Faculty

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

African diasporic History; United States; Race and Slavery

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

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British Empire; Atlantic World; environmental history; history of capitalism; history of science and technology. 

Religious, cultural and intellectual history of Western Europe and North America from the Reformation to the early eighteenth century; the history of biblical scholarship, translation, and exegesis; Jewish-Christian relations; confessional identity and theological controversy; the relationship between ‘elite’ (neo-Latin) and ‘popular’ (vernacular) forms of religion and piety in the early modern period

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