Antoinette Burton
Professor, Department Chair of History and African Studies
Contact Info
- Address: 309 Gregory Hall, MC-466, 810 S. Wright St.
- Telephone: (217) 244 2075
- Email: aburton@illinois.edu
- Visit Website
Areas of Specialization
Britain and the Empire, history of Women and Gender, and World history
Publications
Books
- with Tony Ballantyne, Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire. University of Illinois Press, 2008.
- The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau. Duke University Press, 2007.
- with Tony Ballantyne, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Duke University Press, 2005.
- Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003.
- At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Briatin. University of California Press, 1998.
- Burdens of History: Britsih Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Book Contributions
- "Cornelia Sorabji." Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edited Books
- After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation. Duke University Press, 2003.
- Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain. Palgrave, 2001.
Journal Articles
- Burton, Antoinette, and Jean Allman. "Gender, Colonialism and Feminist Collaboration (part of “Teaching Radical History” section." Radical History Review 101 (2008): 198-222.
- Burton, Antoinette. "Not Even Remotely Global? Method and Scale in World History." History Workshop Journal 64.1 (2007): 323-28.
