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Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj

South Asia, 2020 (PhD Student)

sachaet@uchicago.edu

DISSERTATIONTremors of Freedom: Earthquakes, Hydroelectricity, and Self-Determination in Modern India

Hannah Youngeun Park

East Asia-Korea, 2018 (PhD Student)

hypark2@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Twentieth-century Korean diaspora; migration and the family; postcolonial nation-building in the Cold War; epistolary writing; hope and utopian imaginations

RESEARCH INTERESTS Twentieth-century Korean diaspora; migration and the family; postcolonial nation-building in the Cold War; epistolary writing; h...

Le Vi Pham

East Asia, 2021 (PhD Student)

levipham@uchicago.edu

Interests:

History of the Japanese empire, colonial Korea, gender and labor, prostitution and sex work, comparative colonialisms

RESEARCH INTERESTSHistory of the Japanese empire, colonial Korea, gender and labor, prostitution and sex work, comparative colonialismsAWARDS2022 Perc...

Aimee Pizarchik

East Asia-China, 2020 (PhD Student)

pizarchik@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Chinese frontier history; twentieth-century China and Yunnan Province; the Global South; transregional histories

RESEARCH INTERESTS Chinese frontier history; twentieth-century China and Yunnan Province; the Global South; transregional histories DISSERTATION...

Ksenia Podvoiskaia

Global British Empire, 2020 (PhD Student)

kpodvoiskaia@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Global History, Modern British Empire, Postcolonial theory, education and public discourse

RESEARCH INTERESTS Global History, Modern British Empire, Postcolonial theory, education and public discourse DISSERTATION British Imperial ...

Daniel Quintanilla Castro

Latin America, 2023 (PhD Student)

dq2389@uchicago.edu

Mark Rahman

United States, 2023 (PhD Student)

markrahman@uchicago.edu

Kate Randazzo

Early Modern Europe, 2020 (PhD Student)

krandazzo@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early modern Iberia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean world; Muslim-Christian relations; Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires; conversion, migration, and cultural exchange

RESEARCH INTERESTS Early modern Iberia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean world; Muslim-Christian relations; Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires; conver...

Joseph Rathke

US 1900-Present, 2021 (PhD Student)

jrathke@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Labor history, history of capitalism, history of radicalism, history of political repression and surveillance, Chicago and the Midwest, political economy.

RESEARCH INTERESTS Labor history, history of capitalism, history of radicalism, history of political repression and surveillance, Chicago and the M...

Kate Reed

Latin America, 2022 (PhD Student)

katereed@uchicago.edu

PUBLICATIONS“Rights to Her Labor: Women Workers on Mexico’s Southeastern Railroads”, International Labor and Working-Class History, Published online 2...

José Camilo Ruiz Tassinari

Latin America, 2019 (PhD Student)

ruiztassinari@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Political economy; history of capitalism; state formation; Colonial economic history; business history; history of energy; Mexican history

RESEARCH INTERESTS Political economy; history of capitalism; state formation; Colonial economic history; business history; history of energy; Mexic...

Shirin Mikiko Sadjadpour

Modern Europe/East Asia, 2020 (PhD Student)

shirinmikiko@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan and Germany; the crisis of modernity and alternative modernities; transnational artistic exchange and global modernism(s); visual cultures of print; prewar avant-garde and Expressionism

RESEARCH INTERESTSLate nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan and Germany; the crisis of modernity and alternative modernities; transnational ar...