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 an historian of modern Africa, global feminism and decolonization. My first book, Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania, explores the creative lives of urban migrant youth to the city of Dar es Salaam during Tanzania’s socialist era, from 1967 through 1985. Drawing together a range of unconventional …
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 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 …
Biography Biography My specialization is Educational Policy Studies. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of American and European education and on an array of reform movements in American history. Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.A., Bowling Green State UniversityB.A., Wilkes College Books Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History William Reese. …
Biography Biography I’m an interdisciplinary scholar of twentieth century American Indian and Indigenous histories, with a special focus on the Great Lakes. My research interests include Indigenous social movements and urban histories, special focus on Indigenous cultural, communal, and political continuity. I’m also interested in the gender dynamics at play in multiple different forms of …
Biography Biography I am a historian of technology with a focus on twentieth-century North Africa and the Middle East. My work examines the links between colonial modernization projects, the construction of racialized technical hierarchies, local forms of political contestation and technological labor, and the remaking of urban environments in the region. My research has been …
Biography Biography Louise Young is Marilyn B. Young WARF Professor of Japanese History. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including Fulbright, Japan Foundation, and Social Science Research Council fellowships, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research and teaching interests include social and intellectual history, Japanese imperialism, the …