Osama Siddiqui

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (fall 2023).
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics, Providence College.

Osama Siddiqui is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College, where he...

César Castillo-García

Visiting Graduate Student, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (spring 2024).
PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research.

I am a PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) and a...

Moritz von Brescius

Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH, 2022-2024
Affiliate 2021-2022, WIGH; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Moritz von Brescius is a senior lecturer in modern history at University of Bern. His research areas include the global history of science and empire, the... Read more about Moritz von Brescius

Jaewoong Jeon

Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH
PhD, Department of History, University of Chicago

Jaewoong Jeon received his PhD in History from the University of Chicago in 2021. His work focuses on the history of capitalism in Korea and Taiwan,... Read more about Jaewoong Jeon

Hatice Yildiz

Visiting Fellow (Remote), 2020-2021
Lecturer, School of History, Classics, and Archeology, University of Edinburgh

Hatice Yıldız is a Lecturer in Modern Gender History at the University of Edinburgh, and a former Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford. Her research... Read more about Hatice Yildiz

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Murari Jha

Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations, Harvard University
Assistant Professor, Humanities and Languages, Ahmedabad University, India

Murari Jha is an economic and environmental historian of early modern India, and his broader research interests include the Mughal Empire, Ganga River Systems... Read more about Murari Jha

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Pepijn Brandon

Visiting Fellow 2017-2018, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations
Senior Researcher, International Institute of Social History
Assistant Professor, History Department, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Research Interests: The history of Dutch capitalism in global comparative perspective; war and economic development; and slavery.

Website

pepijn.brandon@iisg.nl

Christy Thornton

WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Historical sociology of development; Latin America; Mexico; global governance.

Johns Hopkins University Website

thorntonc@jhu.edu

Pim de Zwart

WIGH Global Fellow
PhD Candidate in History, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands

Pim de Zwart studied (economic) history at Utrecht University, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and the London School of Economics. He...

Jie Yang

Associate Professor, East China Normal University
Global Fellow at Harvard, 2014-2015

Research Interests: The dissemination of Modern Chinese culture in the United States; and Modern Chinese mineral-resource development and foreign trade from...

Julia McClure

WIGH Fellow 2013-2014
Assistant Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK

Research interests: Global and intellectual history, specializing in the late Middle Ages, Spanish Atlantic, and poverty history...

Heeho Kim

WIGH Visiting Scholar, Fall 2013
Professor of Economic History, Kyungpook National University, Korea

Research Interests: Slavery (Nobi) and labor markets in Chosun Korea, the 17th-19th century; money and prices in Chosun...

Florian Weber

Visiting Scholar, Spring 2014
PhD Candidate in Economic History, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Florian Weber studied Economic History and Economics at University of Zurich and Autonomous University of Madrid. He obtained his MA degree in 2012...

Cyrus Veeser

Professor of History, Bentley University

Cyrus Veeser is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University. His research interests include modernization in colonies and LDCs, 1870-1930; U....

Casey Primel

2016-2017 Volkswagen Postdoctoral Fellow

Casey Primel received his PhD from Columbia in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. His dissertation "Empire of Paper: Credit...