History Department
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY 13323
(315) 859-4409 kgrant@hamilton.edu
Selected Publications
“The Limits of Exposure: Atrocity Photographs in the Congo Reform Campaign,” in Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno (eds.), Humanitarian Photography: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 64-88.
"The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights," History Compass, 11:8 (2013), 573-83.
“Christian Critics of Empire: Missionaries, Lantern Lectures, and the Congo Reform Campaign in Britain,” revised and republished in Martin Shipway (ed.), The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Vol. IV: Reactions to Colonialism (London: Ashgate, 2013), 91-122. Originally published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History in 2001.
“Fearing the danger point: The study and treatment of human starvation in the United Kingdom and India, c. 1880-1974,” in Marshall McCue (ed.), Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation(Springer, 2012), pp. 365-78.
"British Suffragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger Strike," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 53:1 (2011), pp. 113-43.
Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1880-1950, co-edited with Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
"Human Rights and Sovereign Abolitions of Slavery, c. 1885-1956," in Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine, and Frank Trentmann (eds.), Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, c. 1880-1950. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 80-102.
"The Transcolonial World of Hunger Strikes and Political Fasts, c. 1909-1935," in Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy (eds.), Decentering Empire: Britain, India, and the Transcolonial World (Orient Longman, 2006), pp. 243-69.
"A Question of Trust: The Government of India, the League of Nations, and
Mohandas Gandhi," co-authored with Lisa Trivedi, in R.M. Douglas et al. (eds.),
Imperialism on Trial: International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Comparative
Perspective (Lexington Books, 2006), pp. 21-43.
A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 (Routledge, 2005).
"Trust and Self-Determination: Anglo-American Ethics of Empire and International Government," in Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann (eds.), Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges (Palgrave, 2002), pp. 151-173.
"Bones of Contention: The Repatriation of the Remains of Roger Casement," Journal of British Studies, July 2002, pp. 329-353.
Work-in-Progress
Book-length project: "Last Weapons: A History of Hunger Strikes and Political Fasts"
Teaching at Hamilton College
John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003
History 104, "Europe and its Empires, c. 1500 to the Present"
History 230, "England, Ireland, and Empire, 1485-1688"
History 231, "England, Ireland, and Empire, 1688-2007"
History/English 271, "Cultures of Empire, c.1790-2000," co-taught with Professor Patricia O’Neill of the English Department.
History 278, "South Africa, 1652-1998"
History 282, "Rebellious Union: Britain and Ireland, 1690-1998"
History 335, "Hunger in History"
History 383, Seminar, "Studies in British and Irish History: The History of
Photography in Britain and the Empire"
History 383, Seminar, "Studies in British and Irish History: Histories of the I.R.A."
History 383, Seminar, "The Early Modern English Empire"