History Faculty
History Faculty
M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University (2006)
History of the Roman Republic and Empire; History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Urban History in Ancient and Medieval Europe; Roman Social History; Historiography and Archaeology of Decline and Fall of Empires
Intersections of rhetorical representation and historical reality in Late Antiquity (4th-6th centuries); study of the end of the Roman Empire; cultural transformation from the Roman to the Carolingian empire; political and economic structures of the ancient world; Roman urban history and archaeology; institutional histories of the ancient and medieval military and bureaucracy; history of ancient education and the transmission of classicism; literary studies of historiography, ethnography and epistolography.
A.B. magna cum laude, Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
British and European history, 1500-1945; History & Literature; Cultural History; Medical History; Legal History.
My regular seminars include: Reproduction in the European Atlantic World, 1500 to the present; Jane Austen's Britain; London and Paris the 19th Century; The Age of Elizabeth and Shakespeare; Early Modern Europe, 1347-1815; Gender, Sex, and the Family in Europe, 1500-1900; Art and Politics, Advertising and Propaganda in Europe, 1500-1960; Revolutions in London and Paris, 1640-1871.
I am a cultural historian of Britain and Northern Europe who researches the history of gender, the body, and family relations in law, medicine, literature, and visual representations. My current project on the history of marriage, manners, and conflict (Sex and Sensibility: The Taming of Husbands and Wives from the Stuarts to Jane Austen) will appear in 2027. An article on demographic theory and metaphor has been recently published in the volume Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (ed. David Alff & Danielle Spratt, UVA Press, 2025) and an essay on "ugliness," manners, and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments will be out in 2026 in The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Beauty, ed. Karen Harvey.
My publications have won numerous awards; most recently, the article "'Marriage Is No Protection for Crime'" won two prizes including the James Clifford Prize (ASECS) in 2024 and was chosen as "30 for 75"--one of the thirty most significant articles in the last 75 years of the Journal of British Studies. Other article and book prizes include The Berkshires Best First Book, Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book, The Keller-Sierra Book Prize (WAWH), The Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize (WAWH, twice), The Walter D. Love Article Prize (NACBS). I've won fellowships and grants from many outside institutions including the NEH, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Clark Center, UCLA, the Library Company, Philadelphia, and the Mellon Foundation (Stanford post-doc).
I am honored to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK). Currently, I am the vice president (and president elect) of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.; University of Texas at Austin, Masters of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies
Islamic World, Urban and Architectural History, Middle East/Ottoman Empire, Comparative Early Modern Empires, Gender, Power, and Authority
Structures of Power and Discourses of Authority; Intersection of Ethics and Politics; Comparative Systems of Governmentality; Archival Histories; Mediterranean Identities; Theories of Empire; Greater Syria and Lebanon under Ottoman Rule.
Ph.D., University of Michigan; B.A., Brown University
United States history since 1945; politics; urban and suburban history; policy; race; capitalism; gender
Public policy and social movements; liberalism; suburban politics; Massachusetts
A.B., Stanford University, 1972; A.M., Stanford University, 1978; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978. Study Abroad, St. Petersburg University and Moscow University.
Modern Russian History, 1700 to Present; Russian and European Intellectual History, 1700 to Present; Islam and Islamic Political Movements
Russian Intellectual History, 1700 to 1917; Russian Politics from Peter the Great to the Present; European Intellectual History since the Enlightenment; Modern Islam
PhD (History) The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2010); BA, The University of Colorado, Boulder (2002)
Colonial and Early American History; History of Slavery; Atlantic World History; History of Racial Ideology; History of the Family; Caribbean History; Native American History
Slavery in the Colonial Americas; Free People of Color in the Atlantic World; Intersections Between Ideas of Race and Family in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Slavery and Aging in North America and the Caribbean
B.A. (1987) Hamilton College, Clinton NY Ph.D. (1999) American University, Washington DC
Holocaust History, Genocide Studies, Women's History, Eastern Europe-Ukraine, War Crimes Trials, Nazism and Stalinism
Holocaust History Human Rights History Genocide Studies
PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2019
BA and MA in English literature (with Film Studies and History), Jadavpur University, 2011.
B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Modern Korean History, 1875-Present; Colonialism and Korea: Power, Culture and Modernity; Japan in the World: Modern Japanese History; Japanese Empire; Civilizations of East Asia to 1800; Utopianism and Political Imagination in East Asia; Nature, Environment and the Human Imagination in Asia
Modern Korean and East Asian intellectual and social history; environmental history; relationship between economic structures and cultural and religious structures; questions and issues on modernity and globalization
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (1983); A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University (1990)
German History, Art and politics, European social history, especially the history of the European aristocracy, The Holocaust
National Socialism, Art looting, European aristocracy, The Holocaust
Amazonia, Latin America, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural/Media Studies, Indigenous Studies, Borderlands, Oral History, Environmental History, Race/Ethnicity, Feminist Pedagogy
My current book project - tentatively titled Colonizing Amazonia: A History of Conflict and Survival in the Borderlands - examines colonization projects in the Three Borders region (Brazil, Colombia, Peru) in the XX and XXI centuries. My research reveals how foreign-local collaborations in the Amazonian borderlands (forced and voluntary) have forged admixture while also producing violent conflicts for land, resources and power. I privilege borderlands peoples' experiences and perspectives over those of the nation-state, examining the collaborations between foreigners and local peoples (Indigenous and non-Indigenous).
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Modern America; Great Depression and World War II; women and politics; gender and society; reform movements; families; schooling
Modern United States; social science; ethnicity and race; gender; education; schools
B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Nineteenth-Century United States History, American West, environment, health, race, ethnicity, and immigration
Social and political movements in California and the American West, with an emphasis on the intersection between race, health, and environment; Gilded Age and Progressive Era political economy and culture
B.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Chinese history, East Asian history, law and governance, comparative history, historiography
History of Ming China (1368-1644), bureaucracy, communication, archives, organizational theory
Affiliated Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
B.A., University of Lucknow, India; M.A., University of Bridgeport; M.Phil., Jawaharial Nehru University, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago; Lecturer, University of Chicago; Mellon Fellow and Assistant Professor, Brown University; Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India; Fulbright Fellow, Yale University; Professor, Brandeis University; Reed College; University of Michigan. (On leave, second semester.)
Modernity, urbanism, everyday life, historiography, caste, class, community, gender, women, children, education, literature and art.
Artisans, work and leisure; women & gender; methodology of History and Anthropology; activism and management; education, families, communities' the intellectual history of India; contemporary education in India.
