Madeline Adams
Modern Europe, 2019
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Central Europe; gender and sexuality; queer history; material culture; cultural history; sensory history
Maniza Ahmed
US 1900-Present, 2020
Research Interests
Race and capitalism, domestic workers, post-emancipation, labor and gender history, the household.
Xavier Ante
East Asia-China, 2018
Research Interests
Environmental and economic history of late imperial and modern China; history of forests and natural resources; global Asia
Boone Ayala
Caribbean/Atlantic World, 2019
Research Interests
Early Modern Britain and its Empire; Colonial America; Comparative Empires; State Formation; Constitutional and Legal history
Gabriel Azevedo Duarte Franco
Latin America, 2021
Research Interests
Modern Brazil and Latin America; urban history, Rio de Janeiro; legal history; criminal legislation; history of crime; history of urban policing; slavery and abolition; race and racialization; social and political inequality
Nathalie Barton
US 1900–Present, 2017
Research Interests
Twentieth-century US history; urban history; race; the built environment; domesticity; real estate and housing, especially rental housing; residential segregation
William Birdthistle
US 1900–Present, 2019
Research Interests
US 1900-Present; history of the corporation; legal history; history of capitalism; history of investment funds
Roland Derek Black
Medieval, 2016
Research Interests
Medieval and early modern intellectual history; ideological construction of ideas of race; paleography and codicology
Leila Blackbird
US pre-1900, 2019
Research Interests
Longue durée US history; Black and Indigenous studies; settler colonialism and slavery; Louisiana and the Atlantic world; subaltern studies, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism; historical trauma, state violence, and genocide; human rights and the history of the present; critical theory and epistemics; digital and spatial humanities
James Bradley
US 1900–Present, 2018
Research Interests
US labor history; urban history; political economy; sanitation and waste; universities and the production of knowledge; race, racism, and resistance
Mariana Brandman
US 1900–Present, 2012
Research Interests
Twentieth-century US history; women and gender; lesbian and gay history; race and ethnicity; mass culture, humor, leisure, and entertainment; consumerism; public history
Abigail Bratcher
Russia and Eurasia, 2017
Research Interests
History of the Soviet Union, Cold War history, gender history, environmental history
Robert Burgos
East Asia-Japan, 2014
Research Interests
Twentieth-century community formation in Japanese cities among marginalized and minority groups; relationship of these processes to the broader development of 少数民族 (shōsū minzoku, minority) identity and "Japanese" identity in Japan
Rohan Chatterjee
Latin America, 2018
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Latin America, Perú; agrarian and Indigenous histories; Anthropocene and environmental history.
Ian Blaise Cipperly
East Asia-Japan, 2016
Research Interests
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.
Arthur Clement
History of Science, 2017
Research Interests
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
Daina Coffey
US 1900–Present, 2012
Research Interests
Race and gender; capitalism; urban and legal history
Anna Conner
History of Science and Early Modern Europe, 2021
Research Interests
History of medicine in early modern Europe; representations of diverse and non-normative bodies; creation of aesthetic ideals; reception of classical medical ideas; gender and disability studies; medicine in literature; early modern natality and monstrosity
Serena Covkin
US 1900-Present, 2016
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history; women's and gender history; histories of violence; war, culture, and society; legal history; citizenship and rights
Laura Cremer
Modern Europe, 2018
Research Interests
Cultural history, intellectual history, media and information technologies, advertising, propaganda and political art, Germany, the Soviet Union, capitalism and socialism, gender and sexuality
Timothy Crimmins
US 1900–Present, 2011
Research Interests
US history; US political and intellectual history since 1865; the history of the social sciences, particularly criminology; the history of criminal justice; varieties of American conservatism; US foreign policy
McKinsey Crozier
Modern Jewish, 2022
Research Interests
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
Rebecca Epstein-Boley
Modern Europe, 2020
Research Interests
Modern Europe with emphasis on Germany; cultural history; music, sound, and performance studies; gender and sexuality; nationalism; transnationalism
Miguel C. Fernandes
Medieval, 2021
Research Interests
Medieval European cultural and cognitive history; visual culture and materiality; media and technology; monasticism; diagrams
Nicholas Foster
US 1900–Present, 2016
Research Interests
History of capitalism in the twentieth-century United States; history of ideas; the impact of financialization on US politics, society, and culture
Xiaoyu Gao
East Asia - China, 2019
Research Interests
Economic History of Late Imperial and 20th-Century China; History of Capitalism; History of Global Trade; Social History of Technology (Currency Minting and Metallurgy); Sino-South American History
Kit Ginzky
US 1900-Present, 2020
Research Interests
Twentieth-century US history; labor, gender, and social reproduction; inequality; history of capitalism; social policy and the welfare state
Tahel Rachel Goldsmith
Modern Europe, 2018
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Germany and Poland; history and memory; Holocaust and its aftermath; Cold War; space and place; material culture
Patrick Graham
British, 2021
Research Interests
Computing techniques; data; early modern Britain; political economy; science; capitalism.
