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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
British history; the British Empire; the Enlightenment; science and environmental history; political economy; cornucopianism and the anthropocene
University of Chicago, PhD '05 BIOGRAPHY My first book, Enlightenment's Frontier: the Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism (Ya...
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Clifford Ando
Religion, law and government in the Roman world; empire studies; and legal history
University of Michigan, PhD'96 Chair, Department of Classics (2017-2020, 2021-2024) Faculty Member, Renaissance Studies Faculty Member, Institute...
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Leora Auslander
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European social and cultural history with a focus on France and Germany; material culture, everyday life, and the built environment; Jewish history; gender history and theory; race in the Atlantic world; colonial and postcolonial Europe
Brown University, PhD '88 BIOGRAPHY The primary national focus of my research is modern France, but I have found myself intrigued by research pr...
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John W. Boyer
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European political and cultural history, particularly in Germany and the Habsburg Empire; religion and politics in modern European history; the history of the universities
University of Chicago, PhD '75 BIOGRAPHY My research and teaching focus on the history of modern Europe, especially on the states, the peoples, ...
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Mark Philip Bradley
Twentieth-century US international history; global history of human-rights politics; postcolonial Southeast Asia
Harvard University, PhD '95 RESEARCH INTERESTS Twentieth-century US international history; global history of human-rights politics; postcolonial...
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Matthew Briones
Comparative race relations; Asian/Pacific Islander American history; African American history; Interracial and interethnic coalitions and conflicts; immigration; transnationalism, especially between the United States and the Philippines; and the history of baseball and American culture
Harvard University, PhD '05 BIOGRAPHY A deep and abiding interest in the interactions between Asian Americans and African Americans drives my fi...
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Susan L. Burns
Early modern and modern Japanese history, late Tokugawa intellectual and cultural history, medicine and public health, gender
University of Chicago, PhD '94 BIOGRAPHY I am a historian of Japan's "long" nineteenth century (1780s–1910s). I am interested in the social hist...
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Dipesh Chakrabarty
Modern South Asian history and historiography; postcolonial studies; theory and history; globalization; climate change and human history
Affiliated Faculty, Department of EnglishCourtesy Appointment, Law SchoolFaculty Fellow, Chicago Center for Contemporary TheoryVisiting Distinguished ...
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Elizabeth Chatterjee
Environmental history; energy; infrastructure; modern India; capitalism in the global South; climate change
University of Oxford, DPhil '15Office HoursSpring Quarter 2025https://calendly.com/chatterjeel/officehoursBIOGRAPHYElizabeth Chatterjee is a historian...
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Paul Cheney
French history; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; the Atlantic world; history of political thought; and early modern capitalism
Columbia University, PhD '02 BIOGRAPHY Paul Cheney is an historian of Europe with a specialization in old regime France and its colonial em...
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Jane Dailey
Modern United States social and political history, African American history, the American South, human rights, and legal history
Princeton University, PhD '95 BIOGRAPHY I am a professor in History, the College, and the Law School. My most recent book, White Fright: The Sex...
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Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Independent Africa; law; military history; crime
RESEARCH INTERESTSIndependent Africa; law; military history; crimeBIOGRAPHYSamuel Fury Childs Daly writes about law, warfare, and the politics of mili...
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