Madeline Adams
Modern Europe, 2019
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Central Europe; gender and sexuality; queer history; material culture; cultural history; sensory history
Modern Europe, 2019
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Central Europe; gender and sexuality; queer history; material culture; cultural history; sensory history
US 1900-Present, 2020
Race and capitalism, domestic workers, post-emancipation, labor and gender history, the household.
East Asia-China, 2018
Environmental and economic history of late imperial and modern China; history of forests and natural resources; global Asia
Caribbean/Atlantic World, 2019
Early Modern Britain and its Empire; Colonial America; Comparative Empires; State Formation; Constitutional and Legal history
Latin America, 2021
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
Modern Jewish, 2013
Modern Jewish history (social, cultural, and intellectual); German-Jewish history; nineteenth and twentieth century Hebrew, Yiddish, and German-Jewish literature; gender and Jewish history; history of housing, space, and place; Jewish migration and urbanization; Jewish memoir and memory
Early Modern Europe, 2015
Early modern Europe; intellectual history; the longue durée history of ideas; political theology; Conversos, Moriscos, and the Western Sephardic Diaspora; the reception of Machiavelli and Spinoza; Judaism and Islam in Christian political thought
US 1900–Present, 2017
Twentieth-century US history; urban history; race; the built environment; domesticity; real estate and housing, especially rental housing; residential segregation
US 1900–Present, 2019
US 1900-Present; history of the corporation; legal history; history of capitalism; history of investment funds
Medieval, 2016
Medieval and early modern intellectual history; ideological construction of ideas of race; paleography and codicology
US pre-1900, 2019
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
Latin America, 2014
Modern Mexico; Latin American history; social history; cultural history; Atlantic history
US 1900–Present, 2018
US labor history; urban history; political economy; sanitation and waste; universities and the production of knowledge; race, racism, and resistance
US 1900–Present, 2012
Twentieth-century US history; women and gender; lesbian and gay history; race and ethnicity; mass culture, humor, leisure, and entertainment; consumerism; public history
Russia and Eurasia, 2017
History of the Soviet Union, Cold War history, gender history, environmental history
East Asia-Japan, 2014
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
Latin America, 2018
Twentieth-century Latin America, Perú; agrarian and Indigenous histories; Anthropocene and environmental history.
East Asia-Japan, 2016
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.
History of Science, 2017
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
US 1900–Present, 2012
Race and gender; capitalism; urban and legal history
History of Science and Early Modern Europe, 2021
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
US 1900-Present, 2016
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history; women's and gender history; histories of violence; war, culture, and society; legal history; citizenship and rights
Modern Europe, 2018
Cultural history, intellectual history, media and information technologies, advertising, propaganda and political art, Germany, the Soviet Union, capitalism and socialism, gender and sexuality
US 1900–Present, 2011
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
Modern Europe, 2020
Modern Europe with emphasis on Germany; cultural history; music, sound, and performance studies; gender and sexuality; nationalism; transnationalism
Medieval, 2021
Medieval European intellectual, cultural, and religious history; visual culture; medieval numeracy; history of media; digital humanities
US 1900–Present, 2011
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
US 1900–Present, 2016
History of capitalism in the twentieth-century United States; history of ideas; the impact of financialization on US politics, society, and culture
Modern Europe, 2018
Twentieth-century Germany; east-central Europe; history and memory; Holocaust and its aftermath; space and place; material culture, especially architecture
British, 2021
Computing techniques; data; early modern Britain; political economy; science; capitalism.
International, 2019
Comparative Imperial history, History of Political Economy, early modern China, early modern Britain, Intellectual history
South Asia, 2015
Literary landscapes, print culture of late-colonial India, and sociopolitical issues.
Early Modern Europe, 2015
Early modern Europe, intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, Renaissance reception of classical philosophy, and Italian cultural history
Modern Jewish, 2020
Twentieth-century East Central Europe; gender and sexuality; history of the family; Jewish nationalisms; modern Yiddish literature
Modern Europe, 2016
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
Modern Europe/US, 2020
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
East Asia-Japan, 2015
Modern Japan, Disaster Studies, Environmental History, Global Memory Culture, Transnational History, Public History, Emotional History
International, 2019
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.
