Susan Thorne
| Title: | Associate Professor and Associate Chair |
| Office Location: | 336 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 8945 |
| Email Address: | sthorne@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD University of Michigan, 1990
- MA University of Michigan, 1984
- BA University of North Carolina, 1981
Research Interests
I am a social historian of imperial Britain. My work foregrounds the influence of the colonial encounter on Victorian political culture and social relations. My first book, CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONS AND THE MAKING OF AN IMPERIAL CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN (Stanford, 1999), examined the influence of foreign missionaries on popular perceptions of empire and race during the nineteenth century, and I continue to write about the intersection of religion and empire. I am currently working on the social history and cultural construction of pauper orphans in Britain and its colonies at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Teaching (Fall 2008):
- HISTORY 113B.01, Eur colonial encounter
Synopsis
Recent Publications
Journal Articles- S. Thorne. "Imperial Pieties." History Workshop Journal 63:1 (Spring, 2007). [Imperial Pieties]
- 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]
- S. Thorne, "Religion and Empire" in Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose ed., At Home With the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
- S. Thorne, "Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History". The European Legacy 12:2 (March, 2007): 270-271. [PDF]
- 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]