The intellectual history of the USA since the late 18th century; transatlantic influences, the American South, historical narrative, Romanticism, and gender
Elected 2008
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
History and politics of southern Africa, especially the rural Eastern Cape; environmental history and the politics of conservation
The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology
