History of science, especially the natural history sciences of the 18th and 19th centuries; the rise and spread of evolutionary thought; Charles Darwin; the role of commemorations and biography in science
Elected 2010
Modern world history; 19th and 20th century environmental history; population and historical thought
History and politics of eastern and southern Africa; environmental history of East Africa since 1800; histories of colonial and post-colonial violence, conflict, and insurrection
The history of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, 18th and 19th centuries; slavery In North America, 17th-19th centuries; Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Jefferson
