Matthew Levine

Matthew Levine is a PhD student in the United States history field. He primarily works on studying American expansion, with a dissertation focusing on the legal, constitutional, and political debates around territorial incorporation and state formation in the long nineteenth century. More widely, he is interested in the complex relationship between republican and liberal ideas of equality and the global reality of imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both an American and trans-imperial context. 

He is currently working on an article looking at the Purchase of Alaska, and the theoretical distinctions Americans have drawn between geographically contiguous and non-contiguous territories.