Tal Arbel
Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor
Research Interests
History of the human sciences; mental measurement; expert authority; knowledge circulation; Americanization
Fabian Baumann
Postdoctoral Fellow in History
Research Interests
Modern Russia and Ukraine; nationalism; empire; family history; Russian-Ukrainian relations in the imperial and Soviet period
Jordan Bimm
Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor
Research Interests
Space history, Cold War history, history of medicine, history of modern life sciences, science and technology studies, history of exploration and extreme environments.
John Clegg
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Research Interests
The political economy of slavery, antebellum capitalism, mass incarceration and job loss
Iris Clever
Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor
Research Interests
History of science and technology, history of the body, data history, modern Europe and the Netherlands, race and gender
Isabel Gabel
Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor
Research Interests
Modern science, 20th-century political thought, liberalism, historicism, science and uncertainty
Daragh Grant
Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Research Interests
Early American history; history of colonialism and empire; history of slavery; legal history; and the history of modern social and political thought
John Harpham
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Early-modern England; Atlantic history; early American history; intellectual history; freedom; slavery; race; cartography
Alec Hickmott
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of History
Research Interests
African American history, the civil rights movement; black economic thought; the history of the rural South
David P. Lyons
Assistant Instructional Professor
Research Interests
The Enlightenment and its reception; history of political thought; history of Christianity; modernity and its discontents; religion and the modern state; political theology
Pamela C. Nogales C.
Assistant Instructional Professor in the College
Research Interests
United States; transatlantic history; history of liberalism; capitalism; labor history; intellectual history; history of immigration; social reform; slavery and emancipation
Basil Salem
Collegiate Assistant Professor
PhD'16 (history) University of Chicago
Research Interests
Early modern and modern Ottoman Empire, focusing on the cultural and intellectual history
Sunit Singh
Assistant Instructional Professor
Research Interests
The rise and fall of the British Empire in India; international socialism in the twentieth century; philosophy of history
Blake Smith
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Economic and cultural exchange between Europe and South Asia from the eighteenth century; South Asia and the Enlightenment; cosmopolitanism in South Asia
Geoffrey Traugh
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Modern Africa, empire and decolonization, development and inequality, environmental history, capitalism and the world economy
James Vaughn
Assistant Instructional Professor in the College
Research Interests
Britain and the British Empire in the eighteenth century; colonial and Revolutionary British North America; the Age of Revolution in the Atlantic world; the history of liberal democracy
Steven Waldorf
Donnelley Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests
Intellectual history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; history of medieval and early modern European political thought; Aristotelianism; political theology