Juan Fernandez
PhD Candidate
Publications
"Masculinity and Misperformance: The Death of William Jones Among the Ilongots, 1909." In Indigenous Studies in the Philippines. Leah Abayao, Jimmy Fong, and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. (Forthcoming.)
"'From Savages to Soldiers': The Igorot Body, Militarized Masculinity, and the Logic of Transformation in Dean C. Worcester's Philippine Photographs." Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. (Forthcoming.)
(With Sophia Cuevas Mable and Imelda de Guzman Olvida). “Where Peasants Are Kings: Food Sovereignty in the Tagbanua Traditional Subsistence System.” Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 8, no. 1 (2015): 27–44.
Education
M.A. Cornell University (2019)
M.A. University of Chicago (2015)
Departments and programs
Cristina Florea
Assistant Professor
Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
"Frontiers of Civilization in the Age of Mass Migration from Eastern Europe," Past and Present, 21 February 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab041
"New Perspectives in German Studies: A View From the Margins," New German Critique, November 2023.
Book Reviews and Review Essays
Review of Patrice Dabrowski, The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2021), History: Reviews of New Books, 50(5), pp.83-84.
Review of Astrid Eckert, West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands (OUP, 2019), H-Borderlands.
"Hidden Metropolis: Modernization and Urban Culture in Eastern Europe," Journal of Urban History, January 2020.
Review of Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei, eds. Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000 (University of Toronto Press, 2017), Austrian History Yearbook, April 2019.
Public Writing
"Ukraine's Long Self-Determination," New York Review of Books, December 7, 2022. https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/12/07/ukraines-long-self-determination/
“The Crisis in Ukraine Has Disturbing Echoes of the 1930s,” TIME, February 28, 2022. https://time.com/6152294/ukraine-invasion-europe-1930s/
“Putin Knows That Controlling History Is the Key to Total Power,” CNN Opinion, April 4, 2022. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/opinions/putin-destroying-ukraine-history-archives-florea/index.html
“Putin’s Perilous Imperial Dream: Why Empires and Nativism Don’t Mix,” Foreign Affairs, May 10, 2022. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2022-05-10/putins-perilous-imperial-dream
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
B.A., Williams College
Departments and programs
Eric Tagliacozzo
John Stambaugh Professor of History
Publications
Books:
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(author), In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022).
- (co-editor), The Hajj: Pilgrimage in Islam (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
- (co-editor), Asia Inside Out: Changing Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015).
- (co-editor), Asia Inside Out: Connected Places (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015).
- (co-editor), Asia Inside Out: Itinerant People (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019).
- (co-editor), Burmese Lives: Ordinary Life Stories Under the Burmese Regime (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- (editor), Producing Indonesia: The State of the Field of Indonesian Studies (Cornell: SEAP Publications, 2014).
- (author) The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). 368 pp.
- (co-editor) Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities and Networks in Southeast Asia (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011).
- (co-editor) Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and Anthropology (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2009).
- (co-editor), The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
- (editor), Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Duree (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2009).
- (author) Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). 437 pp.** Winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies, 2007
Links to All Books Mentioned Above
Course Rotation:
• HIST 1700: “The History of Exploration”
• HIST 1402: “Global Islam”
• HIST 4515: “The Pacific Horizon”
• HIST 1750: “Routes: Global Histories”
• HIST 4922: “Ocean: The Sea in Global History”
• HIST 2430: “The History of Things”
• HIST 4100: “Archipelago: Worlds of Indonesia”
• HIST 2280: “The Indian Ocean World”
• HIST 3950: “Monsoon Kingdoms Pre-modern SE Asia to the 18th Century”
• HIST 3960: “Transnational Local: History of Modern Southeast Asia”
• HIST 4490: “Peddlers, Pirates, Prostitutes: Subaltern Histories of SE Asia”
• HIST 2840: "Southeast Asia in the World System, 1500-Present"
• HIST 4510: "Crime and Diaspora in Southeast Asia 1750-1950"
• HIST 1910: “The History of Modern Asia”
• HIST 4000: “Honors Undergraduate Historiography Seminar”
• HIST 7090: “Pro-Seminar for Graduate Historiography”
Education
- PhD History, Yale University, 1999
- BA History, Haverford College, 1989
Departments and programs
Links
Kristin Roebuck
Assistant Professor & Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow
Publications
Scholarship
Japan Reborn: Race, Sex and Eugenics from World War to Cold War. Under contract, Columbia University Press.
