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 modern eastern Europe, with a research focus on Poland in the first half of the twentieth century. In my first book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020), I explore how, after the end of the First World War, an eclectic group of …
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 historian of Modern Europe with a specialization in Russia and the Soviet Union. My research and teaching interests include Russian and Soviet History, Modern European History, Comparative Empires, the History of Human Rights, and Russian-American Engagement. My second book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After …
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 …
My research is aligned on three major axes. First, I have published widely on the implications of psychiatric theories of race for European colonial rule as well as postcolonial migration and citizenship. A second axis is the investigation of disaster mortality and public health crisis in contemporary Europe and the United States. Third, I am …
I am an intellectual, political and cultural historian of modern France and its empire. To date, my research has focused on the legacies of World War II’s violence during the era of decolonization. My first book, Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945, examined a French-led activist …
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, …