History Department faculty research interests vary. Their research is highly valued as demonstrated through their book and article publications with internationally recognized publishers and journals.
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Submissions from 2019
James Petiver’s ‘Kind Friends’ and ‘Curious Persons’ in the Atlantic World: Commerce, Colonialism and Collecting, Kate S. Murphy
Submissions from 2014
To Make Florida Answer to Its Name: John Ellis, Bernard Romans and the Atlantic Science of British West Florida, Kathleen S. Murphy
Submissions from 2012
Ecosystems Under Sail: Specimen Transport in the Eighteenth-Century French and British Atlantics, Christopher M. Parsons and Kate S. Murphy
Submissions from 2011
Hierarchies of Race and Gender in the French Colonial Empire, 1914–1946, Jennifer Anne Boittin, Christina Firpo, and Emily Musil Church
Structures of desire: Postanarchist kink in the speculative fiction of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany, Lewis Call
Câu chuyện trẻ lai ở Đông Duong thuộc địa, Christina Firpo
Shades of Whiteness: Petits-Blancs and the Politics of Military Allocations Distribution in World War I Colonial Cochinchina, Christina Firpo
Review of Kathryn E. Holland Braund and Charlotte M. Porter, Fields of Vision: Essays on the Travels of WIlliam Bartram, Kate S. Murphy
Translating the vernacular: Indigenous and African knowledge in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, Kathleen S. Murphy
Submissions from 2010
The history of Atlantic science: Collective reflections from the 2009 Harvard seminar on Atlantic history, Marcelo Aranda, Katherine Arner, Lina del Castillo, Helen Cowie, Matthew Crawford, Joseph Cullon, Marcelo Figueroa, Claire Gherini, Melissa Grafe, Sarah Irving, Ryan Kashanipour, Carla Lois, Adrian Lopez-Denis, Bertie Mandelblatt, Iris Montero Sobrevilla, Kathleen S. Murphy, Eric Otremba, Christoper Parsons, Heather Peterson, Emily Senior, Teresa Vergara, Kelly Wisecup, and Anya Zilberstein
Crises of Whiteness and Empire in Colonial Indochina: The Removal of Abandoned Eurasian Children From the Vietnamese Milieu, 1890–1956, Christina Firpo
1970s-1980s "Chinese" Little League Baseball and its Discontents, Andrew Morris
Submissions from 2009
Review of Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China by Susan Brownell, Andrew D. Morris
Submissions from 2008
Parler en son nom? Comprendre les témoignages d'esclaves africains originaires de l'océan Indien (1850-1930), Edward A. Alpers and Matthew S. Hopper
A is for Anarchy, V is for Vendetta: Images of Guy Fawkes and the Creation of Postmodern Anarchism, Lewis Call
History's Moral Turn, George Cotkin
“How Could Anyone Respect Us?” A Century of Olympic Consciousness and National Anxiety in China, Andrew D. Morris
In Steele's Footsteps: Review of Nancy L. Rhoden, ed. English Atlantics Revisited, Kate S. Murphy
Submissions from 2007
A Brief History of Anarchist Studies (So Far), Lewis Call
"Sounds Like Kinky Business to Me": Subtextual and Textual Representations of Erotic Power in the Buffyverse, Lewis Call
"The Wondrous Death": Erotic Power in the Science Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr., Lewis Call
Illuminating Evil: Hannah Arendt and Moral History, George Cotkin
Review of Thomas W. Zeiler, Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire, Andrew Morris
Submissions from 2006
Imperialism and the Dilemma of Slavery in Eastern Arabia and the Gulf, 1873-1939, Matthew S. Hopper
Taiwan: Baseball, Colonialism and Nationalism, Andrew D. Morris