Contributors
- Contributors
Alison Bashford is Laureate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Previously she was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent book is The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus (Princeton University Press, 2016), co-authored with Joyce E. Chaplin. Bashford is currently completing An Intimate History of Evolution: From Genesis to Genetics, a book that explores human and natural sciences through the Huxley dynasty. She was awarded the Dan David Prize (2021).
Valeska Huber is leading the research group Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century at the Department of History, Freie Universität Berlin. In her research, she focuses on communication in various forms, from migration and mobility to epidemics and international health regimes, and, more recently, the politics of mass communication in the twentieth century (with a specific interest in education and language). She is the author of Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-editor with Jürgen Osterhammel of Global Publics: Their Power and Their Limits, 1870–1990 (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Jan C. Jansen is a professor of global history at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interests include comparative imperial history, memory, refugee history, and the history of the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds. He is author of Erobern und Erinnern: Symbolpolitik, öffentlicher Raum und französischer Kolonialismus in Algerien, 1830–1950 (Oldenbourg Verlag, 2013), a study of the role commemorative politics played in colonized Algeria, and co-author of Decolonization: A Short History (Princeton University Press, 2017). He is currently principal investigator of “Atlantic Exiles: Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1770s–1820s,” funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Ria Kapoor is a teaching fellow in South Asian History at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on refugees, rights, and the global south, with a doctoral dissertation focusing on India’s conception of the refugee regime. Besides completing work on a book based on her previous research, she is beginning a new project on the worldwide impact of the Ugandan Asian Expulsion of 1972. She is also an editorial fellow with History Workshop Online.
Claude Markovits is senior research fellow emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A historian of modern India, with a particular interest in the economic and social history of the colonial era, he recently developed an interest in global history. His publications include The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and India and the World: A History of Connections c. 1750-c. 2000 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Francisco A. Ortega is a professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. He specializes in intellectual and political history in Colombia and Spanish America. He has also published on the theory of history and on the relations between social violence, history, and memory. He has been a visiting scholar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Harvard University, Stanford, and at the Max Planck Institute-Frankfurt. He is currently preparing a manuscript on the languages of social difference and the cultural, political and institutional challenges faced by early Spanish American republics during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Jürgen Osterhammel, until his retirement in 2018, was professor of modern history at the University of Konstanz (Germany). He is now a distinguished fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study. His publications in English include The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2014) and Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia (Princeton University Press, 2018). With Akira Iriye, he is the editor of a six-volume History of the World, published by Harvard University Press since 2012. He is a recipient of several awards including the Toynbee Prize (2017) and the Balzan Prize (2018).
Martin Rempe is a historian of modern European and global history at the University of Konstanz and currently a fellow at the DFG Heisenberg Program. He is author of the book Entwicklung im Konflikt...
