PhD Students

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

history of the Soviet Union; history of Russia; environmental history; social and cultural history; history of the Cold War

Twentieth-century global energy and environmental history; Global South (with a focus on West Africa, Southeast Asia, decolonization & nonalignment; history of economic thought; urbanism, especially housing; STS, transnational knowledge production. 

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

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

US 20th century; legal history; constitutional law, feminist history; gender and sexuality; social movements; citizenship; political imagination.

Anticolonial nationalism; Back-to-Africa thought; Black theological movements; Christian missionaries and empire; decolonization; Liberia; slavery and abolition; race and religion; U.S. imperialism