Professor Clare Anderson

Professor of History

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 229 7528
• Email: ca26@le.ac.uk
• Twitter: @sysgak
• Office: Room 101, 6 Salisbury Road
• Office Hours: On Study Leave
• Dissertation Office Hour: On Study Leave

Biography

I am a professor of history, with interests in colonialism and colonial societies across the British Empire. I studied for an undergraduate degree in History-Sociology, and for a PhD in History, at the University of Edinburgh. I joined the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester in 1997, moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick in 2007. I returned to the School of Historical Studies in 2011. My research centres on the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and I am especially interested in the history of confinement. I have worked on prisons, penal colonies, plantations, and migrant ships, and my interests also include forced labour, the history of anthropology, photography, and the body. I held an ESRC Research Fellowship between 2002 and 2006, and worked on nineteenth-century British penal settlements. Subsequently, I held the one-year Caird Senior Research Fellowship and then the two-year Sackler-Caird Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum. I then developed research on subaltern experiences and biographies of Indian Ocean journeying. I was PI on the ESRC funded international collaboration Integrated Histories of the Andamans (2009-13), and I am now PI on the ERC project CArchipelago (2013-18). I am a member of the British Academy Area Panel for South Asia, I have held visiting professorships on the Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean project, University of Technology Sydney (2009, 2011), and I am currently editor of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications

PhD Supervision

I currently supervise students working on culture and society in British colonial Mauritius, the British legal system in treaty port China, and indigenous-settler relations in colonial Canada. I have previously supervised students working on the East India Company warehouses of London and the making of history in post-colonial Bermuda. I would be happy to take on postgraduates working across all areas of colonial and global history.

Teaching

My teaching is on the history of Empire, migration and historiography.

Most Recent Publications