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John French explores the transformative impact of Brazil's first working class president (Lula) and its first female president (Dilma).

Margaret Humphreys brings to life the role of women and medical care during the U.S. Civil War.

Reeve Huston connects everyday political practices to the development of partisan politics and democracy in the early 19th-century U.S.

Pete Sigal discovers new ways of understanding the history of sexuality.

John Martin’s current research examines the history of law, torture, and identity in early modern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Milan.

 Adriane Lentz-Smith recasts our understanding of racial politics in the 20th century U.S. 

Sarah Deutsch researches labor wars, suffrage wars, and the creation of a modern U.S. West.

 Philip Stern explores how states, sovereignty, and empires are made.

Malachi Hacohen studies Jewish-Christian relations, a history of hostility with rare moments of imagined fraternity and peace.

 Sumathi Ramaswamy studies the globe as an object in India to track the formation of a "worldly" subjectivity

Simon Partner studies social change in 19th and 20th century Japan.

In The Last Witch of Langenburg, Thomas Robisheaux explores wrenching social changes through the tale of a witch trial

 BorderWork(s), an interdisciplinary humanities lab at the FHC, examines the human consequences of how we imagine geographic space.

 Sucheta Mazumdar works on China America trade, connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic.

Anna Krylova reshapes our understanding of women’s relationship to combat and violence.

Interviews from the renowned oral history project on the Jim Crow South, “Behind the Veil,” directed by Bob Korstad, Ray Gavins, and Bill Chafe, are now available through the Duke Library web site. 

Vincent Brown crafts a new vision of Atlantic slavery and the African diaspora.

 Dirk Bonker’s new book considers the rise of militarism in the U.S. and Germany.

Bruce Hall reconstructs the intellectual history of race in Africa.

 Nancy MacLean examines conservative efforts to privatize schooling since the 1950s.  

Vincent Brown brings historical insights on race and culture to his award-winning documentary film, Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

Laura Edwards and Jed Purdy direct a seminar in legal history bringing the History Department and Law School together

 William Reddy’s recent research concerns the history of romantic love.

 Ed Balleisen leads a project that explores new approaches to regulation.

Jocelyn Olcott studies feminist politics in a global context.