Curriculum Vitae § Edward Beasley, PhD,
FRHistS
Professor of History, Emeritus §
Historian of Nineteenth-Century England
and the British Empire
SCHOLARSHIP
ACADEMIC MONOGRAPHS
Empire as the Triumph of
Theory: Imperialism, Information, and the Colonial Society of 1868
(London: Routledge, November 2004; NY: Routledge, April 2005; paperback,
August 2015) (slightly over 100,000 words)
–'This is a very lively, readable and worthwhile work … the most stimulating
book I have read on imperial ideology for a while' – Bernard Porter, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
34:3 (September 2006): 463-465.
Mid-Victorian
Imperialists: British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind
(
–'[A] valuable addition to our understanding of how the British envisioned
their empire' – Peter Cain, History
92:305 (January 2007): 128-129.
The Victorian
Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human
Sciences
(NY: Routledge, June 2010;
(slightly over 113,000 words)
–'[A] compact, no-nonsense, and smart overview of the idea of "race"
in Victorian England' – Vincent Pecora, American
Historical Review 116:3 (June 2011): 870-871.
– 'Beasley has produced a fascinating ensemble of case studies that complicates
received assumptions about the history of racial ideas in the nineteenth
century…. This is an intelligent, provocative, and attractively quirky book' –
Colin Kidd, Economic History Review
64:4 (November 2011): 1395-1396.
–'[A] clear and important contribution….' '[A] finely researched story of the
emergence of, and resistance to, nineteenth-century racism in English thought'
– Audrey Fisch, Nineteenth-Century
Contexts 34:4 (2012): 368-370.
The Chartist
General: Charles James Napier, the Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism
(
–'The task Beasley sets himself in this impressively detailed study is to "reconcile the Good Napier with the Bad". His methodology combines extensive engagement with a wide range of sources and the exercise of "historical imagination to recapture the spirit of the time". One of the strengths of this study is the way it succeeds in showing how Napier’s ideas and attitudes emerge from the complex interaction of his family background, personal experience and intellectual interests with his particular historical moment.... The Chartist General succeeds in its aim of showing the continuities between the Chartist and colonial phases of Napier’s career. It explains rather than excuses Napier’s choices and in this respect it demonstrates the advantages of the "historical imagination" as a methodological tool.' – Michael Sanders, Social History 43:2 (May 2018): 273-274.
A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian
Mind
(Philadephia: The American Philosophical Society; distributed by the
University of Pennsylvania Press, July 2024) (approximately 132,000 words)
BOOK CHAPTERS
'Views of Gentlemanly Capitalism,
1837-1842: The Colonial Society and the Chartists' (10,222 words), in Toyin
Falola and Emily Brownwell (eds.), Africa,
Empire and Globalization: Essays in Honor of A.G. Hopkins (
–'[A]n interesting essay on the Chartist appreciation of the importance of finance capitalism' – Richard Price, Journal of African History 53:2 (July 2012): 277.
'British Views of Canada at the Time of Confederation' (about
5500 words), in Jacqueline D. Krikorian, Marcel Martel, and Adrian Schubert
(eds), Globalizing Confederation:
'The Nineteenth-century Information Revolution and World Peace' (about 10,290 words), in Chris Meyns (ed.), Information and the History of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2021): 229-244.
INVITED CONTRIBUTION
'Making Races', Editor's Roundtable on Making Races: Victorian Racial Theories and the Category of the Human, Victorian Review 40:1 (Spring 2014): 48-52. (1999 words)
REFEREED ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE
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BOOK REVIEWS
Review
of Denis Judd, Empire: The British
Imperial Experience, 1765 to the Present, (768 words), San Diego
Union-Tribune, 10 August 1997
Review
of Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade (1050
words), San Diego Union-Tribune, 23
November 1997
Review
of Lucy Moore, The Thieves’ Opera (on
the
Review of Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (741 words), San Diego Union-Tribune 13 December 1998
Review
of Venetia Murray, An Elegant Madness:
High Society in Regency England (700 words), San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 April 1999
Review
of Neil Hanson, The Confident Hope of a
Miracle: The True Story of the Spanish Armada (1300 words), San Diego Union-Tribune, January 2005
Review
of Jeremy Rich, Missing Links: The African
and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector (800 words), American Historical Review 117:5
(December 2012): 1595-6
Review of Marc Flandreau, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science (850 words), American Historical Review 123:1 (February 2018): 306-7.
