The University of Chicago is proud to present the following historians who are seeking faculty appointments in the academy or professional positions in higher education, nonprofits, and the for-profit sector.

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.

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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