; histories of emotions

Legal history, federalism, constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and law and literature

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British Empire; Atlantic World; environmental history; history of capitalism; history of science and technology. 

history of the Soviet Union; history of Russia; environmental history; social and cultural history; history of the Cold War

Twentieth-century global energy and environmental history; Global South (with a focus on West Africa, Southeast Asia, decolonization & nonalignment; history of economic thought; urbanism, especially housing; STS, transnational knowledge production. 

Slavery and emancipation; the early modern and modern Caribbean; the Atlantic World and early Americas; France and Francophone colonies; histories of gender and sexuality; and histories of race and racial politics.

Religious, cultural and intellectual history of Western Europe and North America from the Reformation to the early eighteenth century; the history of biblical scholarship, translation, and exegesis; Jewish-Christian relations; confessional identity and theological controversy; the relationship between ‘elite’ (neo-Latin) and ‘popular’ (vernacular) forms of religion and piety in the early modern period

Social and cultural history of modern South Asia

U.S. History, 1800 to Present; History of Democracy and Public Discourse; Theatre and Arts Education; Progressive Reform; Gender; Immigration; Chicago and the Midwest; Urban History and Culture; History of the Book.

Moral and ethical judgment in American history

Seventeenth and eighteenth century political, commercial, and social history of the East India Company in Western India (Bombay and Surat); early modern and modern South Asia, early modern Britain and its empire, Indian Ocean historiography, comparative imperialism and colonialism, urban history before 1800