Stanford Historian (2023)

Chair’s Letter

Dear Stanford History Department Alumni and Friends,

Summer greetings from History Corner! As we all scatter to libraries and archives for summer research, I am delighted to share with you the 2023 issue of the Stanford Historian.

In this issue, you will find brief reports from the faculty and students who have launched new projects, secured competitive fellowships, and pursued collaborations with scholars around the world. Their efforts were bolstered with innovative courses such as the History of 2023, and conferences such as Professor Fiona Griffiths’ Priests’ Wives and Concubines in the Medieval West (800-1200). Faculty publications received numerous awards, continuing the department’s tradition of influential scholarship. Our undergraduate majors continue to inspire us. Kyra Jasper has been named a 2023 Marshall Scholar, and she and her fellow graduates wrote theses on topics ranging from the economic history of modern Mexico to marriage in early modern Venice to human rights in Indonesia. Check out the latest edition of the student-run journal Herodotus for more of their historical writing.

You’ll see some new faces around the department in 2023-24. We are delighted to be welcoming two new faculty members, Professors Rachel Jean-Baptiste (African History) and Anne Twitty (American History), and three postdoctoral teaching fellows: Eduardo Acosta, Theresa Iker, and Samia Errazzouki. Our new Academic Technology Specialist Dr. Anne Ladyem McDivitt assists faculty and graduate students with digital projects.

Your generous contributions help us to pursue all of these exciting activities, and to maintain our top ranking among history departments in the United States. This year we were immensely grateful to receive a new endowment, the Young-Park Honors Thesis Mentorship Program Fund, which supports undergraduate education in History through a year-long collaboration between honors thesis writers and advanced graduate students.

We are always interested in hearing your professional updates. Please feel free to reach out to us at history-info@stanford.edu. You can also follow us on Twitter, visit our website, and support our activities here

Sincerely,

Caroline Winterer Chair, Department of History

William Robertson Coe Professor of History Stanford University

History of Now

The History of 2022 Course

How can we understand the events, ideas, and conflicts that have featured in the news cycle during the past year?

The History of 2022 offered historically informed reflections on last year’s momentous events, providing an opportunity to understand our world in its historic context. Each week featured a different History faculty member speaking on a major news topic of the year, showing what we can learn by approaching it from a historical perspective.

The course was open to all students (newcomers and history veterans alike) who wanted to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of 2022, and who were curious to consider how studying history can offer a deeper and richer understanding of tumultuous times.

Featured speakers included Amir Weiner, Gil-li Vardi, Kathryn Olivarius, Gabrielle Hecht, Estelle Freedman, James Campbell, Jonathan Gienapp, Jennifer Burns & Thomas Mullaney.

By popular demand, The History of 2023 will take place this Fall!

Historical Conversations

Historical Conversations is a quarterly event series where Stanford History Faculty workshop their work-in-progress or recently published books. Occasionally, the sessions are organized around a topic that directly affects public life and are open to the campus community.

This year’s Historical Conversations, organized by Professors Partha Shil and Ali Yaycioglu, featured four faculty research projects.

November 30, 2022 | James Campbell

Freedom Now: The Mississippi Freedom Movement in History and Memory

March 1, 2023 | Jennifer Burns

Money, Milton, and Me

April 12, 2023 | Amir Weiner

At Home With the KGB: A New History of the Soviet Secret Service

May 23, 2023 | Ali Yaycıoğlu

How to write a democratic history of the Ottoman Empire

Featured Events

Tassels have been turned, hoods have been bestowed, and the 2022-2023 academic year was one for the history books.

The History of 2022, paired with the return of weekly Coffee & Donuts, was the first indication of the beginning of a new year and a return to History Corner. The Africa Research Workshop, British History Lectures, East Asian History Reading Group, Kruzhok Reading Group, Gender History Workshop, Stanford Environmental and Climate History Workshop, and U.S. History Workshop were all back in full swing, joined by the return of the Digital History Workshop, as well as our new reading group on Black Marxism. Through a partnership with the Lane Center for the American West, Professors David Kennedy and Kathryn Olivarius organized The Western History Lecture Series, which presented lectures focused on the history of western North America. We also brought together colleagues, friends and family for a memorial event for Professor Peter Duus, and returned to Citrus Courtyard for our diploma ceremony for the first time since 2019.