Review of Edmund Russell, Greyhound Nation: A Coevolutionary History of England, 1200-1900 (700 words), Agricultural History 93:3 (Summer 2019): 569-73
POSITIONS HELD
Lecturer, San Diego State University History Department, Spring 1994-Spring 2006
Lecturer,
Lecturer,
Associate Professor of History,
(with tenure, 2008-)
Professor of History,
Chair of the History Department, 2019-2022
Professor of History,
(teaching one semester a year until 2027)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
COURSES TAUGHT AT
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History 100 |
World History to 1500 |
16 sections |
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History 101 |
World History Since 1500 |
19 |
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History 102 |
World History through Science and Technology* |
2 |
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History 105 |
Western Civ. to 16th Century |
23 |
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History 106 |
Western Civ. from 16th Century |
13 |
|
History 305B |
European History since 1789 |
1 |
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History 400W |
The Historian’s Craft |
1 |
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History 407A (later 407) |
|
17 |
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History 407B (later 408) |
|
16 |
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History 411 |
Early World History for Teachers |
26 |
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History 412 |
Modern World History for Teachers* |
3 |
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History 418 |
Modern British History* |
6 |
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History 450W |
The Writing of History |
3 |
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History 509 |
The British Century: |
9 |
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History 516 |
Modern World Imperialism*† |
4 |
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History 601 |
Graduate Seminar in Historical Methods |
5 |
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History 620/680 |
Graduate Seminar: Making
Victorian |
3 |
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History 620 |
Graduate Seminar: The History of Race* |
2 |
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History 620 |
Graduate Seminar: |
1 |
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History 665 |
Seminar in History |
1 |
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Liberal Studies 300 |
Introduction to Liberal Studies |
12 |
* Originated course.
† Originally taught as History 582, Topics in Social and Cultural History
COURSES TAUGHT, UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, 1997-1998
|
History 15 |
World Civilization before 1500 |
1 section |
|
History 16 |
World Civilization since 1500 |
1 |
M.A. THESIS COMMITTEES CHAIRED, SDSU
David Arranaga, M.A., History, 2009 – 'Environmental Awareness in Nineteenth-Century England'
Holly Smith, M.A., History, 2010 –
'Whoremongers, Heretics, and the Devil's Doctrine: Clerical Marriage in
Mid-Tudor
Josef Djordjevski, M.A., History, 2012 – 'Nationalism in Practice: Assimilation, Explusion, and Extermination, 1913-1945'
Matthew McGinn, M.A., History, 2013 –
'"Rommel, You Magnificent Bastard": The Desert Fox and the
Rehabilitation of
Jeffrey Brown, M.A., History, 2015 – 'More than the Sum of their Parts: The Origin of the Olympic Class Liners'
Scott Martinson, M.A., History, 2015 – 'There and Back Again: The Creation of the British Blues, and the American Blues Revival'
Caitlin Wion, M.A., History, 2015 – '"Nothing is Impossible to a Determined Woman": Louisa May Alcott and Nineteenth-Century Gender Roles'
Rachel Laue, M.A., History, 2016 – 'The Great Obligation: The Serampore Missionaries and the Rise of Social Service in Protestant Missions'
Katrina Radivovic, M.A., History, 2016 – 'Creating Spaces: The Epistolary Movement for Female Autonomy in late Eighteenth-Century England'
Beauregard Bennett, M.A. History, 2017 – '"Gutteral German": Herbert Marcuse, the Media, and Student Radicalism in San Diego During the 1960s'
