Tal Arbel
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor in the Stevanovich Institute
Research Interests
History of the human sciences; mental measurement; expert authority; knowledge circulation; Americanization
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor in the Stevanovich Institute
History of the human sciences; mental measurement; expert authority; knowledge circulation; Americanization
Collegiate Assistant Professor
The history of capitalism, Enlightenment social theory, and environmental histories of empire
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor in the Stevanovich Institute
Modern science, 20th-century political thought, liberalism, historicism, science and uncertainty
Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Early American history; history of colonialism and empire; history of slavery; legal history; and the history of modern social and political thought
Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences
Modern Europe; Austria and Germany; intellectual history; history of the human and social sciences; history of medicine; psychoanalysis; critical theory
Postdoctoral Scholar in History
African American history, the civil rights movement; black economic thought; the history of the rural South
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, History (2021–23)
PhD'21 (US history), University of Chicago
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States; history of the American South; cultural, social, and political history; race and racism; gender and sexuality; violence; science, medicine, and the body; mass and visual culture; collective memory; public history
Collegiate Assistant Professor
United States; transatlantic history; history of liberalism; capitalism; labor history; intellectual history; history of immigration; social reform; slavery and emancipation
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor in the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
History of Philology and the Human Sciences; German and Central European History; History of Science and Knowledge in Modern and Early Modern Europe (including Britain); the Global History of “modern” Science; Science, Culture, and Society; Science and Gender; American Astronomy and Astrophysics (19th- 20th- Centuries)
Instructor in History
Historiography, history of the book, print culture, manuscript culture, printing technology, reading, archives, translation
Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences
PhD'16 (history) University of Chicago
Early modern and modern Ottoman Empire, focusing on the cultural and intellectual history
Associate Instructional Professor in the College
The rise and fall of the British Empire in India; international socialism in the twentieth century; philosophy of history
Assistant Instructional Professor in the College
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
Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences Division
Chinese history; economic and environmental history; gender, technology, and knowledge making; infrastucture