Recent Alumni
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The University of Chicago is proud to present the following historians, current PhD candidates and recent alumni, who are seeking faculty appointments in the academy or professional positions in other sectors.
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Keegan Boyar
Modern Mexico; Latin American history; Social history; Cultural history; Atlantic history; Urban History; Legal History; History of Policing and Crime
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Mariana Brandman
Twentieth-century US history; women and gender; lesbian and gay history; race and ethnicity; mass culture, humor, leisure, and entertainment; consumerism; public history
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Serena Covkin
Twentieth-century U.S. history; legal history; women's and gender history; histories of violence; war, culture, and society; citizenship and rights
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John-Paul Heil
Early modern Europe, intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, Renaissance reception of classical philosophy, and Italian cultural history
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Alexander Hofmann
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States; history of the American South; cultural, social, and political history; race and racism; gender and sexuality; violence; science, medicine, and the body; mass and visual culture; collective memory; public history
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Alex Jania
Modern Japan, Disaster Studies, Environmental History, Global Memory Culture, Transnational History, Public History, Emotional History
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Roy Kimmey III
East Central European history; modern Hungary; immigration and migration; nationalism; cultural history of state socialism; histories of humanitarianism and human rights; minority rights and politics; politics of recognition; Romani studies; ethnomusicology
Savitri Kunze
Transnational history of U.S. politics, society, migration, citizenship, and human rights. Her dissertation is a political and social history of non-citizen rights in the United States between 1913-1933.
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Sarath Pillai
Modern South Asia, British empire, global history, federalism, legal and constitutional history, postcolonial histories/subaltern studies, Indian princely states, history of Travancore/Kerala, decolonization, international law, self-determination, nationalism, and sovereignty
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Tristan Sharp
Socio-political history of the late medieval Holy Roman Empire; late medieval conflict, violence, and warfare (feuding); history of medieval law; medieval aristocracy; state formation.
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Jiakai Sheng
Modern Japan; Modern China; East Asian Transnational History; Japanese Colonial Empire; Japanese Diaspora; Sino-Japanese Relations; Urban History; History of Shanghai