Suman Seth

Professor Suman Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of science and medicine. His interests include the history of medicine, race, and colonialism, the physical sciences (particularly quantum theory), & gender and science. He is the author of Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926 (MIT, 2010). He has served as the guest editor of a special issue of the journal Postcolonial Studies on “Science, Colonialism, Postcolonialism” (December, 2009) and of a ‘Focus’ Section of the Journal Isis on ‘Re-Locating Race.’ He is coeditor (with Prof. Patrick McCray) of the Journal Osiris.

Nick Salvatore

Nick Salvatore

Naoki Sakai

Naoki Sakai teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies and is a member of the graduate field of History at Cornell University. He has published in a number of languages in the fields of comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, the studies of racism and nationalism, and the histories of semiotic and literary multitude - speech, writing, corporeal expressions, calligraphic regimes, and phonographic traditions. He has led the project of TRACES, a multilingual series in four languages - Korean, Chinese, English, and Japanese (German, Italian, and Spanish will be added in 2008) - whose editorial office is located at Cornell, and served as its founding senior editor (1996 - 2004). In addition to TRACES, Naoki Sakai serves as a member of the following editorial boards,positions east asia cultural critique (in the United States),Post-colonial studies (in Australia), Tamkang Review(in Taiwan),International Dictionary of Intellectual History (Britain and Germany), Modern Japanese Cultural History (Japan), ASPECTS (South Korea) and Multitudes (in France).

Aaron Sachs

My general focus is on nature and culture: I wander through parks, cemeteries, and wilderness areas (often with my kids), stare at landscape paintings and photographs, and re-read Thoreau, all in an effort to figure out how ideas about nature have changed over time and how those changes have mattered in the western world. Currently I'm writing a book called Environmental Justice: History of a Timely Idea, which explores a theme I've been working through since 1995, when I published a pamphlet for the Worldwatch Institute entitled Eco-Justice: Linking Human Rights and the Environment.

Jonathan Lohnes

Kristin Roebuck

Kristin Roebuck

Angelica Aguirre

I am a PhD student interested in researching late 20th century indigenous histories and uprisings in Latin America. These interests include analyzing the permeating counterinsurgency mechanisms such as paramilitarism and low intensity warfare that uphold colonial and state violence throughout predominantly indigenous territories. I am particularly interested in Southern Mexican states such as Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Puebla.
 
Advisor: Ray B Craib

Duncan MacLean Eaton

I am a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe, with a focus on political and economic history. Through my work I am primarily interested in connecting regional histories to the development of national and transnational institutions throughout Central and Southeastern Europe. My previous research has dealt with topics including Austro-Slavist political thought, romantic nationalism in Central Europe, and transnational Slavic cultural institutions and clubs.
Prior to coming to…

David Rubinstein

I am a historian of modern Central Europe, with an emphasis on Germany and Poland. I focus on issues of migration, multiethnicity, and debates surrounding national identity. My work probes how small places can illuminate the relationship between great power politics and local societies, placing histories of everyday life within continental processes. By transnationally integrating distinct historiographies, I aim to understand how the region’s diverse residents responded to homogenizing…

Eric S. Lee

I am a Ph.D. student working on 8th-14th century (the middle-period) China, focusing on its political institution, society, and religion. My current interest aims at resolving an imbalance in the scholarship on middle period China that predominantly focuses on South China and neglects the history of various peoples and cultures in the regions north of Yangzi River. By examining North China during the middle-period, I seek to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of middle-period…

Matthew Finck

I am a historian of Modern Europe with a focus on intellectual and cultural history. My research centers on the intersection of political thought, revolutionary movements, and visual and material cultures of the political Left. My dissertation examines the influence of astronomy and other reflections on celestial bodies on the political imaginaries of revolutionary socialist movements and thinkers in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My research interests include democratic and…

Anke Wang

I am broadly interested in East and Southeast Asian history in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly focus on cultural exchange between China and Vietnam. I would like to conduct research from a transnational perspective, exploring the emergence and travels of new knowledge, words, and ideas in Asia by focusing on topics including but not limited to the interaction of intellectuals and the circulation of printed commodities.
Advisor: Mara Du

Kaitlin Findlay

Kaitlin Findlay is a doctoral student in the Cornell History Department. Her current research examines forced displacement, humanitarianism, liberal internationalism, and memory in the mid-twentieth century. Her dissertation is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. Kaitlin completed her BA History (Honours) at McGill University and her MA Thesis at the University of Victoria, Canada. She has over seven years’ experience in community-…

Matt Guillot

I am a historian of the ancient world with an emphasis on the political, social, and military history of the Roman Republic. I am interested primarily in the human element of ancient warfare and on the formation, preservation, and application of social bonds and identity in military environments.

Advisors: Committee Members: Barry Stuart Strauss (Ancient History, Chair); Eric Rebillard (Ancient Roman History); Sturt Manning (Classical Archaeology)

Cameron Tardif

I am a PhD candidate studying twentieth-century United States and Canadian history. Focusing on sport as spaces where race and power are made and negotiated, my research explores citizenship, borders, state-making, diaspora, and empire.

Russell Rickford

Russell Rickford is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. He specializes in African-American political culture after World War II, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements. His book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination, received the 2016 Hooks Institute National Book Award and the 2017 OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award. He is currently working on a book about Guyana and African American radical politics in the 1970s.

Jonathan Lohnes

Eric Rebillard

I study the transformations of religious practices in Late Antiquity.

John McTavish

I am an ancient historian whose work focuses on Greco-Macedonian political and military history during the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods. My research interests include issues of chronology, historiography, imperialism, and monarchy, but I am most passionate about the wars of the Diadochi. In the classroom I strive to put Mediterranean and Near Eastern history in dialogue with one another by incorporating Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian sources into the mainstream literary and…

Kevin Bloomfield

Darren Wan

I am a social and legal historian of Southeast Asia. A central question animates my research: How can perspectives from the margins of state power help us rethink political events and concepts?

Kelsey Utne

Emilio Ocampo Eibenschutz

I am a PhD student working on the 19th century Indian Ocean. My research focuses on mobilities, exchanges, and wider maritime connections in East Africa and the Persian Gulf. My dissestation project will analyze markets as a set of flexible contractual and business practices in the time of high imperialism. More broadly, I am interested in translocalities and historical connectivities in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. 

My committee members are Eric Tagliacozzo (Chair), Mostafa…

Jihyun Han

Modern China; History of the People's Republic of China; Intellectual History; Historians and the Writing of History; Twentieth-Century Manchuria

Advisor:  TJ Hinrichs, Victor Seow