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
Madeline Adams
Modern Europe, 2019
Research Interests
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Central Europe; gender and sexuality; empire and colonialism; cultural history; history of childhood and toys; sensory history; material culture
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
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
Anna Band
Modern Jewish, 2013
Research Interests
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
Benny Bar-Lavi
Early Modern Europe, 2015
Research Interests
Intellectual history; longue durée history of ideas; political thought in early modern Europe; early modern Spain and England; Conversos, Moriscos, and the Western Sephardi Diaspora; the reception of Machiavelli and Spinoza; “Judaism” and “Islam” as political concepts
Zachary Barr
Modern Europe, 2011
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Central Europe; Habsburg Austria; history of science; history of philosophy; historical epistemology; history of scientific communication; popular science and science popularization; Ernst Mach
Nathalie Barton
US 1900–Present, 2017
Research Interests
Twentieth-century US history; urban history; race; the built environment; 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
Native American and Indigenous studies; comparative colonialisms and slaveries; settler colonialism; Atlantic history; New France and Louisiana; US-Mexico borderlands; Anglo-American imperialism; subaltern studies, decolonization, and postcolonialism; historical trauma, state violence, and genocide; environmental racism; critical theory at the intersection of race and gender
Keegan Boyar
Latin America, 2014
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; Latin American history; social history; cultural history; Atlantic history
James Bradley
US 1900–Present, 2018
Research Interests
US labor history; technology and automation; political economy; the history of capitalism; taxation, banking, and finance; the American South; 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
David Cantor-Echols
Medieval Europe, 2010
Research Interests
Medieval and early modern Iberia; Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations; medieval institutions and rituals; historiography; political philosophy
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
Rohan Chatterjee
Latin America, 2018
Research Interests
Twentieth Century Latin America; Perú; Agrarian and Indigenous Histories; Land Reform; Oral Histories; Anthropocene
Ian Blaise Cipperly
East Asia-Japan, 2016
Research Interests
Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo period Japan (1568-1868); History of Japanese religions; Art and architecture of the Japanese archipelago; Hegemonic deification; Philosophy of history, conceptions of the past, 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
Amy Coombs
Britain, 2013
Research Interests
Economic and environmental history; the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions; coal transformation and oil acceleration; environmental and energy drivers of colonization and war; applied history; energy and agricultural economics; archival methods; paleography; digital humanities; geographic information systems (GIS).
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
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
Jessa Dahl
East Asia-Japan, 2013
Research Interests
Modern Japanese and East Asian history; treaty ports and histories of transnational exchange; urban history; cultural and social history; histories of gender, race, and colonialism
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
Intellectual history of modern Germany; the conservative revolutionary movement, fascism, and völkisch ideology; religion, theology, and esotericism; German idealism, phenomenology, and Lebensphilosophie; poststructuralism and philosophy in postwar France; critical theory and philosophical anthropology; the history of mass, technics, and perception; the later Wittgenstein
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
Michael Feeney
Early Modern Europe, 2018
Research Interests
Early modern Europe, early modern Britain, empires and imperialism, history of the book, news media
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; the impact of financialization on US politics, society, and culture
Christopher Gatto
Latin America, 2012
Research Interests
Modern Mexico; economic and social history of Latin America; agrarian history; export commodities; indigenous communities
Tahel Rachel Goldsmith
Modern Europe, 2018
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Germany; east-central Europe; history and memory; Holocaust and its aftermath; space and place; material culture, especially architecture
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; race and racism; gender and sexuality; violence; science, medicine, and the body; mass and visual culture; collective memory; 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
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
Alex Jania
East Asia-Japan, 2015
Research Interests
Modern Japan, emotional history, environmental history, national disasters, memorialization and memory studies, material culture, affect theory, popular religion, folklore, nationalism
Jaewoong Jeon
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
East Asia-Korea, 2011
Research Interests
Korea and Taiwan; history of capitalism; empire and colonialism in East Asia; social theory
Syrus Jin
International, 2019
Research Interests
US foreign policy; decolonization in Asia; the Korean War; US-East Asian relations; multilateralism; alliance dynamics
Nicholas Johnson
US 1900–Present, 2017
Research Interests
US history, intellectual history, and political economy
Julius L. Jones
US 1900–Present, 2014
Research Interests
Twentieth-century US cultural and social history, particularly the meanings of aspiration among racial and ethnic minorities
Caine Jordan
US 1900–Present, 2016
Research Interests
Twentieth-century US history; African American history; women's and gender history; history of medicine
Robert Kaminski
US 1900–Present, 2014
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States; business, economic, and labor history; political history; history of economic thought and political theory; Christianity and commerce; regulatory policy
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
Agatha Kim
