Jamal Abed-Rabbo
Middle East/Islam, 2012
Research Interests
Islamic Spain; Islamic law; orthodoxy and deviance; mudéjars and emigrants; the evolution of belief systems; societal collapse; the theory, practice, and literary manifestations of love
Marcel Sebastián Anduiza Pimentel
Latin America, 2011
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; political, urban, and economic history of Latin America; Latin America in the Pacific world; US–Latin American relations; history of regional development in Mexico; political violence and state formation; seaport management, traffic, and population mobility; tourism development
Michaela (Míša) Appeltová
Modern Europe, 2011
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe, feminist theory and gender history, race and ethnicity, colonialisms, intersections of postcolonialism and socialism
Evelyn Atkinson
US pre-1900, 2013
Research Interests
History of the corporation, legal history, constitutional law, history of capitalism, history of the long nineteenth century, history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, tort law
Mohamad Ballan
Middle East/Islam 2011
Research Interests
Nasrid Granada; medieval Iberia and North Africa; early modern Spain; Islamic mysticism; Islamic political thought; medieval political theory
Anna Band
Modern Jewish, 2013
Research Interests
Modern Jewish history (social, cultural, and intellectual); German-Jewish history; Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and German-Jewish émigré literature; history of housing, space, and place; Jewish migration and urbanization; Jewish memoir and memory; gender and Jewish history
Benny Bar-Lavi
Early Modern Europe, 2015
Research Interests
Intellectual history; political theology and political philosophy in early modern Europe; longue durée history of ideas; the reception of Machiavelli and Spinoza; Jewish-Christian intellectual relations in early modern Europe; early modern Spain; conversos; the Western Sephardi Diaspora
Zachary Barr
Modern Europe, 2011
Research Interests
Habsburg Empire, Austria; history and philosophy of science; historical epistemology; popular science and the popularization of science; Austromarxism, the Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein, Ernst Mach
Nathalie Barton
US 1900–Present, 2017
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century US history; urban history; housing and homeownership; race; citizenship
Johann Bayer
US 1900–Present, 2015
Research Interests
Twentieth-century US and Middle Eastern history; modern Iraq and Syria; violence, total war, and militarization in the United States; the US all-volunteer military; terrorism in the American imagination; the Westphalian state after the Cold War; the politics of secularism, religion, human rights, and gender; transnational history; international relations; cultural history; problems of evidence and interpretation in digital history
Roland D. Black
Medieval, 2016
Research Interests
Early medieval Europe; the Carolingian Empire; monasticism; early Islam; al-Andalus; North Africa and the Near East; kingship; education; moral guidance and royal advisors; paleography and codicology
Keegan Boyar
Latin America, 2014
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; Latin American history; social history; cultural history; Atlantic history
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
Larry Carrillo
Ancient, 2017
Research Interests
Roman law as it relates to Roman imperialism; development of the empire from the republican period into late antiquity
Filiberto Chávez Jr.
