Antoinette Burton Explained

Antoinette M. Burton
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Yale University University of Chicago
Discipline:	History
Sub Discipline:	British Empire
Workplaces:	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

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.^[1] On November 23, 2015, Burton was named Chair of the University of Illinois' search for a permanent Chancellor after the resignation of Phyllis Wise.^[2]

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.^[3]

She was named a 2018 Presidential Fellow for the University of Illinois system along with Wendy Lee, ^[4] and in 2019, she was named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.^[5]

Awards

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^{[6] [7]}
• 2014 NEH Fellowship^{[8] [9]}

Works

• of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class. Berghahn Books, 2020.
• Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (with Renisa Mawani). Duke University Press, 2020.
• The Trouble With Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism Duke University Press, 2015.
• Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (with Isabel Hofmeyr). Duke University Press, 2014.
• An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie (with Mary-Ann Winkelmes). University of Illinois Press, 2014.
• Empires and the Reach of the Global: 1870-1945 (with Tony Ballantyne). Harvard University Press, 2014.
• The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader. Duke University Press, 2014.
• A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles. Duke University Press, 2011.
• Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism. Duke University Press, 2011.
• Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire. University of Illinois Press, 2008.
• The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau. Duke University Press, 2007.
• Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005.
• Archive stories: facts, fictions, and the writing of history, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005,
• "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.
• Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003.
• After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, Duke University Press, 2003,
• Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001,
• Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (editor). Routledge, 1999.
• At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain. University of California Press, 1998.
• Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
• 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
• Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

External links

• "Book Review", American Historical Review, October 1999
• "Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915.(Book review)", Nineteenth-Century Prose, September 22, 1996

Notes and References

1. Web site: Antoinette Burton faculty page. University of Illinois. 2019-05-11.
2. Web site: Illinois Massmail. illinois.edu. 11 August 2017.
3. Web site: Heckel . Jodi . Humanities research program elevated to institute status . Illinois News Bureau . 1 August 2020.
4. Web site: Antoinette Burton Selected as University of Illinois Presidential Fellow . American Historical Association . 18 December 2019.
5. Web site: LAS faculty recognized as distinguished chairs: Antoinette Burton and Jeffrey Moore received two of U of I's highest honors . UIUC Dept of History . 18 December 2019.
6. Web site: Antoinette Burton. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. en-US. 2019-05-12.
7. Web site: U. of I. historian Antoinette Burton wins Guggenheim Fellowship. Chamberlain. Craig. 2010-04-15. University of Illinois News Bureau. 2019-05-11.
8. Web site: Five Illinois scholars awarded NEH Fellowships. Heckel. Jodi. 2014-12-09. University of Illinois News Bureau. 11 August 2017.
9. Web site: Fellowships 2014. National Endowment for the Humanities. https://web.archive.org/web/20171211065940/https://www.neh.gov/divisions/research/grant-news/fellowships-2014. 2017-12-11.