People

Faculty

Allan Kulikoff
(Ph.D. Brandeis 1976; Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities) Allan Kulikoff teaches courses in Southern History, Early American History, and agrarian history. Publications include Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake 1680-1800 (1986, winner of the AHA's Dunning Prize and the SHA's Simkins Award); The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992); and From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (2000). He is working on three books: "Reinventing Early American History" (the class dimension of early America); "The Making of the American Yeoman Class" (colonial farmer class identity); and "The Farmer's Revolution."

Michael Kwass
(Ph.D. Michigan 1994; Associate Professor of History) Michael Kwass teaches classes on Old Regime and Revolutionary France, the Enlightenment, and the history of modern consumption. Since publishing Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberte', Egalite', Fiscalite' (Cambridge University Press, 2000), for which he received the David Pinkney prize, Kwass has been working on consumer culture in the age of Enlightenment. His articles on consumption have appeared in The American Historical Review, Representations, Eighteenth-Century Studies and elsewhere. He is currently writing a book on smuggling and the politics of consumption in eighteenth-century Europe.

Stephen Mihm
(Ph.D. New York University, 2003; Assistant Professor of History). Stephen Mihm teaches courses on the economic, cultural, and intellectual history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. He is the author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (Harvard University Press, 2007). He is also the co-editor, with Katherine Ott and David Serlin, of Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU, 2002).

Bethany Moreton
(Ph.D., Yale University, 2006; Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies) Bethany Moreton is the author of several articles on globalization, conservative Christianity, and the feminization of work in the service economy. Her book, Everyday Values: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise, is under contract with Harvard University Press. Her areas of interest include the history of capitalism, the twentieth-century cultural and religious history of the United States, and transnational history.

Reinaldo L. Román
(Ph.D. UCLA 2000; Assistant Professor of History) Reinaldo L. Román specializes in Latin American social and cultural history. His research deals primarily with the modern Caribbean. He is the author of Governing Spirits: Miracles and Spectacles in Twentieth-Century Cuba and Puerto Rico (UNC Press, 2007). He has published articles in the Journal of Religions in Africa, Centro, and Caribbean Studies, whose special issue on the Garvey movement he also co-edited.

Adam Sabra
(Ph. D. Princeton, 1998) Middle East. Adam Sabra specializes in the history of the pre-modern Middle East, especially Egypt in the late medieval and early modern periods. He is the author of Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517 (Cambridge U. P., 2001), and co-editor with Richard McGregor of The Development of Sufism in the Mamluk Period (IFAO, 2006). His current research focuses on the social history of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) in Egypt.

Jake Short
(Ph. D. Princeton, 1998) Middle East. Adam Sabra specializes in the history of the pre-modern Middle East, especially Egypt in the late medieval and early modern periods. He is the author of Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517 (Cambridge U. P., 2001), and co-editor with Richard McGregor of The Development of Sufism in the Mamluk Period (IFAO, 2006). His current research focuses on the social history of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) in Egypt.

Pamela Voekel
(Ph.D Texas 1997; Associate Professor of History). Pamela Voekel’s first book demonstrated that the scientific Enlightenment in Mexico and the country’s Liberal Party had deep religious roots. Alone before God: the Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico (Duke, 2002) won the Thomas McGann Memorial Prize. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Tepoztlan Institute for the Transnational Study of the Americas. In addition to her work on Mexico, she has published on religion in Latin America and on the theory and practice of transnational history. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Voekel’s new book project focuses on the interplay of gender, race, religion, and politics in Mexico and the larger Atlantic world, 1750-1870. Teaching interests include modern and colonial Latin America; the history of capitalism; the Enlightenment; power, piety, and politics in the Atlantic world; theory and methods in history; race, gender, and revolution in the Americas; and the great Mexican Revolution.