2022-2023 was also a stellar year for conferences. In the Fall, Professor Fiona Griffiths organized Priests’ Wives and Concubines in the Medieval West (8001200). In the Winter, Professor Jonathan Gienapp led Rakoviad | The Origins and Afterlives of the American Founding: A Conference in Honor of Jack Rakove, and Professor Jim Campbell brought the BOCA LONGA Conference, a gathering U.S. historians from Boston, California, London and Georgia, to History Corner. Lastly, in the Spring, Professor Ali Yaycıoğlu spearheaded the conference Connected Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Eurasia.

Combining our workshops, reading groups, and conferences with standalone events, Historical Conversations, and events co-sponsored with our campus partners, the Department of History brought over 150 events to life this past year - that’s more than an event a day, every day, for ten weeks each quarter!

2023-2024 will be here before we know it, and there’s no sign of slowing down. We’re planning to relaunch History Mondays and conference and workshop planning is already underway. You can always find out what’s coming up next on the Events tab on the History website. See you soon!

Colin Hamill Events & Communications Coordinator

Rakoviad | The Origins and Afterlives of the American Founding

This two-day conference brought together prominent scholars of U.S. legal history to reflect on Professor Emeritus Jack Rakove’s research, teaching, and service in the field.

Friends and colleagues, as well as former and current students, from across the nation gathered to honor Professor Rakove, discussing topics ranging from constitutional structure and rights to religion, Originalism, Federalism, slavery and freedom.

Dr. Theresa Iker COLLEGE Fellow

Dr. Eduardo Acosta Mellon Fellow

Dr. Samia Errazzouki Mellon Fellow

Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste Faculty in African History

Professor Anne Twitty Faculty in U.S. History

Sabelo Mlangeni Denning Visiting Artist

Peter Duus 1933 - 2022 Professor Emeritus of History & Former Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History

Lyman Van Slyke 1929 - 2023 Professor Emeritus of History

Faculty Profile: Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste has joined us in July 2023 as The Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professorship in Feminist and Gender Studies. A social and legal historian, she works on gender and sexuality in colonial West and Equatorial Africa. She is the author of two books, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon (Ohio University Press, 2014). At Stanford, she will also serve as Faculty Director of the Program on Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS).

How did you become interested in African history?

I’ve always loved all things history since my undergraduate years. The courses available to me touched on nearly every corner of the globe - Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the United States. The gaping hole was Africa. Yet, I wasn’t even conscious of this gap until my senior year, when I saw Adwa, a documentary directed by Haile Gerima, an Ethiopian-American filmmaker. Using oral, visual, and textual sources, Gerima narrated the 1896 battle in which Ethiopian military forces of varied ethno-language groups defeated Italian forces and mitigated the expansion of colonialism. I was aghast that I never heard of such dynamic histories, and I wanted to learn more. I applied for and secured a Thomas J. Watson fellowship, with which I traveled to West Africa and Atlantic Europe for a year to explore how the trans-Atlantic slave trade was commemorated in public history and tourism circuits. Upon my return, I spent a few years working in international health and development organizations in Washington D.C. However, as I did the research for grant proposals of projects that were to take place in Africa , I was struck by the outdated and inaccurate portrayals of African societies in published works that did not match the dynamism and complexities that I witnessed during my Watson Fellowship. I then decided to pursue a PhD and become a researcher, writer, and teacher of African history, to contribute to more accurate and nuanced knowledge about African pasts

Your most recent book unpacks multi-directional processes of racialization in global history. What are some challenges you faced in conducting your research?

