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Boone Ayala



Caribbean/Atlantic World, 2019 (PhD Student)
booneayala@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Early Modern Britain and its Empire; Colonial America; Comparative Empires; State Formation; Constitutional and Legal history

Gabriel Azevedo Duarte Franco

Gabriel Azevedo Duarte Franco



Latin America, 2021 (PhD Student)
gfranco@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Modern Brazil and Latin America; urban history, Rio de Janeiro; legal history; criminal legislation; history of crime; history of urban policing; slavery and abolition; race and racialization; social and political inequality

Nathalie Barton

Nathalie Barton



PhD '24 (US 1900–Present)
nbarton@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Twentieth-century US history; urban history; race; the built environment; domesticity; real estate and housing, especially rental housing; residential segregation

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Orit Bashkin



Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History
Phone: (773) 834-8346
oritb@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Iraqi history, the history of Iraqi Jews, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century, the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature

Jared Berkowitz

Jared Berkowitz



Assistant Instructional Professor, Law Letters and Society, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Harper 393
jsberokwitz@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Nineteenth and twentieth century United States; legal history; history of capitalism; business history; political thought; critical legal studies; law and political economy

Jacob Betz

Jacob Betz



Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Law, Letters and Society, History (2023-25)
jmbetz@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Religious history; law and religion; history of childhood and the family; legal history; theories of religion

Prachi Bhagwat



South Asia, 2021 (PhD Student)
prachib@uchicago.edu
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William Birdthistle



US 1900–Present, 2019 (PhD Student)
birdthistle@uchicago.edu
Interests:

US 1900-Present; history of the corporation; legal history; history of capitalism; history of investment funds

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Leila Blackbird



US pre-1900, 2019 (PhD Student)
blackbird@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Longue durée US history; Black and Indigenous studies; settler colonialism and slavery; Louisiana and the Atlantic world; subaltern studies, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism; historical trauma, state violence, and genocide; human rights and the history of the present; critical theory and epistemics; digital and spatial humanities

Dain Borges

Dain Borges



Associate Professor Emeritus of History and the College
Office: Social Science Research Building, room 507 Mailbox 35
Phone: (773) 834-0284
dborges@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Modern Latin America, especially Brazil and the Caribbean; intellectual history; history of the family

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Keegan Boyar



PhD '22 (Latin America)
kboyar@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Modern Mexico; Latin American history; Social history; Cultural history; Atlantic history; Urban History; Legal History; History of Policing and Crime

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John W. Boyer



Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College
Office Hours:
  • Spring Quarter 2025
  • By appointment. Contact Prof. Boyer's Assistant, Jacqueline Mendoza, Jmendoza2@uchicago.edu
  • Office: Edward Levi Hall, room 511 Mailbox 122
    Phone: 773-702-3366
    jwboyer@uchicago.edu
    Interests:

    Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European political and cultural history, particularly in Germany and the Habsburg Empire; religion and politics in modern European history; the history of the universities

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