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