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Yuting Dong

Assistant Professor of East Asian History and the College

Office: William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, East Tower room 687 Mailbox 12

Phone: (773) 834-4863

yutingdong@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Japanese history, colonialism, history of labor and expertise, and environmental history

Harvard University, PhD '21BIOGRAPHYAs a historian of modern Japan and East Asia, I am interested in questions on colonialism, history of labor and ex...

Jacob Eyferth

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College

Office: Wieboldt Hall, room 301H

Phone: (773) 834-1677

eyferth@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Social and cultural history of twentieth-century China, in particular rural China; history of work, technology, gender, and everyday life.

Leiden University, PhD '00 BIOGRAPHY Jacob Eyferth is a social historian of China with research interests in the life and work experience of non...

Brodwyn Fischer

Professor of Latin American History and the College

Office: William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, East Tower, room 682 Mailbox 27

Phone: (773) 834-4608

bmf@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Brazil, Latin America, urban studies, comparative legal studies, poverty and inequality, race

Harvard University, PhD '99 BIOGRAPHY I am a historian of inequality and its persistence. I specialize in the study of Brazil and Latin America,...

Rachel Fulton Brown

Associate Professor of Medieval History, Fundamentals, and the College

Office Hours:

Spring Quarter 2025

Monday, 1:30-3:30pm, please make appointment by email

Office: William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, East Tower, room 686 Mailbox 52

Phone: (773) 702-4326

rfulton@uchicago.edu

Interests:

History of Christianity; medieval European intellectual, cultural, and religious history; medieval liturgy; the cult of the Virgin Mary; scriptural exegesis and hermeneutics

Columbia University, PhD '94 BIOGRAPHY My research and teaching focus on the intellectual and cultural history of Europe in the Middle Ages, wit...

Eleonory Gilburd

Associate Professor of History and the College

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 515 Mailbox 33

Phone: (773) 702-0466

egilburd@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Russia and the Soviet Union; modern Europe; cultural history, especially exchange and translation; the Cold War; aesthetic reception; everyday life

University of California, Berkeley, PhD '10 BIOGRAPHY I specialize in the history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union, with a particular inter...

Alice Goff

Assistant Professor of German History and the College

Office Hours:

Spring Quarter 2025

Tuesday, 2:00-4:00pm

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 509 Mailbox 4

Phone: (773) 834-3763

agoff@uchicago.edu

Interests:

German cultural and intellectual history; Vormärz Prussia; history of museums, collections, and material culture; looting; East/West Germany post 1945

University of California, Berkeley, PhD '15 BIOGRAPHY I am a historian of German cultural and intellectual life in the modern period. My researc...

Adam Green

Associate Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, & Indigeneity and History, and the College

Office: Kelly Hall 107 Mailbox 102

apgreen@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Modern US history; African American history; urban history; comparative racial politics; cultural economy

Yale University, PhD '98

Jonathan M. Hall

Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities; Professor of History, Classics, and the College

Office: Wieboldt Hall, room 403 Mailbox 60

Phone: (773) 834-8934

jhall@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Ancient Greek social, cultural, and political history; archaeology; historical methodology; modern Greek history

University of Cambridge, PhD '93BIOGRAPHYJonathan Hall's earlier research was focused on the cultural and social history of ancient Greece, with a par...

Mary Hicks

Associate Professor of History and the College

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 503 Mailbox 51

Phone: (773) 702-7858

mhicks3@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Slavery and Emancipation, the Atlantic world, Brazil, early modern capitalism, colonialism, race, gender, and sexuality

University of Virginia, PhD '15 BIOGRAPHY Mary Hicks is a historian of the Black Atlantic, with a focus on transnational histories of race, slav...

Faith Hillis

Professor of Russian History and the College

Office Hours:

Spring Quarter 2025

Monday, 1:00-3:00pm

Interests:

Modern Russia; Modern Europe; intellectual history; urban history; nationalism, empires, and imperialism; political culture; migration and mobility; Jewish history; transnational and international history; digital history and cartography

Yale University, PhD '09BIOGRAPHYI am an historian of modern Russia, with a special interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics, culture, a...

Joel Isaac

Associate Professor of Social Thought and History; Interim Chair, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought

Office Hours:

Spring Quarter 2025

Monday, 11:00am-12:00pm & Tuesday, 12:30-1:30pm

Office: Foster Hall, room 315

Phone: Phone: (773) 702-8496

jisaac@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Social thought and intellectual history; history and philosophy of science (especially the human sciences in the twentieth century); American history

University of Cambridge, PhD '06 BIOGRAPHY I am an historian of modern social and political thought. I focus in particular on American and Brit...

Aaron Jakes

Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History and the College

Office Hours:

Spring Quarter 2025

Wednesday, 1:00-3:00pm or by appointment

Office: William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, East Tower, room 689 Mailbox 13

Phone: (773) 834-6771

ajakes@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Middle East history; capitalism; economic history; British Empire; environmental history; global and comparative history; political and social movements; political-economic thought

New York University, PhD '15 BIOGRAPHY I am a scholar of the modern Middle East specializing in the historical geography of global capitalism, c...