Antoinette Burton

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| alma_mater = Yale University
University of Chicago

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Antoinette M. Burton is an American historian, and Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.illinois.edu/people/aburton/|title=Antoinette Burton faculty page|website=University of Illinois|accessdate=2019-05-11}} On November 23, 2015, Burton was named Chair of the University of Illinois' search for a permanent Chancellor after the resignation of Phyllis Wise.{{cite web|url=https://illinois.edu/massmail/massmail/27602.html|title=Illinois Massmail|website=illinois.edu|accessdate=11 August 2017}}

Since 2015, Antoinette Burton has served as the Director of the Humanities Research Institute (formerly the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.{{cite web |last1=Heckel |first1=Jodi |title=Humanities research program elevated to institute status |url=https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/809508 |website=Illinois News Bureau |accessdate=1 August 2020}}

She was named a 2018 Presidential Fellow for the University of Illinois system along with Wendy Lee, {{cite web |title=Antoinette Burton Selected as University of Illinois Presidential Fellow |url=https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/antoinette-burton-selected-as-university-of-illinois-presidential-fellow |website=American Historical Association |accessdate=18 December 2019}} and in 2019, she was named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.{{cite web |title=LAS faculty recognized as distinguished chairs: Antoinette Burton and Jeffrey Moore received two of U of I's highest honors |url=https://history.illinois.edu/news/2019-11-22/las-faculty-recognized-distinguished-chairs-antoinette-burton-and-jeffrey-moore |website=UIUC Dept of History |accessdate=18 December 2019}}

Awards

2010 Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/antoinette-burton/|title=Antoinette Burton|website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-12}}{{cite web|url=http://news.illinois.edu/news/10/0415guggenheim.html|title=U. of I. historian Antoinette Burton wins Guggenheim Fellowship|last=Chamberlain|first=Craig|date=2010-04-15|website=University of Illinois News Bureau|accessdate=2019-05-11}}
2014 NEH Fellowship{{cite web|url=http://news.illinois.edu/news/14/1209NEH_fellowships.html|title=Five Illinois scholars awarded NEH Fellowships|last=Heckel|first=Jodi|date=2014-12-09|website=University of Illinois News Bureau|accessdate=11 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.neh.gov/divisions/research/grant-news/fellowships-2014|title=Fellowships 2014|website=National Endowment for the Humanities|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211065940/https://www.neh.gov/divisions/research/grant-news/fellowships-2014|archive-date=2017-12-11|url-status=}}

Works

[https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BurtonHistoriesHistories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class]. Berghahn Books, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-78920-328-8}}
[http://Animalia:%20An%20Anti-Imperial%20Bestiary%20for%20Our%20Times Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times] (with Renisa Mawani). Duke University Press, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-4780-1128-6}}
[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-trouble-with-empire-9780199936601?cc=us&lang=en& The Trouble With Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism] Duke University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0199936601}}
[https://www.dukeupress.edu/Ten-Books-That-Shaped-the-British-Empire/ Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons] (with Isabel Hofmeyr). Duke University Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-8223-5827-5}}
[http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/87rsg6yq9780252038648.html An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie] (with Mary-Ann Winkelmes). University of Illinois Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-252-08023-4}}
[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674281295 Empires and the Reach of the Global: 1870-1945] (with Tony Ballantyne). Harvard University Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-674-28129-5}}
[https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-First-Anglo-Afghan-Wars/ The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader]. Duke University Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-8223-5662-2}}
[https://www.dukeupress.edu/A-Primer-for-Teaching-World-History/ A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles]. Duke University Press, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-8223-5188-7}}
[https://www.dukeupress.edu/Empire-in-Question/ Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism]. Duke University Press, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-8223-4902-0}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=2ATrY-eS3h8C&q=Antoinette+Burton Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire]. University of Illinois Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-252-07568-1}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=TTF87NuON2AC&q=Antoinette+Burton The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau]. Duke University Press, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-8223-4071-3}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=YEWulnOX_TgC&q=Antoinette+Burton 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.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9s7AlViH2kC&q=Antoinette+Burton Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India]. Oxford University Press, 2003. {{ISBN|978-0-19-514425-3}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=svPwje0p9uEC&q=Antoinette+Burton After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation], Duke University Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-8223-3142-1}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=1B4f-_a7px0C&q=Antoinette+Burton Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader], Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-312-29335-2}}
[http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415513685/ Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities] (editor). Routledge, 1999. {{ISBN|978-0-415-51368-5}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=KCdeI2FMsp0C&q=Antoinette+Burton 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}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=sDZL9T8OHJkC&q=Antoinette+Burton 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
[https://books.google.com/books?id=sDZL9T8OHJkC&q=Antoinette+Burton 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

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20091204074555/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/104.4/br_5.html "Book Review"], American Historical Review, October 1999
[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-188966645.html "Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915.(Book review)"], Nineteenth-Century Prose, September 22, 1996
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Category:1961 births

Category:Yale University alumni

Category:University of Chicago alumni

Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century American historians

Category:Historians of the British Empire

Category:American women historians

Category:21st-century American women writers