I faced several challenges. One was in even getting access to sources. For example, the relationships and stories that I explore were ones that colonial states and societies sought to keep hidden. Therefore, there were files that I had to ask permission to access from French colonial archives or wait until time limits on their availability had passed. Furthermore, there were moments during which civil unrest and material conditions limited my ability to travel to certain sites in Africa. For example, the Republic of the Congo had experienced civil conflict for much of the early 2000’s and the national archives were closed. When I was finally able to travel there in 2018, three days after my arrival, part of the archives building fell into a sinkhole which made it impossible to continue to consult records. Lastly, I was telling the intimate, familial, emotional history of people’s lives. I had to be empathetic to how individuals expressed stories of loss, pain, and abandonment, to honor their stories and tell them in a way that respected peoples’ wishes for both acknowledgment and privacy, and in ways that confirmed dignity.

Which topics are you excited to teach at Stanford?

I’ll be teaching in many different units at Stanford and will do so in a way that merges my focus on gender studies, history, and African and global affairs. In the FGSS, I hope to teach about the ways in which societies across the globe and in different historical moments have lived and thought about feminism, gender, and sexuality. I am also excited to leverage Stanford’s legacy in technological innovation to cultivate new coursework and undergraduate and graduate student curricular offerings in the global history of gender and technology/technologies.

What texts inspired you the most in your career? Why?

Two texts have been inspiring, for different reasons. One is Albert Camus’ The First Man. As a student of French language and literature, I appreciated Camus’ brilliant writing. Yet at the beginning of this somewhat autobiographical novel, there is a quote about how poor people do not have robust memories, implying that poor people have no history. This did not align with my research findings about how the most seemingly dispossessed people across time and space lived rich and impactful lives whether they travelled far and wide or remained in places of birth. To a certain extent, I’ve been striving to disprove this text by Camus over the course of my career! At the opposite end stands Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past. Like me, Trouillot was born in Haiti. His book starts with “I grew up in a family where history sat at the dinner table.” This line encapsulates his exploration of how history lives in multiple spaces and places, and yet how unequal access to knowledge production shapes whose history gets told and how history is narrated. It is a brilliant reflection on how to democratize historical research.

You are an accomplished scholar, a dedicated teacher, and an impactful administrator. How do you balance these roles?

I think of higher education as an ecosystem in which many different units simultaneously operate to create learning opportunities. Given this dynamic, I’ve found that wearing different hats allows me to collaboratively contribute to expanding access and achievement. Pursuing scholarship, frequently through co-working with research partners, has allowed me to contribute to the production of knowledge and innovation that is at the core of what universities do. Yet, a university can only truly thrive to the extent that it facilitates student exploration and learning; so that students take what they have learned to lead impactful lives. Thirdly, institutional policies and infrastructures profoundly shape research, teaching, learning, and all of the forms of labor that go into the operations of a university. Therefore, serving in administrative roles allows me to contribute to the shaping of a culture and frameworks in which all members of a university community can thrive.

Faculty Awards

Gregory Ablavsky

American Society for Legal History

William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize

Joel Cabrita

Honorary doctorate from Uppsala University

Gordon Chang

Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow

David Como

Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliograpahy Essay Prize Winner

Rowan Dorin

American Society for Legal History

Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize

Zephyr Frank National Science Foundation Grant

Kathryn Gin Lum Merle Curti Intellectual History Award

Gabrielle Hecht Guggenheim Fellowship

Destin Jenkins

The Urban History Association Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History

Thomas Mullaney

Walter J. Gores Award

Steven Press German Studies Association David Barclay Book Prize

Richard Roberts American Society for Legal History Honorary Fellow

Aron Rodrigue

John Henry Samter Fellow in Undergraduate Education & honorary citizen of Greek city of Didymoteicho

Londa Schiebinger

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Seed Grant

Matthew Sommer

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

Kären Wigen

Director of Stanford’s Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanaities

Steven Zipperstein Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Kathryn Olivarius (Harvard University Press, 2022)

• Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 2023 Humanities Book of the Year

• Organization of American Historians 2023 Frederick Jackson Turner Award

• The Historic New Orleans Collection 2022 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History

Undergraduate Research Assistantship

The History Department offered several paid research opportunities for Stanford undergraduates to work on a faculty-led research project over the 2023 Winter and Spring quarters. Student research assistants (RA) worked directly with a faculty member on their current research, gaining significant experience in developing a research project, identifying and pursuing research leads, and delivering tangible, meaningful reports. RAs met regularly with the faculty mentor for guidance, feedback, and discussion. The research experience culminated in a research presentation by the student and faculty at the end of the academic year.

