Middle East history; history of capitalism; social and economic history; colonialism; state formation 

Modern Jewish history; Russian and Polish Jewry, East European Jewry; history of Jewish nationalism, Zionism, and Diasporism; modern Hebrew and Yiddish culture and literature; Jewish secularism and post-secularism; Palestine, Yishuv, Israel; history of the Holocaust and post-Holocaust Jewish culture, politics, and futurity; comparative history and sociology of nationalism; sociology of culture as an institution; history of social theory.

Twentieth-century Central Asia and Russia; gender, sexuality, law, and nationhood; political economy; leisure and pleasure

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japanese history; history of science and medicine; gender and labor; medical education and technology; history of care

The intersection of print culture, urban politics, gender, and emotion in modern Asia. 

US 20th century; legal history; constitutional law, feminist history; gender and sexuality; social movements; citizenship; political imagination.

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