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).
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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?, University of Rostock, Germany, September 2014.
“Expertise as a Political Resource. Oyatoi in Meiji Japan” by Kristin MeiBner, Panel Commentator, Was there an Imperial Cloud?, University of Rostock, Germany, September 2014.
“A Cage for Singing Birds: The Detention of Undesirables during the Anglo-Boer War,” presented at the Midwest Victorian Association Victorian Violence Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, April 2014.
“Gender, Power, and Imperialism in a Transnational Context,” Panel Chair and Commentator, Loyola History Graduate Student Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2013.
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“From India to Africa: The Transnational History of British Camps,” presented at the Newberry Seminar in British History, Chicago, IL, November 2013.
“Artifacts of Modernity?: Concentration Camps in the British Empire,” Mellon Conference on British Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2013.
“Britain’s Archipelago of Camps: Labor and Detention in a Liberal Empire,” The Soviet Gulag: New Research and New Interpretations, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, April 2013.
“Concentrated Humanity: Managing Displaced Populations in Famine, Plague and Guerilla War,” presented at the Council of European Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 2012.
“Back from the Archives, Modern session,” panelist, Stanford History Archival Workshop (SHAW), Stanford, California, March 2012.
“Repression and Relief: Civilian “Concentration Camps” in the British Empire, 1871-1903” presented at the Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies, Pasadena, CA, March 2012.
“Schools of Citizenship?: Civilian Camps in the British Empire, 1896-1903” presented at the annual meeting of the North American Conference of British Studies, Denver, CO, November 2011.
“An Empire of Camps: Civilian Concentration in India and South Africa,” presented at the Social Science Research Council, Fellow’s Workshop, Portland, OR, October 2011.
“Civilian Concentration Camps in the British Empire, 1876-1903,” presented at The Colonial Development of Concentration Camps, 1868-1908, All Souls College, Oxford, UK, November 2010.
“Just War, Spirituality and the Ethics of Conflict” discussant War and Faith: Exploring the Place of Religion in Conflict and Reconciliation, Goodenough College, London, UK, June 2010.
“The Origins of the Concentration Camp: Warfare and Humanity in the British Empire,” presented at the Modern European History Workshop, Stanford University, CA, May 2009.
“Specters of the Camp: Forcible Detention and the British Empire, 1830-1980,” presented at Revisiting Modernity: A Conversation Across Disciplines, Mellon Conference and Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, CA, January, 2009.
‘Strategies of Protest in the Public Sphere: The Congo Terror Regime, 1884-1914,’ at Telling Stories: History, Medium and Message, February, 2006, University of Toronto, Canada.
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PUBLIC TALKS AND INVITED LECTURES
“The Concentration Camp: An Anglo-American History,” Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, April 23, 2021.
“Lockdown!: Plague and Quarantine in British History,” Strathcona Public Library, Alberta, March 9, 2021.
“Lockdown!: Plague and Quarantine in British History,” Public Lecture sponsored by the MacEwan University Interdisciplinary Dialogue Project and History Bites Speaker Series, Edmonton, AB January 29, 2021.
Book Talk for Barbed-Wire Imperialism, University of Calgary Speaker Series, Calgary, AB, February 2020.
“Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps,” invited lecture, Long Nineteenth-Century Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2018.
Book Talk for Barbed-Wire Imperialism, Stanford University Book Fair, Stanford, CA, April 2018.
“Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps,” Stanford Speaker Series in British History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April 2018.
Q&A with Aidan Forth, Barbed-Wire Imperialism, Faculty Book Talk Series, Loyola University Chicago, February 2018.
“East is East and West is West?” guest speaker at “Symposium and Book launch for The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation and Comparison,” Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October 2017.
“Between Sympathy and Security: The Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief,” invited lecture at MacEwan University, Refugees and Migrants public lecture series, November 2016.
“The Invention of the Concentration Camp,” invited lecture at the Strathcona Public Library, Sherwood Park, Canada, November 2016.