Courtney Lyell, M.A., History, 2017 – 'Forti Nihil Difficile: How the Victorians Created a New Self-image under Revolutionary Conditions'
S.L. Kay, M.A.,
History, 2020 – 'Arabia Infelix:
Britain, Sharif Hussein, and the Lost Opportunities of Anglo-Arab Relations,
1916-1924'
Katie Waltman, M.A.,
History, 2020 – 'A History of the British Museum’s
Repatriation Debates of the Parthenon Marbles and Benin Bronzes'
Taryn Duffy, M.A.,
History, 2023 – '"All the
world’s a stage": Victoria’s Media Performance and the Birth of the Royal
Family Brand'
M.A. THESIS COMMITTEES, SDSU
Robert M. Sherwood, III, M.A.,
History, 2002 – 'How the Catholic Church Avoided the Black Legend:
An Analysis
of Anti-Spanish Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'
Gabriel Berry, M.A., English, 2004 – 'Ovid moderniz'd: Eighteenth-century Imitations of the Ars Amatoria'
Kevin Sitz, M.A., Political Science, 2006 – 'Irish and British Identity upon the Establishment of the Irish Free State'
Dan Warren, M.A., History, 2006 – 'The
First Opium War between the
Gerardo Ríos, M.A., History, 2009 – ''Esos que no tengan miedo, que pasen a
firmar': The Zapatista Revolution in Southwest Puebla'
Lacey Langston, M.A., Theater, Television, and Film, 2010 – 'The Fear Within: Early Scientific Film and its Influence on the Horror Genre'
Clare Stebbing, M.A., English, 2010 – 'The Measure of a (Wo)man: Female Response to Chance in the Novels of Thomas Hardy'
Asritha Challa, M.A., Computer Science, 2011 – 'Multimedia Software to Teach the British Empire'
Galit Golzer Stam, M.A., History, 2012 – 'Exodus (1960): A Movie with a Message … They Listened!'
Katherine Rose Duran, M.A., Political Science,
2012 – 'Shifting Perceptions of Citizenship in the
Sarah Redden, M.A., English, 2013 –
'Down and Out in
Jared Kramer, M.A., Political Science, 2015 – 'The Common Defense: Challenging State Authority and the Citizen Army Through the Privatization of Force'
Yarely Alejandre, M.A., English, 2015 – 'Joycean Paralysis within the works of D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster'
Patricia Pummill, M.A., English, 2016 – 'Development of the Legal Problem Novel from Caleb Williams to Ivanhoe and Mary Barton'
Andrej Radic, M.A., History, 2016 – 'Shattered Dreams: Accounts of Ordinary Citizens and Soldiers During the Dissolution of Yugoslavia and the War in Croatia'
Christian Alvarado, M.A., History, 2017 – 'Manufacturing a Genedered Nigeria: Academic Discourse at the University of Ibadan, 1948-1977'
Aliyah
Beiruti, M.A., History, 2019 – 'The Cold War Congo: The Congo Crisis and the
Determinants of U.S. Cold War Foreign Policy towards a Newly-Decolonized
Nation'
David
Jackson, M.A., Political Science, 2020 – 'Imperialism: Alive and Well in the
M.A. EXAM COMMITTEES, SDSU History Department (40-book reading lists)
Dale Pluciennik, M.A., History, 2008 – in Imperial History
Jason Perry, M.A., History, 2010 – in Modern European History
John Class, M.A., History, 2012 – in Modern European Racism and Nationalism
Eric Hoobs, M.A., History, 2014 – in Modern World History
Sean Buckelew, M.A., History, 2015 – in Nineteenth-Century British History
Andrew McIlrath, M.A., History, 2015 –
in British Imperial History
Sean Michael Richards, M.A., History, 2018 – in Nineteenth-Century British History
Devin Emery, M.A., History, 2019 – in Nineteenth-Century British and Imperial History
B.A. HONORS THESES DIRECTED (DEPARTMENTAL HONORS PROGRAM), SDSU
Holly Smith, B.A., History, 2006 – 'Influence and Intrigue: Edward VI and the Pursuit of Power'
Corey Valenzuela, B.A., History, 2009
– 'Growing Sentiment and the Shrinking Death Penalty in Early 19th Century
Devin Emery, B.A., History, 2016 – 'The Abolition of British Colonial Slavery: A Public and Political Movement, 1776-1834'
Kristin Herr, B.A., History, 2018 – 'Convicts, Pioneers, and Fatal Shores: The Australian Landscape as a Site of Colonial Identity and Memory'
Christina Rhein, B.A., History, 2018 –
'Nuns in Early Modern
Johanna Bright, History, 2019 – 'The
Significance of Mysticism in the History of the
B.A. HONORS THESIS COMMITTEE
(UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM), SDSU
SERVICE
SERVICE, SDSU HISTORY DEPARTMENT
Liaison Officer for Part-Time Faculty, 1998-2000. Elected to represent 30 other lecturers.
