Profiles in "History" Expertise Area

  • Reves is the lower division coordinator in the German program. Her research focus is on migration, networks and cultural transfer as well as on AI for foreign language learning.
  • Vu is a historian of modern China focusing on war, death, memories, commemoration, virtues, and citizenship.
  • Dr. David Burel is a historian who studies technological enthusiasts, automotive technology, and recreation. He offers history and interdisciplinary courses at the Polytechnic campus.
  • Barker is a historian of slavery and the slave trade in the late medieval Mediterranean and Black Sea.
  • Dr. Connor uses causal inference and big data to study how places shape human development, social inequality, and the transmission of advantages and disadvantages over extended historical periods.