US 1900-Present, 2011
Research Interests
American West; Southwest history; borderlands; citizenship; higher education; social movements; American legal history; US government; racial formations; social reform; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Native American history; Mexican American history; Latino history; urban history
Ian Blaise Cipperly
East Asia-Japan, 2016
Research Interests
Early modern Japan; history of Japanese religions; political history; the intersection between Japanese religions and political and social ideology
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
Amy Coombs
Britain, 2013
Research Interests
Economic and environmental history; the British Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions; coal transformation; land-based rent seeking and projecting; history of capitalism; environmental and energy drivers of colonization and war; energy economics; sustainability analysis; climate change and forest management; landscape history; museum studies and collections management; paper and wood-product object conservation; archival methods; paleography; digital humanities and geographic information systems (GIS)
Serena Covkin
US pre-1900, 2016
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century US history; American political culture; gender and sexuality; historical memory
John Cropper
Africa, 2011
Research Interests
African history and French West Africa; colonialism and postcolonialism; energy and natural resources; environmental change and political economy; global and international history
Oliver Cussen
Early Modern Europe, 2012
Research Interests
Old regime France; European imperialism; political economy and the history of capitalism; the Enlightenment; intellectual history; environmental history
Enrique Dávila
US 1900–Present, 2011
Research Interests
US-Mexico borderlands, Mexican American history, Latino history, northern Mexico, Texas history, Progressive Era, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin America
Brandon Deadman
Modern Europe, 2016
Research Interests
History of the human sciences in modern France and Germany; Kulturkritik and Kulturpessimismus; religious studies, esotericism, and political radicalism; social theory and philosophical anthropology; German idealism and hermeneutic phenomenology; French poststructuralism; history of perception, ontology, and technics; the ontological turn; New Wittgensteinian approaches to history-writing
Zebulon York Dingley
Africa, 2008
Research Interests
East Africa; Kenya; kinship; ritual; slavery; critical social theory
Julia Dufosse
US pre-1900, 2014
Research Interests
Nineteenth-century US history; gender and sexuality; social history; literary, visual, and material culture; metahistory and historiography
Charles Begue Fawell
Modern Europe, 2014
Research Interests
Colonialism and the history of the French and British Empires; maritime history; migration, travel, and transit; military cultures and masculinity; material culture; theories of globalization
Ashley Finigan
US 1900–Present, 2011
Research Interests
African American history; nineteenth- and twentieth-century US women's and gender history; the modern United States; cultural history; print and musical cultures; black internationalism
Christina Flores
US 1900–Present, 2012
Research Interests
Latina/o history; California farmworkers and agriculture; Mexican immigration to the United States; US social movements; working-cass politics; religion in modern America; race and ethnicity; labor and capitalism
Nicholas Foster
US 1900–Present, 2016
Research Interests
History of capitalism in the twentieth-century United States; history of ideas; emergence of neoliberalism as a economic, political, and social construct
Elizabeth Fretwell
Africa, 2010
Research Interests
Francophone West Africa; Benin; urban history; gender and sexuality; work and leisure; colonialism and postcolonialism; material and visual culture
Christopher Gatto
Latin America, 2012
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; economic and social history of Latin America; agrarian history; export commodities; indigenous communities
Aimee Genova
Ancient, 2010
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Crete and modern Greece; archaeology and construction of national identity; disciplinary history; nationalism and archaeology; historical memory
Alyssa Goodstein
Latin America, 2017
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; political, social, and cultural history of Latin America; US–Latin American relations; regional politics in Mexico; caciquismo; political violence and state formation; authoritarianism; political economy
John-Paul Heil
Early Modern Europe, 2015
Research Interests
Early modern Europe, intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, Renaissance reception of classical philosophy, and Italian cultural history
Alexander Hofmann
US pre-1900, 2014
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States; history of the American South; cultural, social, and political history; collective memory; mentalité; race and racism; violence; gender and sexuality; science, medicine, and the body; mass and visual culture; public history
Michael Hosler-Lancaster
Medieval, 2016
Research Interests