US 1900–Present, 2017
US history, intellectual history, and political economy
Early Modern Europe, 2020
Early Modern Britain, Portugal, and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora
US 1900–Present, 2014
Twentieth-century US cultural and social history, particularly the meanings of aspiration among racial and ethnic minorities
US 1900–Present, 2016
Twentieth-century US history; African American history; women's and gender history; history of medicine
US pre-1900, 2017
History of the long nineteenth century; gender and sexuality; race and racism; personhood, citizenship, and the state; social reform; intellectual, legal, and cultural history
History of Science, 2011
Nineteenth-century biology, with a pre-Darwinian focus; Formation, competition, and sharing of scientific knowledge between France and Germany; Goethe's scientific works; German Romanticism; text analysis using visualization methods
East Asia-Korea, 2012
Modern Korean history and North Korea; the Cold War; transnational history of East Asia; empire, imperialism, and colonialism; postcolonial East Asia
Modern Europe, 2013
East Central European history; modern Hungary; immigration and migration; nationalism; cultural history of state socialism; histories of humanitarianism and human rights; minority rights and politics; politics of recognition; Romani studies; ethnomusicology
History of Science, 2016
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
East Asia-China, 2015
Social, economic, and transnational history of late imperial and modern China; migration and diaspora; colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region; intercultural communication and conflict; history of education; language and translation; children, childhood, and nationalism
East Asia-China, 2017
Twentieth-century China; history of technology and material culture; work and life under socialism
Latin America, 2016
Modern Brazil; economic history; material culture and urban studies
US 1900–Present, 2018
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.
International, 2019
Modern South Asia; migration, labor, and the colonial subject; colonial intermediaries; subaltern studies and postcolonial historiography; British Empire in Asia and Africa
Modern Europe, 2018
Twentieth-century East Central Europe; state socialism and post-socialism; Cold War history; labor; gender and sexuality; Anthropocene, energy, and environmental history; mining
International, 2017
Transnational history; India-China relations; postcolonialism; nation and state building; intellectual history; social movements and internationalism; conceptions of modernity
South Asia, 2015
History of early modern Eastern India and in that of the early Company state.
East Asia-Japan, 2014
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japanese history; history of science and medicine; gender and labor; medical education and technology; history of care
International, 2019
Modern Asia; print culture; urban politics; gender; emotion; critical theory's critique of modernism, colonialism, and nationalism
Modern Europe, 2014
Political economy and the history of capitalism; early modern and modern Europe; the Atlantic World; material culture, consumer societies, and global exchanges; the history of economic thought; labor and social movements; nationalism
US 1900–Present, 2016
US legal history; history of criminal law; history of crime, policing, and incarceration; history of the social and human sciences
East Asia-China, 2016
Cultural and social history of late imperial and modern China; gender and sexuality; legal history; masculinity studies; ethnicity and the state; everyday life
History of Science, 2014
History of science and knowledge; history of the human sciences and humanities; history of philology; German and Central European history; modern and early modern Europe; cultural, institutional, and intellectual history; transnational history; Britain and the British Empire.
