PhD Students

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history; Chicago and the Midwest; spoken performance; urban culture and reform; children and education; gender; immigration; history of the book.

Seventeenth and eighteenth century political, commercial, and social history of the East India Company in Western India (Bombay and Surat); early modern and modern South Asia, early modern Britain and its empire, Indian Ocean historiography, comparative imperialism and colonialism, urban history before 1800

Twentieth-century Poland; cultural history; nations and nationalism; space and place; material culture; food systems and hunger; gender and everyday life 

Twentieth-century East Central Europe; state socialism and post-socialism; Cold War history; labor, gender, and sexuality; Anthropocene, energy, and environmental history; mining

Twentieth century economic history; history of the Global South; political economy; development; finance; energy and environmental history

Middle East history; history of capitalism; social and economic history; colonialism; state formation 

Twentieth-century Central Asia and Russia; gender, sexuality, law, and nationhood; political economy; leisure and pleasure

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japanese history; history of science and medicine; gender and labor; medical education and technology; history of care