History
Clark’s history faculty are known for extensive work in the fields of U.S. and European history, and have expertise in Holocaust and genocide studies, Jewish history, African American history, and women’s studies. In their research, they ask questions about war and identity, and about politicians and poets. They also consider the history of individual nations and social groups while following the movements of people and ideas across literal and metaphorical boundaries.
Submissions from 2024
Appolonia: An Outlier in the West African Atlantic Slave Trade, Nana Kesse
German-American identity and the demise of national history, Thomas Kuehne
Introduction (Documenting the Armenian Genocide), Thomas Kuehne, Marc A. Mamigonian, and Mary Jane Rein
Prostitution in eighteenth century France, Nina Kushner
Reproducing Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe, Nina Kushner
A World Without Civilians, Elyse Semerdjian
Gazification and Genocide by Attrition in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Elyse Semerdjian
Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City, Frances Tanzer
Submissions from 2023
Introduction: The Anatomy of the Ottoman Genocide, Taner Akçam
The Armenian Genocide An Overview, Taner Akçam
The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908-1923), Taner Akçam, Theodosios Kyriakidis, and Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis
Economic Equality in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, Wim Klooster
Political culture and democratization, Thomas Kühne
Archival Wounds, Elyse Semerdjian
Submissions from 2022
The Education of a Black Professor in Wuhan, China, Ousmane K. Power-Greene
The Domestic Setting: Self, Stories, and Furniture in the Nineteenth Century, Amy G. Richter
Phantom Limbs, Embodied Horror, and the Afterlives of the Armenian Genocide, Elyse Semerdjian
European Fantasies: Modernism and Jewish Absence at the Venice Biennale of Art, 1948-1956, Frances Tanzer
The Emigration of Egon Schiele: Jewish Refugees and Austrian Modernism in New York, Frances Tanzer
Submissions from 2021
A father, a perpetrator, a son: Autobiographical thoughts on mystery and curiosity, Thomas Kühne
The Court Audience and the Manchu Masculine Ideal: The Yongzheng Emperor's Secret Personnel Files, Lex Jing Lu
James Madison and American Nationality: The View from Virginia, Drew R. McCoy
Submissions from 2020
Comparative Perspectives on the Urban Black Atlantic on the Eve of Abolition, Wim Klooster
Silver and the Dutch Revolt: The Obsession with Spanish Silver in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Atlantic, Wim Klooster
States, military masculinities, and combat in the age of world wars, Thomas Kühne
Introduction, Thomas Kühne and Mary Jane Rein
“Afrotopia?”: an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan’s film Morris from America (2016), Ousmane Power-Greene
“Look well before you leap”: African Americans and the debate over emigration to trinidad in the Urban North 1839-1841, Ousmane Power-Greene
Armenians in the Production of Urban Space in Early Modern Judayda, Aleppo, Elyse Semerdjian
Submissions from 2019
When Was the Decision to Annihilate the Armenians Taken?, Taner Akçam
Roots: Here and there, then and now, Ousmane K. Power-Greene
Submissions from 2018
Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide, Taner Akçam
A Late Imperial Elite Jewish Politics: Baghdadi Jews in British India and the Political Horizons of Empire and Nation, Elizabeth E. Imber
A Jewish Response to French Antisemitism in Revolutionary Times, Wim Klooster
Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815, Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie
Introduction: Masculinity and the Third Reich, Thomas Kühne
Nazi morality, Thomas Kühne
Protean Masculinity, Hegemonic Masculinity: Soldiers in the Third Reich, Thomas Kühne
Performing the Austrian-Jewish (negative) symbiosis: Stella Kadmon's Viennese Stage from Red Vienna to the Second Republic, Frances Tanzer
Submissions from 2017
Everything makes sense once given context, Taner Akçam
To study the Armenian Genocide in Turkey: Caught between a Conspiracy of Silence and Murderous Hatred, Taner Akçam
The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century, Trevor Burnard, Joyce Goodfriend, Cynthia Van Zandt, Willem Frijhoff, and Wim Klooster
Defying Mercantilism: Dutch interimperial trade in the Atlantic world, Willem Klooster
The Jews in the early modern Caribbean and the Atlantic world, Wim Klooster
Ordinary Women, and Not so Ordinary Women, Thomas Kühne
Submissions from 2016
Elections, Thomas Kühne
