Recent Alumni
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
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
Arthur Clement
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
Serena Covkin
Twentieth-century U.S. history; legal history; women's and gender history; histories of violence; war, culture, and society; citizenship and rights
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
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
Alex Jania
Modern Japan, Disaster Studies, Environmental History, Global Memory Culture, Transnational History, Public History, Emotional History
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.
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
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.