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
Jaewoong Jeon
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
East Asia-Korea, 2011
Research Interests
East Asian history, especially Korea and Taiwan; capitalism and colonialism; sociocultural theory
Colin Jones
Visiting Professor
In Residence during Spring 2020
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
Trish Kahle
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
US 1900–Present, 2012
Research Interests
Energy history, global history of labor and capitalism, environmental history, history of colonization and decolonization, mining and extraction, the United States and the world
Christopher Kindell
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences (2019–21)
US pre-1900, 2012
Research Interests
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
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
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
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 (2018–20)
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 (2018–20)
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 (2018–20)
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