2006 Decolonization Seminar Participants and Leaders
The first international seminar took place July 10 through August 4, 2006 with fifteen participants from around the globe. They were:
- Anne Louise Antonoff, Yale University, PhD candidate, U.S. and Decolonization in 1952: A Liberalizing Moment?
- Lauren Apter, University of Texas at Austin, PhD candidate, The Role of American Zionism in the Decolonization of Palestine
- Tracey Banivanua Mar, University of Melbourne, Lecturer in Indigenous Australian and Pacific Histories, Indigenous Globalization: historical networks of decolonization in western Oceania
- Daniel Branch, Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate, Not yet Uhuru? The Local Politics of Decolonization in Central Kenya, 1956-1973
- Elizabeth Buettner, University of York, UK, Lecturer in Modern British History, The Impact of Empire: Cultural Decolonization in Europe
- Lucy Chester, University of Colorado, Boulder, Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs, Britain’s Decolonization of South Asia, 1947, and Palestine Mandate, 1948
- Kristen Stromberg Childers, University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of History, Choosing the Mother Country: Decolonization and Migration to France and Britain, 1945-present
- Adrian Howkins, University of Texas, PhD candidate, The Imperialism of Decolonization in Antarctica
- Yasmin Khan, British Academy, University of London, Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics and International Relations, Policemen and Partition: regime Change in North India, 1946-1964
- Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi, University of San Marino, Italy, PhD Candidate, Congo Basin and former Colonial powers relationship
- Jason Parker, West Virginia University, Assistant Professor of History, Decolonization and Third World Federations
- Louise Rice, Rutgers University, PhD Candidate, France, West Africa, and the Re-imagination of Empire in the Era of Decolonization
- George R. Trumbull, IV, Tulane University, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History, An Ocean of Sand: A Cultural History of Water in the Colonial Sahara
- Lorenzo Veracini, University of Queensland, Australia, Postdoctoral Fellow/Lecturer, Settler Colonialism and Decolonization
- Chantalle Verna, Florida International University, Assistant Professor of History and International Relations, Haiti’s “Second Independence” and the Promise of the Post-occupation Period, 1934-1956