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Dan Walfisch Email
Modern Jewish, 2023 (PhD Student)
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Mark Rahman Email
United States, 2023 (PhD Student)
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Daniel Quintanilla Castro Email
Latin America, 2023 (PhD Student)
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Robert Merges Email
United States, 2023 (PhD Student)
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Kelly Liu Email
East Asia - China, 2023 (PhD Student)
Rachel Horowitz
Rachel Horowitz Email Interests:

Twentieth-century United States; history of capitalism; intellectual history
United States, 2023 (PhD Student)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Twentieth-century United States; history of capitalism; intellectual history

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Zackery Gostisha Email Interests:

Early Modern Britain and its empire; Atlantic history; State formation; Social structure; History of Race and Racism; Temporality; Infrastructure.
British History, 2023 (PhD Student)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Early Modern Britain and its empire; Atlantic history; State formation; Social structure; History of Race and Racism; Temporality; Infrastructure.

BIOGRAPHY

 

Broadly, I am interested in modernization projects in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century British Empire. My basic intellectual project is to understand, explain, and critique the changes of this period. How did the world come to be organized around the structures that now exemplify it? What happened between roughly 1500 and 1800 to build a powerful set of enduring global systems—namely, modern states, technologies, hierarchies of identity, and ways of organizing daily life? My current projects include a study of temporality in late seventeenth-century London and a comparison of early infrastructural development in several British colonies. I also hope to work on state formation, capitalism, and social structure.

I have a background in Genocide Studies, Sociology, and History. My previous projects include a survey of colonial discourse in late eighteenth-century Pacific expeditions and a study of artificial illumination in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century London. I am an alumnus of MAPSS here at UChicago, and I received my B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. I am more than happy to speak with prospective graduate applicants or anyone with research interests that overlap with my own.

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Jón Kristinn Einarsson Email
Early Modern Europe, 2023 (PhD Student)
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Arthur Schott Lopes Email Interests:

Political economy; developmentalism; land, property, and rurality; twentieth-century Brazil; diplomatic history; borders, borderlands, and frontiers; US-Brazil relations; national security
Latin America, 2019 (PhD Student)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political economy; developmentalism; land, property, and rurality; twentieth-century Brazil; diplomatic history; borders, borderlands, and frontiers; US-Brazil relations; national security

DISSERTATION

Controlled Chaos: National Security, Development, and Brazil’s Border Lands, 1930-1990.

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James Bradley Email Interests:

US labor history; urban history; political economy; sanitation and waste; universities and the production of knowledge; race, racism, and resistance
US 1900–Present, 2018 (PhD Student)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

US labor history; urban history; political economy; sanitation and waste; universities and the production of knowledge; race, racism, and resistance

DISSERTATION

Garbage Politics: Los Angeles and the Problem of Solid Waste Management in the Late Twentieth Century