Recent Alumni

Twentieth-century US history; urban history; race; the built environment; domesticity; real estate and housing, especially rental housing; residential segregation

Longue durée US history; vast early America; the Atlantic world; the French Antilles; the Spanish Caribbean; Spanish borderlands; French North America; the postcolony and the Anglosphere; comparative empire; European imperial history and settler states; the United States in the world; Native American and Indigenous studies; Black studies; comparative race and ethnic studies; Afro/Indigenous futures; Latinidad/créolité; (post/de)colonialism and ecocriticism; colonialism and slavery; historical trauma, state violence, and genocide; gendered and racialized violence; displacement and diaspora; the long 18th century; human/civil rights and the history of the present; climate, migration, and resilience; equity, power, and conflict; the rule of law and transitional justice; sociolegal and environmental histories; critical theory and epistemic violence; the archive; digital and spatial humanities

Japanese history; Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo period Japan (1568-1868); History of Japanese religions; Art and architecture of the Japanese archipelago; Hegemonic deification; Philosophy of history; Nationalism and nostalgia; Conceptions of time and the Anthropocene. 

Development of human sciences in the nineteenth century; emergence of the religious sciences in France; relationship between the human sciences and the natural sciences, natural history, morphology, and embryology; social and political contexts of knowledge formation; dialogue between science and religion as part secularism in France

Migration; Labor; Latinx/e History; Mexico; Borderland Development; Legal Informality; Agricultural Work

History of capitalism in the twentieth-century United States; history of ideas; the impact of financialization on US politics, society, and culture

Britain and the Netherlands; imperialism; economic and political history; religion and religious toleration

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

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.

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

US legal history; history of criminal law; history of crime, policing, and incarceration; history of the social and human sciences

Cultural and social history of late imperial and modern China; gender and sexuality; legal history; masculinity studies; ethnicity and the state; everyday life