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History, Department of

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	Engin Akarli History, Department of Akarli's research project, "Law in the Marketplace: Istanbul Artisans, 1730-1840," examines how the Ottoman legal system worked and where it failed in dealing with conflicts affecting urban market relations in a relatively long and critical period of Ottoman history. The project also links the tensions of the Ottoman legal system to its gradual transformation in the nineteenth century and discusses the implications of this transformation for state-society relations in the modern Middle East.
	Omer Bartov History, Department of Professor Bartov is considered one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of genocide. He is the author of seven books and the editor of three volumes; his work has been translated into several languages. His most recent book, Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (Princeton, 2007), examines the politics of memory in Western Ukraine and erasure of both the memory and the few material remains of Jewish culture there.
	Cynthia Brokaw History, Department of Cynthia Brokaw researches the history of the book in late imperial China. Her Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods (2007) is a study of an important regional publishing industry and its impact on the dissemination of knowledge in south China. Her current project, "Book Culture on the Qing Frontier," examines the development of publishing and the creation of book cultures, both Chinese and Tibetan, on the southwestern frontier of the Qing empire.
	Howard Chudacoff History, Department of HOWARD CHUDACOFF's most recent research focuses on the history of childhood in the United States. He has completed a book manuscript on the history of children's play, colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the play culture that children created for themselves rather than what adults prescribed for them.
	Deborah Cohen History, Department of Deborah Cohen's research focuses upon the history of modern Britain and Europe. Her first book, The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939, was published by the University of California in 2001, and awarded the Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Prize. Her second book, Household Gods: The British and their Possessions, was published by Yale University Press in 2006; it won the American Historical Association's Forkosch Prize for the best book on Britain after 1485 and was the co-winner of the North American Conference on British Studies' Albion prize for the best book on Britain after 1800.
	Robert Douglas Cope History, Department of My research and teaching focuses on the creation and development of multi-ethnic societies in Mexico and Central America. I am particularly interested in the lived experience of the urban poor: how they grappled – socially, economically, and culturally – with their unfavorable position in the colonial hierarchy.
	Linford Fisher History, Department of Professor Fisher's fields of research are colonial America, American Indians (especially the contact period through the end of the eighteenth century), and the history of religion in America. His current research centers on the religious and cultural history of Native Americans in eighteenth-century New England. He is interested in the processes of long-term cultural and religious change.
	Jorge Flores Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of History, Department of Jorge Flores's research focuses on the political, social and cultural history of the Portuguese empire during the early modern period. He is particularly interested in the interaction between the Portuguese society and extra-European cultures, as well as in the formation of cross-cultural images and representations. His main field of expertise is the Portuguese expansion in Asia 1500-1800, and he works with Portuguese and other Western materials of the period to approach the history of South Asia.
	Mary Gluck History, Department of Mary Gluck is an intellectual-cultural historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, with special expertise in Central Europe and France. She has published extensively on Georg Lukacs, modernism, and avant-garde culture and the Jewish Question. Her latest book focuses on Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Currently, she is working on Jewish humor and assimilation in fin-de-siecle Budapest and on bohemias in a global perspective.
	Elliott Gorn History, Department of American Civilization Department I specialize in the social and cultural history of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I am especially interested in iconic figures, from John L. Sullivan to Mother Jones, from Butcher Bill Poole to John Dillinger. Working-class life, masculinity, and the history of violence are themes that run through much of my research.
	James N. Green History, Department of James N. Green works on the political, social and, and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Brazil. His books include: "We Cannot Remain Silent": Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85 (Duke, 2009) and Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-century Brazil (University of Chicago, 1999. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Gender, Sexuality, and Revolutionary Masculinity during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship."
	Françoise N. Hamlin Africana Studies Department History, Department of Current research includes work on the civil rights movement in Mississippi with critical analysis on the trajectory of the movement, the role of gender within the movement, and concepts of success and progress. Professor Hamlin is currently working on the book, The Story Isn't Finished: Continuing Histories of the Civil Rights Movement, and on an edited anthology (as co-editor), War, Freedom and Patriotism: An Anthology of African American Writing.
	Tim Harris History, Department of Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History. I am interested in the interaction between high politics and low politics and the study of popular protest, popular culture, religion, and politics in England, Scotland, and Ireland during Britain's Century of Revolutions.
	Patricia Herlihy History, Department of Slavic Languages, Department of
	Evelyn Hu-Dehart Race and Ethnicity in America, Center for the Study of History, Department of Evelyn Hu-DeHart often describes herself as a multicultural person who speaks several languages (including English, Chinese, French, and Spanish) and moves easily among several cultures. Her professional life has focused on what Cuban historian Juan Perez de la Riva calls "historia de la gente sin historia."
