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Esther Isaac
History of anarchism and radical community organizing; anarchism as practice/lifestyle; labor history; history of everyday and social life; French and Francophone history; comparative urban history and theory, with a focus on Paris and Chicago; history of utopian thought and practice; gender history; political theory
Syrus Jin
America in the World, U.S. military assistance and advisory groups, U.S. - East Asian relations, theories of race and culture in U.S. foreign policy, the Korean War, modernization and development in Asia, war and militarism in memory and society.
Nicholas Johnson
US history, intellectual history, and political economy
Claire Jones
Early Modern Britain, Portugal, and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora
Evelyn Kessler
History of the long nineteenth century; gender and sexuality; race and racism; personhood, citizenship, and the state; social reform; intellectual, legal, and cultural history
Fiona Maxwell
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.
Maureen McCord
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
Brigitte McFarland
Twentieth-century Poland; cultural history; nations and nationalism; space and place; material culture; food systems and hunger; gender and everyday life
Julia Mead
Twentieth-century East Central Europe; state socialism and post-socialism; Cold War history; labor, gender, and sexuality; Anthropocene, energy, and environmental history; mining