Management of technology transfer. Technology planning and management. Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History and Professor of History, Modern Middle East. Research has centered on colonial Latin America, particularly on race relations and urban history. History of food production, distribution, and diet.
Geographical specialization is southern Africa.
Research has centered on urban development in the early Tokugawa period. Research has been primarily on Brazil and Argentina. Also Cuba, labor, and labor history. Modern East Asia, with a particular focus on Taiwan, China, and Japan. Family change, women in development, family policy in more developed countries.