PhD Students

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

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

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

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

Early Modern Britain, Portugal, and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora

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.

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

19th Century U.S. West, Native American History, Settler Colonial Studies, and Material Culture

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