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Charles V. Reed <cvreed@ecsu.edu> Elizabeth City State University |
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Address: | 516 Sloane St Chesapeake, VA - Virginia 23324 United States |
Primary Phone: | 3016592234 |
Web Page: | https://http://www.reedhistory.net |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Empire Review Editor for H-Empire Reviewer for H-Albion |
Reviews: | untitled Reed on Otte untitled |
Interests: | African History / Studies Australian and New Zealand History / Studies Black History / Studies British History / Studies Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies Cultural History / Studies Digital Humanities European History / Studies Human Rights Labor History / Studies South Asian History / Studies World History / Studies |
Bio: I am a historian of modern Britain and the British Empire and an Associate Professor of History at Elizabeth City State University, a historically black college and constituent institution of the University of North Carolina. I earned my Ph.D. (2010) from the University of Maryland, College Park, where I studied with Richard Price. My work so far has examined the development of a British-imperial culture in nineteenth-century Britain, New Zealand, India, and — above all — southern Africa. My first book Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects, and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911, published in 2016 by Manchester University Press, examines the ways in which colonial subjects made sense of their encounters with British royalty. My second book project An Empire of Justice: Britishness, Respectability, and Citizenship in Colonial South Africa, 1840-1923 explores how colonial subjects of color in southern Africa and their allies in Britain and the empire fought for an inclusive “empire of justice” against the assembled forces of white supremacy. At ECSU, I serve as the program coordinator for the university’s online program in Interdisciplinary Studies. I am also managing editor and review editor of H-Empire, the H-Net network on the history of empires and colonialism, an associate editor at Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction (Cambridge), and a past president of the North Carolina Association of Historians and H-Net. A native of southwestern Pennsylvania, I became fascinated with the social history of industrial Britain as an undergraduate and Master’s student. While my interests turned rapidly toward the Victorian empire and southern Africa, I like to think that I bring along the sensibilities of a social historian to my work on the intellectual and cultural history of the nineteenth-century British Empire. |