Biography Biography In my previous research, I examined the social and urban landscape transformations in Ottoman Smyrna over the longue durée, from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. My current research explores the circulation of people, materials, and ideas across cultural, ethnic, and religious boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean during the long nineteenth …
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Biography Biography My research focuses on the medieval Mediterranean and interreligious interaction in the medieval Middle East. Education M.A. in Medieval Studies, University of York, M.A. in History, University of Louisville B.A. in History and Political Science, University of Louisville Field MA Title Courses Taught as TA Courses Taught as Instructor
Biography Biography I am a first year student focusing on Modern Europe, particularly the 19th and 20th centuries. My research interests include the development of the modern European welfare states in the historical context of industrialization, war, colonialism, and migration. How were social policies such as pensions, workers’ comp, unemployment insurance, and healthcare implemented? Who …
Biography My research focuses on the experiences of I-O and I-A-O conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War. I am interested in the impact of the social, cultural, and legal changes of the era on conscientious objector identity, including ties between conscientious objectors and the American Peace Movement. Education M.A., History, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2024 B.S., …
Biography Biography I am a historian of empire, covert operations, and international power projection in Southeast Asia during the twentieth century. My work explores how the post–World War II world order emerged not through unilateral Western design but through contested, multilinear interactions among U.S. agents, European interlocutors, and Southeast Asian political elites. I focus especially …
Biography Biography I am a second-year Ph.D. student focusing on Indigenous history in the American West and Midwest across the long nineteenth century. My previous work has explored the role of universities in settler mythmaking. My most recent project examined how my undergraduate institution, Holy Cross, and a cohort of Native intellectuals, constructed countervailing narratives …
Biography Biography I am Bhikkhu Kai Sophea, a Theravada Buddhist monk. I was born and ordained as a novice in Cambodia in the aftermath of the civil war, shaped by the Cold War and Vietnam War. My journey has taken me across various countries in Southeast Asia, where I have lived and pursued my education. …
Biography Biography I am studying the Japanese legal modernization process within the framework of the nineteenth-century global order and international law. In my M.A. thesis, I focused on the Japanese research on the Mixed Courts of Egypt as a part of the Meiji government’s efforts to abolish extraterritorial treaties. My research interests include institutional transformations …
Biography Biography I am interested in major public and academic discourses that animate the sprawling but interconnected fields of African history. I seek to interrogate these discourses by researching the expanding field of Atlantic history with a geographic and temporal focus on coastal West Africa and emergent African-American communities in the early-modern era. My current …