Philip J Stern
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office Location: | 232 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | 919-668-1695 |
| Email Address: | ps91@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- 4:15-6 pm, Tuesdays
Education
- PhD Columbia University, 2005
- BA Wesleyan University, 1997
Research Interests
My work focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the early modern period (loosely defined). My current book is a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am also working on or planning projects related to the history of eighteenth-century British overseas exploration and cartography, the historiography of British India, early modern economic thought, and the history of companies and colonization.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Franklin Humanities Institute/Mellon Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop, October, 2009
- HISTORY 104.03, BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE 18TH CEN
Synopsis
- Carr 229, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- HISTORY 196S.04, THEORIES OF IMPERIALISM
Synopsis
- White 106, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
Recent Publications
Journal Articles- P.J. Stern. "The History and Historiography of the English East India Company: Past, Present...and Future!." History Compass 7:4 (2009).
- P.J. Stern, "From the Fringes of History: The Early East India Company and the Birth of the British Empire in India" in Elizabeth Kolsky and Sameetah Agah ed., Fringes of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2009).
- P.J. Stern, "Review of the Domination of Strangers: Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 by Jon Wilson". Reviews in History :790 (September, 2009).
- P.J. Stern, "Review of Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, by Susan Dwyer Amussen". Social History (August, 2009).
- P.J. Stern, ""Neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth: Early Modern Empire and Global History" (Review Essay)". Huntington Library Quarterly (March, 2009).