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 …
I have recently published Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (Chicago: 2024). This historical exploration highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces. The women’s health movement in the United States, beginning …
I’m a historian of science with interests in the history of astronomy, data and information practices, genres, and print culture. My current research concerns the movement of celestial knowledge, information, and practices within the early modern globe, as well as the history of sinology in early modern Europe. Education Ph.D., University of Chicago, History, 1999 …
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, dependency, marginality, …
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 genre function …
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 …
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 science and …
I’m a cultural historian of modern Korea with interests in national identity formations, class and gender relations, food and food ways, cultural memory, and Cold War Korea/Cold War Asia. My first book, Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea, explored South Korean public discourse on postcolonial nation building during the formative post-Korean …
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 sovereignty, and …