Professor Antoinette Burton

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. She specialises in the history of the British empire, women and gender and world history. Her most recent publications include An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire (2017), The First Anglo-African Wars: A Reader (2014) and Empires and the Reach of the Global (2012). She is also the co-editor of World Histories from Below (2016) with Tony Ballantyne, and How...See more

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. She specialises in the history of the British empire, women and gender and world history. Her most recent publications include An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire (2017), The First Anglo-African Wars: A Reader (2014) and Empires and the Reach of the Global (2012). She is also the co-editor of World Histories from Below (2016) with Tony Ballantyne, and How Empire Shaped Us (2016) with Dane Kennedy. See less