Alumni

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Samantha Payne

Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
PhD, History

The Last Atlantic Revolution: Emancipation and Reconstruction in the U.S. and Latin America 

Samantha's research interests include the comparative history of slavery and emancipation, race, Atlantic history, and the history of capitalism. 

Duane Rudolph

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law
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Liat Spiro

PhD Candidate in History

Drawing Capital: Depiction, Machine Tools and the Political Economy of Industrial Knowledge, 1824-1914

Liat's work focuses on industrial understandings of international economic space and the intersection of capitalism with design and fabrication technologies, especially in the U.S. and Germany. 

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Rachel Steely

Postdoctoral Fellow, Fellowships & Writing Center, Harvard University
PhD, History

Invisible Giant: The Global Rise of Soy in the Twentieth Century

Rachel completed her PhD in History in 2022. She is a scholar of the history of capitalism and commodities. Her research examines the political economy and political ecology of commodity frontiers, and her dissertation is an examination of the geopolitics of the global expansion of soybean frontiers across the twentieth century.