Member, Long-Range Planning Committee, 1998-9
Member, Curriculum Committee, 1998-2000, 2010-
Chair, Honors Committee, 2006-18
Member, Executive Committee, 2006-2010, Feb. 2011-April 2012, January 2017-April 2018
Member, Atlantic History Search Committee, 2007-8
Member, Graduate Committee, 2008-22
Member, Lecturer Evaluation Committee, 2009, 2016
Chair, Lecturer Evaluation Committee, 2010-12, 2014, 2017, 2019
Member, Professional Leaves Committee, Fall 2014
Chair, Professional Leaves Committee, Fall 2010, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
Chair, Phi Alpha Theta Committee (Phi Alpha Theta Advisor), 2010-16
Chair, Recruitment Committee, 2012-13
Chair, Twentieth-Century European History Search Committee, Fall 2012
Chair, Post-Tenure Review Committee, Spring 2017, Spring 2019
Member, Scholarships Committee, 2020-22
Chair, Scholarships Committee, 2018-19
Undergraduate Advisor, Spring 2021, January-March 2022
Department Chair, 2019-22
SERVICE,
Authored
reaccreditation report of the SDSU Social Science Major for future
Authored periodic self-study report for Social Science Program, Spring 2007
Member, Social Science Committee, 2007-8
Presenter, Charles Darwin Film Series (4 films), Spring 2009
Member, Research Committee, 2009-11, 2013-14, 2020-22
Member, Instructionally Related Activities Committee, Spring 2011
Member, Curriculum Committee, 2011-February 2013
Member, Critical Thinking Grant Committee, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
Member, Personnel Committee, 2014-17, Fall 2022
Chair, Personnel Committee, 2017-19
Member, Excellence in Teaching and Research Awards Committee, Spring 2019
SERVICE, SDSU
Member, College of Education 'Blended Curriculum Institute' to redesign K-8 teacher education, Spring 2000-Spring 2001
Convenor of 'Subject Area Action Team' in History/Social Science, coördinating and designing courses and program, and liaising with San Diego Mesa College and the San Diego City Schools. Multiple presentations to groups large and small, Spring 2000-Spring 2002
Member,
Author of Subject Area Statements in History, Social Science, Literature, and the Arts for the Liberal Studies Program (totalling 13,700 words, 1998-2004) (multiple editions)
Judge, Student Research Symposium (various panels), 2009, 2011, 2015-19
Chair, Faculty Grievance ad hoc Statutory Hearing Committee, January-February 2011
Member, Student Research Committee, 2012-22 (including Graduate Student Travel Fellowship subcommittee)
Chair-Elect, Student Research Committee, 2014-15
Chair, Student Research Committee, 2015-18
Member, University Grants and Lectureships Committee, 2014-17
Member, University Research Council, 2015-17
Member, Senate Library Committee, 2015-17
Interim Chair, Senate Library Committee, Fall 2017
Chair, Senate Library Committee, Spring 2018-Spring 2021
Member, Search Committee for Vice-President of Research, 2019-20
Reviewer, Student Undergraduate Research Program, 2019-20
Member, Provost's Advisory Council of Chairs, 2021-22
SERVICE, PROFESSIONAL
Manuscript
Review: American Political Science Review;
Bloomsbury; Pearson Longman; McGraw-Hill; Modern
Intellectual History; the Organization of American Historians; Routledge; Transactions of the Royal Historical Society;
Wadsworth/Cengage; Victorian Review
Grant
Review: American Philosophical
Society
Promotion Review:
Organizational:
Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, World History Association Conference,
Chair, Conference Session, World
History Association,
Organizational: Representative of Phi Alpha Theta national headquarters, Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference, Point Loma Nazarene University, 11 April 2015
