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Department of History
University of Illinois

309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
office phone: 217-244-2075
office fax: 217-333-2297
e-mail: aburton@uiuc.edu

Chair, History Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005-
Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, UIUC 2004-
Professor, History, UIUC, 2001-
Associate Professor, History, UIUC, 1999-2001
Associate Director of Women’s Studies and Senior Lecturer, History, Johns Hopkins University, 1996-99
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Women’s Studies and History, Johns Hopkins University, 1993-96
Assistant Professor, History, Indiana State University, 1990-93

Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India (NY and Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003)
At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press/Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1998)
Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994)

Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions and the Writing of History (Duke 2005) with Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl and Jed Esty, eds., Postcolonialism and Beyond (Duke/ Permanent Black [Delhi] 2005)
with Tony Ballantyne, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (Duke University Press, 2005)
After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation (Duke University Press, 2003)
Janaki Majumdar's Family History, edited with an introduction (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2003)
Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader (St. Martin's Press/Palgrave, 2001)
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (London: Routledge, 1999)

"Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 1945-1954," Radical History Review (spring 2006)
"When was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the 'American Century,'" Journal of Modern History 75 (June 2003): 359-74
"Archive of Bones: Anil's Ghost and the Ends of History," Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38, 1 (2003): 39-56
"South Asian Women, Gender and Transnationalism," Journal of Women’s History 14, 4 (Winter 2003): 195-200
"Déjà Vu All Over Again," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3, 1 (April 2002): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cch
"Thinking Beyond the Boundaries: Empire, Feminism and the Domains of History," Social History 26, 1 (2001): 60-71
"Tongues Untied: Lord Salisbury's 'Black Man' and the Boundaries of Imperial Democracy," Comparative Studies in Society and History (2000) 43, 2: 632-59