Us versus them: The United States, radical islam, and the rise of the green threat, Douglas Little
Armenian women, legal bargaining, and gendered politics of conversion in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Aleppo, Elyse Semerdjian
Submissions from 2015
A short history of the Torossian debate, Taner Akçam
Introduction (Issue 3: The Armenian Genocide After 100 Years: New Historical Perspectives), Taner Akçam
The spirit of the laws: The plunder of wealth in the Armenian genocide, Taner Akçam and Umit Kurt
Introduction, Daryl M. Hafter and Nina Kushner
Preface, Daryl M. Hafter and Nina Kushner
Women and work in eighteenth-century France, Daryl M. Hafter and Nina Kushner
Economic strategies, European, Wim Klooster
The claims of community, Thomas Kühne
The business of being kept: Elite prostitution as work, Nina Kushner
U.S. slavery and the black radical tradition: The 25th anniversary edition of Sterling Stuckey's slave culture, Ousmane K. Power-Greene
At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History, Amy Richter
Sexing the hammam: Gender crossings in the Ottoman bathhouse, Elyse Semerdjian
The Dutch Republic and its status in the american colonial context after the treaty of utrecht [La República holandesa y su posición en el contexto colonial americano después de 1713], Ana Crespo Solana and Wim Klooster
Submissions from 2014
The spirit of the law: Following the traces of Genocide in the law of abandoned property, Taner Akçam
Curaçao as a Transit Center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies, Wim Klooster
Slave revolts, royal justice, and a ubiquitous rumor in the age of revolutions, Wim Klooster
The rising expectations of free and enslaved blacks in the Greater Caribbean, Wim Klooster
Submissions from 2013
The Young Turks and the plans for the ethnic homogenization of Anatolia, Taner Akçam
Atlantic and caribbean perspectives: Analyzing a hybrid and entangled world, Wim Klooster
The Geopolitical impact of Dutch Brazil on the Western Hemisphere, Wim Klooster
Colonialism and the Holocaust: continuities, causations, and complexities, Thomas Kühne
To the shores of tripoli: America, Qaddafi, and Libyan revolution 1969-89, Douglas Little
Impatient crusaders: The making of America’s informal empire in the middle east, Douglas J. Little
Naked anxiety: Bathhouses, Nudity, and the Dhimmī Woman in 18th-century Aleppo, Elyse Semerdjian
Submissions from 2012
The Young Turks' crime against humanity: The Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, Taner Akçam
Great men and large numbers: Undertheorising a history of mass killing, Thomas Kühne
'Because he is so tender and pretty': Sexual deviance and heresy in eighteenth-century Aleppo, Elyse Semerdjian
Submissions from 2011
Coverage of the trials by the Istanbul Turkish press, Taner Akçam
Death sentences handed down by the military tribunal in Istanbul, Taner Akçam
The Chilingirian murder: A case study from the 1915 roundup of Armenian intellectuals, Taner Akçam
The formation and operation of the ottoman military tribunals, Taner Akçam
Introduction, Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam
Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian genocide trials, Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam
The Rise and Fall of the Virginia- Dutch Connection in the Seventeenth Century, Victor Enthoven and Wim Klooster
The essequibo liberties: The link between Jewish Brazil and Jewish suriname, Wim Klooster
The Northern European Atlantic World, Wim Klooster
The revolutionary makeover of the imaginary emancipation decree, Wim Klooster
The pleasure of terror: Belonging through genocide, Thomas Kühne
The Holocaust and Local History–An Introduction, Thomas Kühne and Tom Lawson
Submissions from 2010
Facing history: Denial and the Turkish national security concept, Taner Akçam
The Tobacco nation: English tobacco dealers and pipe-makers in Rotterdam, 1620-1650, Wim Klooster
Belonging and genocide: Hitler's community, 1918-1945, Thomas Kühne
The Cold War in the middle east: Suez crisis to camp David Accords, Douglas Little
Submissions from 2008
From empire to republic: Turkish nationalism and the Armenian genocide, Taner Akçam
Male Bonding and Shame Culture: Hitler’s Soldiers and the Moral Basis of Genocidal Warfare, Thomas Kühne
David or Goliath? The Israel lobby and its critics, Douglas Little
"Off the straight path": Illicit sex, law, and community in Ottoman Aleppo, Elyse Semerdjian
Submissions from 2007
From electoral campaigning to the politics of togetherness: Localism and democracy, Thomas Kühne
Submissions from 2006
Communities of port Jews and their contacts in the Dutch Atlantic World, Wim Klooster
ISLAM, Elyse Semerdjian