“Concentration Camps in the British Empire, 1876-1903,” invited lecture at City University of New York, College of Staten Island, New York City, NY, February 2015.
“From India to Africa: The Reform and Legitimization of British Camps,1901-1903,” invited lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, October 2012.
“Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903,” invited lecture at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, February 2012.
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“Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903,” invited lecture at the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, February 2012.
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Free Radio Asia guest to discuss Uygher Concentration Camps in comparative perspective, February 10, 2020 https://www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewerler/uyghur-qirghinchiliqi- 02102020150953.html?encoding=latin
“Prof digs into the historical roots of concentration camps,” MacEwan University, November 8, 2019, https://www.macewan.ca/wcm/MacEwanNews/FEATURE_AIDAN_FORTH_19
“History Honours Alumnus, Aidan Forth, receives the 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize,” University of British Columbia, October 8, 2019 https://history.ubc.ca/news/ubc-history-honours-alumnus-aidan-forth-receives-the-2019- wallace-k-ferguson-prize/
Author interview featured in “‘Speed Dating’ book fair engaging Stanford writers, public audiences to be held Saturday,” Stanford Daily, April 20th, 2018, by Yasmin Samrai. Available at https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/04/20/humanities-center-speed-dating- event-engaging-stanford-writers-public-audiences-to-be-held-saturday/
WLUW radio guest to discuss Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, March 25th 2018, Chicago, IL.
New Books Network radio guest to discuss Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, February 28th, 2018, Chicago, IL. Available at http://newbooksnetwork.com/aidan-forth- barbed-wire-imperialism-britains-empire-of-camps-1876-1903-u-california-press-2017/
Q&A with Aidan Forth, author of Barbed-Wire Imperialism, UC Press Blog, November 3, 2017. Available at https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/32635/qa-with-aidan-forth-author-of- barbed-wire-imperialism/
Faculty Spotlight: Q&A with Dr. Aidan Forth, Loyola University Department of History, October 2017.
Blog Post about Barbed-Wire Imperialism on “The Page 99 Test,” October 22, 2017, available at http://page99test.blogspot.com/2017/10/aidan-forths-barbed-wire-imperialism.html
“L'invention des camps de concentration à la toute fin du XIXème siècle,” interview on La Fabrique de L’Histoire, France Culture Radio, May 2010, Paris, France.
ACADEMIC HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London, elected November, 2020.
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize (best book in history in a field outside Canadian history) Canadian Historical Association, June 2019.
USAC Visiting Professor appointment, Charles University, Prague, 2019.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Competitive Research Stipend, Loyola University, spring 2019.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Competitive Research Leave, Loyola University, 2019-2020 (declined).
Stansky Book Prize (best book in British Studies, post-1800), North American Conference on British Studies, October 2018
Sujack Master Researcher Award, Loyola University, 2018
USAC Visiting Professor appointment, Charles University, Prague, 2017.
Loyola Manuscript Publication Assistance Grant, 2017.
Loyola Book Subvention Grant, 2017.
Loyola University Research Support Grant, summer 2016.
Loyola University Faculty Research Leave, spring 2016.
Sujack Teaching Award (Nominated), Loyola University of Chicago, 2015.
