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Aidan Forth CV D R. A I D A N A. H. F O R T H ___________________________________________________ Email: [email protected] Phone: (780) 497-5338 Website: https://www.macewan.ca/wcm/SchoolsFaculties/ArtsScience/Programs/BachelorofArts/ Disciplines/History/FORTHA3 Citizenship: Canadian and British, with US permanent residency Mailing Address: Department of the Humanities 7-352K, City Centre Campus 10700-104 Avenue Edmonton, AB, T5J 2P2 Canada ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS July 2019-present: Assistant Professor of History (tenure-track), MacEwan University, Edmonton July 2018-present: Associate Professor of Modern British and Imperial History (with tenure), Loyola University of Chicago. January 2013-July 2018: Assistant Professor of Modern British and Imperial History (tenure- track), Loyola University of Chicago. Summer 2017, 2019: Visiting Professor, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (Universities Study Abroad Consortium). September 2007-June 2009: Teaching Fellow, Stanford University. EDUCATION Stanford University, Stanford, California, 2006-2013. Ph.D., History (Priya Satia, advisor) Dissertation: An Empire of Camps: British Imperialism and the Concentration of Civilians, 1876-1903 Major Field: Britain and the British Empire since 1483. Minor fields: Modern Europe; Imperialism and World History. Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 2004-2006. Master of Arts, History (Sandra den Otter, advisor). 1 Aidan Forth, Curriculum Vitae Dissertation: The Politics of Philanthropy: The Congo Terror Regime and the British Public Sphere, 1895-1914 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1999-2003. Bachelor of Arts, History, Honours Programme (Christopher Friedrichs, advisor) Dissertation: Terror, Treason and the Politics of Power: The Gunpowder Plot and After, 1605-1620. PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Camps: Mass Confinement in the Modern World (under contract with University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division, forthcoming). Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2017). *Winner of the 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize for best book in history (in a field other than Canadian history), awarded by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) https://cha-shc.ca/english/what-we-do/prizes/the-wallace-k-ferguson-prize.htm *Winner of the 2018 Stansky Book Prize for best book published anywhere by a North American scholar on any aspect of British studies since 1800, awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) https://www.nacbs.org/prizes/20112-21-21/ ISBN: 9780520293977 http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293977 Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, Journal of British History, Journal of World History, African Historical Review (20-page feature), Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Victorian Studies, Journal of Military History, LSE Review of Books, H- Net, Kritika and others. PUBLICATIONS: SCHOLARLY ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Some Canadian Connections and Contemporary Considerations,” Author’s Response to Ferguson Prize Forum. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (forthcoming, spring 2021). “A Shared Malady: Concentration Camps in the British, Spanish, American and German Empires” (with Jonas Kreienbaum). Journal of Modern European History, 14(2), spring 2016, 245- 67. “Britain’s Archipelago of Camps: Labor and Detention in a Liberal Empire, 1871-1903.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 16(3), summer 2015, 651-680. 2 Republished in The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison ed. Michael David-Fox (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), 199-223. Translated and republished as “Британский Архипелаг ГУЛАГ: Лагеря Либеральной империи, 1871–1903” (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021). “The Birth of the Concentration Camp? British Imperialism and the Origins of Modern Detention.” Perspectives on Europe, 43(2), fall 2013, 54-58. PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND OP-EDS “Concentration Camps and the Uigher Genocide,” Los Angeles Review of Books, forthcoming in fall, 2021. “Alfred Carrothers: Early Edmonton’s Crooked Confidence Man”, Edmonton City as Museum Project, April 13, 2021, https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2021/04/13/alfred-carrothers- early-edmontons-crooked-confidence-man/. “The Ominous Metaphors of China’s Uigher Concentration Camps.” The Conversation, January 19, 2020, https://theconversation.com/the-ominous-metaphors-of-chinas-uighur- concentration-camps-129665. “Concentration Camps have Deep Roots in Liberal Democracies,” The Toronto Star, November 8 2019, and The Conversation, October 15, 2019, https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2019/11/08/concentration-camps-have-deep-roots-in- liberal-democracies.html. PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS