Biography Biography 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: …
Biography Biography I am a historian of the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States whose research and teaching focus on the history of sport, African American history, and women’s history. My work is guided by examinations of the ways in which culture, labor, media, and social movements and trends interact with sports. Biography is among …
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 …
Biography Biography I am the Director of the undergraduate LGBTQ+ Studies Certificate Program. I specialize in history of sexuality and gender, primarily 20th century United States, focusing on transgender, queer and feminist social movements; my work is also animated by queer crip studies, critical race and indigeneity studies, graphic art and comics studies. Education Ph.D., …
Biography Biography I am a military historian broadly interested in the ways in which societies have organized violence to pursue and defend their interests. I am especially interested in the ethnohistorical study of military conflict and cooperation between the Native peoples of North America and European colonial powers. More generally, I am interested in Native …
Biography Biography 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: …
Biography Biography 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, …
Biography Biography I study race, citizenship, and Native-settler interaction in the United States, particularly in the nineteenth century. I am interested in the connections between the histories of slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction and the dynamics of Native American life and U.S. conquest; in questions and projects of historical reckoning; and in the ways narrative and …
Biography Biography 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 …
Biography Biography I am a historian of the United States and international and diplomatic history. In my research and teaching, I focus on three issues that have centrally informed the position of the United States vis-à-vis the decolonizing world during the twentieth century and beyond: the relationships between liberalism and racial formations, global militarism and …