East Asia-Korea, 2018
Twentieth-century Korea; transnational history of East Asia; empire and colonialism; intellectual diaspora/exile communities; women and gender; postcolonial nation building in the Cold War; East Asia-US relations
East Asia-Korea, 2015
Twentieth-century Korea; Christianity in divided Korea; performing citizenship; Korean War; US imperialism and Cold War; transpacific pedagogy on liberal democracy; blood and jus sanguinis in post-1945 East Asia
International, 2015
Korea and the decolonizing world, tricontinental solidarity, postcolonialism and the Cold War, diplomatic history, cultural politics, language and representation
Medieval, 2015
Medieval Iberia, North Africa, and the Near East; pre-modern race; Muslims, Jews, and Christians in medieval Spain; literary and cultural exchange across the Mediterranean; the Islamic intellectual tradition; codicology and translation enterprises
Modern Europe, 2012
Economic and political history of modern Central and Eastern Europe; Austria, Bohemia, and the Habsburg Empire; capitalism, socialism, nationalism, and liberalism; comparative empires
South Asia, 2013
Modern South Asian history, British empire, legal and constitutional history, postcolonial histories/subaltern studies, Indian princely states, history of Travancore/Kerala, international history, interwar political thought, decolonization, international law, history of federation, and studies on nationalism and sovereignty
East Asia - China, 2020
Chinese frontier history; twentieth-century China and Yunnan Province; the Global South; transregional histories
Global British Empire, 2020
Global History, Modern British Empire, Postcolonial theory, education and public discourse
International, 2015
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
Early Modern Europe, 2020
Medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa; Muslim-Christian relations; literary and cultural exchange
US 1900-Present, 2021
Labor history, history of capitalism, history of radicalism, history of political repression and surveillance, Chicago and the Midwest, political economy.
Latin America, 2015
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
International, 2020
Late 19th and early 20th century Germany and Japan, material culture and cultural preservation, museums and public history, national identity, alternative paths to modernity, the intersection of art and politics, notions of "East" and "West"
South Asia, 2015
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asian history; British Empire in Asia; colonial violence and legacy; law and gender; migration and mobility; everyday life and history from below.
Latin America, 2019
Intellectual history; political theory; democracy and democratic theory; early twentieth-century Brazil; race; nationalism; US imperialism
Modern Europe, 2020
Modern French history; urban memory; material culture; antisemitism; post-Holocaust French literature; human rights; digital humanities
US 1900–Present, 2017
20th and 21st century agriculture; industrial animal production; science and technology studies; toxics, pollution, atmosphere; biosecurity; American studies and social theory; environmental justice
History of Science, 2015
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
Medieval, 2015
Socio-political history of the late medieval Holy Roman Empire; late medieval conflict, violence, and warfare (feuding); history of medieval law; medieval aristocracy; state formation.
East Asia-Japan, 2016
Modern Japan; transnational history of East Asia; identities; ideologies; state-society relations; expatriate communities
Early Modern Europe, 2016
Early modern Europe, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance humanism, Renaissance devotional art, ritual, and patronage
US 1900–Present
Twentieth-century United States; violence; crime; incarceration; vigilantism; race and racism; mass, visual, and consumer culture; social movements; gender and sexuality; public history
Modern Europe, 2014
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
Modern Europe, 2016
Modern Europe and the Mediterranean; intersections of urban, environmental, and cultural issues in southern France and the French Mediterranean in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
East Asia-China, 2015
Modern China; agriculture and environment; history of science and technology; digital humanities
US 1900-Present, 2019
US 1900-present; political history; economic history; history of capitalism; international history
Middle East/Islam, 2010
Ottoman diplomatic history; foreign relations of the Ottoman Empire in the East and West; global history of early modern diplomacy; philosophies and practices of history; history of education
Middle East/Islam, 2015
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
East Asia-China, 2016
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
Early Modern Europe, 2021
The Atlantic World, Anglo-French imperial rivalry, the Enlightenment, political economy, gender, race, intellectual history, digital humanities.
Medieval Europe, 2010
Medieval religious, cultural and intellectual history; hagiography; exegesis; liturgy; heresy and anti-heretical rhetoric
Latin America, 2019
Latin America; nineteenth and twentieth centuries; urban, intellectual, cultural histories; cities, ideas, and people; cosmopolitanism.
Modern Europe, 2015
Modern France and the francophone world, transnational Europe, modern Africa, military history, domesticity, welfare, migration, colonial history, material culture, everyday life
Modern Europe, 2015
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
Latin America, 2016
Modern Mexico; social and political history of Latin America; history of the social sciences; indigenismo; international history
Modern Europe, 2010
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
Early Modern Europe, 2014
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
History of Science, 2010
Sound Studies; late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century extraterrestrial life debates; history of evolutionary biology; Edward S. Morse