History of Science, 2011
Research Interests
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
Haeyoung Kim
East Asia-Korea, 2012
Research Interests
Modern Korean history and North Korea; the Cold War; international history; empire, imperialism, and colonialism; postcolonial East AsiaRoy Kimmey III
Modern Europe, 2013
Research Interests
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
Christopher Kindell
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
US pre-1900, 2012
Research Interests
Long-nineteenth-century American Pacific World; Hawai’i, the U.S. West, and Australia; public health, medicine, and technology; mobility, commerce, and urbanization; race, indigeneity, and migration; empire and colonization; visual and material culture
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
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
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
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; history of education; children, childhood, and nationalism
Jun Hee Lee
East Asia-Japan, 2013
Research Interests
Twentieth-century East Asia; music, consumption, and social life in postwar Japan; cultural projects in early twentieth-century Japan and Korea; Cold War–era international peace movements and events; history in popular culture; cultural exchanges between Japan and South Korea since the late 1990s
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
Naama Maor
US pre-1900, 2014
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States, history of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, legal history, history of children and childhood, social policy and reform, family law and juvenile justice
Emily Masghati
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
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
Fiona Maxwell
US 1900–Present, 2018
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history; cultural history; literary and oral culture; children and education; urban history; immigration; Chicago and the Midwest
Maureen McCord
International, 2019
Research Interests
Modern South Asia; migration, labor, and the colonial subject; colonial intermediaries; subaltern studies and postcolonial historiography; British Empire in Asia and Africa
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
Julia Mead
Modern Europe, 2018
Research Interests
Twentieth-century East Central Europe, state socialism and post-socialism, Cold War history, labor, gender, and sexuality, environmental history, mining
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
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
Nicholas O'Neill
Modern Europe, 2014
Research Interests
Early modern and modern Europe; history of capitalism; political economy; history of economic thought; France since 1648; the Atlantic World
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 Science; History of the Human Sciences and Humanities; History of Philology; Germany; Modern and Early Modern Europe; Cultural, Institutional, and Intellectual History; History of Knowledge; Transnational History; Britain and the British Empire
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
Hannah Youngeun Park
East Asia-Korea, 2018
Research Interests
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
Sandra H. Park
East Asia-Korea, 2015
Research Interests
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
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
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
Sarath Pillai
South Asia, 2013
Research Interests
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
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
Charlotte Robertson
Modern Europe, 2014
Research Interests
Modern France, especially the long nineteenth century; financial markets and society; modern European intellectual, economic, and cultural history; capitalism in the Atlantic world; social theory; regulation, policing, and imprisonment; history of the corporation
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
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; global histories of prostitution; gender history; empire and colonialism; imperial violence; philosophy of history
Arthur Schott Lopes
Latin America, 2019
Research Interests
Intellectual history; political theory; democracy and democratic theory; early twentieth-century Brazil; race; nationalism; US imperialism
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
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; crime; incarceration; vigilantism; race and racism; mass, visual, and consumer culture; 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 cultural issues in southern France and the French Mediterranean in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Thomas Snyder
Modern Europe, 2013
Research Interests
Modern German history, German constitutional law, German legal theory, comparative constitutional law, the history of international law and human rights, the history of ideas, law and philosophy
Spencer Stewart
East Asia-China, 2015
Research Interests
Modern China; agriculture and environment; history of science and technology; digital humanities
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
Zhi-Xiang Niuniu Teo
East Asia-China, 2018
Research Interests
Twentieth-century China; social and intellectual history; family and relationships under socialism; gender; memory and autobiography
Eduardo Terra Romero
US 1900-Present, 2019
Research Interests
US 1900-present; political history; economic history; history of capitalism; international history
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; philosophies and practices of history; history of education
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
Adaline Torres
Latin America, 2019
Research Interests
Latin American transnationalism; cosmopolitanism; cities; diasporas; bohemia; popular culture, ideas, and emotions
Gregory Valdespino
Modern Europe, 2015
Research Interests
Modern France and the Francophone world, West Africa, comparative empires and colonialism, home and belonging, family and households, material culture, migration, gender, and sexuality
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
Chao Wang
East Asia-China, 2014
Research Interests
Twentieth-century China; urban history; medical and social welfare; disability and gender; history of work and the everyday
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