US legal history; history of criminal law; history of crime, policing, and incarceration; history of the social and human sciences

Cultural and social history of late imperial and modern China; gender and sexuality; legal history; masculinity studies; ethnicity and the state; everyday life

Early modern Europe; the Renaissance, with a focus on Italy; the Reformation; longue-durée intellectual and cultural history; postclassical reception of classical philosophy; Renaissance humanism; history of the book, printing, and reading; censorship and information control especially during information revolutions; history of science, religion, atheism, deism, heresy, and heterodoxy; intellectual continuities from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; reception of Epicureanism, atomism, Stoicism, Skepticism, Platonism, and Neoplatonism; secondary specializations in genre fiction, science fiction & fantasy, and anime & manga.

Twentieth-century Korean diaspora; migration and the family; postcolonial nation-building in the Cold War; epistolary writing; hope and utopian imaginations

The intersections of women, labor, and capitalism in South Korea and a comparative analysis of Cold War-era popular culture, gender, and society in East Asian countries. 

The Middle East in Late Antiquity; Premodern Global History; Comparative Empires

Economic and political history of modern Central and Eastern Europe; Austria, Bohemia, and the Habsburg Empire; capitalism, socialism, nationalism, and liberalism; comparative empires

Modern South Asia, British empire, global history, federalism, legal and constitutional history, postcolonial histories/subaltern studies, Indian princely states, history of Travancore/Kerala, decolonization, international law, self-determination, nationalism, and sovereignty

Atlantic history; history of Britain; British Empire; history of Ireland; global history; early American history; history of the Netherlands; worldwide colonial rivalries of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; history of political economy; British Empire in South Asia; comparative revolutions; state formation; Industrial Revolution

Chinese frontier history; twentieth-century China and Yunnan Province; the Global South; transregional histories