PhD Students

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Central Europe; gender and sexuality; queer history; material culture; cultural history; sensory history

Race and capitalism, domestic workers, post-emancipation, labor and gender history, the household.

Environmental and economic history of late imperial and modern China; history of forests and natural resources; global Asia

Early Modern Britain and its Empire; Colonial America; Comparative Empires; State Formation; Constitutional and Legal history

Modern Brazil and Latin America; urban history, Rio de Janeiro; legal history; criminal legislation; history of crime; history of urban policing; slavery and abolition; race and racialization; social and political inequality

US 1900-Present; history of the corporation; legal history; history of capitalism; history of investment funds

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

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

History of the Soviet Union; 20th Century Central Asia; environmental history; agricultural history; history of science and technology

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.

Twentieth-century Latin America, Perú; agrarian and Indigenous histories; Anthropocene and environmental history.