Sebastian Schmidt received his PhD in the History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT. His research fuses his background in cultural studies and critical theory with global and urban history, focusing on 20th-century urbanism in Germany...
Research Interests: Energy in empire and its aftermath, focusing on the rise of the Manchurian fossil fuel industry.
Steven Press holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University (2014). He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. In 2014-2015 he was a College Fellow in History at Harvard; in 2015-2016 he was Research Assistant...
Maral Jefroudi studied Political Science, Sociology and History at Bogazici University, Istanbul. She obtained her MA degree at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, BU with her thesis entitled A Re-Politicized History of Iranian Transit...
Pim de Zwart studied (economic) history at Utrecht University, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and the London School of Economics. He graduated from Utrecht in August 2010 and wrote his master's thesis on real wages in South Africa in the...
Babacar Fall is the Director of the research laboratory “Centre de recherche sur les métiers et la mémoire en Afrique” (Research Center on occupations and memory in Africa) at Université Cheikh Anta Diop, (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal. He had been the Chair of...
Research interests: African history; African migrations; world history; comparative politics; and historical and ethnographic methodology.
Research interests: History of Europe during early modern times, particularly the political economy of the Iberian Empires; global capital; merchant networks; slave traffic; Asian trade; and global cities.
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.
Rombert Stapel (1983) studied Medieval History at Leiden University. He graduated in 2008 on a prosopographical study of the priest-brethren of the Teutonic Order in the Utrecht bailiwick (1350-1600). Since then he has been working on a PhD dissertation...