Stalin’s Terror, 1930-1939

Faculty Mentor: Norman Naimark

Research Assistant: Andrew Kelmanson

Designing the “Doing Colonial History” course

Faculty Mentor: Jun Uchida

Research Assistants: Malavika Kannan and Ethan Strombeck

Senegal Liberations Project

Faculty Mentor: Richard Roberts

Research Assistant: Becca De Los Santos

Mapping Nueva York

Faculty Mentor: Pedro A. Regalado

Research Assistant: Aliana Arzola

Priests’ Wives and Concubines in the Medieval West

Faculty Mentor: Fiona Griffiths

Research Assistant: Claire Zhao

Arjan Walia | 2023 Joan Nestle Prize Winner

“By and For Ourselves: Gay Men of Color and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in San Francisco, 1970-1998.”

The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH) stated that Walia’s “exceptionally written senior thesis expands on histories of anti-racist organizing to examine the responses of API, Black, Latino, and Native American queer people to HIV/AIDS in San Francisco. Walia reconstructs the contributions of these groups through an impressive array of archival sources bolstered by an extensive list of secondary sources, ... [illuminating] the cooperation and commonalities as well as the myriad ways these groups diverged. This important work challenges us to think more critically about queer of color organizing at the end of the twentieth century.”

Kyra Jasper | 2023 Marshall Scholar

Established in 1953, the Marshall scholarship provides American students with financial support to pursue a graduate degree in the United Kingdom to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the U.K.

As a Marshall Scholar, Kyra Jasper will pursue an MA in international law at the University of London SOAS and MSc in international and Asian history at the London School of Economics. She hopes her graduate studies will support her long-term goal of becoming a scholar in Southeast Asian legal history.

Arman Kassam | 2023 Sterling Prize Winner

The J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement recognizes the top 25 graduating seniors in Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences and their most influential secondary school teacher as well as most influential Stanford academic advisor, faculty, or staff member.

“While studying at SOAS and LSE, I will receive structured training in a field I have only really engaged in through working in Indonesia. This knowledge will be an important foundation for me before pursuing a PhD... I am also excited by the questions that these programs are asking about the relationship between colonialism and international law.”

Irmak Ersöz | Stanford History Department Intern

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During the 2022 Summer, I worked at Turkey’s permanent mission to the United Nations on various subjects related to the global politics as well as Turkish foreign affairs. As an intern, I attended various U.N. meetings, conducted research on international law governing humanitarian aid, and got the chance to observe and interact with the many dimensions of multilateral diplomacy.”

Arman Kassam

William Gray Rushin

Kären Wigen

2023 Herodotus Undergraduate Journal

Ruosong Gao

Liberty and Authority in Early Colonial Massachusetts

Luke Lamberti

“Male and female He created them”: Martin Luther and the Eunuch, 1519-1537

Ingrid Chen

A Wolf in (Homespun) Sheep’s Clothing: Costuming the Performance of American Equality

Samiya Rana

Sophiatown: City of Night and Starlight

Abigail Schweizer

The Absence and Presence of Divine Light in Byzantine Images of the Virgin

Read Volume XXXIII of Herodotus here

Honors Theses

Mátyás Kisiday

A Living, Controllable Device: The Political Police and Informant Network in Socialist Hungary, 1956-1989

Krystal Navarro

Everyday Soldiers: America’s History of WWII in Video Games

Jessica Femenias

Ecology, Ecstasy, History, and the Haitian Revolution

Lauren Selden

“Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth”: Early Modern English Pilgrimage, 15361684

