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David Nirenberg

Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Social Thought, Medieval History, Fundamentals, Middle East Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College

Office: Foster Hall, room 308 Mailbox Foster 35

Phone: (773) 702-3423

nirenberg@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Pamela C. Nogales

Collegiate Assistant Professor

Office: Gates-Blake Hall, room 407

nogales@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Jonathan Ort

Africa, Caribbean & Atlantic, 2024 (PhD Student)

jort@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Emily Lynn Osborn

Associate Professor of African History, African Studies, and the College

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 516 Mailbox 99

Phone: (773) 834-9019

eosborn1@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

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Willemien Otten

Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity

Phone: (773) 702-1901

wotten@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

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Corbin Page

Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Power, Identity, and Resistance (2023-25)

corbinp@uchicago.edu

Interests:

US legal history; history of criminal law; history of crime, policing, and incarceration; history of the social and human sciences

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Stephanie Painter

Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations (2023-25)

stephanie3@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Cultural and social history of late imperial and modern China; gender and sexuality; legal history; masculinity studies; ethnicity and the state; everyday life

Ada Palmer

Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 222 Mailbox 47

Phone: (773) 834-8178

adapalmer@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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.

Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj

South Asia, 2020 (PhD Student)

sachaet@uchicago.edu

Hannah Youngeun Park

East Asia-Korea, 2018 (PhD Student)

hypark2@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Eunhee Park

Instructor in History

eunheep@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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.