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Priya Satia

Assistant Professor of Modern British History

E-mail: psatia@stanford.edu

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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.

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)

Selected Publications