Online – Content Session – World History Era Five B: Revolutions, Empires, and Nations (1750–1900)

Sarah C. Chambers is Professor and Chair of History at the University of Minnesota. She teaches about Latin American history, as well as colonialism, gender, and film more broadly. Her research (conducted in Peru, Chile, Spain, Puerto Rico and Colombia) explores political culture, citizenship, and law during Spanish America’s transition from colonialism to independence (late 18th to mid 19th centuries). She is currently working on migrations spurred by the Wars of Independence in South America, tracing the paths of internal refugees, political exiles, and royalist émigrés, and analyzing their influence on shifting imperial and national identities. She is also co-editing a multi-volume primary source collection on “Latin America in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1830” for Routledge. In addition to articles and book chapters in English and Spanish, she has published books on Peru and Chile.

Zozan Pehlivan is the Arsham & Charlotte Ohanessian Chair and Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her scholarship and teaching focus on global environmental history, animal history, Indigenous histories, the history of technology and medicine, and public health.

Dr. Pehlivan is the author of The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century (Cambridge University Press, 2024), which examines the relationships among climate change, ecological change, economic inequality, and Ottoman state policy in the emergence of intercommunal violence in the late nineteenth-century Middle East. The book received the Ottoman Turkish Studies Association’s 2024 Book Award.

Her research has been recognized with the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award, a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, and Mellon Fellowships at the Newberry Library and the Linda Hall Library. She is currently developing two books on imperial resettlement, environmental history, vaccination, and public health in the Ottoman Empire.

Ajay Skaria began as a journalist in India and now teaches in the Department of History and Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. His early research focused primarily on Indian environmental and Adivasi history. More recently, he has writing on the intellectual and epistemic history of democracy; the politics of modern caste; Hindu nationalism; and historical theory. He is the author of two books: Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India and Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance, and has co-edited three books. He is currently working on two books: Thinking With Gandhi and Ambedkar and Neighborism and Democracy: An Epistemic History.