|
 Andrea Geddes PooleAssistant Professor
Research interests: comparative modern European history, modern British and French social, cultural and political history, metropolitan history, queer history, women's history, fine art and architecture, history of fashion Current project: currently engaged in research concerning 19th century philanthropy as it extended across the empire and involves work on a group of free women of colour active in Antigua prior to the abolition of slavery, the men and women who established the Melbourne Shakespeare Society, women missionaries in British Palestine, the philanthropic activities of the Butterfield family of Bermuda. Select publications: Stewards of the Nation's Art: Contested Cultural Authority 1890-1939 (University of Toronto Press, 2010). Shortlisted for Wallace K. Ferguson Award Canadian Historical Association "outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history". Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women's Citizenship (due out in Spring 2012). "The Citizens of Morley College", Journal of British Studies, Volume 50, no. 4, October 2011. "The National Art-Collections Fund and the Cultural Politics of Aristocratic Marginalization" Nineteenth Century Studies, Vol. 21, Autumn, 2007. "The Treasury and the Trustees: Loss of Cultural Authority at the National Gallery" Twentieth Century British History, March, 2005, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1-28. |