"Science without Borders? War, Empire, and the Contested Science of 'Race Mixing' in Japan, East Asia, and the West." In Who Is the Asianist? The Politics of Representation in Asian Studies, eds. Will Bridges, Nitasha Tamar Sharma, and Marvin D. Sterling (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022).
“De-Provincializing Eugenics: The Persistence of ‘Race Hygiene’ in Japan after Its Decline in the West.” In Asia and Africa across Disciplinary and National Lines (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Press, 2015).
Mass Media
"Princess Mako of Japan's Commoner Wedding Suggests Sexism Will Doom the Royal Family." NBC News (31 Oct. 2021).
"Akihito Bows Out, Ushering in New Era for Japan's Post-War Generation." The Hill (30 April 2019).
"Japan, U.S. Face Legacies of Forced Sterilization." Global Journalist, National Public Radio (25 Oct. 2018).
Education
PhD, MPhil, and MA in East Asian History, Columbia University
BA in History, Barnard College
Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science and Economics, Exchange Researcher
Departments and programs
Keywords
history of the body, medicine, and law; race and sexuality; slavery; Japanese international relations
Jon W. Parmenter
Associate Professor
Publications
MONOGRAPH
The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701. Michigan State University Press, 2010; paperback edition, University of Manitoba Press, 2014.
Recognition and Honors
Honorable Mention, 2010 PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Association of American Publishers.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
"The Meaning of Kaswentha and the Two Row Wampum Belt in Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) History: Can Indigenous Oral Tradition be Reconciled with the Documentary Record?" Journal of Early American History 3 (2013): 82-109.
"The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empires: Iroquois and Acadians between the British and French in North America, 1744-60." (coauthored with Mark P. Robison) Diplomatic History 31 (2007): 167-206.
"After the Mourning Wars: The Iroquois as Allies in Colonial North American Campaigns, 1676-1760." William and Mary Quarterly 64 (2007): 39-82.
"'L'Arbre de Paix': Eighteenth Century Franco-Iroquois Relations." French Colonial History 4 (2003): 63-80.
"Rethinking Penn's Treaty With the Indians: Benjamin West and the Legacy of Native-Settler Relations in Colonial Pennsylvania," Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 19 (Spring 2002): 38-44.
"Neutralité active des Iroquois durant la guerre de la Succession d'Austriche, 1744-1748 [The Active Neutrality of the Iroquois during the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744-1748]," trans. Michel Lavoie, Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec 32 (2002): 29-37.
"La politique du deuil: le factionalisme des Onontagués et la mort de Canasatego [The Politics of Mourning: Onondaga Factionalism and the Death of Canasatego]," trans. Françoise Neillon and Jean-Paul Salaün, Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec 29 (1999): 23-35.
"Pontiac's War: Forging New Links in the Anglo-Iroquois Covenant Chain, 1758-1766." Ethnohistory 44 (1997): 617-54.
"Treason in the London District during the War of 1812." London and Middlesex Historian [Ontario] 20 (Autumn 1993): 5-26.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND INVITED ESSAYS
"Separate Vessels: Hudson, the Dutch, and the Iroquois." In Jaap Jacobs and Louis Roper, eds., The Worlds of the Seventeenth Century Hudson Valley (Albany: SUNY Press, 2014), 103-33.
"In the Wake of Cartier: The Indigenous Context of Champlain's Activities in the St. Lawrence Valley and Upper Great Lakes, 1550-1635." In Nancy Nahra, ed., When the French Were Here…And They're Still Here: Proceedings of the 2009 Champlain Quadricentennial Conference (Burlington, VT: Champlain College, 2010), 87-115.
"'Onenwahatirighsi Sa Gentho Skaghnughtudigh': Reassessing Iroquois Relations with the Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1723-1755." In Nancy Rhoden, ed., English Atlantics Revisited: Essays Honouring Professor Ian K. Steele (Montréal, QC, and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007), 235-83.
"The Significance of the 'Illegal Fur Trade' to the Eighteenth Century Iroquois." In Louise Johnston, ed., Aboriginal People and the Fur Trade: Proceedings of the 8th North America Fur Trade Conference, Akwesasne (Ottawa, ON, 2001), 40-47.
"The Iroquois and the Native American Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1754-1794." In David C. Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson, eds. The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2001), 105-24.
