Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; medieval ideas about communication, exchange, and social relations; history of race and racism; history of ideas

United States; transatlantic history; history of liberalism; capitalism; labor history; intellectual history; history of immigration; social reform; slavery and emancipation

Anticolonial nationalism; Back-to-Africa thought; Black theological movements; Christian missionaries and empire; decolonization; Liberia; slavery and abolition; race and religion; U.S. imperialism

African history; Francophone Africa; gender in Africa; colonialism; technology transfer and diffusion

History of Christianity and Christian thought; Western medieval and the early Christian intellectual tradition; continuity of Platonic themes

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.

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. 

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