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 Indigenous activism. …
My Research and Teaching Interests center on Africans and their descendants in the broader world. I teach courses on comparative slavery, race and nation in the Atlantic world, comparative world history, the history of Brazil, and the history of South Africa. To date, my research has concentrated on the social and cultural histories of Africans …
I am an historian of the ancient Greek world, specializing in the social, political and economic history of fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens. My research focuses on the lived experience of marginalized peoples and the evidence they left behind. My main project examines poverty in fourth-century Athens, but I have also published work on ancient graffiti, political …
I am a historian of early modern and modern Japan with particular interest in intellectual, religious, and social history. My current work examines the development in the 1890s and early 1900s of the “Way of the Samurai” (bushido) as a seemingly traditional, indigenous code of honor thought to embody the “spirit” of Japan. That is, …
I am a legal and political historian of the United States Empire and a social historian of international law. My research focuses on questions of political economy, legal claims-making, and critiques of state violence. I teach and advise broadly in histories of the North American West, US Foreign Relations, and international order. My first book, …
I am a historian of modern Europe in general, and of modern Britain more particularly. My first book, Morale: A Modern British History (Oxford University Press, 2017), tries to answer the following question: how is it that modern Britons (and many others who took a similar path) have come to understand questions of conduct and …
I am a scholar of United States history and Native American and Indigenous Studies, with a particular research focus on Native schooling. I teach courses in American Indian History, Native education, and environmental history. My first book, Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and Indigenous Schools (UPenn Press, 2026) is an intellectual history of America’s most prominent …
I am a historian of ordinary people and their everyday experiences in early America. I have a particular interest in the lives of those who encountered various forms of oppression, such as women, the impoverished, and people of color. My work so far has focused specifically on the history of Afro-New Englanders, who were subjected …
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 funded through …
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 Asia-Pacific War, …