Elected 1986
Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history
The art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; Renaissance architectural history and theory; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean; and music and architecture in the Renaissance
Religion, politics and cultural change in post-Restoration Ireland; civic culture and urban development in Victorian Belfast; the Irish diaspora seen in the context of the development of the world economy