United States

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

Research interests:
Population history of America, especially the aging population, from a historical and global perspective

Marcelo Ferraro has a degree in Law and in History from the University of São Paulo and is currently a student in the graduate program in social history. Recently, he has developed an interest in the slaveholding elites in the nineteenth-century Atlantic...

Florian Weber studied Economic History and Economics at University of Zurich and Autonomous University of Madrid. He obtained his MA degree in 2012 with a master thesis on the financial crisis of 1931. He is currently a doctoral candidate with the...

Westenley (Wes) Alcenat is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University in New York City. His research interest is in comparative U.S and Caribbean history with a strong focus on the shared histories of the African Diaspora and nations in the...

Tamis Parron is the WIGH Volkswagen Global Fellow.  He received his PhD from the University of Sao Paulo in 2015, where his dissertation “The Politics of Slavery in the Age of Freedom: United States, Brazil, and Cuba, 1787-1846” was awarded best history...

Research Interests: 19th-century U.S. history, colonialism, global labor history, Pacific history

Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard and served as director of CES from 1994-2001 and in the fall of 2006. Maier will teach Historical Studies B-53 (World War I), Ethical Reasoning 12 (Political Trials and Political Justice) in...

Professor Beckert's research and teaching focus on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions. His...