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Annual Graduate Student Prize, 2013
James B. Weter Memorial Dissertation Completion Fellowship awarded by the Department of History, Stanford University, 2012
Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Modern Britain and the Empire since 1750, awarded by Brandeis University, 2012-14 (declined)
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-13 (declined)
Mabelle McLeod Lewis Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-13 (declined)
Stern Grant, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, 2012
Distinguished Departmental Scholar, Department of History, Stanford University, 2006-2012
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship awarded by the Stanford Humanities Center, 2011-12
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Social Sciences Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC-IDRF), 2010-2011
London Goodenough Association of Canada Fellowship (LGAC), Goodenough College, London, 2009-2010
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to attend the Graduate Seminar in Modern British History, Columbia University, New York, May-June 2010 (declined)
Stanford Graduate Research Opportunities (GRO) Award, 2009
Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University grant to attend the Summer Institute for Archival Research (SICAR), 2009
Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship awarded by the Council for European Studies at Columbia University (CES), 2009
Stanford Graduate Research Opportunities Grant for Research on Modern British History and Culture (GRO-MBHC), 2008
Anglo-California Foundation Scholarship, 2008
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholarship, 2006-10
Canadian Graduate Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2006-9, (declined)
Departmental Entrance Fellowship, Department of History, Stanford University, 2006
Explore Summer Language Bursary, Université Laval, June 2006
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2005-06
Queen’s University Graduate Entrance Scholarship, 2004-5
University of British Columbia Undergraduate Scholarship, 2000-2003
Dean’s List, University of British Columbia, 2000-03
Arts One Program Essay Contest, First Prize, University of British Columbia, 2000
Alexander Rutherford Scholarship, Government of Alberta, 1999
Edmonton Public Schools District Honours Award, 1999
TEACHING FIELDS
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Modern Britain, British Empire, Early-Modern Britain, Modern Europe, World History, South Asian History, African History, History of Violence and Genocide, Urban History.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
At MacEwan University: History 100: Introduction to History History 210: Modern Europe, 1789-present History 212: Britain, 1689-1914 History 338: Britain as a World Power History 442: Empires and Violence History 442: Global History of Settler Colonialism History 498: Independent Study
At Loyola University History 102: Evolution of Western Ideas and Institutions since the 17th Century. History 102-ILC: Evolution of Western Ideas and Institutions since the 17th Century. History 299-WI: Historical Methods and Historiography. History 325: History of Modern Britain: Empire, Industry, Democracy. History 325A-WI: History of the British Empire: from Bermuda to Brexit 1783-1970 History 325A: History of the British Empire: from Bermuda to Brexit 1783-1970 History 331-WI: Modern Britain, 1760-1970. History 300E-WI: Concentration Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement. History 300E/410: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Dispossession. History 410: Topics in Transnational Urban History. History 410: The History of Western Imperialism.
At Stanford University History 123: Reform and Revolution in Modern Russia. History 133: Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age. History 139: Modern Britain and the Empire, 1776-2006. History 32S: Discipline and Dirt: Social Control and Urban Environments in Modern Britain.
INDEPENDENT STUDIES
Noah Smith, 2021 Matthew Labbe, 2019 Jeffrey Cristel, spring 2017 Katya Maslakowski, 2014 Brianna Claytor, 2014
STUDENT MENTORSHIP
Faculty Mentor, MacEwan Student Research Day, (3 students), April 2021. Faculty Mentor, Thompson Rivers University Undergraduate Conference, (1 student), January 2021.
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Faculty Mentor, Ending Sexual Violence Conference, MacEwan University, (1 student), January 2021.
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED
Matthew Labbe, Master of Arts, 2019 Michael O’Hara, Master of Arts, 2017 Katya Maslakowski, Master of Arts, 2015 Joel Yoder, PhD, 2015 (co-supervision with Prof. Timothy Gilfoyle). Dissertation: A Philosopher Honored: Herbert Spencer and His American Audience
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
New Faculty Orientation, MacEwan University, fall 2019 New Faculty Monthly Workshops, MacEwan University, fall 2019 Ignatian Center for Pedagogy, Focus on Teaching and Learning Conference, 2013-2015, 2017-18 Certificate of Completion, Loyola University Online Teaching Course, 2018 Writing Intensive Course Workshop, Loyola University, 2014 Loyola University, New Faculty Orientation, 2013
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
At MacEwan University Faculty Stakeholder, MacEwan International, spring 2021. University Search Committee, Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning, spring 2021. Guest Speaker, Harry Ainlay High School, Edmonton, January 2021. Interdisciplinary Dialogue Project team member, 2020-21. Faculty Association Departmental Steward for Humanities Department, 2020-present. Teaching Committee, Department of Humanities, 2019-present. MacEwan University Audio-Visual Roadmap Project Faculty Focus Group, fall 2020. Interview with MacEwan OCM, on Spanish Flu and COVID-19, November 2020. Dean’s Representative to the School of Business Faculty Council, 2019-2020. Coordinator, Humanities Department Brown-Bag Faculty Research Workshop, 2020-present. Coordinator, History Bites Speaker Series, MacEwan University, 2020-present. Guest Speaker, Strathcona Composite High School, Edmonton, February 2020. Guest Speaker (on zoom), Stoneridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda, MD, October 2019. Guest Speaker, History and Classics Club, April 2019. Volunteer, MacEwan University Open House, November 2019.
