Elected 1997
Sterling Professor of History, Yale University
European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies
Global history of technology, science and production; political and economic history of the United Kingdom; history of warfare and militarism, including the economic and technological history of war; history of invention, innovation and research policy, especially in the United Kingdom
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