ERIK LINSTRUM. Department of History P.O. Box University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA (434)

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1 ERIK LINSTRUM Department of History P.O. Box University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA (434) FACULTY APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia, January Assistant Professor, Department of History, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, September 2012-December EDUCATION Ph.D. in History, Harvard University, November Dissertation: Making Minds Modern: The Politics of Psychology in the British Empire, Committee: Maya Jasanoff (chair), David Blackbourn, Caroline Elkins, and Erez Manela. Winner, Harold K. Gross Prize, Department of History, Harvard University. A.M. in History, Harvard University, June Fields of specialization: Britain and its empire since 1750, Germany since 1750, cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, history of psychology in modern Europe and its empires. A.B. in History, Princeton University, summa cum laude, June BOOKS Age of Emergency: Colonial Violence as Open Secret (in progress). Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire (Harvard University Press, 2016). Winner, George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association. Chinese translation, forthcoming ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS Political Reporting, in A Companion to the History of Information, edited by Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, and Anja Goeing (Princeton University Press, in progress). 1

2 Domesticating Chemical Weapons: Tear Gas and the Militarization of Policing in the British Imperial World, (under review). The Case Study in the Colonies, History of the Human Sciences, special issue on John Forrester s Thinking in Cases (forthcoming 2018). Facts about Atrocity: Reporting Colonial Violence in Postwar Britain, History Workshop Journal 84 (fall 2017): Specters of Dependency: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Decolonization, in Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism, ed. Daniel Pick and Matt Ffytche (Routledge, 2016). Britain, in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, ed. John Stone, et al. (Wiley- Blackwell, 2016). The Making of a Translator: James Strachey and the Origins of British Psychoanalysis, Journal of British Studies 53, no. 3 (July 2014): The Politics of Psychology in the British Empire, , Past & Present 215 (May 2012): Winner, Walter D. Love Article Prize, North American Conference on British Studies, and FHHS Article Prize, Forum for History of Human Science. Strauss s Life of Jesus: Publication and the Politics of the German Public Sphere, Journal of the History of Ideas 71, no. 4 (Oct. 2010): REVIEWS AND ESSAYS Downsizing Empire, review essay on Antoinette Burton, The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism, Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy (eds.), How Empire Shaped Us, and Bernard Porter, British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn t, Journal of World History (forthcoming 2018). Michal Shapira, Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Post-War Britain, American Historical Review 122 (2017): Benjamin B. Cohen, In the Club: Associational Life in Colonial South Asia, Journal of British Studies 55, no. 2 (2016): Matthew M. Heaton, Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry, Journal of Canadian History/Annales canadiennes d histoire 50, no. 3 (2015): Rhodri Hayward, The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, , Contemporary British History 29, no. 2 (2015): Jonathan Toms, Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Journal of British Studies 53, no. 3 (July 2014): Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts, History of the Human Sciences 26 (2013): The Critic in Exile: Rediscovering Erich Auerbach, Yale Review 96, no. 1 (Jan. 2008):

3 AWARDS AND HONORS George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association (for best book in European international history after 1895), Walter D. Love Prize, North American Conference on British Studies (for best article by a North American scholar in British studies), FHHS Article Prize, Forum for History of Human Science (for best recent article in the field), Harold K. Gross Prize, Department of History, Harvard University, Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in English ( A Dream Dictionary for the World: Charles Gabriel Seligman and the Globalization of the Unconscious ), Harvard University, Laurence Hutton Prize (for highest standing in History), Princeton University, Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, Eurias Fellowship, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, (declined). Office of the Vice President for Research and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts research grants, University of Michigan, Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Clive Fellowship, Department of History, Harvard University, Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Institute of Historical Research, London, Krupp Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Mid-Dissertation Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Dissertation Research Grant, Committee on African Studies, Harvard University, Graduate Summer Travel Grant, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Whipple V.N. Jones Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University, Travel and Research Grant, Department of History, Harvard University, Stone-Davis Prize Fellowship, Department of History, Princeton University, INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS North American Conference on British Studies, Washington, D.C., November 2016 (as commentator). Interrogations: Psy Sciences, Coercion, and Confession, workshop at Birkbeck College, University of London, July Knowledge about Violence in the Postwar British Empire. Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November Interrogating The Interrogator: Cyprus, the BBC, and the Performance of Violence. Birkbeck 3

4 College, University of London, July Movements and Directions in Capitalism Workshop, University of Virginia, April 2015 (as commentator). Roundtable on Peter Mandler s Return from the Natives, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Las Vegas, March Science, Technology, and Society Speaker Series, University of Michigan, October History and Psychoanalysis during the Postwar Period, Columbia University, April Seminar on British History, Newberry Library, Chicago, December Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on the Archive, History, and Law, Harvard University, October Kandersteg Seminar, Remarque Institute, New York University, Kandersteg, Switzerland, April International Graduate Historical Conference, Central Michigan University, April 2013 (as commentator). International Security Seminar, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, May History and Economics Seminar and International and Global History Seminar, Harvard University, April 2012 (as commentator). Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, February Director s Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, December CONFERENCE PAPERS Subversive Currents and Frustrated Ambitions: Psychology in the British Empire. American Historical Association meeting, Atlanta, January 2016, and Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November Normalizing Chemical Weapons: Tear Gas and State Violence in the British Empire, Rethinking Modern British Studies, University of Birmingham, July The Counterinsurgency Laboratory: Psychological Warfare in the Postwar British Empire. American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January Psychology after Empire: British Experts and the Postcolonial Personality. North American Conference on British Studies, Portland, Ore., and History of Science Society, Boston, November The Truth about Hearts and Minds: Counterinsurgency and Development in the Postwar British Empire. Burdens: Writing British History after 1945, University of California, Berkeley, April A Tale of Two Tests: Mental Testing in the British Empire, North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, November Psychoanalysis as Social Therapy: Strachey, Bloomsbury and the Making of a Translator. Graduate Student Conference in Book History, Harvard University, May The Taming of Instinct: Psychology and the Turn to Development in British Africa, Mellon Conference on Empire, Modernity and the British Social Sciences, University of Chicago, April

5 COURSES TAUGHT At University of Virginia: The Emergence of Modern Britain, undergraduate lecture, spring 2015-spring The British Empire, undergraduate lecture, fall 2015-fall London: The History of a City, undergraduate seminar, fall Spies, Scholars, and Scientists: Empire as Information, undergraduate seminar, spring The Lives of George Orwell, undergraduate seminar, fall Explaining Colonial Violence, undergraduate seminar, spring History of the Human Sciences, graduate tutorial, fall History of the British Empire, graduate tutorial, fall At University of Michigan: Inventing the Human Sciences, seminar, winter Imagining Empire in Modern Britain, seminar, winter Violence, Imperialism, and Human Rights, seminar, fall As teaching assistant at Harvard University: Germany in the World, , Professor David Blackbourn, spring Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World, Professor Caroline Elkins, spring Europe since World War II, Professor Mary Lewis, fall LANGUAGES French, German, and Italian (reading). ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Program Committee, North American Conference on British Studies, Steering Committee, Hidden Persuaders? Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, Wellcome Trust project directed by Daniel Pick, Manuscripts reviewed: University of Chicago Press, Bloomsbury Press, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Contemporary History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of the History of Ideas, Canadian Journal of History. 5

6 Conference panels organized: Colonial Legacies of Social Expertise in Postcolonial Britain, North American Conference on British Studies, Portland, Ore., November 2013, and Global Disciplines, Local Subjects: Transnational Perspectives on the History of the Social Sciences, North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, November Graduate placement officer, Department of History, University of Virginia, Search committee, Indian Ocean world, Department of History, University of Virginia, OTHER EMPLOYMENT Editorial Assistant, New York Review of Books,

University of Southern California Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Studies,

University of Southern California Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Studies, JORDAN BRANCH Department of Political Science Box 1844, 36 Prospect Street Providence, RI 02912 jordan_branch@brown.edu CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2012 present