Gabriel Groz
International, 2019
Research Interests
Comparative Imperial history, History of Political Economy, early modern China, early modern Britain, Intellectual history
Andrew Halladay
South Asia, 2015
Research Interests
Literary landscapes, print culture of late-colonial India, and sociopolitical issues.
Alexa Herlands
Medieval, 2019
Research Interests
Intellectual history, Medieval Iberia; Medieval North Africa; race; history of magic; ajā'ib and the marvelous
Elena Hoffenberg
Modern Jewish, 2020
Research Interests
Twentieth-century East Central Europe; gender and sexuality; history of the family; Jewish nationalisms; modern Yiddish literature
Nicholas Huzsvai
Modern Europe, 2016
Research Interests
Modern Germany and Austria; modern East Central and Southeastern Europe; intellectual history of radical political movements; conservative revolution; transnational and comparative approaches to fascism; phenomenology of political religion; history of theology; study of folklore, mythology and Religionswissenschaft; history of the human sciences; theories of racism and nationalism; alternative religious movements; Kulturkritik and Kulturpessimismus; Romanticism; theories of anti-capitalism; philosophical anthropology; nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art
Esther Isaac
Modern Europe/US, 2020
Research Interests
History of anarchism and radical community organizing; anarchism as practice/lifestyle; labor history; history of everyday and social life; French and Francophone history; comparative urban history and theory, with a focus on Paris and Chicago; history of utopian thought and practice; gender history; political theory
Syrus Jin
International, 2019
Research Interests
America in the World, U.S. military assistance and advisory groups, U.S. - East Asian relations, theories of race and culture in U.S. foreign policy, the Korean War, modernization and development in Asia, war and militarism in memory and society.
Nicholas Johnson
US 1900–Present, 2017
Research Interests
US history, intellectual history, and political economy
Claire Jones
Early Modern Europe, 2020
Research Interests
Early Modern Britain, Portugal, and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora
Caine Jordan
US 1900–Present, 2016
Research Interests
Twentieth-century US history; African American history; women's and gender history; history of medicine
Evelyn Kessler
US pre-1900, 2017
Research Interests
History of the long nineteenth century; gender and sexuality; race and racism; personhood, citizenship, and the state; social reform; intellectual, legal, and cultural history
Emma Kitchen
History of Science, 2016
Research Interests
History of evolutionary biology; nineteenth-century natural history; public and scientific intersections; deep time and historical consciousness; paleontology and paleobiology; relation between human and biological sciences; history of museums
Yujie Li
East Asia-China, 2017
Research Interests
Twentieth-century China; history of technology and material culture; work and life under socialism
Hanna Manente Nunes
Latin America, 2016
Research Interests
Modern Brazil; economic history; material culture and urban studies
Fiona Maxwell
US 1800–Present, 2018
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history; Chicago and the Midwest; spoken performance; urban culture and reform; children and education; gender; immigration; history of the book.
Maureen McCord
International, 2019
Research Interests
Seventeenth and eighteenth-century political, commercial, and social history of the East India Company in Western India (Bombay and Surat); early modern and modern South Asia; early modern Britain and its empire; Indian Ocean historiography; comparative imperialism and colonialism; urban history before 1800
Brigitte McFarland
Modern Europe, 2022
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Poland; cultural history; nations and nationalism; space and place; material culture; food systems and hunger; gender and everyday life
Julia Mead
Modern Europe, 2018
Research Interests
Twentieth-century East Central Europe; state socialism and post-socialism; Cold War history; labor; gender and sexuality; Anthropocene, energy, and environmental history; mining
Yasser Ali Nasser
International, 2017
Research Interests
Transnational history; India-China relations; postcolonialism; nation and state building; intellectual history; social movements and internationalism; conceptions of modernity
James Nee
Russia and Eurasia, 2022
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Central Asia and Russia; gender, sexuality, law, and nationhood; political economy; leisure and pleasure
Erin Newton
East Asia-Japan, 2014
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japanese history; history of science and medicine; gender and labor; medical education and technology; history of care
Quynh-Anh Nguyen
International, 2019
Research Interests
Modern Asia; print culture; urban politics; gender; emotion; critical theory's critique of modernism, colonialism, and nationalism
Natalia Niedmann Alvarez
US History, Gender and Sexuality, 2022
Research Interests
US 20th century; legal history; constitutional law, feminist history; gender and sexuality; social movements; citizenship; political imagination.
