Richu, Elizabeth
Biography Biography My interest is in African history particularly on environment, political ecology, and gender in colonial and post-colonial Kenya. Education B.Ed (Arts), Machakos University Field
Biography Biography My interest is in African history particularly on environment, political ecology, and gender in colonial and post-colonial Kenya. Education B.Ed (Arts), Machakos University Field
Biography Biography My research interests focus on the military history of colonial America and the early Republic. I am particularly interested in the development of early American military institutions and the relationship of these forces to the societies they were raised to defend. I am also intrigued by the adaptation of eighteenth-century European military thought …
Biography Biography I study the history of leftist radicals in the United States and their interactions with the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on the impact of race. My past research has examined the role of Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 secret speech on African Americans within the American Communist Party. Education M.A., Social Sciences (History), …
Biography Biography I am Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey, a Colombian historian specializing in the socio-cultural and environmental history of tobacco. My research encompasses global, local, and regional perspectives, utilizing diverse ethnographic and archival methods. Currently, my Ph.D. project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison focuses on two main areas: the agro-industrial dynamics of the Eastern Colombian …
Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. candidate in African History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My work focuses on twentieth-century Central Africa, with a focus on health, medicine, and the Second World War. My research focuses on the roles and experiences of Congolese medical auxiliaries during the Second World War. I examine how Belgian colonial …
Biography Biography I study Latin America and early modern Iberia history, with an emphasis on the colonial period in New Spain. I focus on combining research areas, such as Colonialism, histories of Christianity, history of moral theology, family history, legal history, and Atlantic history. My first focus is on understanding, comparatively, how civil and ecclesiastical …
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 …
I am a historian of American medicine specializing in psychiatry and the sciences of the mind. I am especially interested in how reform projects, such as the early twentieth century mental hygiene movement, impact professional mental health care. My research considers how psychiatric concepts and categories take shape inextricable from the American socio-cultural landscape and …
Biography Biography I am a PhD candidate working on the history of fisheries science in modern China. I am interested in tracing the delineation of time through celestial movements, environmental changes, and evolutionary processes, and their imprints on human society. I received my BA in History and MS in History of Astronomy in China. Turning …
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 …