Rush is a historian of Southeast Asia who explores themes of colonialism, religion, biography, and current affairs. His latest books are Hamka's Great Story and Southeast Asia: a very short introduction.

Thornton's research focuses on three interrelated areas of Japanese narrative: medieval Buddhist propaganda, late-medieval epic, and the period film.

Gray's research interests are focused on the Great Lakes Basin and more generally on the U.S.-Canadian borderlands.

Clay studies the religious history of Russia and Eurasia, the Eastern Christian tradition, confessional identities, new religious movements and the spiritual marketplace in the Russian Empire and its successor states.

Alexander Henn works on the cultural and religious encounter between Europe and India, in particular Catholicism and Hinduism. He also specializes on the study of rituals and the current debate about the history and theory of the concept of 'religion'.

Trained as a historian of Latin America (M.A. & Ph.D., Harvard University) with a background in economics (B.A., Swarthmore College), I am interested in food, drugs, commodities, capitalism, business, & ethnohistory.

Stantchev's research and teaching interests focus on the religious, social, and economic factors that shaped power relations throughout the Mediterranean (ca 1000-ca 1500) as well as on Interdisciplinary Studies.

Benkert is a historian of modern Germany working on the history and memory of both dictatorships on German soil.

Gilkeson has taught American cultural and intellectual history at ASU since 1991.