Biography Biography Nestled between the Koʻolau and Waiʻanae mountain ranges, Wahiawā nourished me as a child while the malu of Kānehoalani and Keahiakahoe nurtured me in adulthood. It is where my deep love for my language, culture and ʻāina grew. Cradled between Lake Mendota and Monona, the settler names for the waterways of the Hoocąk, …
Biography Biography I am a second-year Ph.D. student focusing on mid-twentieth century US militarism in Korea. I am particularly interested in the sociopolitical life of everyday Koreans during the early Cold War period and what it can illuminate about the geopolitical stakes of citizen-subject making and militarized modernity. My general interests include racial formation, decolonial …
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 My research interests explore the intersections of the Cold War, US empire, and decolonization in Congo-Kinshasa and Angola. More specifically, I am interested in the politics of nationalism, state formation, militarism, and the political economy of foreign intervention in Central and southern Africa. My MA thesis explores and recontextualizes the origins of the Mobutu …
Biography Biography I am interested in African History, on juvenile, women and social justice. Education M.Phil., History, University of Ghana B.A, University of Education, Winneba Field MA Title
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Interested in the histories of women, gender, and law in the early United States, my work examines the social and legal history of abortion and the politics of reproduction in the nineteenth century. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in …
Biography Biography I study Chinese and Tibetan history, with my research focusing on state building and modernization attempts in Tibet during the reign of the 13th Dalai Lama in the early 20th century. I previously specialized in Yuan (1271-1368) and Ming (1368-1644) history, especially focusing on ethnicity, empire, and settler colonialism. Education M.A., History, University …
Biography Biography My work focuses on knowledge-shaping and the intersection of theory and practice in early modern pharmacy. My recent article investigates the 1547 inventory of French apothecary Rostand de Gréoux, using it as a starting point to examine the methodologies through which scholars understand pharmaceutical records. In questioning close readings and reconceptualizing comparisons, it …
Biography I completed my Bachelor’s degree in History as part of the first undergraduate cohort at Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV). In my graduate project, I seek to examine the transnational connection between Vietnamese Buddhism and the global Buddhist world. Specifically, I look at how prominent Vietnamese Buddhist intellectuals and reformers like Mai Tho Truyen, Thich …
Biography Biography My research focuses on the role of the American Yiddish press as a semi-private space for “internal” conversation among Eastern European Jewish immigrants at the turn of the last century. Apart from research, I am passionate about Yiddish language pedagogy, the curation and translation of little-known Yiddish texts, setting Yiddish poetry to music, …