THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
PhD Students
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William Birdthistle
US 1900-Present; history of the corporation; legal history; history of capitalism; history of investment funds
Leila Blackbird
Longue durée US history; Black and Indigenous studies; settler colonialism and slavery; Louisiana and the Atlantic world; subaltern studies, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism; historical trauma, state violence, and genocide; human rights and the history of the present; critical theory and epistemics; digital and spatial humanities
James Bradley
US labor history; urban history; political economy; sanitation and waste; universities and the production of knowledge; race, racism, and resistance
Abigail Bratcher
History of the Soviet Union; 20th Century Central Asia; environmental history; agricultural history; history of science and technology
Robert Burgos
Twentieth-century community formation in Japanese cities among marginalized and minority groups; relationship of these processes to the broader development of 少数民族 (shōsū minzoku, minority) identity and "Japanese" identity in Japan.