Explore our research clusters
Scholarship in the Department of History is driven by a passion for understanding the present by studying historical context and historical literacy. We conduct impactful research across four primary focus areas:
Gender and Kinship
Examine how women, men, children, and kin groups encountered labor, law, religion, property, and other phenomena.
: Gender and Kinship
Imperial and Post-Colonial Societies
Examine ways colonial empires transformed, exchanged, hybridized, or were resisted by societies around the globe.
: Imperial and Post-Colonial Societies
Labor and Political Economy
Explore the interaction of politics with consumption, technology, economic policy making and markets.
: Labor and Political Economy
War and Society
Research various chronological and geographical contexts to understand the reciprocal relationships between society and mass violence.
: War and Society
