CONTRIBUTORS

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney. He has written, in particular, on French colonial history; his works include Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005) and Gay Life Stories (2012).

Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Leicester. Her research centres on the history of punishment, labour and confinement in the Indian Ocean, and her publications include Convicts in the Indian Ocean (2000), Legible Bodies (2004) and Sub­altern Lives (2012). She is currently Principal Investigator on a European Research Council funded global history of penal colonies project, ‘The Carceral Archipelago’, and is also editor of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

Tony Ballantyne is Professor and Head of the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture. He has written widely on the intellectual and cultural history of British imperialism. Much of his recent work has had a strong New Zealand focus and he currently co-edits the New Zealand Journal of History.

Jason Bruner is Assistant Professor of Global Christianity at Arizona State University. His research has addressed the relationship between European imperialism, the modern missions movement and the growth of Christianity in Africa and Asia. His current project is a historical study of the phenomenon of the public confession of sin in the East African Revival in Uganda.

Roland Burke is a Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow.

Trevor Burnard is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, having previously taught at universities in Britain, New Zealand and Jamaica, and having been a fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. He is the author of Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (2004), as well as three other books and numerous articles on plantation societies and planter culture in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean.

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. She teaches courses on modern British history and imperialism, gender and colonialism, autobiography and the archive, approaches and methods and world history. She is co-author, most recently, of ‘Empires and the Reach of the Global,’ in Emily S. Rosenberg (ed.), A World Connecting, 1870-1945 (2012) with Tony Ballantyne. She is currently working on a comprehensive study of the British Empire on the ground in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Mark I. Choate is an Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, specialising in migration and colonialism. He has published articles in International Migration Review, French Colonial History, Modern Italy and Italian Culture; his book Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (2008; 2013) won the Council for European Studies Book Award and the Marraro Prize.

John Connell is Professor of Human Geography in the University of Sydney. His research has largely focussed on development in the Pacific region. His books include France's Overseas Frontier (with Robert Aldrich, 1992), Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development (1997), The Last Colonies (with Robert Aldrich, 1998), The Global Health Care Chain: From the Pacific to the World, Festival Places (with Chris Gibson, 2009), Rural Revival? Place Marketing, Tree Change and Regional Migration in Australia (with Phil McManus, 2011) and Medical Tourism (2011).

Nicholas Doumanis is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His more recent books include A History of Greece (2010) and Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late Ottoman Anatolia (2013). He is currently working on a lengthy study of the eastern Mediterranean in world history, and is editing The Oxford Handbook of Early Twentieth Century Europe.

Jorge Flores holds the Vasco da Gama Chair in Colonial and Post-colonial Systems at the European University Institute, Florence. He specialises in the history of the Portuguese Empire and is particularly interested in Portuguese and other European interactions with South Asia in the early modern period. He has recently co-edited (with Rudi Matthee) Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia (2011) and he is currently finishing a book enti­tled Between Intelligence and Ethnography: Portuguese Perceptions of Mughal India, 1570-1670.

Kate Fullagar is Lecturer in Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her most recent publication is The Savage Visit: New World Peoples and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1710-1795 (2012). She is editor of The Atlantic World in the Antipodes: Effects and Transformations since the Eighteenth Century (2012), and assistant editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832 (1999).

John Gascoigne is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His books have focussed on the relations between the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment with a particular emphasis on the connections between these movements and exploration of the Pacific. His most recent book is Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment (2014).

Marie-Paule Ha is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Her book French Women and the Empire: The Case of Indochina is forthcoming. She is currently working on a sourcebook on French women and the empire, as well as a project entitled ‘Women and the Chinese Diaspora in Vietnam’.

Felix Hinz is Visiting Professor of History and its Didactics at the University of Education at Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He is the author of ‘The Mechanisms of “Hispanization”: Transformation of Collective Identities During and After the Conquest of Mexico’, Revista de Indias (2008) and Hispanisierung in Neu-Spanien 1519--1568: Transformation kollektiver Identitäten von Mexica, Tlaxkalteken und Spaniern (2005).

Peter Hobbins recently completed his PhD thesis at the University of Sydney. His research explores vivisection and venomous animals in colonial Australasia, with chapters in the Cambridge History of Australia (with Alison Bashford 2013) and Rethinking Invasion Ecologies (forthcoming). He is a research associate in a collaborative project on inscriptions made by internees at the former Quarantine Station in Sydney.

Annaliese Jacobs is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Illinois. Prior to her graduate career, she was a historian for the National Park Service in Alaska. Her current work examines how the wives, families and friends of British Arctic explorers in the early nineteenth century processed and interpreted geographical, indigenous and vernacular knowledge. Her next project is a history of connected whaling communities in Tasmania, Alaska, Massachusetts and Britain.

Eric T. Jennings is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, where he specia­lises in French colonialism and the francophone world. He is the author of a forth­coming study of Free French Africa in World War II, as well as Dalat, the Making and Undoing of French Indochina (2011), Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology and French Colonial Spas (2006) and Vichy in the Tropics (2001), all of which have been translated into French.

Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth Century South Africa and Britain (2001) and co-editor with David Lambert of Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century (2006).

