Faculty & Staff

Program Director:

James Hevia
Phone: (773) 834-7585
Fax: (773) 834-7802
Office: Gates-Blake 116
Office Hours Winter 2012: T/R 12:30 -2
jhevia@uchicago.edu

James Hevia's research deals with nineteenth century European empire building and its impact on Asia. His current research deals with the production of authoritative knowledge about China and Central Asia by diplomats, missionaries, and military intelligence officers, and its relation to contemporary area studies.

Department of History

 Senior Lecturer:

Larisa Jasarevic
Phone: (773) 834-5288
Fax: (773) 834-7802
Office: Gates-Blake 123  Office Hours Winter 2012: W 1-3
jasarevic@uchicago.edu

Larisa Jasarevic pursues research interests in medicine and economies of gift and debt in postsocialist, postconflict Bosnia. With attention to intimate exchanges, her work traces popular trajectories from marketplaces to health sites that outline new ways of living and being political. Her new research project examines convergences and divergences of speculative forms of knowledge around a controversial archeological, pilgrimage, and tourist site in central Bosnia. She is particularly interested in ways in which local and global science and forms of insight compete to grasp what is immediately invisible but rendered imaginable through forms of scientific and spiritual mediation and metrics.

Publications

Program Administrator:

Lorri Cornett
Phone: (773) 834-7628
Fax: (773) 834-7802
lcornett@uchicago.edu
Office: Gates-Blake 119 
Address: 5845 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
 

Adviser and Program Assistant:

Stacie Hannemann
Phone: (773) 834-1184
Fax: (773) 834-7802
sakent@uchicago.edu
Office: Gates-Blake 117
Office Hours Winter 2012: M 11:30-5:30, W 9-3,R 9:30-4:30

Stacie Hanneman is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Her work uses the treaty port system in China to examine the early development of international regulatory regimes in the context of imperialism and the development of global capitalism. Her dissertation explores how the framework of international law and logics of global capitalist circulation intersect in the development of the treaty port regulatory apparatus, giving rise to new objects and forms of governance. These objects and forms are interrogated as products of imperial and capitalist circulations negotiated and (re)configured  in the local specificities of the Chinese context. Through such work she is interested in questioning received understandings of imperialism, capitalism, and the processes that constituted nineteenth and early twentieth global transformations in state and social forms. As an undergraduate she majored in International Studies.

Preceptors: 2011-2012

CORE LECTURERS:  2012

PRIZE LECTURERS: SPRING 2012

GUEST LECTURERS: Spring 2012

Faculty Governing Committee:

  • John Boyer, Dean of the College, Professor of History and the College
  • Dain Borges, Associate Professor of History and the College
  • Mark Bradley, Professor of International History and the College
  • Bruce Cumings, Professor of History and the College
  • Nadine Di Vito, Director of Language Program in Romance Language and Literature and the College
  • Michael Geyer, Professor of History and the College
  • Susan Gzesh, Executive Director of Human Rights, Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
  • Alan Kolata, Professor of Anthropology and the College
  • Emilio Kouri, Professor of History and the College, Director Katz Center for Mexican Studies
  • Francoise Meltzer, Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literature, Divinity School and the College
  • Kathleen Morrison, Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College and Director of the Center for International Studies
  • Lisa Wedeen, Professor of Political Science and the College, Associated Faculty Department of Anthropology
  • Dali Yang, Professor of Political Science and the College, Faculty Director of University of Chicago Center in Beijing