Projects

Frances Bell’s research examines follows several thousand people who were taken as slaves from revolutionary Haiti to the U.S. by enslavers fleeing the revolution.

Changing climate requires resilient ecological systems, human communities, and built environments.

My project focuses on analyzing indigenous subjecthood in the Spanish Empire through examination of the Tehuantepec rebellion of 1660-1661.

My doctoral project examines the complex legal and social attitudes towards women who committed 'reproductive crimes' such as infanticide and abortion in colonial India.

My dissertation research seeks to develop a theory of citizen-state engagement in the context of Latin America’s urban informal settlements and how they engage with the state in the context of landslides and other environmental crises.

This project studies the interaction between ethnopolitics in Yanbian, the ethnic Korean enclave in the China-North Korea borderland, and the international relationship between the two newly-emerged communist states.

“Making France Global, 1974-83” explores France’s attempt to remake itself from a great into a global power.

This project develops new visions for futurities directly informed from Nahua multidimensionality concepts of time traveling and re-envisioning futuristic indigenous migrant resiliency.

Throughout antiquity, alcohol belonged to private and public realms, devotional and everyday settings.

Eren Jaye’s doctoral project considers theatres of the region from both a folkloric and ecological perspective.