Tal Arbel
Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor
Research Interests
History of the human sciences; mental measurement; expert authority; knowledge circulation; Americanization
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
John Harpham
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Early-modern England; Atlantic history; early American history; intellectual history; freedom; slavery; race; cartography
Alexandra M. Locking
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Historical writing in the Middle Ages, gender in aristocratic society, and the medieval church
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
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
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
Adam Woodhouse
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Research Interests
History of early modern European political thought; republican conceptions of empire in Renaissance Italy; Machiavelli’s theory of empire