Antoinette Burton

Antoinette M. Burton is an American historian and professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.^[1]

Since 2015, Antoinette Burton has served as the director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.^[2]

She was named a 2018 Presidential Fellow for the University of Illinois system along with Wendy Lee,^[3] and in 2019, she was named the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.^[4]

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^[5][6]
• 2014 NEH Fellowship^[7][8]
• 2023 Appointed to the Board of Illinois Humanities^[9]
• 2025 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[10]

• Histories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class. Berghahn Books, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78920-328-8
• Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (with Renisa Mawani). Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4780-1128-6
• The Trouble With Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0199936601
• Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (with Isabel Hofmeyr). Duke University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5827-5
• An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie (with Mary-Ann Winkelmes). University of Illinois Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-252-08023-4
• Empires and the Reach of the Global: 1870-1945 (with Tony Ballantyne). Harvard University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-674-28129-5
• The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader. Duke University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5662-2
• A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles. Duke University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8223-5188-7
• Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism. Duke University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8223-4902-0
• Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire. University of Illinois Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-252-07568-1
• The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau. Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-4071-3
• Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8223-3467-5
• Archive stories: facts, fictions, and the writing of history, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8223-3688-4
• "When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American Century", The Journal of Modern History Vol. 75, No. 2, June 2003.
• Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-19-514425-3
• After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8223-3142-1
• Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 978-0-312-29335-2
• Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (editor). Routledge, 1999. ISBN 978-0-415-51368-5
• At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain. University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-520-20958-9
• Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8078-4471-7
• Review article Not Even Remotely Global? Method and Scale in World History History Workshop Journal, no. 64 (Autumn 2007), pp. 323 - 328, Oxford University press
• Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8078-4471-7

• "Book Review", American Historical Review, October 1999
• "Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915.(Book review)", Nineteenth-Century Prose, September 22, 1996
• Appearances on C-SPAN