Faculty
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Aaron Jakes
Middle East history; capitalism; economic history; British Empire; environmental history; global and comparative history; political and social movements; political-economic thought
Adrian Johns
History of science; British history; history of the book and other media; history of information; history of intellectual property and piracy
Rashauna Johnson
Atlantic slavery and emancipation; nineteenth-century African diaspora; US South; urban and regional history; race, gender, and sexuality
Emily Kern
History of modern science; intellectual and cultural history; twentieth century global history
Emilio Kourí
Modern Mexico; social and economic history of Latin America; agrarian studies; indigenous societies; rural ecology; political economy; the social history of law; the history of ideas; Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean; US Latino/a history
Matthew Kruer
Early American history; Indigenous histories; settler colonialism; sovereignty; conspiracy theory; histories of emotions
Jonathan Levy
United States; economic history; capitalism; global and comparative history; legal history; intellectual history; slavery and emancipation
Jonathan Lyon
Medieval European political and social history; history of the family; the European nobility; medieval Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Kenneth Moss
Modern Jewish history; Russian and Polish Jewry, East European Jewry; history of Jewish nationalism, Zionism, and Diasporism; modern Hebrew and Yiddish culture and literature; Jewish secularism and post-secularism; Palestine, Yishuv, Israel; history of the Holocaust and post-Holocaust Jewish culture, politics, and futurity; comparative history and sociology of nationalism; sociology of culture as an institution; history of social theory.
David Nirenberg
Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; medieval ideas about communication, exchange, and social relations; history of race and racism; history of ideas
Emily Lynn Osborn
African history; Francophone Africa; gender in Africa; colonialism; technology transfer and diffusion
Ada Palmer
Early modern Europe; the Renaissance, with a focus on Italy; the Reformation; longue-durée intellectual and cultural history; postclassical reception of classical philosophy; Renaissance humanism; history of the book, printing, and reading; censorship and information control especially during information revolutions; history of science, religion, atheism, deism, heresy, and heterodoxy; intellectual continuities from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; reception of Epicureanism, atomism, Stoicism, Skepticism, Platonism, and Neoplatonism; secondary specializations in genre fiction, science fiction & fantasy, and anime & manga.