Recent Alumni

The University of Chicago is proud to present the following historians, current PhD candidates and recent alumni, who are seeking faculty appointments in the academy or professional positions in other sectors.
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Nathalie Barton
Twentieth-century US history; urban history; race; the built environment; domesticity; real estate and housing, especially rental housing; residential segregation
RESEARCH INTERESTSTwentieth-century US history; urban history; race; the built environment; domesticity; real estate and housing, especially rental ho...
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Keegan Boyar
Modern Mexico; Latin American history; Social history; Cultural history; Atlantic history; Urban History; Legal History; History of Policing and Crime
RESEARCH INTERESTS Modern Mexico; Latin American history; Social history; Cultural history; Atlantic history; Urban History; Legal History; History...
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Ian Blaise Cipperly
Japanese history; Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo period Japan (1568-1868); History of Japanese religions; Art and architecture of the Japanese archipelago; Hegemonic deification; Philosophy of history; Nationalism and nostalgia; Conceptions of time and the Anthropocene.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Japanese history; Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo period Japan (1568-1868); History of Japanese religions; Art and architecture of the J...
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Arthur Clement
Development of human sciences in the nineteenth century; emergence of the religious sciences in France; relationship between the human sciences and the natural sciences, natural history, morphology, and embryology; social and political contexts of knowledge formation; dialogue between science and religion as part secularism in France
PhD '24 (History of Science), University of ChicagoRESEARCH INTERESTSRise of the Human Sciences; Studies of Secularity; Engagement between Science and...
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Serena Covkin
Twentieth-century U.S. history; legal history; women's and gender history; histories of violence; war, culture, and society; citizenship and rights
Serena Covkin earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in Autumn 2023, with a dissertation entitled “Fighting in Court: Women, War, and the Law i...
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DISSERTATION Growing Ideas: Nature, Philosophy, and the Creation of Greenspaces in Japan, 1830-1910
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John-Paul Heil
Early modern Europe, intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, Renaissance reception of classical philosophy, and Italian cultural history
RESEARCH INTERESTS Early modern Europe, intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, Renaissance reception...
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Elizabeth Hines
Britain and the Netherlands; imperialism; economic and political history; religion and religious toleration
RESEARCH INTERESTSBritain and the Netherlands; imperialism; economic and political history; religion and religious tolerationDISSERTATIONAnglo-Dutch C...
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Alexander Hofmann
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
PhD'21 (US History), University of Chicago RESEARCH INTERESTS Nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States; history of the American South; cu...
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Nicholas Huzsvai
Modern Germany and Austria; modern East Central and Southeastern Europe; intellectual history of radical political movements; conservative revolution; transnational and comparative approaches to fascism; phenomenology of political religion; history of theology; study of folklore, mythology and Religionswissenschaft; history of the human sciences; theories of racism and nationalism; alternative religious movements; Kulturkritik and Kulturpessimismus; Romanticism; theories of anti-capitalism; philosophical anthropology; nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art
RESEARCH INTERESTS Modern Germany and Austria; modern East Central and Southeastern Europe; intellectual history of radical political movements; co...
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Alex Jania
Modern Japan, Disaster Studies, Environmental History, Global Memory Culture, Transnational History, Public History, Emotional History
PhD '22 University of ChicagoRESEARCH INTERESTSModern Japan, Disaster Studies, Environmental History, Global Memory Culture, Transnational History, Pu...
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Roy Kimmey III
East Central European history; modern Hungary; immigration and migration; nationalism; cultural history of state socialism; histories of humanitarianism and human rights; minority rights and politics; politics of recognition; Romani studies; ethnomusicology
RESEARCH INTERESTS East Central European history; modern Hungary; immigration and migration; nationalism; cultural history of state socialism; hist...
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