Affiliated Faculty

Christian-Muslim-Jewish realtions, Medieval Mediterranean, ethno-religious minorities.

Property, law and economic deveopment, international law, conflict of laws, globalization, critical race theory, jurisprudence.

Peter Hunt studies ancient Greek and Roman slavery, Athenian foreign policy thinking, war and society, and the end of the classical democracy at Athens.

Thea Lindquist's research currently focuses on ways to better find, share, and use historical data. She is also interested in the application of digital research methods and tools in scholarly research, and on how academic libraries can best support their integration into campus research and teaching.

Katie Little received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Duke University. Her primary research interest is in bridging the divide between the Middle Ages and the early modern. She has published essays on Chaucer’s poetry, the Langland-tradition, Spenser’s debts to Chaucer, and sixteenth-century English humanism. Her first book explores the late medieval heresy, Lollardy — Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval...

Asian American history and studies, comparative ethnic studies, radical social movements, the 1960s and 70s, transnational culture.

Colonialism and empire, history and memory, power and politics, regugees and citizenship, nationalism, sense of belonging, gender, war.

African Studies / Political Economy / Gender and Queer Studies

Latinx history/studies, US/Mexico border studies, social movements, immigration history, state violence, the detention and deportation regime, the carceral state.

History of science and technology, material culture studies, critical theory, film theory and criticism.

Economic history and economic development.

Medieval and Early Modern Iberian literatures and cultures, cultural and intellectual history, gender studies, court culture, queenship, patronage, translation studies, politics, religion, Humanism, Catalan Studies, and Mediterranean Studies.

Transnational political movements, radicalism, Asian American history.

Sarah Stanford-McIntyre researches how technology shapes communities, builds social worlds, and changes environments. Her book project, Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and the Rise of Sunbelt Texas (Columbia University Press), examines how oil workers in the West Texas Permian Basin responded to industry hazards. She uses this analysis to track an environmental history of Texas economic development and industrial deregulation. She is co-editor for the edited...

Ireland, Early Modern Britain, Medieval & Early Modern Britain.