Duke History

Cultural History

Specialists

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  • Dirk Bonker
  • Associate Professor
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  • Katharine Dubois
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • My research interests include religious belief and practice in late-medieval Latin Christendom, especially penance, pilgrimage, penitential devotion, saints' cults, and relics. My book, Pilgrimage and Pilgrims in Late-Medieval Rome (Ashgate Press, forthcoming), traces the early history of the Roman Jubilee, a year-long celebration of penitential pilgrimage to the city's most ...
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  • Laura Edwards
  • Professor
  • My research focuses on women, gender, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. In addition to articles on these topics, I have published three books: Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997), Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2000, and The People and ...
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  • Raymond Gavins
  • Professor
  • Research and teaching: Modern America, Afro-America, and American South
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  • Malachi Hacohen
  • Associate Professor
  • MALACHI HAIM HACOHEN (Ph.D., Columbia), Bass Fellow and Associate Professor of History, Political Science and Religion, is Director of the Center for European Studies, and member of the faculty of German and Jewish Studies, as well as the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology & Medicine. He teaches European intellectual history and Jewish ...
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  • Mona Hassan
  • Assistant Professor of Religion
  • Mona Hassan specializes in global and comparative Islamic history, with particular interest in the intersections of culture, religion, politics, and gender. She is currently working on her book manuscript, Longing for the Lost Caliphate, which explores Muslim engagement and entanglement with the notion of an Islamic caliphate following two poignant moments ...
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  • Anna Krylova
  • Associate Professor
  • Her new book project A History of the Soviet: The Lingua Franca of Soviet Modernity sets out to question a longstanding convention, in and outside academia, that has allowed scholars to conflate in their work such basic cultural categories of modern Russian history as the “Soviet,” the “Marxist,” ...
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  • Adriane Lentz-Smith
  • Associate Professor
  • My research interests lie in African American history and international history broadly defined. My book, Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I, looks at the black freedom struggle in the World War I years, with a particular focus on manhood, citizenship claims, and the international experience. I am especially interested in ...
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  • Simon Partner
  • Professor
  • Late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social change; Japanese rural society
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  • Sumathi Ramaswamy
  • Professor
  • I am a cultural historian of South Asia and the British empire and my research over the last few years has been largely in the areas of visual studies, the history of cartography, and gender (see my recent book "The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India," published in 2010 by Duke University Press, an edited volume from Routledge, also published in 2010, titled ...
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  • William Reddy

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    New book--The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in fall 2012). 

    Current research projects concern:

    (1) the comparative history of romantic love, (2) emotions ...

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  • Thomas Robisheaux
  • Professor
  • As an historian of early modern Europe Dr. Robisheaux has particular interests in social and cultural history, German-speaking Central Europe, Renaissance culture, religious reform, popular religion and culture, and microhistory. Author of The Last Witch of Langenburg and Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany, Lost Worlds, and ...
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  • Dominic Sachsenmaier
  • Visiting Scholar
  • Dominic Sachsenmaier’s main current research interests are Chinese and Western approaches to global history as well as the impact of World War I on political and intellectual cultures in China and other parts of the world. Furthermore he has published in fields such as 17th-century Sino-Western cultural relations, overseas Chinese communities in ...
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  • Peter Sigal
  • Associate Professor
  • The relationships between gender, sexuality, and colonialism have intrigued me since I began my first book on Maya sexuality. I recently completed a study on the interaction of writing and sexual representation in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Nahua societies--The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture (Durham: Duke ...
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  • Philip Stern
  • Assistant Professor
  • My work focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the early modern period (loosely defined). My current book is a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am also working on or planning projects related to the history of eighteenth-century British overseas exploration ...
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