2020-2021 Affiliates

Graeme Thompson is an Ernest May Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His current research is focused on the history of empire and imperial expansion, Anglo-American liberalism and foreign policy, and ideas of world...

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 explores the questions of skill, technology, and temporality in the context of menial work...

Ann-Sophie Schoepfel is a historian of international law, professor in history at Sciences Po Paris, and director of the seminar in global history and international law. She completed two PhDs at the University of Heidelberg and Lorraine University. Her...

Jayita Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, where she is also the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative. From July 2022, Dr. Sarkar will be Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in...

Michael Borsk is a doctoral student from Queen’s University. His dissertation traces the history of land surveying and property formation in the Great Lakes region after the American Revolution. Situated at the intersection where structures of...

Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She works across the disciplines of history, anthropology and international politics. Her core research focuses on the processes of capitalist...

Malcolm Jenkins is a safety for the New Orleans Saints (formerly the Philadelphia Eagles) and a two-time Superbowl champion. Malcolm is also one of the co-heads of the NFL Player's Coalition, and a leader among athletes in pushing for criminal justice...

Mandy Izadi's scholarship sits at the intersection of Indigenous history, environmental history, and African American history. Her current project investigates the history of North America's Southeast and the Greater Caribbean...

Kaicheng Zhang is a PhD student at East China Normal University. His research focuses on the environmental experience of New York City in post-WWII era from a global perspective. This research examines New York’s environmental management both influencing...

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...