Biography Biography I’m Sean Nowlan, a current PHD student at UW–Madison. I am person with a passion for Atlantic history during the Early Modern period, keeping one foot on each side of the pond. I like to study military-logistics, finance, and maritime trade; with the ultimate goal of studying how the concepts of “fiscal-military hubs” …
Biography Biography My research interests currently orbit around the intersection of Soviet and Southern African History, with special consideration given to Soviet involvement in African wars of liberation and anti-colonial movements. I am also interested in exploring the broader themes of national identity building under colonialist regimes, Pan-Africanism, and global perceptions of race. B.A. from …
Biography Biography I am historian of modern European Jewish history, with a research focus on the Holocaust. My current research centers on the Jewish experience in hiding in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. My work aims to understand the choices, motivations, behaviors, and experiences of those Jewish individuals who sought to escape the Nazi deportations and find refuge …
Biography Biography My research focuses on ethnicity, religious identity, race, and other conceptions of difference in Byzantium. I am particularly interested in the historical anthropology and how conceptions of human difference manifested in state and popular actions. On the side I am interested in how the European Middle Ages are depicted in modern media and …
Biography Biography I am interested in Medieval Roman society and its responses to the challenges to its identity offered by Latin Christendom in the course of the twelfth century. Education B.A., in Classical Languages, B.S. in Physics, B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma Field
Biography Biography I study twentieth-century international history, with a focus on empire, global governance, and international organizations. My research interests include international law, humanitarianism, slavery and forced labor, colonial administration, and the politics of sovereignty. I am especially interested in how international institutions became sites for producing new languages of reform and rights while also …