Corbin Page
US 1900–Present, 2016
Research Interests
US legal history; history of criminal law; history of crime, policing, and incarceration; history of the social and human sciences
Stephanie Painter
East Asia-China, 2016
Research Interests
Cultural and social history of late imperial and modern China; gender and sexuality; legal history; masculinity studies; ethnicity and the state; everyday life
Hannah Youngeun Park
East Asia-Korea, 2018
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Korean diaspora; migration and the family; postcolonial nation-building in the Cold War; epistolary writing; hope and utopian imaginations
Eric Phillips
Modern Europe, 2012
Research interests
Economic and political history of modern Central and Eastern Europe; Austria, Bohemia, and the Habsburg Empire; capitalism, socialism, nationalism, and liberalism; comparative empires
Aimee Pizarchik
East Asia - China, 2020
Research Interests
Chinese frontier history; twentieth-century China and Yunnan Province; the Global South; transregional histories
Ksenia Podvoiskaia
Global British Empire, 2020
Research Interests
Global History, Modern British Empire, Postcolonial theory, education and public discourse
Usama Rafi
International, 2015
Research Interests
International history; intellectual history; history of redistributive politics and economic thought; twentieth-century human sciences; human rights, development, and American foreign policy in the twentieth century; history of the British Empire; colonialism in Asia and Africa; Islam in the non-Arab world
Kate Randazzo
Early Modern Europe, 2020
Research Interests
Early modern Iberia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean world; Muslim-Christian relations; Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires; conversion, migration, and cultural exchange
Joseph Rathke
US 1900-Present, 2021
Research Interests
Labor history, history of capitalism, history of radicalism, history of political repression and surveillance, Chicago and the Midwest, political economy.
Christian Rocha
Latin America, 2015
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; urban history of Latin America; spatial history; urbanization, regionalism, and state building; Mexican borderlands and boomtowns; land tenure; the middle classes, populism, and social movements; spatial politics; decentralization; urban redevelopment
José Camilo Ruiz Tassinari
Latin America, 2019
Research interests
Political economy; history of capitalism; state formation; Colonial economic history; business history; history of energy; Mexican history
Shirin Mikiko Sadjadpour
International, 2020
Research Interests
Late 19th and early 20th century Japan and Germany; art and empire; crisis of modernity/alternative modernities; material expressions of national identity; politics of soft power; global modernism; transnational artistic and cultural exchange; east-west binary
Arthur Schott Lopes
Latin America, 2019
Research Interests
Political economy; developmentalism; land, property, and rurality; twentieth-century Brazil; diplomatic history; borders, borderlands, and frontiers; US-Brazil relations; national security
Dissertation
"Controlled Chaos: Property, Development, and Brazil’s Border Lands, 1890-1990”
Kyra Schulman
Modern Europe, 2020
Research Interests
Modern French history; urban memory; material culture; antisemitism; post-Holocaust French literature; human rights; digital humanities
Andrew Seber
US 1900–Present, 2017
Research Interests
20th and 21st century agriculture; industrial animal production; science and technology studies; toxics, pollution, atmosphere; biosecurity; American studies and social theory; environmental justice
Jiakai Sheng
East Asia-Japan, 2016
Research Interests
Modern Japan; transnational history of East Asia; identities; ideologies; state-society relations; expatriate communities
Brendan Small
Early Modern Europe, 2016
Research Interests
Early modern Europe, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance humanism, Renaissance devotional art, ritual, and patronage
Alyssa Smith
US 1900–Present
Research Interests
Twentieth-century United States; violence; crime; incarceration; vigilantism; race and racism; mass, visual, and consumer culture; social movements; gender and sexuality; public history
Eduardo Terra Romero
US 1900-Present, 2019
Research Interests
US 1900-present; political history; economic history; history of capitalism; international history
Zeynep Tezer
Middle East/Islam, 2015
Research Interests
Social and Cultural History of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, social critique, subversion, dissent, marginalization, poetry
Yuan Tian
East Asia-China, 2016
Research Interests
Legal history; Sino-Western interactions in the realms of law, religion, and trade in late imperial and modern China; transnational history and colonialism; southwest China
Rachel Tils
Early Modern Europe, 2021
Research Interests
The Atlantic World, Anglo-French imperial rivalry, the Enlightenment, political economy, gender, race, intellectual history, digital humanities.
Adaline "Ada" Torres Feliciano
Latin America, 2019
Research Interests
Latin America; nineteenth and twentieth centuries; urban, intellectual, cultural histories; cities, ideas, and people; cosmopolitanism.
Ben Van Zee
Modern Europe, 2015
Research Interests
Central and Eastern Europe; nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany and Poland; Habsburg Monarchy and the successor states; comparative empires; imperialism and colonialism; humanitarianism; migration; global and transnational history
Demmy Villalpando
Latin America, 2016
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; social and political history of Latin America; history of the social sciences; indigenismo; international history
Nell Williamson Shaffer
Britain, 2022
Research Interests
Early Modern Britain and its Empire; Political Economy; Comparative Empires; the Atlantic World
Juan Ignacio Wilson
Latin America, 2018
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America; social movements and state formation; history of constitutionalism; history of law and legal practice; political and legal theory
Tali Winkler
Early Modern Europe, 2014
Research Interests
Early modern Jewish history; history of the book; history of reading; marginalia; Hebrew and Yiddish book trade; material culture; circulation of books as material objects
Tingfeng Yan
Early United States, 2019
Research Interests
British empire, the American Revolution, the making of the constitution, the early American republic, and international perceptions of America
Olivia Young
Early Modern Europe, 2022
Reseach Interests
Early Modern and Modern Europe, Jewish History, Political Economy and Economic Theory, Transregional and Cross-Cultural Relations, Intellectual History, and the Middle East.