I am a historian of the twentieth-century United States, with a particular focus and expertise in African American history. While I am interested in the history of social movements, urban history, and a range of other subjects, I am especially interested in the history of the criminal punishment system in the United States: how it’s …
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 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 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 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 …
I am a legal historian, specializing in pre-modern European legal traditions. I am particularly interested in the history of criminal law and the historical development of legal and political institutions concerned with punishment, dispute settlement, and social control. My research also ranges more broadly into the development of the western legal tradition, with an eye …
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, …