Danielle Kinsey
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Danielle Kinsey focuses on the history of 19th century Britain and empire, comparative women’s and gender history, and global history. She is particularly interested in studying transnational connections and commodity chains that show the centuries-old development of globalization and how interconnection has been formative in the making of the modern world. Her current book project examines Britain’s role in the development of the global diamond trade in the nineteenth century in terms of metropolitan consumer culture, political economy, and imperial authority. She is also embarking on a new project about photography and sexual revolution in the twentieth century. Dr. Kinsey completed her MA at the University of Calgary and her PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interest
The development of global commodity chains, particularly as they pertain to Imperial Britain; nineteenth-century gold and diamond rushes in a global perspective Mining history, especially in Brazil, India, South Africa, and Cornwall, UK The connections between trade, consumption, shopping, material culture, and modern imperialism British empire and culture; imperial, colonial, postcolonial, and global studies; transnationalism Histories of women, gender, and the body; British definitions of childhood, child labor, and the family Visual culture; the sexual revolution; photography
Publications
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“Assessing Imperialism,†in The Cambridge World History, volume 7, edited by J.R. McNeill and Kenneth Pomeranz, (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2015), 331-65.
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“Atlantic World Mining, Child Labor, and the Transnational Construction of Childhood in Imperial Britain in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,†Atlantic Studies, 11:4 (December 2014), 449-72.
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“Koh-i-Noor: Empire, Diamonds, and the Performance of British Material Culture,†Journal of British Studies, 48:2 (April 2009), 391-419.
