Daniel B Cornfield is professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and the winner of Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award and elected member, Sociological Research Association and Fell

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) was a Japanese translator, teacher, and constructive interpreter of Zen Buddhist thought to the West.

Choosing belief over doubt has profound, eternal conse

Dr. Elyakim Kislev serves as the head of the Honors Program in the School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University, specializing in minorities, policy and technology, and singles st

I am a historian of the US and Europe in the World, specializing in histories of science, statecraft, and the global environment. My research examines how human communities have thought and acted o

Filiz Garip is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Her research lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms

I am currently Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Institute of Intellectual History. I came to St Andrews in 2013 from the University of Sussex, where I

Benjamin Madley is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. Born in Redding, California, he spent much of his childhood in Karuk Country near the Oregon

Christof Dejung is professor of modern history at the University of Bern.

Research Interests

European history 1800-1945
Global history
History of imp

Josephine Quinn is associate professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Worcester College. She is the coeditor of The Hellenistic West and The Punic Mediterranean.

Ellen Lamont is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University, an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, an

I am Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University and teach classes in U.S. Latino/x, labor, immigration, and food history, as well as U.S.-Mexico and global borderlands history.

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of fourteen books, including Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics; The Rise and Fall of Adam an

Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, joined the University of Southern California in July 2011. She taught at Bristol and Oxford Universities before moving to Rutgers: The Stat

Rohit De is a lawyer and historian of modern South Asia and focuses on the legal history of the Indian subcontinent and the common law world.  As a legal historian he moves beyond asking what

Muhammad Qasim Zaman joined the Department in 2006. He has written on the relation­ship between religious and political institutions in medieval and modern Islam, on social and legal thought in the

Viviana A. Zelizer is Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She has published books on the development of life insurance, the changing value of children, the place of mon

Ümit Kurt is Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and an Australian Research Council Fellow. He is author of several books in Turkish and English, including The Spirit of the Laws: T

Richard Stoneman is an honorary visiting professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. His many books include Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend? and X

Michael Witzel is Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University Department of South Asian Studies. Professor Witzel is a recognized Sanskritist and Indologist and his areas of research deals wi

My central focus is the application of sociocultural anthropology to health inequality and global/public health practice. More specifically I am interested in how political economy gives rise to so