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Priya Satia

Assistant Professor of Modern British History 


Email: 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, the history of humanitarianism, the history of the state and institutions of government, arms trade, political economy of empire, legal history

COURSES TOUGHT:
 
  • 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
PUBLICATIONS:

Articles:

  • “The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control in Iraq and the British Idea of Arabia,” American Historical Review (February 2006)
  • “Developing Iraq: Britain, India, and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in World War I,” Past and Present (forthcoming)

Books:

  • Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)


 

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