2021-2022 Affiliates

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 environmental and economic history of plantation economies, and the acclimatization of cash crops as...

Research interests: Global histories of revolution and counterrevolution; imperialism and colonialism; socialism, anticolonialism, and decolonization; the Arab world; sectarianism, racism, and colonial social difference; and the US in the world.

Justin Morrow is twelve-year veteran of Major League Soccer and a social activist. He retired as Defender for Toronto FC after a distinguished career including 2017 MLS Championship and Gold Cup Championship. On Juneteenth 2020, Justin co-founded Black...

Yang Yang, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University, China. Her current research focuses mainly on the economic connections between the British cotton manufactures and the American...

Lori De Lucia is a historian who specializes in the history of slavery in the early modern Mediterranean, with a focus on networks connecting southern Italy and West Africa. She received her doctorate in History from UCLA in 2020. She is interested in...

Alexander Geelen is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the regulation of mobility in the Dutch colonial overseas empire of the eighteenth century. In his sub...

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, approaching them from the perspective of contemporary issues in the capitalist world. His many interests...