Katie J. Hickerson
Instructor (2018–21)
Research Interests
African history; Middle Eastern history; race and ethnicity; religion; imperialism in East and Central Africa; the global nineteenth century; visual and material culture
Colin Jones
Visiting Professor
In Residence during Autumn and Spring Quarter
Research Interests
Social and cultural history of eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution; the history of medicine; the history of Paris; physiognomy and caricature
Alastair McClure
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Fellow
Research Interests
Modern South Asia, legal history, the British Empire, violence, gender history, anitcolonial and nationalist thought
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
PhD'18 (history of science) University of Chicago
Research Interests
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
Adam Lynd Rowe
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
PhD'18 (US history) University of Chicago
Research Interests
United States history; intellectual history, political history and the history of political thought; war and society; the Civil War and Reconstruction
Erika Tschinkel
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
PhD'18 (modern European history) University of Chicago
Research Interests
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