High to late medieval Europe; the origins of the Germanic people and emergence of the German state(s); the history of gender and sexuality; material culture; Middle High German literature
Nicholas Huzsvai
Modern Europe, 2016
Research Interests
Imperial Germany and Weimar Republic; Habsburg Empire; intellectual history of far-right and far-left movements; organization of artisan and agrarian labor; transmission of socialist ideas across Central and Southeastern Europe; formation of class and national identity; intersection of religion and radical politics; cultural exchange among multiethnic empires; nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art; political economy of war
Jaewoong Jeon
East Asia-Korea, 2011
Research Interests
East Asian history, especially Korea and Taiwan; capitalism and colonialism; sociocultural theory
Nicholas Johnson
US 1900–Present, 2017
Research Interests
US history, intellectual history, and political economy
Elisa Jones
Early Modern Europe, 2008
Research Interests
Early modern Europe; Old Regime France; citizenship; history of rights; political thought; religion; secularism; war and violence; exile and displacement in Europe and the Atlantic world; cultural history; intellectual history; legal history
Caine Jordan
US 1900–Present, 2016
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century US history; African American history; women's and gender history; social movements; black elitism; race and resistance
Trish Kahle
US 1900–Present, 2012
Research Interests
Energy history, global history of labor and capitalism, environmental history, history of colonization and decolonization, mining and extraction, the United States and the world
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
Roy Kimmey III
Modern Europe, 2013
Research Interests
East-central European history; modern Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary; Habsburg history; Ottoman-Habsburg relations; immigration and migration; nationalism; religious studies; secularization theory; Orthodox Christianity; Neo-Protestantism; cultural history of state socialism; ethnomusicology
Christopher Kindell
US pre-1900, 2012
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of the United States and the Pacific World; Hawaii; the American West; Australia; race, racism, and racial ideologies; indigeneity, migration, and settlement; public health and medicine; science and technology; urbanization and commerce; cartography; visual and material culture
Emma Kitchen
History of Science, 2016
Research Interests
History of evolutionary biology; nineteenth-century natural history; public and scientific intersections
Daniel Knorr
East Asia-China, 2013
Research Interests
Qing social and cultural history; local and imperial identity and institutions; urban history and spatial strategies; violence and social movements; cross-cultural communication and conflict; place and social networks
Jared Kreiner
Ancient, 2012
Research Interests
Late Republic and early Imperial Roman history; Roman Germany; ancient warfare; ancient architecture
Nicholas Kryczka
US 1900–Present, 2013
Research Interests
Urban history; history of education; migration; civil rights and desegregation; the middle class; race and ethnicity; nativism; neighborhoods; gentrification; oral history; K–12 history education
Carl E. Kubler
East Asia-China, 2015
Research Interests
Social and economic history of late imperial and modern China; history of Sino-Western contact; global maritime history; intercultural communication and conflict; language and identity; children, childhood, and nationalism
Jun Hee Lee
East Asia-Japan, 2013
Research Interests
Twentieth-century East Asia; postwar Japanese popular culture, music, consumption, and social life; Japanese cultural projects in interwar Japan and Korea; Cold War–era international peace movements; history in popular culture; cultural exchanges between Japan and South Korea since the late 1990s
Zachary Leonard
South Asia, 2011
Research Interests
British frontier ethnography; Muslim "fanaticism"; Indian princely states; Indian reform movements; colonial political economy; Victorian international law; colonial anxiety and nostalgia
Yujie Li
East Asia-China, 2017
Research Interests
Twentieth-century China; history of technology and material culture; work and life under socialism
Matthew Lowenstein
East Asia-China, 2015
Research Interests
Modern China and transnational history; financial, business, and social history; history of Sichuan
Deirdre Lyons
Caribbean and Atlantic World, 2012
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean history; French colonialism and empire; Atlantic worlds; history of slavery and emancipation in the Americas; post-abolition citizenship; cultural and social history; history of the family, gender, and sexuality
Hanna Manente Nunes
Latin America, 2016
Research Interests
Modern Brazil; economic history; material culture and urban studies
Emily Masghati
US 1900–Present, 2013
Research Interests
African American history; history of the US South; US intellectual history; history of social science; philanthropy; education; urban history
Erin McCullugh
Caribbean & Atlantic World, 2012
Research Interests
