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


Oliver Cussen

Collegiate Assistant Professor

Research Interests

The history of capitalism, Enlightenment social theory, and environmental histories of empire


Isabel Gabel

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor in the Stevanovich Institute

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


Phillip Henry

Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences

Research Interests

Modern Europe; Austria and Germany; intellectual history; history of the human and social sciences; history of medicine; psychoanalysis; critical theory

 


Alec Hickmott

Postdoctoral Scholar in History

Research Interests

African American history, the civil rights movement; black economic thought; the history of the rural South


Alexander Hofmann

Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, History (2021–23)
PhD'21 (US history), University of Chicago

Research Interests

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


Pamela C. Nogales

Collegiate Assistant Professor

Research Interests

United States; transatlantic history; history of liberalism; capitalism; labor history; intellectual history; history of immigration; social reform; slavery and emancipation


Kristine Palmieri

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor in the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge

Research Interests

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)


Basil Salem

Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences
PhD'16 (history) University of Chicago

Research Interests

Early modern and modern Ottoman Empire, focusing on the cultural and intellectual history


Sunit Singh

Associate Instructional Professor in the College

Research Interests

The rise and fall of the British Empire in India; international socialism in the twentieth century; philosophy of history


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


You Wang

Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences Division

Field Specialties

Chinese history; economic and environmental history; gender, technology, and knowledge making; infrastucture