"Dragging Canoe (Tsi'yu-gûnsi'ni): Chickamauga Cherokee Patriot." In Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden, eds. The Human Tradition in Revolutionary America (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Press, 2000), 117-37.
"Madame Montour: Cultural Broker on the Eighteenth-Century Frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania." In Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden, eds. The Human Tradition in Colonial America (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Press, 1999), 141-59.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND SHORT ESSAYS
"Native Americans," in Mark G. Spencer, ed., Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment (2 vols., New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), 2: 740-43.
"The Beaver Wars," in Antonio Thomson and Christos Frentzos, eds., The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Diplomatic and Military History: Colonial Period to 1877 (New York: Routledge, 2014), 33-41.
"Agriculture." In John Demos, ed.,American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume 2, The Seventeenth Century (New York: MTM Publishing, 2011), 17-23.
"Native American Warfare"; "Pontiac"; "Little Turtle"; "Black Hawk"; "Indian Removal Policy." Entries in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, eds. The Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 1735-41, 1749, 1761-64.
"American Indians: British Policies," in Paul Finkelman, ed., Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: The Emergence of the United States, 1754-1829 (3 vols., Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), 1: 118-21.
"The Fur Trade." Entry in Peter Eisenstadt et al, eds., The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 614-15.
Contribution to "A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities," ed. Joyce Ann Kievit, American Indian Quarterly 27 (2003): 41-45.
"Pontiac, Chief"; "Quebec Act." Entries in Peter Knight, ed., Conspiracy Theories in American History (2 vols., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2003), 2: 587-89, 605-6.
"Warfare, Indian"; "Wars with Indian Nations, Colonial Era to 1783." Entries in Dictionary of American History (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002), vol. 8: 390-94, 395-99.
"Conrad Weiser Letters Shed Important New Light on Eighteenth Century Indian Diplomacy." The Quarto: William L. Clements Library Associates Bulletin 1.6
(September 1996): 8-9.
Departments and programs
Links
Mostafa Minawi
Associate Professor of History and the Director of Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies
Publications
Books
Osmanlılar ve Afrika Talanı:Sahra'dan Hicaz'a İmparatorluk ve Diplomasi (Istanbul: Koc University Press, 2018).
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz (Stanford, CA. Stanford University Press, 2016).
Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (Stanford University Press, late 2022)
Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea Basin (In progress – Under contract with Stanford University Press).
Some Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “International Law and the Precarity of Ottoman Sovereignty in Africa at the End of the 19th Century,” The International History Review (May 2020) <DOI:10.1080/07075332.2020.1765837>
- “Telegraphs and Territoriality in Ottoman Africa and Arabia During the Age of High Imperialism,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 18 (2016): 576-587.
- “Beyond Rhetoric: Reassessing Bedouin-Ottoman relations along the route of the Hijaz Telegraph Line at the end of the nineteenth century,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 58 (1-2) (2015): 75–104.
Sample Newspaper Op.Eds.
- A regular contributor to TheHill.com (2015-present.)
- “How Turkey’s Fight Against ISIS Advances its War Against the Kurds,” Wall Street Journal (Jul 30, 2015)
- “Don’t Partition Iraq Along Ethnic Lines,” Haaretz (Jul 18, 2014)
- “Ortadoğu Tarihinin Müşkül Gerçeği,” Evrensel (Jul 13, 2014)
Education
Ph.D. - Departments of History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University
M.A. - Department of History, University of Toronto.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering & Management, Faculty of Engineering and DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University.
Languages: Arabic, Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, French.
Departments and programs
Links
Keywords
Middle East; Near Eastern Studies; Ottoman Studies; Ottoman History; Transimperial History; World History; Colonialism; Imperialism; Diplomatic History; Microhistory; Refugees; Northeast Africa; Sahara, Arabia; Hijaz; Mediterranean; Turkey; Istanbul; Lebanon; Syria; Libya; Ethiopia; Red Sea; The Horn of Africa.
Tamara Loos
Professor
Publications
Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016).
Departments and programs
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- History
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
Keywords
Southeast Asia; Thailand; gender; legal studies; sexuality; Internet; travel; identity
Durba Ghosh
Professor
Publications
Books
Co-editor with Dane Kennedy, Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).
