The Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture series was launched in 2007 by the Japan Studies Committee to honor the legacy of Tetsuo Najita, the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus...Read more

Last month, the Art Institute of Chicago teamed up with radiologist Michael W. Vannier of the University of Chicago Medicine and Oriental Institute research associate Emily Teeter to study two...Read more

China’s rise sets up fundamental changes in the international system. These changes usher in a host of questions. For example, are the United States and China heading to a “new...Read more

Professor Hendrik Hartog joined us in May for this year's annual Fulton Lecture in Legal History. This lecture will draw from Professor Hartog's forthcoming book, Someday All This Will Be...Read more

Seth Richardson received his Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern History from Columbia University in 2002. The first volume of his dissertation was a historical study of the circumstances surrounding the...Read more

William Wimsatt is a member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology and the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science. He teaches in the Biology Collegiate Division, the Program in...Read more

Neil Harris works on American and Chicago’s cultural life. His interests include the history of museums and libraries, the social history of art and design, the development of world fairs,...Read more

Orit Bashkin's Ph.D. dissertation (Princeton, 2004) looks at the construction of the Iraqi public sphere and the emergence of democratic discourses in Iraq during the interwar period. Her research interests...Read more

Robert J. Richards’s research interests focus on the history and philosophy of biology and psychology, as well as on German Romanticism. This includes a particular interest in evolutionary theory and...Read more

Matthew M. Briones, associate professor of American History and the College, is a cultural historian who specializes in the history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., interracialism and...Read more

John Woods focuses primarily on the history of Turkey, Iran and Central Asia from the 13th to 18th century. He is particularly interested in aspects of the encounter of sedentary...Read more

Fred M. Donner has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago since 1982. An early interest in the relationship between pastoral nomads and the Islamic state resulted in...Read more

Eric Slauter specializes in American cultural, intellectual and literary history, with additional research and teaching interests in law and political thought, art and material culture, and the history of the...Read more

Eric Santner, a leading scholar of German literature, cinema and history, is the Chair of the Germanic Studies Department. He studies 18th-century poetry, issues of memory and mourning in postwar...Read more

Edward Cook is a specialist in early modern English and American history, with teaching interests that span the Atlantic. His research is concentrated in early American history, with a special...Read more

Professor Harper is the author of Early Chinese Medical Literature, a collection of translations of ancient manuscripts. His research and teaching interests lie primarily in early Chinese civilization, focusing on...Read more

Dipesh Chakrabarty's research interests are in modern South Asian history and historiography, in postcolonial theory and its impact on history-writing, and in comparative studies of questions and politics of modernity...Read more

Clinton Seely's current research has focused on the emergence of modern Bangla literature in the 19th century, particularly the works of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-73) and issues of what constitutes...Read more

Cornell Fleischer is primarily interested in Ottoman history, specializing in the Age of Suleyman. Currently he is working on a major work on Suleyman the Lawgiver as well as a...Read more

Chenxi Tang is one of the Chinese translators of Kierkegaard's works. He is working on a book project entitled "The Geographical Subject: Geography, Literature and Philosophy in German Romanticism". His...Read more