Clare Anderson
professor
Global History and Culture
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
Biography
Clare Anderson received an MA (hons) in History & Sociology (1993) and PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh (1997). she then joined the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester, moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick in 2007. she returned to the School of History in 2011, becoming part of the School of History, Politics and International Relations in 2016. Her PhD and postdoctoral research centred on the history of prisons, penal settlements and penal colonies in Mauritius and South and Southeast Asia from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. It also included studies of Asian indentured labour, the 1857 Indian Uprising, and the history of anthropology, photography, tattooing and the body. she held an ESRC Research Fellowship between 2002-6, for a project on Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian penal settlements, 1773-1906. Subsequently, she held the one-year Caird Senior Research Fellowship (2006) and then the two-year Sackler-Caird Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum (2007-9). she then developed research on subaltern experiences and biographies of Indian Ocean journeying, as well as mutiny and maritime radicalism.
Research Interest
History of Empire, migration and historiography.
Publications
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Anderson C. Convicts, Carcerality and Cape Colony Connections in the Nineteenth Century.
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Anderson C. Convicts, Carcerality and Cape Colony Connections in the 19th Century. Journal of Southern African Studies. 2016 May 3;42(3):429-42.
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Anderson C. Transnational Histories of Penal Transportation: Punishment, Labour and Governance in the British Imperial World, 1788–1939. Australian Historical Studies. 2016 Sep 1;47(3):381-97.
