Matthew Connelley

Matthew Connelley is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University where he specialises in international and global history.

His latest book, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, was published by Harvard University Press in 2008. His first book, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002.

He has published research articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American Historical Review, The Review française d’histoire d’Outre-mer, and Past & Present. He has also published commentary on international affairs in The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest.

He was recently named "Top Young Historian" by History News Network

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Scholars visiting in 2007

Jane Burbank is Professor of History and Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. Her current research addresses the intersections of empire, law and political practices in Eurasia. At present she is writing with Frederick Cooper a study of empires in world history.

Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University. He has written extensively on African history, colonization and decolonization, and social sciences and the colonial world.

Philippa Levine is a Professor in the History Department of the University of Southern California. She is a specialist on race and sexuality in the British Empire.

Scholars visiting in 2006

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He has published widely on British art and visual culture, art and empire, and American art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Martin Evans is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Portsmouth. He is a specialist on French colonial history, North African history, and the history of war and memory in the twentieth century.

Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of History at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney. Bernard Porter’s books include The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Britain, America and the World. His latest book, Empire and Superempire, compares modern American ‘imperialism’ with the British kind.

Martin Thomas is Reader in History at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on British and French colonialism and decolonisation, anti-colonial national, security services and the colonial state, and the links between colonial history and international history.

Megan Vaughan is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist on the social, economic and cultural history of Africa, the history of medicine and psychiatry in Africa, slavery in the Indian Ocean, and the history of anthropology.