Elected 1996
Political thought, institutions, and conflict in 19th and 20th century US; immigration, race, and nationhood in America from founding to present
20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration
History of food; colonial and 19th-century Spanish America; history of the body; colonialism, race and identity in early-modern Europe and the Americas; cultural nationalism in Spanish America; history of clothing