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Jean Smith

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Modern European History


Ph.D. Candidate
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara

Advisor: Erika Rappaport

My research interests focus on migration and settler colonialism in Britain and the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My dissertation focuses on the regulation and promotion of immigration and the development of racial nationalism in the United Kingdom and Southern Africa in the decades after the Second World War.

Dissertation Title

  • Race and the Politics of British Migration to Southern Africa, 1939-1980

Teaching Fields

  • Modern Britain and the British Empire
  • Modern Europe
  • Africa
  • World History

Courses Taught

  • HIST 141B Twentieth Century Britain
    Summer 2012

Teaching Assistantships

  • History 4CH - Honors - Western Civilization (1715 to the present)
    Spring 2009
  • History 2CH - Honors - World History (1700 to the present)
    Spring 2008
  • History 4C - Western Civilization (1715 to the present)
    Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
  • History 2C - World History (1700 to the present)
    Summer 2007
  • History 4B - Western Civilization (1050 CE to 1715 CE)
    Winter 2008, Winter 2009
  • History 2B - World History (1000-1700)
    Winter 2010
  • History 49A - African History to 1800
    Spring 2010

Awards

  • UC Regents Special Fellowship
    2006 - 2011
  • The Institute for Historical Research Mellon Pre-dissertation Fellowship
    2010
  • American Historical Association Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant
    2010-2011
  • The University of California Center for New Racial Studies Research Grant
    2010-11
  • The Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation European Studies Fellowship for Dissertation Research
    2009-10

Conference Presentations

  • “The discourse of development and the recruitment of ‘New Rhodesians,’ 1939-1965”
    To be presented at the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, November 2012
  • “Race and Immigration in the Era of Decolonization”
    University of California Center for New Racial Studies Colloquium, Santa Barbara, April, 2012
  • “The Persistence of “Imperial” Networks: Post-war British Migration to Southern Africa”
    “Burdens: Writing British History after 1945,” U.C. Berkeley, April 2012
  • “‘Come to the Land of Sunshine’: British Migration to the Empire-Commonwealth, 1945-65”
    North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, November 2011
  • Race and the Politics of British Migration to Southern Africa, 1939-1965
    Commonwealth Research Seminar Series, Institute for Commonwealth Studies, London, England, July 2011

Readerships

  • HIST 123C - Europe since 1945
    Fall 2006
  • HIST 141B - Twentieth Century Britain
    Winter 2007, Winter 2009