RESEARCH INTERESTS
Pigs
DISSERTATION
"Pig People: an interspecies story of chimerical emergence"
DISSERTATION
At the Right Hand of the Lord: Eunuchs in Middle Byzantine Christianity, 843–1118 CE
NEWS
Publishes essay in Homer among the Moderns, a colloquium project edited by Ada Palmer, assistant professor of history.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
modern French and Francophone history, urban history, Muslim-Jewish relations, gender, human rights, and the digital humanities
DISSERTATION
Walking Women: The Everyday Lives and Politics of Jewish Women from the Holocaust to the Postcolonial Age in Paris
PUBLICATION
"Memory Space: A Case Study of a Holocaust Digital Mapping Project of Łomża, Poland," Cont Jewry Volume 44, pages 261–280, (2024)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan and Germany; the crisis of modernity and alternative modernities; transnational artistic exchange and global modernism(s); visual cultures of print; prewar avant-garde and Expressionism
DISSERTATION
On the Marriage of Spirit and Soul: The Woodblock Print and Making Modernism in Germany and Japan, 1890-1930
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political economy; history of capitalism; state formation; Colonial economic history; business history; history of energy; Mexican history
DISSERTATION
Light and Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in Mexico 1945-1980
PUBLICATIONS
“Rights to Her Labor: Women Workers on Mexico’s Southeastern Railroads”, International Labor and Working-Class History, Published online 2025:1-21.
The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers, co-edited with Marcia C. Schneck (McGill-Queen's University Press), 2022.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labor history, history of capitalism, history of radicalism, history of political repression and surveillance, Chicago and the Midwest, political economy.
PUBLICATION
"Illinois Teachers and the Fight for Labor Rights: A Path Beyond the Liberal Order, 1966-1984," Labor 22, no. 2 (May 2025): 50-75.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Early modern Iberia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean world; Muslim-Christian relations; Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires; conversion, migration, and cultural exchange
DISSERTATION
Narratives of Morisco Identity in the Spanish-Maghribi Borderlands: 1609-1631
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Global History, Modern British Empire, Postcolonial theory, education and public discourse
DISSERTATION
British Imperial Education in the Age of Reform, 1810-1840
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Chinese frontier history; twentieth-century China and Yunnan Province; the Global South; transregional histories
DISSERTATION
Making the Border Matter: Development and Frontier Security in Republican Yunnan