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 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 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 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, …
My specialization is American Jewish. My Research and Teaching Interests include American Jewish history, Yiddish culture, Russian Jewish history, socialism, working-class history, and nationalism. Education Ph.D., StanfordM.A., StanfordB.A., University of California Books The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 8. The Modern World, 1815–2000 Tony Michels (Co-editor), and Mitchell B. Hart (Co-editor). The Cambridge History of …
My work probes the historical conditions for the possibility of philosophy and politics in the modern world and in East Asia in particular. I am generally interested in the attempts of East Asian intellectuals to resist modernity through reviving premodern philosophies and religions, such as Buddhism. My first book, The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: …