At Loyola University Academic Program Review Committee, Undergraduate Program, Loyola University, 2018-2019 Academic Program Review Committee, MA Program, Loyola University, 2018-2019 International Learning Community, Faculty Mentor, 2016-2018 Panel Commentator, History Honors Program Symposium, Loyola University, fall 2017. Departmental Advisory Committee, Loyola University, spring 2017-spring 2019 Graduate Program Committee, Loyola University, fall 2017-spring 2019 Freshman Commencement Workshop leader, Loyola University, 2015, 2017.
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Graduate Fellowships Committee, Loyola University, 2013-2017 Student Recognition and Professional Development Committee, Loyola University, 2014-15, 2017-2018. Midnight Bike Ride History of Chicago, 2014, 2015, 2017. Undergraduate Programs Committee, Loyola University, 2014-15 Commentator and Chair, Loyola University’s annual Graduate History Students’ Association Conference, Chicago, November 2013. Academic Grievances Committee, Loyola University, 2013-14 Guest Speaker, Loyola Graduate History Student Association workshop, April 2013 Volunteer or attendee (multiple times) at History Department Open House, International Exchange Program Open House, Commencement, Graduation, and others 2013-2019
At Stanford University Assistant Coordinator, Stanford History Archival Workshop (SHAW), 2011-2012 Graduate Representative, Board of Graduate Admissions, Stanford University, 2008-9 Stanford Coordinator for the Stanford-Berkeley British Studies Reading Group, 2007-8
SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
Peer Reviewer for European Holocaust Studies, spring 2021. Historical Consultant, Red Line Editorial, Inc., Passport to England, spring 2021. Peer Reviewer for Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, winter 2021. Co-Coordinator of “Captivity” Workshop, NACBS, Chicago, November 2020. Co-Organizer of “Colonial Concentration Camps” workshop, Prato, Italy, June 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19). Social Science Research Council IDRF Fellowship Committee, 2019-present NACBS Mentorship Program, 2019-present Peer Reviewer for Journal of Global History, fall 2019. Walter D. Love Prize Committee, NACBS, April 2018-2021; Committee Chair, 2019-present Local Arrangements Committee, MWCBS Conference, Chicago, IL, September 2019. Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Comparative History, fall 2018. Peer Reviewer for the National University of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowships, summer 2018. Peer Reviewer for Hackett Publishing, Critical Themes in World History Series, spring 2018, spring 2021. Peer Reviewer for the Journal of British Studies, fall 2017-spring 2018, fall 2020-spring 2021. Newberry Library Fellowship Committee, 2017. English Speaking Union Fellowship Committee, 2012-13
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association Canadian Historical Association North American Conference on British Studies Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Midwestern Conference on British Studies Midwest Victorian Studies Association World History Association
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Edmonton Historical Council
REFERENCES
Priya Satia, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, and Professor of British History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, [email protected]
Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, [email protected]
James Vernon, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, CA, [email protected]
Antoinette Burton, Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair, and Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, [email protected]
Elizabeth Van Heyningen, Professor of History, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa, [email protected]
Peter Holquist, Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, PA, [email protected]
Iain Smith, Professor Emeritus Reader in History, University of Warwick, UK, [email protected]
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