Late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan and Germany; the crisis of modernity and alternative modernities; transnational artistic exchange and global modernism(s); visual cultures of print; prewar avant-garde and Expressionism

Political economy; developmentalism; land, property, and rurality; twentieth-century Brazil; diplomatic history; borders, borderlands, and frontiers; US-Brazil relations; national security

modern French and Francophone history, urban history, Muslim-Jewish relations, gender, human rights, and the digital humanities

Early modern Britain and its empire; history of Christianity; religion and empire; pilgrimage studies

Socio-political history of the late medieval Holy Roman Empire; late medieval conflict, violence, and warfare (feuding); history of medieval law; medieval aristocracy; state formation. 

Modern Japan; Modern China; East Asian Transnational History; Japanese Colonial Empire; Japanese Diaspora; Sino-Japanese Relations; Urban History; History of Shanghai

Ottoman history, history of the early Turkish republic, modern Middle East history, nationalism, intellectual history

The rise and fall of the British Empire in India; international socialism in the twentieth century; philosophy of history

Political Economy; Colonial Latin America; Early Modern Britain and its Empire; Comparative Empires; Age of Revolutions