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’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 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 …
My work focuses on histories of health, the human body, material practices, and knowledge-making about the natural world in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the histories of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora. My new book, Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave and the Invention of the Modern Corporeality, …
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’m a historian of East Africa with a particular emphasis on the Great Lakes region. My research and teaching interests center on medical history, historical anthropology, and multidisciplinary methodologies for writing African history. My first book, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda, examined how the domains of politics and public healing …
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, …