I specialize in the social and political history of law in the French empire. Methodologically my work is informed by historical sociology and critical geography, comparative and transimperial histories, and theorizations of racial capitalism and social reproduction....

Rohan Shah is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. His research examines 20th century US and international history, with a focus on postwar political-economy. He is writing a dissertation on the protracted social, political, and economic conflicts...

Sohee Ryuk is a historian of twentieth-century Eurasia and the Soviet Union.  Her dissertation is tentatively titled “Weaving “Oriental Carpets” into the Soviet Union: Handicraft and Folk Art at the Intersections of Nations, Commodity, and Labor, 1890-1986.” In her...