Mariana Brandman
PhD'23 (US History) University of Chicago
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
Sabrina Datoo
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hamilton College
PhD'20 (South Asian history) University of Chicago
Research Interests
South Asian History, early modern & modern; History of Medicine and Science; Islam in South Asia; History and Sociology of the Body; Colonial and Post-colonial History; Global History
John-Paul Heil
PhD '22 (early modern European history), University of Chicago
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
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, History (2021–23)
PhD'21 (US history), University of Chicago
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
Alex Jania
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, History (2022-24)
PhD '22 (East Asian history), University of Chicago
Research Interests
Modern Japan, Disaster Studies, Environmental History, Global Memory Culture, Transnational History, Public History, Emotional History
Nicholas O'Neill
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Power, Identity, and Resistance (2022-24)
PhD '22 (European history), University of Chicago
Research Interests
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
Stephanie Painter
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations (2023-25) PhD'23 (East Asian history), University of Chicago
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
Sarath Pillai
PhD '22 (South Asian history), University of Chicago
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
Modern South Asia, British empire, global history, federalism, legal and constitutional history, postcolonial histories/subaltern studies, Indian princely states, history of Travancore/Kerala, decolonization, international law, self-determination, nationalism, and sovereignty
Zoya Sameen
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, Colonizations and CGSG (2022-24)
PhD '22 (South Asian history), University of Chicago
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asian history; gender, law, and empire; comparative and transnational histories of gender and sexuality; colonialism, decolonization, and violence; everyday history and history from below; digital and public history.
Michael Williams
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, European Civilization (2022-24)
PhD '22 (modern European history), University of Chicago
Research Interests
Modern Europe, Modern European Intellectual History, Theories of Modernity and of the West, Modern Germany, Modern Russia, German Idealism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida and Post-Structuralism, Lebensphilosophie, Philosophies of Consciousness, Philosophies of Language, the Third Reich and the Holocaust, Theories of Democracy, Race in the United States