I am a historian of modern Europe, with an emphasis on Germany and its global entanglements. My research and teaching foreground themes of democracy, human rights, memory politics, and social thought. I am especially interested in how European national and religious identities have evolved against the backdrop of territorial conflict, divided sovereignties, ethnic cleansing, and …
I’m a historian of international and global history, mostly focused on Europe. I study how European internationalist movements tried to go global—while often remaining tethered to exclusionary ideas about justice and solidarity. Empire and its afterlives sit at the center of my work. My first book, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian …
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 an intellectual, political and cultural historian of modern France and its empire. To date, my research has focused on the legacies of World War II’s violence during the era of decolonization. My first book, Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945, examined a French-led activist …
After earning a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at Yale, my writing on this region has focused on three topics — the history of modern empires, Philippine political history and global opium trafficking. My first book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (New York, 1972), sparked controversy when the CIA tried to block publication. …
I am a legal and political historian of the United States Empire and a social historian of international law. My research focuses on questions of political economy, legal claims-making, and critiques of state violence. I teach and advise broadly in histories of the North American West, US Foreign Relations, and international order. My first book, …