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John Corbally has a B.A. in European History and an M.A. in World History from San Francisco State University. He completed his PhD at UC Davis. Entitled "Shades of Difference: Irish, Caribbean, and South Asian Immigration to the Heart of Empire, 1948-1971," his work explores the role Irish immigrants played in both destabilizing and perpetuating racial and imperial hierarchies in post-World War Two England. His work illustrates that postwar immigration into England can only be understood by incorporating the Irish into the story along with immigrants of color from the commonwealth. Central to John's approach is a historical understanding of Britain's imperial past in both prolonging imperial mentalities and in the continuing influence of empire in the postwar migrant experience.
As well as teaching at Stanford, John has taught courses in British, Irish, European, and World History at UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Mills College amongst others. He has presented at numerous major conferences and published his first journal article in the Radical History Review. He is currently working on a book project based upon his dissertation as well as co-authoring a World History digital textbook. When he's not thinking about history, John plays soccer, piano and guitar, though never at the same time.