Review Essay of Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire” Kevin Grant, Reviews in History, January 2021, https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2437 Review of Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain. Jordanna Bailkin, Social History, 44(4), Fall 2019, pp. 505-507. Review of General Lord Rawlinson: From Tragedy to Triumph. Rodney Attwood, The Historian, 81(4), Winter 2019, pp. 729-30. Review of Internment during the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA. Rachel Pistol, Journal of British Studies 57(4), October 2018, pp. 908-909. Review of Concentration Camps: A Short History. Dan Stone, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 48(4), spring 2018, pp. 552-4. Review of Britannia’s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief. Caroline Shaw, Victorian Studies, 59(3), spring 2017, pp. 566-68. 3 Aidan Forth, Curriculum Vitae Review of An Imperfect Occupation: Enduring the South African War. John Boje, The Journal of Military History, 80(4), 2016, pp. 1228-29. Review of Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire. Alan Lester and Fae Dussart, Victorian Studies, 58(4), 2016, pp. 56-58. “The Empire through its Cities.” Review of Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World, Tristram Hunt, Historia, 60(2), 2015, pp. 216-18. “New Light on a Dark Subject.” Review of The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History, Elizabeth van Heyningen,” Historia, 59(1), 2014, pp. 176-9. OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS Principal Investigator, Colonial Camps Research Network, Colonial Concentration Camps: Imperial Origins and Global Legacies, https://www.colonialcamps.network/. The Passage to India: Connection and Mobility in a Globalizing World (research project in process). CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS “Colonial Concentration Camps: An Introduction,” at the Colonial Concentration Camps Workshop, Prato, Italy, June 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19). “Author’s Response, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Forum for Barbed-Wire Imperialism,” Conference of the Canadian Historical Association, London, ON, May, 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19). “A Wandering Tribe of Israel? The Anglo-Boer War and the Origins of Internment,” Approaching the History of Internment Conference, University College, London, March 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19). “Barbed-Wire Deterrence? Famine Relief in British India, 1876-1901,” North American Conference on British Studies, Vancouver, BC, November 2019. “Negotiating Gender, Negotiating Empire: Women, Men, and the British Empire, 1885-1980,” Discussant, Midwest Conference on British Studies, Chicago, IL, September 2019. Invited speaker, Barbed-Wire Imperialism, Yale Agrarian Studies Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 2018. “Disaster Imperialism: Colonial Emergencies and the Surveillance State in British India, 1871- 4 1902,” North American Conference on British Studies, Providence, RI, October 2018 “The Passage East: Culture, Race and Globalization in the long Nineteenth Century,” Midwestern Conference on British Studies, Lexington, KY, September 2018. “Empire’s Double Edge: Coercion and Care in British Imperial Camps, 1876-1903,” American Historical Association, Washington DC, January 2018. “Camps, Connections, and Careerists: Writing a Global and Imperial History,” Keynote address at the Paul Lucas Conference in History, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, October 2017. Roundtable Chair and Discussant, “Settler Colonialism in American Urban History?,” Urban History Association, Chicago, IL, October 2016. “Colonial Concentration Camps: Inter-imperial learning and the politics of Comparison,” Imperial Comparisons Workshop, All Souls College, Oxford, UK, July 2016. “Up and Down the Carceral Ladder: POWs and Civilian Internees in South Africa,” World History Association Conference, Ghent, Belgium, July 2016. “Imperial Internment: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1871-1914,” European Social Science History Conference, University of Valencia, Spain, April 2016. “Tzarist, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia,” Panel Commentator: The Carceral Archipelago: transnational circulations in global perspective, 1415-1960, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, September 2015. Audio available at: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2015/09/the-carceral-archipelago- transnational-circulations-in-global-perspective-1415-1960/ “Between Bramble and Barbed Wire: Detention and Relief at Indian Famine Camps, 1876-7,” North American Conference of British Studies, Minneapolis, MN, November 2014. “Accessing the Imperial Cloud: The Origins and Legacies of Modern Detention,” presented at Was There an Imperial Cloud?,
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