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.

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

History of the Japanese empire, colonial Korea, gender and labor, prostitution and sex work, comparative colonialisms

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