The National History Center has announced the members of the Ninth International Seminar on Decolonization. The seminar is hosted by the Library of Congress and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It will convene in July at the library. The participants, their affiliations, and project titles are:
Amber Abbas, St. Joseph’s University, Indian Students and Decolonization: American Interests, the Cold War, and the Prospects of Radicalism
Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia, A World Too Fast for Theories: Ideology, Oil, and Interdependence in US-Algerian Relations
Arie Dubnov, University of Haifa, The Dream of the Seventh Dominion: Lewis Namier, Josiah Wedgwood, A. J. Toynbee, and the Question of Palestine in Interwar Liberal Imperialist Thought
Elisabeth (Liz) Fink, New York University, Decolonization by the Ballot: The Referendum of 1958 in French West Africa
Frank Gerits, European University Institute, The Counterinsurgency of Public Diplomacy: The USIA’s Management of Insurgency in Africa, 1961-1969
Rajbir Hazelwood, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Race, Murder, Riots: Being Punjabi in London, 1976-1984
Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University, The Decolonization of the United States
Stephen Jackson, University of Sioux Falls, The View from the Colonies: The American Educator’s Perception of the End of the British Empire
Jack Loveridge, University of Texas at Austin, The Green Reaction: Britain, the United States, and India’s Food Economy, 1942-1955
Molly McCullers, University of West Georgia, Division in the Desert: Men, Water, and the Fight for the Future in Apartheid Namibia, 1945-1985
Thomas (Tom) Meaney, Columbia University, A War against Empire? The Dependent Areas Branch and the Politics of Trusteeship
Malika Rahal, Institut d’histoire du temps présent (CNRS), Underground in International Relations
Caroline Ritter, University of California, Berkeley, The BBC and the Development of Broadcasting in Africa
Tehila Sasson, University of California, Berkeley, Humanity after Empire: Technologies for Relief in the Age of Decolonization, 1943-1973
Kate Stevens, University of Cambridge, “Half of Vanuatu Is Still Colonized by Herself”: Race, Gender, and Law in the Era of Pacific Decolonization
Alden Young, University of Pennsylvania, The Economic Origins of Sudan’s First Civil War: The Military and Development Planning from 1958 to 1964
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