Stephanie Castaneda Perez

Assembling the Transnational Economy: Female Labor and the Clothing Trade in Neoliberal Mexico

Julia Milani

Conduct Becoming and Unbecoming of Students: Public Discourses on Dating, Sexuality, Gender, and Consent at Stanford University, 1919-1941

Isabella Saracco

Adultery in the Imagination: Adulteresses, Cuckolds, and Marriage in the Fairy Tales of Sixteenth-Century Venice

Kyra Jasper

Built into the Bedrock: Roadblocks to Accountability for Cases of Gross Human Rights Violations in Indonesia

Graduate Student Updates

Writing the Sex Industry into the Urban Life of Early Modern Venice and Rome

Ph.D. candidate Hannah Johnston received one of the 2023-24 Fulbright Commission Research Awards to conduct research in Italy.

In Autumn 2023, I’ll be heading to Italy through the Fulbright to do archival research for my dissertation. I’m interested in exploring how the sex industries in early modern Rome and Venice unveil the broader socioeconomic fabric of family, neighborhood, trade, parish, and community in these two important cities. Rather than focusing exclusively on sex workers, however, my research primarily studies the people (mostly women) who worked with them, that is, the procurers who managed transactions between sex workers and their clients and negotiated the exchange of money and information for these transactions. Focusing on procurement raises new kinds of questions about how this industry functioned, and also offers a wider perspective on the relationships that characterized it. By looking at criminal records, census documents, and notarial documents like wills, I hope to identify procurers and connect them to the communities, industries, and individuals with whom they engaged. This will allow me to reconstruct the networks of often poor, working class individuals in exploring the role and centrality of sex industry in early modern European cities.

Read more about Hannah Johnston’s Fulbright Scholarship here

Sites of Memory and Recovery: A Black San Francisco Story in Dance

A film created & produced by Ph.D. candidate Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin.

“In the 2023 Winter Quarter, I took Professor J.P. Daughton’s Reimagining History, a project-based class that explored non-traditional forms of historical expression. It was within this space that I conceptualized, produced, and created the short film, Sites of Memory and Recovery: A Black San Francisco Story in Dance.”

Read more about Sites of Memory and Recovery here

Using Natural Language Processing Tools in Historical Research & Teaching

Ph.D. candidate Merve Tekgürler was awarded one of the 2023-24 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships which aim to foster practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological innovations in doctoral research.

What are your thoughts on using digital methods in teaching?

In the past decade, literacy of digital methods, particularly AI literacy, has become crucial for undergraduate pedagogy. It is increasingly important for us instructors to learn and to communicate to our students, how to use and how not to use generative AI in the classroom and beyond. The current moment reminds me of the discussions around Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia. When (re) search became almost synonymous with googling, scholars developed critical yet constructive ways to teach students how to conduct research online and how to evaluate the output of their search queries. I anticipate a similar trajectory with generative AI. We will develop ways to use these technologies in our teaching and learning and devise methods to evaluate the generated text for accuracy and representativeness.

Read more about Merve Tekgürler’s Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship here

Awards & Fellowships

Tanner Allread Stanford Law School Legal History Paper Prize Winner

Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships

Jeffery Chen Dissertation Prize Fellowship

Joe Amato Career Launch Fellowship

Luther Cenci Austin Steelman

Wallace Teska

Emily Greenfield Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin & Austin Steelman Mentored undergraduates Isaac Harris & Mátyás Kisiday, 2023 Hoefer Prize Winners

Commencement 2023

2023

B.A. Graduates

Parker Amoroso

Stephanie Castaneda Perez (Honors)

Scarleth Contreras Cruz

Jessica Femenias (Honors)

Shannon Gifford

Kyra Jasper (Honors)

Mátyás Kisiday (Honors)

Jayden Lim

Andrew Matejka

Julia Milani (Honors)

Krystal Navarro (Honors)

Sarah Pincus

Isabella Saracco (Honors)

