Latin America, 2011
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
Middle East/Islam 2011
Nasrid Granada; medieval Iberia and North Africa; early modern Spain; Islamic mysticism; Islamic political thought; medieval political theory
Medieval Europe, 2010
Medieval and early modern Iberia; Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations; medieval institutions and rituals; historiography; political philosophy
Early Modern Europe, 2012
Old regime France; European imperialism; political economy and the history of capitalism; the Enlightenment; intellectual history; environmental history
PhD'17 (Latin American history) University of Chicago
Modern Mexico; Latin American history; urban history; urban planning and architecture; history of the social sciences and the state
Africa, 2008
East Africa; Kenya; kinship; ritual; slavery; critical social theory
PhD'17 (Latin American history) University of Chicago
Latin American history of science and technology, Brazil-Argentina relations, twentieth-century Spain, environmental history, informal diplomacy, Atlantic history, intellectual exchanges
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
PhD'18 (international history) University of Chicago
Empire and colonialism; gender and sexuality; race, decolonization, and rights and citizenship; science fiction and speculative fiction; France and the francophone world; Africa and the Atlantic world
PhD'18 (African history) University of Chicago
Francophone West Africa; Benin; urban history; gender and sexuality; work and leisure; colonialism and postcolonialism; material and visual culture
PhD'18 (international and South Asian history) University of Chicago
Modern South Asia; the British Empire; environmental history; borderlands; Ladakh and the Western Himalaya; Tibet; frontiers, borders, and boundaries; colonialism and postcolonialism; watersheds and water; technology; legal history; the colonial origins of international law
PhD'19 (ancient history), University of Chicago
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Crete and modern Greece; archaeology and construction of national identity; disciplinary history; nationalism and archaeology; historical memory
PhD'18 (US history) University of Chicago
Twentieth-century United States; comparative race and ethnicity; women, gender, and sexuality; immigration and diaspora; mixed-race studies
PhD'18 (history of science) University of Chicago
Media, technology, American culture
PhD'18 (ancient history) University of Chicago
Social history of Roman Greece; food systems; social geography and extra-urban landscapes; survey archaeology; historical memory; religion, magic, and medicine in Greco-Roman thought; Roman religion
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
East Asia-Korea, 2011
East Asian history, especially Korea and Taiwan; capitalism and colonialism; sociocultural theory
East Asia-Korea, 2014
Modern Korean history; imperialism, colonialism, and empire; modes of governance and bureaucracy; Imperial Russia, Imperial Japan, and the origins of colonialism in Korea; social history and problems of social equity; the south Korean Left; Socialist realism and north Korean literature; US-Korea/East Asian relations since the nineteenth century; comparative, intellectual, and political history; World wars in the Pacific and Europe; the Korean War; war, the security state, and human rights; Korean, Russian, and Chinese paths to modernity since the sixteenth century; comparative concepts of time; the Anthropocene; history and memory; historiography and history as a social and an interdisciplinary science
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
US 1900–Present, 2012
Energy history, global history of labor and capitalism, environmental history, history of colonization and decolonization, mining and extraction, the United States and the world
PhD'17 (East Asian history) University of Chicago
History of Japanese television; media history in postwar Japan; Japan's Cold War; US-Japan media encounters; popular culture in East Asia
PhD'18 (international history) University of Chicago
Economic modernization, liberal internationalism, and social change in postwar Japan; United States–East Asia relations; war memories, nationalism, human rights, and civil society in China, Japan, and Korea; the politics of nuclear environmentalism, nonproliferation, and energy competition in the context of postcolonial economic liberalism
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
US pre-1900, 2012
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
East Asia-China, 2013
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
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
US 1900–Present, 2013
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
PhD'18 (US history) University of Chicago
Transnational history of the American West; nineteenth-century US history; US expansionism and imperialism; history of race and ethnicity; migration and belonging; Asian American history; Pacific world
PhD'16 (Byzantine history) University of Chicago
Late antiquity, Byzantium, and medieval Europe, especially the tenth–twelfth centuries; kinship and family, aristocracy, identity, slavery, intercultural contacts, and historical memory
South Asia, 2011
British frontier ethnography; Muslim "fanaticism"; Indian princely states; Indian reform movements; colonial political economy; Victorian international law; colonial anxiety and nostalgia
PhD'17 (South Asian history) University of Chicago
History of South Asia, legal history, Islamic law, British Empire, comparative colonialisms, Islam in South Asia, Indian Ocean circulations, print culture, book history
PhD'18 (modern Europe history) University of Chicago
Early modern France, the British empire, the economic role of religion, and rural, environmental and business history
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
US 1900–Present, 2013
African American history; history of the US South; US intellectual history; history of social science; philanthropy; education; urban history
PhD'17 (US history) University of Chicago
Moral sentiments and violence, total war, human rights, the United States in twentieth-century global history, the history of democracy and the state
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2018–20)
PhD'18 (history of science) University of Chicago
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
PhD'17 (Latin American history) University of Chicago
Rural society and social transformation; private property, land tenure, and agrarianism; agriculture and rural modernization; boss politics; regional history and microhistory; oral history; immigration
PhD'17 (US history) University of Chicago
Early American history, women’s history, histories of violence, gender and sexuality
Russia and Eurasia, 2012
Socialism Mediated: The Soviet Mass Public in Uzbekistan, 1928–1937
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2018–20)
PhD'18 (US history) University of Chicago
United States history; intellectual history, political history and the history of political thought; war and society; the Civil War and Reconstruction
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Early modern and modern Ottoman Empire, focusing on the cultural and intellectual history
PhD'18 (medieval and early modern European history) University of Chicago
Medieval and early modern Europe; Western and Central Europe; Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, and Habsburg Monarchy; governance, nobility, and institutional development; nationalism and identity
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2018–20)
PhD'18 (modern European history) University of Chicago
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
PhD'18 (ancient history) University of Chicago
Social and cultural history of Greece and the Roman Empire; urban development and reuse of sacred space; archaeology of religion; interplay of identity, memory, and landscapes in premodern societies; impacts of empire on local identity formation
PhD'17 (US history) University of Chicago
Early American, Native American, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and Latino/a history; sovereignty in world history; theories of the state; history of cartography
PhD'17 (US history) University of Chicago
United States history; material culture; military history; gender; race; politics of everyday life; consumer history; museums
PhD'17 (East Asian history) University of Chicago
Modern Japanese history; East Asian history (China, Japan, Korea); independence movements; regional autonomy; indigenous rights; comparative global ethnic studies; Asian American studies; Asians in Latin America and the Caribbean
