Biography Biography My research currently centers on the sentimental practices and literature of the Teutonic Knights during the Middle Ages. Scholarship on the emotional turn and the Baltic Crusades frames my project. I am particularly interested in how medieval ideas about emotions could essentialize Baltic peoples and how the Teutonic Order’s chroniclers constructed emotional communities …
Biography Biography I am interested in state-building, imperial transformation, and the development of international law in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. Now I seek to experiment in international and global history from a socio-legal perspective. My undergraduate thesis examines how mass statelessness generated different imaginations about state sovereignty and legal/political belongings in the interwar era. Before …
Biography Biography In the stream of other interventions concerned to explore the meanings & malaises of “modernity”, I am researching and writing on the educational philosophy and practice of the Scottish-American naturalist, John Muir. I am hoping to tell a story of how Muir made sense of his own 19th and early 20th century moment, …
Biography Biography My research explores 20th-century California labor history with a focus on the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and the intersections of race, gender, and radical politics. I am interested in how living conditions, welfare systems, and labor struggles shaped everyday experiences and ignited movements for social change during the 1930s in the Imperial Valley. Education B.A., …
Biography Biography I’m an East Asian historian and Koreanist. My research has centered on postwar Korea, focusing on labor, class formation, and social activism amidst the “miracle” of its rapid industrial development. Before arriving to the history department of UW–Madison, I had been a long term resident of Korea, beginning with a stint as an …
Biography Biography I am a PhD Candidate in Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, where I also did my bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy at the Universidad de los Andes. After working a year evaluating mechanisms to improve citizen participation in the …
Biography Biography My work explores carcerality in 20th century America as it was made, manifested, and endured in prisons and prison towns. Currently, my work looks at the Wisconsin State Prison, now called the Waupun Correctional Institution, and the men incarcerated within it to understand how individuals existed in and even potentially understood themselves as …
Biography Biography I am a historian of the long 19th century United States, with research interests in African American and Western experience through the Ages of Revolution and Emancipation. Education M.A., Humanities and Social Thought, New York University B.A., History and Political Science, Carroll University Field U.S./North American History Individual Plan of Study MA Title …
Biography Biography My research delves into histories of ‘real’ and ‘imagined’ boundaries between human and non-human beings. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from materials and methods across the history of science, disability, literature, culture, and belief. My work seeks to address why and how we have historically defined ‘humans’ and ‘animals’ as separate …
Biography Biography My dissertation examines the founding and development of Junior Achievement (JA), a youth-centered educational organization that combined character building and experiential learning to introduce the next generation of workers to corporate hierarchy and cultivate in them the moral value of work. It traces the organization’s transformation from its 1916 origin through its significant …