Dane Kennedy
Title — Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs
Address — 801 22nd St. NW #312, Washington D.C. 20052
Office — 801 22nd St. NW #312
Phone — (202) 994-6229
E-mail — dkennedy@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
Dane Kennedy teaches courses in British imperial, modern British, and world history. He is the author of four books and numerous articles. His new book, The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia, was published by Harvard University Press in 2013. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003-04 and a National Humanities Center Fellowship in 2010-11. He is currently the president of the North American Conference of British Studies.. (Complete C.V.)
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1981.
Publications
The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Britain and Empire, 1880-1945. London: Longman, 2002.
The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj. New York: University of California Press, 1996.
Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987.
Decentering Empire: Britain, India, and the Transcolonial World. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006. Co-edited with Durba Ghosh.
Classes Taught
Hist 38: World History since 1500
Hist 117: British Empire
Hist 147: Victorian Britain
Hist 150: 20th Century Britain
Hist 152: History of England since 1689
Hist 242: The World Europe Made since 1500
Hist 297: Topics in British Imperial History