Asia

Research interests: French colonial empire; history of the Indian Ocean; botanical exchange; and knowledge production.

Jing Su is a PhD candidate in the Department of History, East China Normal University. Her current research topic mainly involves Eisenhower Administration Cultural Policy towards the Philippines in the spirit of cultural communication and exchange...

Zaib Aziz is a historian of global and imperial history with a focus on the British Empire and Modern South Asia. She is particularly interested in histories of decolonization, labour and internationalism. Currently, she is Assistant Professor in the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kirk W. McLeod is a PhD candidate in Harvard’s History Department. His research explores European imperial history in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia, with a particular emphasis on the global dimensions of racial capitalism, the political economy...