History of Brazil; Latin American history; slavery and emancipation in the Americas; the transatlantic slave trade; the Atlantic World; race and racism; the history of gender and sexuality
Ilana McQuinn
Modern Jewish, 2013
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish history; twentieth-century Europe; Central and East European history; Jewish-Gentile relations; the Cold War; censorship; culture and political change, media; literary, visual, and cinema studies; transnationalism and cultural exchange
Amanda Mitchell
Latin America, 2016
Research Interests
Latin American cultural and intellectual history; Cuban Revolution; language and the modern nation; twentieth-century intellectual left(s) and leftist movements in Latin America; historical memory
Gregory Montoya-Mora
US 1900–Present, 2014
Research Interests
United States political history; Latino/borderlands history; Cold War science and technology studies; electoral politics; congressional appropriations; intergovernmental relations; nuclear weapons laboratories; citizenship and constituent relations
Yasser Nasser
International, 2017
Research Interests
Transnational history; India-China relations; postcolonialism; nation and state building; intellectual history; modernity
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
History of Science, 2011
Research Interests
Early modern science; early modern Britain and the Atlantic world; natural history; environmental history; alchemy; astrology and astro-meteorology; cornucopianism and utopianism; pre-Linnaean taxonomy; science and religion; deep history; the anthropocene and climate change in historical context
Nicholas O'Neill
Modern Europe, 2014
Research Interests
Early modern Europe, modern Europe, France, history of capitalism, history of economic thought
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
Kristine Palmieri
History of Science, 2014
Research Interests
History of the human sciences and humanities; history of philology; history of philology, history of science, intellectual history, German history, Western and Central European history, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history
Keyao (Kyle) Pan
East Asia-Japan, 2015
Research Interests
Social and cultural history of postwar Japan; transnational history of East Asia; repatriation and migration; war memory; testimonial practices; civilian movements; interpretation and re-interpretation of war legacy; state and civil society; human rights; nationalism and nation building
Sandra H. Park
East Asia-Korea, 2015
Research Interests
Modern Korean history; religion and the Cold War; postcolonialism and rural politics
Kai Perry Parker
US 1900–Present, 2009
Research Interests
African American history, twentieth-century US history; transnational American studies
Cameron Penwell
East Asia-Japan, 2007
Research Interests
Modern Japanese history, history of religion in modern Japan, Shinto studies, Japanese Buddhism
Eilin Rafael Pérez
International, 2015
Research Interests
Korea and the decolonizing world, tricontinental solidarity, postcolonialism and the Cold War, diplomatic history, cultural politics, language and representation
Alexandra Montero Peters
Medieval, 2015
Research Interests
Medieval Iberia and the Near East; Muslims, Jews, and Christians in medieval Spain; literary and cultural exchange across the Mediterranean; codicology and translation enterprises
Sarath Pillai
South Asia, 2013
Master of Studies in Law (in progress) Yale Law School
Research Interests
British empire, law and imperialism, Indian princely states, princely state of Travancore, internationalism and self determination, decolonization and postcolonialism, and interwar and post–World War histories of federation and commonwealth
Usama Rafi
International, 2015
Research Interests
British imperial history; ideological history of the British Empire; colonial legal history; modern Europe; modern European contact with Islam; frontiers, borders, and boundaries; colonialism in South Asia; Pakistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
Camille Reynolds
Ancient, 2014
Research Interests
Roman cultural history; Greek cultural history; ancient slavery; comparative history; the Christianization of the Roman Empire
Charlotte Robertson
Modern Europe, 2014
Research Interests
Modern France; financial markets and society; intellectual, economic, and cultural history of modern Europe; capitalism in the Atlantic world; social theory; history of the corporation; early modern Italian banking and finance
Christian Rocha
Latin America, 2015
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; urban history of Latin America; urbanization, planning, regionalism, and state building; Mexican borderlands and boomtowns; land tenure; middle classes, populism, and urban social movements; landscapes
Claire Roosien
Russia and Eurasia, 2012
Research Interests
Central Asia; modern Middle East; modern Russia; gender history and theory; cultural and literary history; secularism; empire and imperial history; modernism in the arts and politics
Colin Rydell
Britain, 2011
Research Interests
Early modern Britain; commodity and consumption history; alternative agriculture; environmental history; the early American colonies; the history of science; The Great Instauration
Zoya Sameen
South Asia, 2015
