Biography Biography I am a historian of post-1945 United States with interests in immigration, citizenship, and Asian American history and culture. I am the award-winning author of Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War (2013) and editor of The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies (2016). My articles have appeared in …
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 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 …
I am an economic historian working within the field of Early Modern Europe, with a focus on the history of France. My body of work explores how pre-industrial societies coped with uncertainty and with the insecurity of property and resources. Early maritime insurance markets are the unlikely point of entry into these questions in my …
Devin Kennedy is Assistant Professor of History and the Evelyn and Herbert Howe Bascom Professor of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard and an AB from Princeton in Comparative Literature. Kennedy works across business and economic history, the histories of science and …
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 19th and 20th century medicine and public health in the United States. My research examines the relationship between nutritional disease, community health work, and the political economy of capitalism in the U.S. South. Methodologically, my research blends the approaches and insights of social history, labor history, and oral history. I …
I am an economic and military historian of the early modern Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Italy. I am especially interested in how early modern economic practices – consumerism, market culture, and the commercialization of war – shaped notions of sovereignty, territoriality, and political geography. My monograph, Leviathan for Sale, which is under contract with …
I am a historian of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Latin America and the author, most recently, of the critically acclaimed book, Puerto Rico: A National History (Princeton University Press, 2024), translated to Spanish by Aurora Lauzardo Ugarte as Puerto Rico: historia de una nación (Grupo Planeta, 2024). I am also the author of The …
My specialization is American Jewish. My Research and Teaching Interests include American Jewish history, Yiddish culture, Russian Jewish history, socialism, working-class history, and nationalism. Education Ph.D., StanfordM.A., StanfordB.A., University of California Books The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 8. The Modern World, 1815–2000 Tony Michels (Co-editor), and Mitchell B. Hart (Co-editor). The Cambridge History of …