NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Sir Christopher Bayly was Emeritus Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. He wrote extensively on the history of colonial India and on British imperial and global history. He was the author of numerous books including The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780–1914 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), and most recently, Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Professor Bayly was a Fellow of the British Academy and Royal Historical Society and was knighted for services to history in 2007. At the time of his death in April 2015 he was Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.

John M. Carroll is Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong (Harvard University Press, 2005) and A Concise History of Hong Kong (Rowman … Littlefield, 2007). His research interests include the history of Hong Kong and encounters between China and the West. Carroll is currently writing a history of the British in Canton before the Opium War.

Barry Crosbie is Assistant Professor of History at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His work focuses on the cultural, social and political history of the British Empire in Asia, particularly in relation to Ireland’s imperial involvement. He is the author of Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and is currently carrying out a book-length study of the impact of Irish colonial figures in Asian port cities as well as the reciprocal impact of Asia on Irish politics, culture and society.

Bronwen Everill is the author of Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia (Palgrave, 2013) and editor of The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa (Palgrave, 2013). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Global History, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and Slavery … Abolition. She has held an Andrew Mellon Fellowship at Oxford University and taught at Warwick University. She is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at King’s College London.

Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, where he is also Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He is the author of Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850–1950 (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and Hong Kong and British Culture, 1945–1997 (Manchester University Press, 2016), and editor (with Joel H. Wiener) of Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850–2000 (Palgrave, 2007). He is a co-editor of the journal Media History.

Philip Harling is Professor of History and John R. Gaines Professor of Humanities at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Waning of ‘Old Corruption’: The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779–1846 (Oxford University Press, 1996) and The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction (Polity Press, 2001), as well as numerous articles. His current research focuses on the ethical dilemmas of British imperial governance, c. 1835–65.

Christopher Hilliard is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of English as a Vocation: The ‘Scrutiny’ Movement (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Bookmen’s Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand, 1920–1950 (Auckland University Press, 2006), and To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain (Harvard University Press, 2006).

Philippa Levine is Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin and Co-Director of the Program in British Studies and the European Union Center of Excellence. Her books include Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (Routledge, 2003). Her Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford University Press, 2010), co-edited with Alison Bashford, won the 2011 Cantemir Prize. She is at present writing a book on colonial nakedness.

Tillman W. Nechtman is Associate Professor of History at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is the author of Nabobs: Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2010) as well as many articles on the eighteenth-century British experience in India. His current research focuses on smaller pieces of Britain’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century empire – locations like Gibraltar and Pitcairn Island.

Michelle Tusan is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she teaches British history and writes about liberalism, humanitarianism and the media. She is the author most recently of ‘“Crimes against Humanity”: Human Rights, the British Empire and the Origins of the Response to the Armenian Genocide’ in the American Historical Review (February, 2014). Her books include Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East (University of California Press, 2012) and Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain (University of Illinois Press, 2005).

Martin J. Wiener is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit 1850–1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1982), Reconstructing the Criminal 1830–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), An Empire on Trial 1870–1935 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and several other books. He has received book prizes from the American Historical Association and the North American Conference on British Studies and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Humanities Center and the National Science Foundation. He is at present studying liberalism in the British Empire.