Francesca Lidia Viano is a historian of Euro-American relations and exchanges in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She received her first PhD from the University of Perugia, Italy, and a second one from King’s College, University of Cambridge. She...
Samantha Payne is a historian of the United States and Latin America, with particular interests in slavery, emancipation, race and capitalism. Her dissertation, The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas...
Kristin studies United States history in the Pacific Ocean focusing on islands such as her home on Guam. She's especially interested in the cultural interactions between indigenous peoples, immigrants, and imperial powers in the 20th century. Kristin...
Kirk W. McLeod is a PhD candidate in Harvard’s History Department. His research explores European imperial history in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia, with a particular emphasis on the global dimensions of racial capitalism, the political economy...
Mou Banerjee received her PhD from Harvard University in 2018, where she recently received the Harold K. Gross award, which is granted annually by the faculty of the History department to the graduate student whose dissertation ‘gave greatest promise of...
During her stay at the WCFIA, Martine Jean will complete her monograph on the advent of the penitentiary in Brazil with a focus on the Casa de Correção (Correction House) in Rio de Janeiro. Entitled "Routine Imprisonment, Race, and Citizenship in...
Stephan Scheuzger is Research Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) at the Department of History of the University of Bern in Switzerland, where he is currently directing the research project “The Global Production and Circulation of...