Yugo Takehara is a Professor of Business History at Gakushuin University, specializing in the history of Jewish entrepreneurship. His research focuses on the relationship between religious integration within the bourgeoisie and the economic rise of Jews...
Dominic Sachsenmaier holds a chair professorship in “Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives”. Before coming to Göttingen in 2015, he held faculty positions at Jacobs University, Duke University as well as the University...
Pablo Pryluka is a modern Latin American and global historian interested in the intersection of economic, social, and environmental history. At the Weatherhead Center, he will be working on his book manuscript: “Developing Consumers: A History of Wants...
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...
Research interests: History of unfree labor, forced migration, and penal regimes; social history of Russia and the Soviet Union; and global history.
Research interests:
Population history of America, especially the aging population, from a historical and global perspective
Research interests: Labor in postwar French West Africa; and social history in Africa.
Jody Benjamin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies in 2016. His book manuscript, “The Texture of Change: Cloth...