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Jordanna Bailkin

  • Professor; Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor
    Modern European History
    Email: bailkin@uw.edu
    Phone: (206) 543-7342
    Office: SMI 218D
    Web:
    Office Hours: Th 11:30-12:30 & By Appointment

    • Education

    Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998.

    Selected Bibliography

    The Afterlife of Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012).
    http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9781938169045

    "The Postcolonial Family? West African Children, Private Fostering, and the British State," Journal of Modern History 81.1 (2009): 87-121.
    Winner of the Walter D. Love Article Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies

    "Leaving Home: The Politics of Deportation in Postwar Britain," Journal of British Studies 48.4 (2008): 852-882.

    "The Boot and the Spleen: When Was Murder Possible in British India?" Comparative Studies in Society and History 48.2 (2006): 463 - 494.

    "Color Problems: Work, Pathology, and Perception in Modern Britain" International Labor and Working-Class History 68 (2005): 93 -111.

    "The Place of Liberalism," Victorian Studies 48.1 (2005): 83 - 91.

    "Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette," Journal of Material Culture 10 (2005): 197-214.

    "Making Faces: Tattooed Women and Colonial Regimes" History Workshop Journal 59 (2005): 33-56.

    The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modern Britain. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).

    "Radical Conservations: The Problem with the London Museum," Radical History Review 84 (2002): 43-76.

    "Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein," Gender and History 11(1999): 145-163. Reprinted in Bettina Carbonell, ed., Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003).

    Research in Progress


    Graduate Fields Offered