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

Modern China; Chinese legal history; crime; history of the family; comparative unfreedoms

Modern Arab intellectual history, history of the Arab World, history of the modern Middle East, nations and nationalism, secularism, republicanism, metaphysics, history and phenomenology of religion

Late Imperial Russia; regionalism and empire; mass politics in imperial borderlands; imperial parlamentarism; nationalism(s) and national indifference.

Labor history, history of capitalism, history of radicalism, history of political repression and surveillance, Chicago and the Midwest, political economy.