Patricia M.E. Lorcin is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Her publications include Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (1995), Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia: European 'Women’s Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present (2012), five edited and co-edited books and numerous articles, including the prize-winning ‘Rome and France in Africa’ (French Historical Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 [2002]). She is currently working on a project tentatively entitled ‘The Cold War, Art and Politics in Transnational Activism’, which looks at the trajectory of the artist as political militant under McCarthyism and the Algerian War of Independence.

Jim Masselos is an Honorary Reader in History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Towards Nationalism (1974), Indian Nationalism (1985) and The City in Action: Bombay Struggles for Power (2007). He is co-author of Dancing to the Flute: Dance and Music in Indian Art (1997) and Beato’s Delhi: 1857 and Beyond (2011), and editor of The Great Empires of Asia (2010).

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. He has authored or co-authored several books including Closing Hell’s Gates (2008), American Citizens, British Slaves (2002) and Chain Letters (2001).

Cindy McCreery is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney Her publications include The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England (2004) as well as articles and chapters on royal tours, the illustrated press and colonial Australian maritime history. She is currently writing a book on the world voyages of Prince Alfred (1844-1900) and responses to the Royal Navy throughout and beyond the nineteenth-century British Empire.

Michael A. McDonnell is Associate Professor in History at the University of Sydney.

Kirsten McKenzie is Associate Professor in History at the University of Sydney. Among her publications are Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Cape Town, 1820--1850 (2004) and A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (2009). She is currently completing a book on themes of liberty, empire and surveillance in the Cape Colony and New South Wales in the early nineteenth century.

Laurence Monnais is Professor of History at Universite de Montreal, Canada. She currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism. Her main publications include Medecine et colonisation: l’aventure indochinoise, I860--1939 (1999), Medicaments coloniaux: distribution, circulation et consommation de produits pharmaceutiques au Vietnam, 1905—40 (forthcoming) and she is co-editor of Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making (2012) and Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia (2012).

Clive Moore is Professor of Pacific and Australian History in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland. His major publica­tions have been on Australia’s Pacific Island immigrants, the Pacific labour reserve, Australian federation, masculinity, gay Queensland, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He was inaugural President of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies.

Jacob Norris is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Land of Progress: Palestine in the Age of Colonial Development, 1905-1948 (2013). The book recasts Palestine in the early twentieth century as a land of perceived progress and development in the eyes of British and Ottoman imperialists as well as locally based Palestinians. He is currently working on a social history of Bethlehem in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Hans Pols is Associate Professor in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He has a long-standing interest in the history of psychiatry worldwide. His current research project deals with the history of medicine in the former Dutch East Indies and explores the role of Indonesian physicians in the political, social and cultural life of the colony and during the years after independence.

Susie Protschky is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne. She is the author of Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (2011), and has published on similar themes in the journals Art History and Gender & History. Her current research examines the role of photography in envisioning colonial reforms and fostering connections between the Netherlands and its colonies through images of the Dutch monarchy.

Mary Roberts is John Schaeffer Associate Professor of British Art, University of Sydney, and the author of Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature (2007). She has co-edited four books: The Poetics and Politics of Place: Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism (2011), Edges of Empire (2005), Orientalism's Interlocutors (2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried (2000; 2012). Her next book is Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (forthcoming University of California Press).

Pernille Roge is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a historian of eighteenth-century France and its colonial empire, and has published widely on French political economy, slavery and imperial policy.

Christina Skott is a Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in History at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She has published on early modern South-east Asia, cultural and scientific exchanges between Europe and Asia, colonial botany and agriculture. She is also College Lecturer and Director of Studies at Magdalene College and Affiliated Lecturer of the Faculty of History at Cambridge.

Matthew G. Stanard is Associate Professor of History at Berry College in Georgia, where he teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, modern Africa, world history, historiography and imperialism. He has authored several works on European overseas empire including Selling the Congo (2011). He is currently researching colonial state controls on flows of people and information in the Belgian Congo from 1945 to 1960 as well as the legacies of empire in Belgian culture.

Frances Steel is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wollongong. Her research lies at the intersection of histories of empire, mobility and the sea. She is the author of Oceania under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870-1914 (2011). She is currently examining the history of steamship networks and passenger travel between Australia and North America (c. 1880—1960).

Martin C. Thomas is Professor of European Imperial History and Director of the Centre for War, State and Society at the University of Exeter. A French Empire specialist, his most recent books are The French Colonial Mind: Violence, Military Encounters, and Colonialism (2011) and Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers, and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012).

Martin E. Thomas is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University. He is a cultural historian and biographer who writes about landscape history, cross-cultural encounter and the history of anthro­pology. His most recent monograph is The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist (2011). He is also the editor of the forthcoming Expedition into Empire.

Blanca Tovias is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Sydney who is researching Native American women in the Canada—US borderlands. She is currently also completing a biography of Manuel Quimper and his role in late modern Pacific rivalries and Latin American indepen­dence. Her publications include Colonialism on the Prairies: Blackfoot Settlement and Cultural Transformation, 1870--1920 (2012), three co-edited books on colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes, and articles on colonialism throughout the Americas.