SERVICE, EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL PRESENTATIONS
Panelist, all-day seminar on Alfred Crosby and World Environmental History, SDSU Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program, April 1994
Address
to the Cinema Society of San Diego on Queen
Appeared
on KPBS public radio in
Presented 'Sir Frederick Weld and the Idea of European Order in the Pacific in the Mid-Nineteenth Century', Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, San Diego, 7 August 1998. Organized session on 'Anglo-American Ideas of Race in the Pacific in the Nineteenth Century'
Presented
'Mid-Victorian Races as a Function of Mid-Victorian Desires', World History
Association Annual Meeting,
Address
to the Continuing
Presented 'Sir Charles Dilke, Greater Britain (1868), and
the Idea of Conquering People to Make them Free', Pacific Coast Conference
on British Studies,
Presented 'Napier vs Outram: Moral Arguments Among British Indian Officers in the 1840s', Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Riverside, California, 8 March 2014
Presented 'British Views of Canada', Globalizing Confederation: How Governments, Nations and Communities Around the World Viewed the Emergence of Canada in 1867, Toronto, Ontario, 29 September 2016
Presented
'Diabetes as a Mental Disease in Victorian England' to the seminar 'In Sickness
and in Health', Midwest Conference on British Studies,
Presented
'Victorian Imperial Power: The Criticisms and Doubts of Imperialists', Midwest
Conference on British Studies, Ft.Worth,
Presented 'What Was at Stake in British Rule According to Charles Napier', Victorian Interisciplinary Association of the Western US, Seattle, Washington, 9 November 2019
To present 'Diabetes and Misguided Models in the Nineteenth Century', History of Science Society, Portland, Oregon, 9-12 November 2023
AWARDS,
FELLOWSHIPS, AND PROMOTIONS
Voted one of the Favorite Faculty of the Residence Hall Students of SDSU, Fall 2004, in a procedure sponsored by the Residential Education Office. One of 23 faculty selected out of several hundred receiving votes.
Awarded
SDSU Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Grant ($2651) for research in
Voted one of the Favorite Faculty of the Residence Hall Students, SDSU, May 2005
Promoted from Lecturer B (assistant professor scale) to Lecturer C (associate professor scale), SDSU, effective Fall 2005.
Appointed Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Fall 2006
Tenure Awarded, May 2008, effective August 2008
Promoted to Full Professor, May 2011, effective August 2011
SDSU Sabbatical (competitive), Spring 2013 (awarded Fall 2011)
Awarded
SDSU Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Grant ($5896) for research in
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, elected May 2013
PROFESSIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS
ACADEMIC DEGREES
BA from
Major: Urban Studies and Planning. Minors: History, Literature.
MA and CPhil in History, UCSD, June 1989
Major Field: Modern
First Minor: Early Modern
PhD in History, UCSD, 4 Sept. 1993.
Dissertation: Who Built the
Bandwagon?:
A Study of
the Founders of the Colonial Society of 1868.
Co-chairs: Prof. John S. Galbraith. Studies in British and Imperial History.
Prof. Judith M. Hughes. Studies in British and European History.
Committee: Prof. Roy Ritchie. Studies in Tudor/Stuart History.
Prof. Andrew
Wright, FRSL. Studies in the novel (Scott, Dickens, George Eliot, Doris
Lessing).
Prof.
Thomas Dunseath. Studies in Edmund Spenser and William Butler Yeats.
Edward.Beasley@sdsu.edu
http://beasley.sdsu.edu/
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