David Armitage | Harvard University
David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013) and Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017).
Jeffrey Auerbach | California State University Northridge
Jeffrey Auerbach is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at California State University Northridge where he has taught for more than twenty years. His first book, The Great Exhibition of 1851 (Yale University Press, 1999), was praised by The American Historical Review as “an exemplary piece of cultural history.” It unravels the many and varied meanings of the Crystal Palace, the site of the first world’s fair and one of the pre-eminent cultural icons of the nineteenth century. Since then, he has focused his research on the British Empire. He has authored several articles on art and empire, including the historiographical essay on that topic in The Oxford History of the British Empire. His most recent book, Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2018), challenges the long-established view that the British Empire was about adventure and excitement by demonstrating instead that boredom was central to the nineteenth-century imperial experience. Professor Auerbach has held fellowships at the Yale Center for British Art, the Huntington Library, the National Maritime Museum, the Hakluyt Society, and the Palestine Exploration Fund, and is also the recipient of a World History grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Stephanie Barczewski | Clemson University
Stephanie Barczewski is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities at Clemson University. Her published work focuses on British national identity, national heroes and country houses. Her sixth book, How the Country House Became English, will be published by Reaktion in 2023.
Nicholas Barone | Princeton University
Nicholas Barone is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Princeton, specializing in modern Britain and Europe. His research focuses on working-class intellectual and cultural production in nineteenth-century Britain and its empire. He has secondary interests in the comparative history of European statecraft, continental philosophy, aesthetics, the history of the family, and Victorian literature. Nick is also currently a contributing editor at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog and co-coordinates the History Department’s Modern Europe Workshop. Barone graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in 2019 with a B.A. in English and History. He has also completed graduate coursework in literary studies, legal history, and gender and sexuality studies at Brown University.
James J. Caudle | University of Glasgow
James J. Caudle received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1995 for a study of political sermons 1714–1760, a topic on which he continues to publish. He trained as a Warnock researcher at the Yale Boswell Editions. He was Assistant Professor of History at Ouachita Baptist University, Arkansas, from 1996–2000, returning to Connecticut to serve as the Associate Editor of the Yale Boswell Editions from 2000 to 2017. He then emigrated to Scotland to join his family on their farm. He currently works as Research Associate on the Robert Burns and Allan Ramsay Editions at the University of Glasgow.
Min Tae Cha | Princeton University
Min Tae is a PhD candidate in History. His dissertation, “Presbyterian Visions of Global Order, c.1790-1880” tells a global history of constitutional politics through the lens of religion. Before coming to Princeton, he studied at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.
Alex Chase-Levenson | Binghamton University
Alex Chase-Levenson received his PhD from Princeton in 2015. He then worked as Assistant, then Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, leaving in 2021 to become Associate Professor of History and Public Health at Binghamton University. His first book, The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, was published by Cambridge UP in 2020 and won the NACBS’s Stansky Prize in 2021. He is currently at work on a new book on the history of border obsession, imagination, and paranoia in the British world during the long nineteenth century.
John Eglin | University of Montana
John Eglin’s 1996 dissertation, which Linda Colley supervised, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2001 as “Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797.” He is also author of “The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath,” which appeared from Profile in 2005. He is currently finishing two projects, the research edition of James Boswell’s travel journals in Italy and France begun as part of the Yale Boswell Editions, and a book manuscript provisionally entitled Lucre and Gain: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency.
Eliga Gould | University of New Hampshire
Eliga Gould is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He has written extensively on the American Revolution, emphasizing the entangled history that Americans shared with the rest of the Americas, as well as with Africa, Europe, and the wider world. His books include The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (2000), winner of the Jamestown Prize from the Omohundro Institute, Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (2005), co-edited with Peter S. Onuf, and Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (2012), which won the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize, as well as being named a Library Journal Best Book of the Year. A Japanese translation appeared in 2016. He has held long-term fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard University, and the Fulbright-Hays Program to the United Kingdom. His current book project, Crucible of Peace, is a global history of the least studied of the United States’ founding documents: the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World (2021).
Jennifer Hall-Witt | School for International Training
Jennifer Hall-Witt is an independent scholar. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Yale University and has taught at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Denison University, and Smith College. She is the author of Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780–1880 (2007) and has published a variety of essays on opera-going in London. Her most recent piece is “Repertory Opera and Canonic Sensibility at the London Opera, 1820–1860” in The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon, eds. William Weber and Cormac Newark (2020). Her talk on “Authoring the Managerial Memoir: Print Culture and John Ebers’s Seven Years of the King’s Theatre” for this conference is based on an essay that will appear in Opera and British Print Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, eds. Christina Fuhrmann and Alison Mero (Clemson University Press, fall 2022, forthcoming). Jennifer has also worked as a Program Officer at Mass Humanities supporting public humanities work and is currently finishing a master’s degree in Peace and Justice Leadership at the School for International Training, with an interest in working on the problem of polarization and democratic backsliding in the U.S.
Maya Jasanoff | Harvard University
Maya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History and X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor of the Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Her dissertation, supervised by Linda Colley, was revised and published as Edge of Empire (2005). Her subsequent books Liberty’s Exiles (2011) and The Dawn Watch (2017) have explored international histories through individual lives. Jasanoff recently delivered the Lawrence Stone Lectures at Princeton’s Davis Center on the topic of writing narrative history, and is currently writing a book about the human preoccupation with ancestry. She was chair of judges for the 2021 Booker Prize and is a frequent contributor to publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times.
Paul Monod | Middlebury College
Paul Monod is Hepburn Professor of History at Middlebury College, where he has taught British and Early Modern European History since 1984. Born in Montréal, he was educated at Princeton University (BA, 1978) and Yale University (PhD, 1985). He is the author of several books, among them Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1789 (1989); The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715 (1999); The Murder of Mr. Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Port (2004); Imperial Island: A History of Britain and Its Empire (2010); and Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment (2013). He has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust and the National Endowment for the Humanities, was Visiting Professor at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 2014, and was Fellow by Special Election at Keble College, Oxford, from 2014 to 2018. He is currently working on a book-length study of English cultural identity and co-editing, with Susan Amussen, a volume of The New Cambridge History of Britain.
Joseph Puchner | Princeton University
Joseph Puchner is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Princeton University. His research examines the establishment of constitutional regimes across Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century, and in particular the centrality of such developments to the elaboration of transnational reactionary political networks. A dissertation (still in early development) will investigate the experiences of continental princes-in-exile during this period, particularly in Great Britain. Before Princeton, he received a master’s degree in European History, Politics, and Society from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Dallas. He maintains a keen secondary interest in the family history of the Carnarvons of Highclere.
Padraic X. Scanlan | University of Toronto
Padraic X. Scanlan is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain (Robinson, 2020) and Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (Yale, 2017). He is currently writing a history of imperial labour and political economy in the era of the Irish Great Famine, to be published by Robinson and Basic Books in 2024.
Stephen Taylor | University of Durham
Stephen Taylor has been Professor in the History of Early Modern England at Durham University since 2012. He is currently Director of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He was supervised by Linda Colley in 1981 for the dissertation which was subsequently published as his first article.
Kathleen Wilson | Stony Brook University
Distinguished Professor of History and Past President of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wilson’s prize-winning scholarship encompasses issues of cultural identity and difference in eighteenth century Britain and empire. Her most recent prize is from the American Society of Ethnohistory. Her new book, Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1659-1833, is out with Cambridge this fall.