	Nancy J. Jacobs History, Department of I am currently working on a book project titled Birders of a Feather: Stories of People, Birds, and Other People in Africa. The book probes the politics of knowing about and interacting with birds while exploring "traditional" African knowledge, interactions between colonial ornithologists and African assistants, the post-independence diversification of the field, historic environmental changes, and how relations of power and affection across species and cultures converge in recent conservation and ecotourism initiatives.
	Karl Jacoby History, Department of Environmental history, Native American history, U.S. West, U.S.-Mexico borderlands
	Konstantinos Kornetis History, Department of
	Robert Burr Litchfield History, Department of His field is Florentine early modern economic, social, and urban history. He is currently working on Portuguese and Spanish nobles at the Medici court in the 16th-17th centuries, and Florentine commercial relations through Livorno, Portugal, and Spain with the Atlantic World.
	Maud Mandel History, Department of Judaic Studies, Program in Maud Mandel is an associate professor of history and Judaic studies. Mandel specializes in modern Jewish history and has focused particularly on the 20th-century French Jewish experience. She has written extensively on the impact of genocide on the reconstruction of community and on inter-ethnic relations. Her work has been marked by an on-going engagement with comparative historical methodology, and she has written extensively about Armenian and Muslim communities in France as well.
	James McClain History, Department of James L. McClain has taught and researched the history of early modern Japan at Brown for nearly a quarter century. He is author of an award-winning book, Kanazawa: A Castle Town in Seventeenth-Century Japan, and more recently a 700-page textbook, Japan: a Modern History. He co-edited two volumes on two cities, Edo and Osaka, and is author of numerous articles. His research has won support over the years from the Japan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
	Tara Nummedal History, Department of Tara Nummedal's work examines knowledge of nature – particularly alchemy – and its place in the society and culture of early modern Europe. Her first book, Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007), takes fraud as a point of entry into entrepreneurial alchemical practices in central Europe. Her current project, The Lion's Blood, examines the intersection of gender and apocalypticism in the life of the 16th-century German alchemist Anna Maria Zieglerin.
	Ethan Pollock History, Department of Ethan Pollock has examined previously inaccessible Soviet archives to analyze the intersection of political power, official ideology, and scientific knowledge in the Soviet Union. His current research on the Russian bathhouse – or bania – explores questions of public and private space, sexuality, hygiene, and the body in the context of social and political upheaval and change.
	Amy Remensnyder History, Department of Medieval Studies Amy G. Remensnyder's research focuses on the cultural and religious history of medieval Europe. The author of numerous articles and of a book about monastic culture and memory in southern France, she is currently finishing a book about how pre-modern Spanish Christians used the Virgin Mary as a symbol of the conquest and conversion of non-Christians in the Iberian Peninsula and in early colonial Mexico.
	Joan L. Richards History, Department of I am studying views of rationality as defined and lived in several generations of an English family that includes as major characters: the mathematician, Augustus De Morgan; his spiritualist wife, Sophia De Morgan; and Sophia's father, the radical Unitarian William Frend. The story of this family entails a complex narrative of knowing and believing lived through 100 years of English history.
	Seth Rockman History, Department of Seth Rockman is a specialist in Revolutionary and Early Republic United States history, with a focus on the relationship of slavery and capitalism in American economic and social development. The histories of race, labor, and social welfare are central to his research. Rockman supervised undergraduate research for the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, and is now conducting his own research on the relationship of Northern manufacturing to the plantation economies of the South.
	Kenneth S. Sacks History, Department of Co-PI (with Baruch Halpern, Penn State University) for $105,000 Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Program Award for "Cultural Exchange and Appropriation in the Mediterranean World." This work is under contract with Brill Press, and will be collected for editing in July, 2009 in one or two volumes.
	Robert Self History, Department of My first book, American Babylon, focuses on race, political culture, and the American city in the second half of the twentieth century. My current project examines the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and political culture in the U.S. between the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the presidential election of 2004. Broadly, I am interested in the relationship between politics, social movements, the state, and categories of identity and meaning, such as race or sexuality, across both time and space.
	Naoko Shibusawa History, Department of Naoko Shibusawa studies U.S. empire and political culture, as well as transnational Asian American history. She is interested in how commonplace ideas in American culture have supported U.S. policy and how nonstate actors have reproduced and reinforced state goals.
	Mark Swislocki History, Department of Mark Swislocki's research focuses on cultural history in China. His work examines such topics as the importance of food culture to urbanization, cultural factors shaping ideas about healthy eating, and the role that animals play in the formation of human communities and cross-cultural or international relations.
	Michael Vorenberg History, Department of My research takes place at the intersection of three fields in American history: Civil War and Reconstruction; Legal and Constitutional History; and Slavery, Emancipation, and Race.
	Gordon Wood History, Department of My book, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, will be published in May 2006. I am currently completing a volume in the Oxford History of the United States dealing with the period of the early Republic, 1789-1815.
	Vazira F-Y Zamindar History, Department of