History Faculty

Areas of Expertise

Modern Europe, especially Germany and Central/East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; European Jewish and women's history; East European and German film and literature, socialism, war and revolution.

Areas of Expertise

Late imperial China, the history of science and technology, visual and material culture, early modern
Sino-European exchanges, global history.

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Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century North America, ethnohistory (Ohio Valley American Indians), borderlands and frontiers, race, revolutionary America, corn and culture.

Areas of Expertise

Europe and the Mediterranean between 300 and 1500 C.E., Spain and Portugal, medieval travel narratives.

Areas of Expertise

Modern imperial Britain; colonial and global history; race, gender and disability studies; postcolonial science studies

Areas of Expertise

African American intellectual tradition; immigration, border studies and transnationalism; Atlantic history.

Areas of Expertise

Chinese and inner-Asian history, comparative history of north Asia 11th-14th centuries, Mongol empire.

Areas of Expertise

African American; women and gender; modern U.S. history (1845-present).

Areas of Expertise

Islamic history, history of Central Eurasia, Ottoman history, women and gender in Islamic history.

Areas of Expertise

Modern British history and the British empire

Areas of Expertise

Civil rights, slavery and Southern history, criminal justice history, African American political and intellectual culture, dynamics of American identity formation.

Areas of Expertise

Medieval history, intellectual and cultural history, interfaith relations, medievalism, historiography.

Areas of Expertise

American intellectual, cultural and Southern history.

Areas of Expertise

History of India and South Asia, Indian politics, globalization and migration, transnational communities.

Areas of Expertise

Southern Africa, colonialism, history of religion.