Lauren Selden (Honors)

Stephen Sills

Afnan Tolba

Daniel Wu

Jevan Yu

Ella Booker

Drakos Brown

Simón Camacho

Nicholas Clark

Amy Dunphy

John Fleming

Devin Hart

Marshall Hartung

Betty He

Andrew Hoagland

Maika Jones

Aamnah Khalid

Ethan Lee

Sean Lee

Ethan McAvoy

Benjamin Midler

Swayam Parida

Jack Rehnborg

Rachelle Rodriguez

Dylan Schuler

Elizabeth Shah

Annamarie Sofranek

Lindsey Williams

Jake Wilson

2023 M.A. Graduate

Gina DeFabio

2023 Ph.D. Graduates

Anubha Anushree

The Moral Republic: Corruption in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Advisor: Professor Robert Crews

Basma Fahoum

Tobacco Cultivation and Production in Twentieth-Century Palestine/Israel

Advisor: Professor Joel Beinin

Peter Hick

Migration and Conflict in the Siyi Region, 1849-1949

Advisor: Professor Matthew Sommer

Theresa Iker

Before the Red Pill: The Men’s Rights Movement and American Politics, 1960-2005

Advisor: Professor Estelle Freedman

James Meade Klingensmith, Jr.

Partitioning Solidarity: Palestine and the British Left, 1923-48

Advisor: Professor Priya Satia

Paul Gregory Nauert

Climate Crucible: American Choices in Germany, Japan, & the Making of the Great Acceleration, 1939-1953

Advisor: Professor Gordon Chang

Ganghao Poh

To Rise from the Ashes: Frontiers in the Age of Civil Wars

Advisor: Professor Mark E. Lewis

Anna Miriam Toledano

Collecting Independence: The Science and Politics of Natural History

Museums in Late New Spain

Advisor: Professor Paula Findlen

Departmental Showcase

Anne Ladyem McDivitt | Academic Technology Specialist

“I’m nearly at my one year anniversary of working as the Academic Technology Specialist in the Department of History, and I’ve had some time to get to know many of the faculty and students, work on some exciting projects, and lead workshops on digital history methods and tools. I’ve also had the opportunity to teach my first class at Stanford during the Spring Quarter, “Crafting Digital Stories”, where students could come in with no technical experience and learn how to create basic websites, podcasts, games, and more. We also talked about the theory behind doing this kind of work, as well as ethical questions that may come up such as historical accuracy, copyright, and difficult topics. This was an exciting opportunity for me, and there were some fantastic projects created by the students.

I can’t wait to continue my work with the Department of History, and it’s been so fulfilling to see the work that the faculty and students engage in. There is a lot of enthusiasm around Digital History at Stanford, and I am very excited to be a part of that.”

Travel the World with Stanford Historians in 2024

April 7-14 | Italian Riviera and Cinque Terre Hike

Caroline Winterer

April 3 - May 1 | Florence Sabbatical

David Kennedy

June 10-22 | Slovenia & Croatia

Norman Naimark & Katherine Jolluck

August 22-29 | London Art and Culture

Wanda & Joe Corn

September 20-29 | Mexico City and Oaxaca

Ana Raquel Minian Andjel

September 20-29 | Burgundy, Lyon & Luberon

Carolyn Lougee Chappell

October 8-18 | Sicily

Caroline Winterer

October 18-29 | Venice to Istanbul

Norman Naimark & Katherine Jolluck

More information on Stanford Travel/ Study can be found here

Department Bookshelf

Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire

Nora Barakat

Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala

Joel Cabrita

No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe

Rowan Dorin

The Russian Empire 1450-1801 (Россия и ее империя 1450–1801)

Nancy Kollmann

Essays on German History and Historians

James Sheehan

Making a Mordern Political Order: The Problem of the Nation State

James Sheehan

The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War

Peter Stansky

Provincializing Empire: Ōmi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

Jun Uchida

Crafting History: Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar

Ali Yaycıoğlu

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