Social history with a focus on the early modern Ottoman Empire (1500s to early 1800s), especially concerned with Istanbul and the towns of Anatolia; comparative history of artisans, using Ottoman archival records to analyse their social positions, the conditions under which they worked and the products of their labour
Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history
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