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

 


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Gabriel Groz

International, 2019

Research Interests

Comparative Imperial history, History of Political Economy, early modern China, early modern Britain, Intellectual history


Alexa Herlands

Medieval, 2019

Research Interests

Intellectual history, Medieval Iberia; Medieval North Africa; race; history of magic; ajā'ib and the marvelous


Elizabeth Hines

Early Modern Europe, 2019

Research Interests

Britain and the Netherlands; imperialism; economic and political history; religion and religious toleration


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. 


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


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


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


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


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.


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


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.


Ada Torres

Latin America, 2019

Research Interests

Intellectual, cultural, economic, and urban histories; early modern Mediterranean, Spanish America, Portuguese America, Dutch America, French America, and British America; modern  Mexico and the Hispanic Caribbean (including New York, Chicago, Florida, etc.); global and comparative histories of cities, capitalism, and modernity; history of ideas, history, literature, visual arts, music, theatre, cinema, etc.; Romance languages and literatures (Spanish, Italian, Catalan, French, and Portuguese); history of the Spanish language and literature; the relationship between cosmopolitanism, ideas, and immigration


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


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.