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  Susan Thorne, Affiliated Faculty
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  Susan ThorneAssociate Professor

Office Location:  336 Carr Bldg
Office Phone:  +1 919 684 8945
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~sthorne

Education:

  • PhD University of Michigan 1990
  • MA University of Michigan 1984
  • BA University of North Carolina 1981

Specialties:

Europe
19th and 20th Centuries
Imperial
Religion
Race
Class
Immigration
Social
Southern United States
African diaspora
Gender
Research Interests:

British social history; popular perceptions of empire and race; popular religion and foreign missions; orphaned children (public policy and cultural constructions)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  1. S. Thorne, "Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History". The European Legacy 12:2 (March, March, 2007): 270-271. [PDF]
  2. S. Thorne. "Imperial Pieties." History Workshop Journal 63:1 (Spring, Spring, 2007). [Imperial Pieties]
  3. S. Thorne. "Religion and Empire." At Home With the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Edited by Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose. 2006.
  4. S. Thorne, "Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818–1940 (Stanford, 2002), Jeffrey Cox". Victorian Studies 47:2 (2005): 295-297. [html]
  5. S. Thorne. "Review Essay: Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 6:1 (2005). [html]