The Middle East in Late Antiquity; Premodern Global History; Comparative Empires

Economic and political history of modern Central and Eastern Europe; Austria, Bohemia, and the Habsburg Empire; capitalism, socialism, nationalism, and liberalism; comparative empires

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

Global History, Modern British Empire, Postcolonial theory, education and public discourse 

Reciprocal influences of state, society, and economy in late Imperial and twentieth-century China; the origins of a world economy as the outcome of mutual influences among various regions; environmental history in China; comparative studies of labor, family organization, and economic change in Europe and East Asia; expansion of China to its present frontiers

Early modern Iberia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean world; Muslim-Christian relations; Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires; conversion, migration, and cultural exchange