'States of Statelessness' Post-graduate Intensive: Participating Faculty

Harvard

• David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History.
  He is currently working on three books: a history of the idea of civil war from Rome to Iraq, a study of the foundations of modern international thought, and an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings. Among his nine books to date are The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2009) and The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007).
• Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.
  Her interests include topics in the history of science and in environmental history. She is the author of An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993), Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001), and The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006). She is currently writing a history of circumnavigation.
• Erez Manela, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History.
  His current research is on international campaigns against disease, specifically the global campaign to eradicate smallpox and its significance for postwar international history. He is also working on conceptual and methodological aspects of the history of international society. He is the author of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (2007).

Birkbeck Faculty

• Sunil Amrith, Lecturer in History.
  Sunil Amrith’s research is on the history of the Bay of Bengal region since the late eighteenth century, currently focusing on the history of migration and cultural circulation between south India and Southeast Asia. He is currently writing a short general history of Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia for Cambridge University Press. Sunil Amrith’s earlier work was on the history of public health in South and Southeast Asia. His book, Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65(2006) examined the international exchange of ideas about health in Asia in the mid-twentieth century.
• Jessica Reinisch, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow.
  Her current research focuses on the multitude of refugees and displaced people in Central-Eastern Europe after 1945. She is the author of Public Health in Germany under Allied Occupation [forthcoming].

French Faculty

• Gilles Pecout, Professor, École Normale Superieur, Paris.
  He is Professeur en histoire contemporaine at the École Normale Superieure in Paris and Directeur d'études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe section - Sorbonne). He holds the Chair of Political and Cultural History of Contemporary Mediterranean Europe at ENS. His recent publications include, Naissance de l'Italie contemporaine (1770-1922) [1997], Il lungo Risorgimento [1999], Le livre Coeur d'Edmondo De Amicis [2002] and Penser les frontières de l'Europe (XIXe-XXIe s) [2004].

Australia

• Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of Sydney.
  She has published widely on the cultural history of international relations, and is currently researching two new books, one on the Congress of Vienna, and the other on the United Nations. Her publications include The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslavian Border: Difference, Identity and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe (2001) and The Nation, Psychology and International Politics (2006).
• Marilyn Lake, Professor of History, LaTrobe University.
  Her particular interest is in the class, gender and racial dimensions of political history understood in both national and transnational frames of analysis. Her most recent book is Drawing the Global Colour Line: International Campaigns for Racial Equality (2008). She held the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University between 2001 and 2002.
• Ernest Koh, Lecturer in International Studies, Monash University.
  He is currently working on a history of the Malaya and Singapore Chinese during the Second World War that takes the experience of the conflict beyond its traditional geo-political borders by looking at the roles played by members of this community in the war in Europe, China, and Burma. He is the author of Singapore Stories: Language, Class, and the Narratives of Everyday Life Among the Chinese of Singapore 1945-2000 (In Press) and Diaspora at War: The Overseas Chinese of Malaya and their Exceptional Second World Wars (Forthcoming).
• Clare Corbould, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sydney.
  Her main interests are the history of African Americans and the African diaspora. She has just published her first book, Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939, with Harvard University Press.
• Roland Burke, Lecturer in History, LaTrobe University.
  He is an expert on the history of human rights and the United Nations. His PhD work is being published in a new book, Decolonization and International Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2010).