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asian history; transnational histories of prostitution; gender history; empire and colonialism; philosophy of history
Laura (Lisa) Scott
Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2010
Research Interests
Medieval and early modern Europe; Western and Central Europe; Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, and Habsburg Monarchy; governance, nobility, and institutional development; nationalism and identity
Savitri Maya Sedlacek Kunze
US 1900–Present, 2013
Research Interests
Twentieth-century American history; United States in the world; human rights and humanitarianism; migration; legal history; international law
Caroline Séquin
Modern Europe, 2012
Research Interests
Modern France and its empire; the Atlantic world; global and transnational history; cultural and social history; colonialism and empire; race and racism; gender and sexuality theories and history
Steven Server
History of Science, 2015
Research Interests
History of medicine and public health in modern Mexico; medical and scientific nationalism; history of the mental sciences; medical professionalization; progress, modernity, and statecraft; medicine and modern war
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; race and racism; mass, visual, and consumer culture; urban history; crime; social movements; gender and sexuality; public history
Madeline Smith
Modern Europe, 2014
Research Interests
Modern European and American history; comparative urban history, Paris and Chicago; Atlantic world; gender, sexuality, and women’s history; race and social difference; teaching, learning, and childhood; material culture, especially textiles, clothing, recycling, and the stewardship of objects; history of capitalism and labor; domestic economy and craft; ecology and environmental history; history of emotions; magic, spirituality, and folk wisdom
Natalie Smith
Modern Europe, 2016
Research Interests
Modern Europe and the Mediterranean; intersections of urban, environmental, and public-health issues in Mediterranean port cities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Robert Suits
US pre-1900, 2015
Research Interests
Climate, culture, and empire in the American West; environmental history, climate, soil, and energy; capitalism, imperialism, and inequality; indigenous communities and the Fourth World; global history; deep history; spatial history; quantitative history; the American West; and Native American history
William Sullivan
Early Modern Europe, 2012
Research Interests
European legal history, Roman law, comparative law
Nicole Beckmann Tessel
Middle East/Islam, 2010
Research Interests
Ottoman diplomatic history; foreign relations of the Ottoman Empire in the East and West; global history of early modern diplomacy; early modern political thought; philosophies and practices of history
Zeynep Tezer
Middle East/Islam, 2015
Research Interests
Social and political history of the Ottoman Empire from sixteenth to eighteenth century; structure and agency in power relations; political households and group dynamics; early modern world history
Jennifer Timmons
Medieval Europe, 2010
Research Interests
Medieval religious, cultural and intellectual history; hagiography; exegesis; liturgy; heresy and anti-heretical rhetoric
Erika Tschinkel
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
Modern Europe, 2010
Research Interests
Modern European intellectual history; modern European philosophy, especially political and social theory; Weimar Germany; human rights ideas in modern European philosophy; human rights law and international treaties; international humanitarian law and humanitarianism
Gregory Valdespino
Modern Europe, 2015
Research Interests
Modern France, West Africa, comparative empires, material history, urban history, family and households
Ben Van Zee
Modern Europe, 2015
Research Interests
Modern Central and Eastern Europe; the German- and Polish-speaking world; migration; humanitarianism and imperialism; migration; comparative empires and colonialisms; global 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
Chao Wang
East Asia-China, 2014
Research Interests
Social and cultural history of medicine and disability in twentieth-century China; history of blindness and visual impairment; history of handwork, technology, and gender in everyday life
Weichu Wang
East Asia-China, 2016
Research Interests
Socialist China, industrialisation, history of technology, factory life, comparative communism
Emily Webster
Britain, 2015
Research Interests
Environmental history of the British Empire; history of science and medicine; public health and disease; land-use change, ecology, climate change, and the Anthropocene
Lael Weinberger
US 1900–Present, 2013
Research Interests
Legal history; the United States in the world; international law; human rights; law and religion
Michael Williams
Modern Europe, 2010
Research Interests
Contemporary Germany, Derrida and post-structuralism, anti-foundationalism, German idealism, the history of nihilism, Nietzsche, Lebensphilosophie, philosophies of consciousness, philosophies of language, the Third Reich and the Holocaust, modernity, the West and theories of the West
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