Professor of History

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 229 7528
• Email: ca26@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 101, 6 Salisbury Road

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 am a member of the British Academy South Asia Panel, 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 the making of history in post-colonial Bermuda, and indigenous-settler relations in colonial Canada. I would be happy to take on postgraduates working across all areas of colonial and global history.

Teaching

Professor Anderson is on Study Leave in 2011/12.

Administrative Responsibilities

Professor Anderson is on Study Leave in 2011/12.

Most Recent Publications