Recent Alumni

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

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

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.

History of political thought; intellectual history; medieval papacy; medieval Italy

Modern Japan; Modern China; East Asian Transnational History; Japanese Colonial Empire; Japanese Diaspora; Sino-Japanese Relations; Urban History; History of Shanghai