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Aaron Jakes

Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History and the College

Office: William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, East Tower, room 689 Mailbox 13

Phone: (773) 834-6771

ajakes@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Middle East history; capitalism; economic history; British Empire; environmental history; global and comparative history; political and social movements; political-economic thought

Alex Jania

Lecturer in History, BA Thesis

aejania@uchicago.edu

Daniel Jaquet

Visiting Scholar (Research, Fulbright)

Office: Social Science Research Building Room 206 Mailbox 58

djaquet@uchicago.edu

Interests:

European cultural history; technical literature on embodied knowledge; history of science and medicine; martial arts studies.

Olivia Jenkins

Modern Europe, 2024 (PhD Student)

ojenkins@uchicago.edu

Seth Jeter

Caribbean-Atlantic, 2025 (PhD Student)

jeter@uchicago.edu

Interests:

19th century Atlantic World; 19th century Britain and its empire; Chartism; 19th century United States; labor history; intellectual history; class formation and class consciousness; political economy; history of capitalism

Syrus Jin

PhD '25 (International)

syrusjin@uchicago.edu

Interests:

America in the World, U.S. military building, U.S.-East Asian relations, development, U.S. military empire, race, culture, the Korean War

Adrian Johns

Allan Grant Maclear Distinguished Service Professor of History, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College

Office: William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, West Tower, room 602 Mailbox 45

Phone: (773) 702-2334

johns@uchicago.edu

Interests:

History of science; British history; history of the book and other media; history of information; history of intellectual property and piracy

Edward Johnson

Early Modern Europe, 2019 (PhD Student)

edwardjohnson@uchicago.edu

Nicholas Johnson

Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Law, Letters, and Society (2024-26)

npj@uchicago.edu

Interests:

US history, intellectual history, and political economy

Rashauna Johnson

Associate Professor of US History and the College

Office Hours:

Autumn Quarter 2025

By appointment. Please email.

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 512 Mailbox 79

Phone: (773) 702-8399

rashauna@uchicago.edu

Interests:

African diasporic History; United States; Race and Slavery

Claire Jones

Early Modern Europe, 2020 (PhD Student)

clpjones@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early Modern Britain, Portugal, and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora