Environmental history; energy; infrastructure; modern India; capitalism in the global South; climate change

French history; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; the Atlantic world; history of political thought; and early modern capitalism

Japanese history; Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo period Japan (1568-1868); History of Japanese religions; Art and architecture of the Japanese archipelago; Hegemonic deification; Philosophy of history; Nationalism and nostalgia; Conceptions of time and the Anthropocene. 

Development of human sciences in the nineteenth century; emergence of the religious sciences in France; relationship between the human sciences and the natural sciences, natural history, morphology, and embryology; social and political contexts of knowledge formation; dialogue between science and religion as part secularism in France

History of science and the body, human variation, quantification, history of colonialism and empire, modern European history, critical theory 

History of science; Early modern England; history of medicine and the body; disability history; gender and sexuality studies

Cultural history, intellectual history, media and information technologies, advertising, propaganda and political art, Germany, the Soviet Union, capitalism and socialism, gender and sexuality

Modern Jewish history; 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe; liberalism, reformism and the Left; empire and revolution; Yiddish literature; Russian literature and film; philanthropy and social welfare; gender and sexuality; disability studies