18th Century

Jody Benjamin

Jody Benjamin

WIGH Graduate Research Fellow, 2013
Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside

Jody Benjamin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD from Harvard University in the...

Read more about Jody Benjamin
Pepijn Brandon

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.

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...

Read more about Pim de Zwart
1727 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138
p: 617-496-3586
Alexander Geelen

Alexander Geelen

Global Fellow, WIGH, Fall 2021
PhD Candidate in History, the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Alexander Geelen is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the...

Read more about Alexander Geelen
Vanessa Ogle

Vanessa Ogle

Visiting Fellow, Spring 2020, WIGH
Associate Professor of History, University of California Berkeley

Vanessa Ogle is a historian of Europe from the 18th century to the present. She is received her PhD from Harvard University and is currently Associate...

Read more about Vanessa Ogle
Steven Serels

Steven Serels

WIGH Fellow 2013-2014
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

Research interests: Historical forces underpinning food insecurity among pastoralist communities residing along Africa's Red Sea...

Read more about Steven Serels
Anka Steffen

Anka Steffen

Visiting Scholar, Fall 2019, WIGH
PhD Candidate in History, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Anka Steffen is a historian of Silesian (and Prussian) long-term socio-economic history, of early modern Atlantic...
Read more about Anka Steffen
Yang Yang

Yang Yang

Global Fellow, WIGH, 2022
PhD Candidate in Economics, Beihang University, China

Yang Yang, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang...

Read more about Yang Yang
Hatice Yildiz

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