I am a historian of religion with research interests in the history of Buddhist ethical ideas and modern religious reform and social justice movements in Southeast Asia, Cold War Buddhism, colonial Buddhism, and religion and visual culture. Much of my work focuses on Buddhist ethics of care and/or “local” interpretations and expressions of Theravada Buddhist …
I am a historian of Latin America and early modern Iberia, with an emphasis on the Andes. I study how Black people shaped early modern Iberian political life, using their ideas of community and methods of self-governance to rethink early modern concepts of belonging. In my research and teaching, I focus on inclusion and exclusion, …
I am a historian of women, gender, and sexuality in the early US. My research priorities include racialized gender, intimate labor, and women in social movements. I teach courses about labor and working-class history, women in early US/North American history, gender in world history, historiography and historical methods. My first book, Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, …
I am a geographer who works at the intersection of environmental history, political ecology, science and technology studies, and the history of science with a regional focus on Latin America. My first book, On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden was published by Yale University Press in 2019 and …
My research is aligned on three major axes. First, I have published widely on the implications of psychiatric theories of race for European colonial rule as well as postcolonial migration and citizenship. A second axis is the investigation of disaster mortality and public health crisis in contemporary Europe and the United States. Third, I am …
I’m a cultural historian of modern Korea with interests in national identity formations, class and gender relations, food and food ways, cultural memory, and Cold War Korea/Cold War Asia. My first book, Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea, explored South Korean public discourse on postcolonial nation building during the formative post-Korean …
I am a historian of the United States and international and diplomatic history. In my research and teaching, I focus on three issues that have centrally informed the position of the United States vis-à-vis the decolonizing world during the twentieth century and beyond: the relationships between liberalism and racial formations, global militarism and sovereignty, and …
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 interests include Medicine and society in twentieth-century America; race, medicine, and public health; medicine and popular culture; research ethics; and history of medical ethics. Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, History of Science, 1987 M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison, History of Science, 1979 B.A., Johns Hopkins University, History of Science, 1977 Books Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation …
My specialization is U.S. intellectual and cultural history. My research and teaching interests include the history of philosophy, political and social theory, religion, literature, and the visual arts; the transatlantic flow of intellectual and cultural movements; print culture; and cultural studies. I teach a range of courses on U.S. thought and culture, and intellectual and …