I received my Ph.D. from the Dept. of History at Harvard in 2018. My first book, “The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Colonial India, 1813-1907” is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. The book-project is an intellectual and political history of the creation of the Indian political self – a self that emerged through an often-oppositional …
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 am a historian of early modern Europe specializing in the intellectual and religious history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. My scholarly interests include the Enlightenment, early modern Christianity, the supernatural, skepticism and unbelief, historical theology, and theories of secularization. My current research examines the reconfiguration of German Protestantism in the eighteenth century as …
I am an historian of late imperial China, especially the Ming (1368-1644). My research and teaching focus on Chinese social, legal, and book history. I am currently researching the history of legal education, schools, and libraries in imperial China. Education Ph.D., University of Minnesota J.D., University of Minnesota M.A., University of Minnesota B.S-Art., University 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 a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century West Africa. I am currently working on my book manuscript, Activating Emancipation: Race, Slavery, and Islamic Respectability Among the Ḥrāṭīn in Colonial Mauritania (Contracted with Ohio University Press’s New African Histories Series). This book tells the unpreviously …
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 historian of 20th century Latin America and U.S. foreign relations. My most recent book, Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America, analyzes the social scientific frameworks for understanding poverty in Latin America. It incorporates a discussion of the key frameworks (modernization, dependency, marginality, …
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 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 …