British and European history, particularly the history of political thought from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the First World War
Elected 2013
American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the U.S. South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French history; Second World War; Europe's 1968; historical memory and oral history
Intellectual history and literary criticism