I am a historian of modern eastern Europe, with a research focus on Poland in the first half of the twentieth century. In my first book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020), I explore how, after the end of the First World War, an eclectic group of …
I am a historian of modern Europe with a focus on imperial Russia and its international entanglements from the eighteenth century through the early twentieth. Two main concerns motivate my research and teaching. The first is to understand how the Russian empire incorporated vast and diverse territories, resources, and peoples into an imperial system of …
I am the Director of the undergraduate LGBTQ+ Studies Certificate Program. I specialize in history of sexuality and gender, primarily 20th century United States, focusing on transgender, queer and feminist social movements; my work is also animated by queer crip studies, critical race and indigeneity studies, graphic art and comics studies. Education Ph.D., 1999, University …
I am a military historian broadly interested in the ways in which societies have organized violence to pursue and defend their interests. I am especially interested in the ethnohistorical study of military conflict and cooperation between the Native peoples of North America and European colonial powers. More generally, I am interested in Native American and …
I am a historian of Modern Europe with a specialization in Russia and the Soviet Union. My research and teaching interests include Russian and Soviet History, Modern European History, Comparative Empires, the History of Human Rights, and Russian-American Engagement. My second book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After …
I am a historian of modern China. But I am particularly interested in the ways that natural resources define and often limit state power in Chinese border regions. My book, Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2018, offers a …
I am a historian of the Middle Ages with a research focus on the history of the crusades. One of my main interests is the perceptions and representations of the crusading movement in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. My first two monographs, Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade (Penn State, …
My work probes the historical conditions for the possibility of philosophy and politics in the modern world and in East Asia in particular. I am generally interested in the attempts of East Asian intellectuals to resist modernity through reviving premodern philosophies and religions, such as Buddhism. My first book, The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: …
I am a historian of the US–Mexico border specializing in Mexican American banishment, citizenship and state-imposed illegality, and gendered migrations. I am the author of the highly acclaimed and award-winning monograph, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025). I investigate how processes of mass immigration removals have …