Antoinette Burton
Antoinette Burton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Yale University University of Chicago |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | British Empire |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Antoinette M. Burton (born 1961) is an American historian and professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[1]
Since 2015, Antoinette Burton has served as the director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[2]
She was named a 2018 Presidential Fellow for the University of Illinois system along with Wendy Lee,[3] and in 2019, she was named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[4]
Awards and Appointments
Works
- Histories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class. Berghahn Books, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78920-328-8
- Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (with Renisa Mawani). Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4780-1128-6
- The Trouble With Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0199936601
- Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (with Isabel Hofmeyr). Duke University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5827-5
- An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie (with Mary-Ann Winkelmes). University of Illinois Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-252-08023-4
- Empires and the Reach of the Global: 1870-1945 (with Tony Ballantyne). Harvard University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-674-28129-5
- The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader. Duke University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5662-2
- A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles. Duke University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8223-5188-7
- Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism. Duke University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8223-4902-0
- Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire. University of Illinois Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-252-07568-1
- The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau. Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-4071-3
- Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8223-3467-5
- Archive stories: facts, fictions, and the writing of history, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8223-3688-4
- "When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American Century", The Journal of Modern History Vol. 75, No. 2, June 2003.
- Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-19-514425-3
- After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8223-3142-1
- Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 978-0-312-29335-2
- Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (editor). Routledge, 1999. ISBN 978-0-415-51368-5
- At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain. University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-520-20958-9
- Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8078-4471-7
- Review article Not Even Remotely Global? Method and Scale in World History History Workshop Journal, no. 64 (Autumn 2007), pp. 323 - 328, Oxford University press
- Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8078-4471-7
References
- ↑ "Antoinette Burton faculty page". University of Illinois. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ Heckel, Jodi. "Humanities research program elevated to institute status". Illinois News Bureau. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "Antoinette Burton Selected as University of Illinois Presidential Fellow". American Historical Association. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ↑ "LAS faculty recognized as distinguished chairs: Antoinette Burton and Jeffrey Moore received two of U of I's highest honors". UIUC Dept of History. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ↑ "Antoinette Burton". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ Chamberlain, Craig (2010-04-15). "U. of I. historian Antoinette Burton wins Guggenheim Fellowship". University of Illinois News Bureau. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ Heckel, Jodi (2014-12-09). "Five Illinois scholars awarded NEH Fellowships". University of Illinois News Bureau. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ↑ "Fellowships 2014". National Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2017-12-11.
- ↑ "Illinois Humanities: Our Team".
- ↑ "2026 New Member List | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. Retrieved 2026-04-28.
External links
- "Book Review", American Historical Review, October 1999
- "Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915.(Book review)", Nineteenth-Century Prose, September 22, 1996
- Appearances on C-SPAN