Recent publications
“Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus, Women’s History Review
“Stabilizing history: statues, monuments, and memorials in Curzon’s India,” Historical Journal 66.2 (2023): 348-69.
Articles on political violence in colonial India
“The ‘terrorist’ and his jailor: the conundrum of ‘friendship’ and intimacy,” article for special issue of Itinerario, “The Private Lives of Empire: Race, Emotion and the Intimate in Colonial Rule,” edited by William Jackson, Itinerario 42.1 (2018): 102-19.
“Gandhi and the Terrorists,” article for special issue of South Asia 32.3 on “Writing Revolution; practice, history, politics in modern South Asia” edited by Daniel Eelam, Kama Maclean, and Chris Moffat. (September 2016): 560-76.
“An Archive of ‘Political Trouble in India’: history-writing, anticolonial violence, and colonial counterinsurgency, 1905-37,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, edited by Carola Dietze and Claudia Verhoeven, published online, 2014.
“History Makes Women Well-behaved”: Revolutionary Women, Nationalist Heroes," Gender and History 25.2 (August 2013): 355-75.
“Terrorism in Bengal: imperial strategies of political violence and its containment in the interwar years,” in Decentring Empire (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).
Articles on historiography
“Whither India?: 1919 and the aftermath of the first world war,” for forum on 1919 in Journal of Asian Studies 78.2 (May 2019): 389-97.
“New Directions in Transnational History,” in New Directions in Social and Cultural History, edited by Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam, and Lucy Noakes (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
“The archives of Geraldine Forbes and Barbara Ramusack: restoring women’s voices,” for a fetzschrift edited by Padma Anagol and Swapna Banerjee (under contract with Oxford University Press).
Roundtable on Historiographic “Turns” in Critical Perspective: “Another Set of Imperial Turns?” American Historical Review 117.3 (June 2012): 772-93.
“Optimism and Political History: a perspective from India,” Perspectives on History 49.5 (May 2011): 25-27.
“Introduction,” in Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World, written with Dane Kennedy (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).
Articles on gender, sexuality, and colonialism
“Body Politics, Sexualities, and the ‘modern family’ in Global History,” in World Histories from Below: Dissent and Disruption, 1750-present, edited by Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne (Bloomsbury, 2016).
“Legal and Liberal Subjects: women’s crimes in early colonial India,” Journal of Women’s History 22 (Summer 2010): 153-56.
“Who counts as ‘native?’”: gender, race, and subjectivity in colonial India,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 6.3 (2005).
“National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India” in Archive Stories, edited by Antoinette Burton (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
“Decoding the Nameless: Gender, Subjectivity, and Historical Methodologies in Reading the Archives of Colonial India,” in A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity, Modernity, 1660-1840, edited by Kathleen Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
“Household Crimes and Domestic Order: Keeping the Peace in Colonial Calcutta, c.1770- c.1840,” Modern Asian Studies 38, 3 (July 2004): 598-624.
“Gender and Colonialism: expansion or marginalization?” The Historical Journal 47, 3 (September 2004): 737-55.
“Making and Un-making Loyal Subjects: Pensioning Widows and Educating Orphans in Early Colonial India,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 31 (January 2003): 1-28.
“Exhibiting Asia: Museums, Consumption, and Commerce,” in Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation, edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Knauer (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
Departments and programs
Keywords
modern south Asia; gender; colonialism
Raymond B. Craib
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History
Publications
Books:
Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age (PM Press/Spectre, 2022). Spanish translation forthcoming with Prometeo Editorial (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and poetry in interwar Chile (Oxford University Press, 2016) Published in translation as: Santiago Subversivo 1920: Anarquistas, universitarios y la muerte de José Domingo Gómez Rojas. Trans. by Pablo Abufom Silva, LOM Ediciones, Chile, 2017
Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes (Duke University Press, 2004). Published in translation as: México Cartográfico: Una historia de límites fijos y paisajes fugitivos. Trans. by Rossana Reyes, UNAM/Inst. de Geografía/CISAN, Mexico, 2014
Martirio, memoria, historia: Sobre los subversivos y la expulsión de Casimiro Barrios, 1920 (Santiago: Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Serie Signos de la Memoria, 2015)
Edited books:
No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms [co-edited with Barry Maxwell] (PM Press, 2015). German translation, edition assemblage, forthcoming.
Education
BA, History, Eastern Michigan University, 1990
MA, Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1994
PhD, History, Yale University, 2001