Faculty

History of science; British history; history of the book and other media; history of information; history of intellectual property and piracy

Atlantic slavery and emancipation; nineteenth-century African diaspora; US South; urban and regional history; race, gender, and sexuality

History of modern science; intellectual and cultural history; twentieth century global history

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

Early American history; Indigenous histories; settler colonialism; sovereignty; conspiracy theory; histories of emotions

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.

African history; Francophone Africa; gender in Africa; colonialism; technology transfer and diffusion

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.

The Middle East in Late Antiquity; Premodern Global History; Comparative Empires

Atlantic history; history of Britain; British Empire; history of Ireland; global history; early American history; history of the Netherlands; worldwide colonial rivalries of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; history of political economy; British Empire in South Asia; comparative revolutions; state formation; Industrial Revolution

Reciprocal influences of state, society, and economy in late Imperial and twentieth-century China; the origins of a world economy as the outcome of mutual influences among various regions; environmental history in China; comparative studies of labor, family organization, and economic change in Europe and East Asia; expansion of China to its present frontiers

Modern China; Chinese legal history; crime; history of the family; comparative unfreedoms