Stephen is a doctoral candidate in the field of U.S. History focusing on twentieth-century political and religious history. His dissertation, The Suburbanization of American Catholicism: Postwar Political Realignment and Religious Restructuring, 1945-1980, explores...

Nada Khalifa is a scholar of empire, war and revolution in the modern Middle East, subjects she engages through a study of informational cultures and the production of investigative writing in moments of profound social and political upheaval. Such moments of crisis,...

Paul Katz studies Latin American history, with a particular focus on the dictatorships and civil wars of the late twentieth century, and on the constructs of human rights and transitional justice that shape international perceptions of and approaches to these regimes....

I am interested in the history of nature and standards: how the historical moments in which people tried to define nature made them redefine humanity, too? My work examines the ways in which people constructed, regulated and standardized non-human factors (the...

Lotte Houwink ten Cate is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. She focuses on intellectual and legal history, western Europe, and the history of sexuality. Her particular interests include criminal law, feminist thought, and the...