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

19th Century U.S. West, Native American History, Settler Colonial Studies, and Material Culture

Twentieth-century East Central Europe; state socialism and post-socialism; Cold War history; labor, gender, and sexuality; Anthropocene, energy, and environmental history; mining

Twentieth century economic history; history of the Global South; political economy; development; finance; energy and environmental history

Middle East history; history of capitalism; social and economic history; colonialism; state formation 

Modern Jewish history; Russian and Polish Jewry, East European Jewry; history of Jewish nationalism, Zionism, and Diasporism; modern Hebrew and Yiddish culture and literature; Jewish secularism and post-secularism; Palestine, Yishuv, Israel; history of the Holocaust and post-Holocaust Jewish culture, politics, and futurity; comparative history and sociology of nationalism; sociology of culture as an institution; history of social theory.