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Priya Satia
Assistant Professor of Modern British History
E-mail: psatia@stanford.edu
At Stanford Since 2004
MA/Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2004; M.Sc. LSE; BA/BS Stanford
Research Interests
Modern British cultural and political history, colonialism and imperialism, the experience and practice of war, technology and culture, human rights and humanitarianism, the state and institutions of government, arms trade, political economy of empire, environmental history.
Courses Taught
- Survey lecture: Modern Britain and the Empire
- Britain and the History of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
- Capital and Empire
- Empire and Information
- Mass Consumption and its Critics in Britain, 1850-1950
- Graduate Colloquium: Modern Britain, Part I
- Graduate Colloquium: Modern Britain, Part II
- Modern Europe: The 20th Century (Graduate Colloquium)
Books
Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, Mar. 2008).
Winner of the 2009 AHA-Pacific Coast Branch Book Award
Articles
- “‘A Rebellion of Technology’: Development, Policing, and the British Arabian Imaginary,” in D. K. Davis and Edmund Burke, III, eds., Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East (Ohio University Press, forthcoming).
- “Developing Iraq: Britain, India, and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in World War I,” Past and Present 197 (November 2007).
- “Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia,” in Penultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain, ed. Wm. Roger Louis (London, New York, Austin: I. B. Tauris, 2007).
- “The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control in Iraq and the British Idea of Arabia,” American Historical Review 111 (February 2006).
- Winner of the 2007 Article Prize of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
- Winner of the 2007 Walter D. Love Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies.
Comment, Reviews, and Interviews
- "Brilliant Insights That Led Us Astray in Iraq,” Financial Times, August 5, 2009, p. 11.
- “From Colonial Air Attacks to Drones in Pakistan,” NewPerspectives Quarterly 26:3 (Summer2009).
- “Iraqis are too shrewd to fall for an ‘invisible’ occupation,” Financial Times, July 2, 2009.
- Review of The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf, by James Onley, in Journal of British Studies 48 (July 2009).
- Interview on PRI’s The World: “The Debate over Drones,” May 27, 2009.
- “The Shadow of History Passes Over Pakistan,” Financial Times, May 20, 2009
- Review of Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914, by Martin Thomas, in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 10:1 (Spring 2009).
- Interview on Stanford Magazine, May/June 2009:“Lessons of War.”
- Interview on National Public Radio, Worldview: "Britain's 'Covert Empire' in Iraq during the Mandate Era," (WBEZ-Chicago), March 27, 2009
- “Painful Questions,” Times Literary Supplement, February 27, 2009, p. 23
- “The Forgotten History of Knowledge and Power in British Iraq, or Why Minerva's Owl Cannot Fly,” Social Science Research Council (SSRC) web forum on "The Minerva Controversy," October 17, 2008.
- “The Grim Reaper in Iraq’s Skies,” Stanford Report, September 24, 2008
- Review of Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development: The Crown Agents, 1914-74, by David Sunderland, in Twentieth Century British History 19:3 (September 2008)
- “The True Story of the Iraqi Civil War,” History News Network, May 26, 2008
- “Spies in Arabia,” Middle East Strategy at Harvard blog, May 8, 2008
- “Lessons in Imperialism from Iraq’s Past,” review of Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country, 1914-1932, by Peter Sluglett, H-Albion, February 2008. [Reprinted in The College Quarterly (Fall 2007)].
- Review of Almost Englishmen: Baghdad Jews in British Burma, by Ruth Fredman Cernea, H-Albion, January 2008
- Podcast of interview at the Middle East Center Outreach Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, September 2007
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