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Imperial and Post-Colonial Societies

History Research Focus Area

Graduate students who choose to pursue an area of strength in Imperial and Post-Colonial Societies will examine the multiple ways colonial empires transformed, exchanged, hybridized, or were resisted by societies in every corner of the globe, and explore diverse themes including, but not limited to, cross-cultural encounters, unequal power relations, identity formation and representation, subaltern struggles, paradoxes of empire, and the limits of the post-colony.

Associated Faculty


Max Flomen

Assistant Professor

max.flomen@mail.wvu.edu

313 Chitwood Hall

North America to 1800, Native America, Atlantic World, Comparative Slavery, Borderlands

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Joseph Hodge

Professor

Joseph.Hodge@mail.wvu.edu

320 Chitwood Hall 

Modern Britain, British Imperialism, Comparative Imperial and Postcolonial Societies, Decolonization, Development and the Global Cold War, Western Civilization

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Sean Lawrence

Assistant Professor

sean.lawrence@mail.wvu.edu

112 Chitwood Hall

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Tamba M’bayo

Associate Professor

tembayo@mail.wvu.edu

318 Chitwood Hall

African History, West African History, World History

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James Siekmeier

Associate Professor

James.Siekmeier@mail.wvu.edu

316 Chitwood Hall

U.S. History, 1865-Present, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Latin America and the World

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Devin Smart

Assistant Professor

devin.smart@mail.wvu.edu

116 Chitwood Hall

Africa, Global history, Environmental history, History of climate change, History of capitalism, Labor and working-class history

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