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Yasir Arafat Ibrahim

Africa, Gender & Sexuality, 2024 (PhD Student)

Interests:

Contemporary African history, with a particular focus on West Africa and, specifically, Ghana.

RESEARCH INTERESTSContemporary African history, with a particular focus on West Africa and, specifically, Ghana. His areas of study encompass a divers...

Esther Isaac

Modern Europe/US, 2020 (PhD Student)

estheraisaac@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

RESEARCH INTERESTS History of anarchism and radical community organizing; anarchism as practice/lifestyle; labor history; history of everyday and s...

Alec David Israeli

United States, 2024 (PhD Student)

adi2@uchicago.edu

Interests:

19th century US, intellectual history, labor history, history of capitalism, political economy, slavery and abolition, philosophy of history

RESEARCH INTERESTS19th century US, intellectual history, labor history, history of capitalism, political economy, slavery and abolition, philosophy of...

Olivia Jenkins

Modern Europe, 2024 (PhD Student)

ojenkins@uchicago.edu

Syrus Jin

International, 2019 (PhD Student)

syrusjin@uchicago.edu

Interests:

America in the World, U.S. military building, U.S.-East Asian relations, development, U.S. military empire, race, culture, the Korean War

RESEARCH INTERESTSAmerica in the World, U.S. military building, U.S.-East Asian relations, development, U.S. military empire, race, culture, the Korea...

Edward Johnson

Early Modern Europe, 2019 (PhD Student)

edwardjohnson@uchicago.edu

DISSERTATION ‘A World of Energies, Forces, and Flows’: Architecture, Atmospheres, and Environment in Early Modern Italian City-States

Claire Jones

Early Modern Europe, 2020 (PhD Student)

clpjones@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early Modern Britain, Portugal, and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora

RESEARCH INTERESTS Early Modern Britain, Portugal, and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora DISSERTATION Inter-Imperial Trade in the Anglo-Iberian A...

Edmund Kennedy

United States, 2023 (PhD Student)

edmundk@uchicago.edu

Nell Klinger

Britain, 2022 (PhD Student)

nwilliamsonshaff@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early Modern Britain and its Empire; Political Economy; Comparative Empires; the Atlantic World

RESEARCH INTERESTS Early Modern Britain and its Empire; Political Economy; Comparative Empires; the Atlantic World

Kelly Liu

East Asia - China, 2023 (PhD Student)

kellyliu@uchicago.edu

Fiona Maxwell

US 1800-Present, 2018 (PhD Student)

fmaxwell@uchicago.edu

Interests:

U.S. History, 1800 to Present; History of Democracy and Public Discourse; Theatre and Arts Education; Progressive Reform; Gender; Immigration; Chicago and the Midwest; Urban History and Culture; History of the Book.

RESEARCH INTERESTSU.S. History, 1800 to Present; History of Democracy and Public Discourse; Theatre and Arts Education; Progressive Reform; Gender; Im...

Maureen McCord

International, 2019 (PhD Student)

mccordm@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

RESEARCH INTERESTSSeventeenth and eighteenth century political, commercial, and social history of the East India Company in Western India (Bombay and ...