Laura Yan is a Ph.D. candidate in International and Global History at Columbia University with interests in Indian Ocean history, imperialism and decolonization with a focus on Southeast and South Asia, global labor and capitalism, and urban history. Her research...

Born and raised in China, Sally actually started pursuing the study of US history many years ago in Beijing. Majoring in history at Tsinghua University as an undergraduate, she finished her bachelor thesis on discourses of democracy in Jacksonian era, through...

Noelle Turtur is a doctoral candidate in Modern European history with a focus on Italy and the Italian Empire. Her examines everyday life and labor of Italians in Italy, the Italian Empire, and in migrant communities. Her work engages with social and...

Peter Slezkine is a doctoral student in international history. His dissertation examines the history of the “Free World” as a concept and political project, from the origins of the term in the late-1930s to its near-total disappearance by the...