Antoinette Burton

Antoinette M. Burton (born 1961) is an American historian and professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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

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

Awards and Appointments 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship 2014 NEH Fellowship 2023 Appointed to the Board of Illinois Humanities 2025 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Works Histories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class. Berghahn Books, 2020. Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (with Renisa Mawani). Duke University Press, 2020. The Trouble With Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism Duke University Press, 2015. Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (with Isabel Hofmeyr). Duke University Press, 2014. An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie (with Mary-Ann Winkelmes). University of Illinois Press, 2014. Empires and the Reach of the Global: 1870-1945 (with Tony Ballantyne). Harvard University Press, 2014. The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader. Duke University Press, 2014. A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles. Duke University Press, 2011. Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism. Duke University Press, 2011. Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire. University of Illinois Press, 2008. The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau. Duke University Press, 2007. Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005. Archive stories: facts, fictions, and the writing of history, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005, "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. After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, Duke University Press, 2003, Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (editor). Routledge, 1999. At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain. University of California Press, 1998. Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 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.