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“ Joining Indian and Middle Eastern history, Erin O'Halloran follows activists, poets, painters, and feminists who explored the political and cultural possibilities of belonging to a common 'East.' She shows how these dream palaces were built on the British Empire's fracturing bedrock—then demolished by the nationalist architects of the postcolonial order ”
—Nile Green, Ibn Khaldun Chair in World History, UCLA
“ A model of comparative scholarship, East of Empire shows how the British Empire made for a new internationalism among its subjects. Bringing together Indian and Egyptian nationalisms, as well as the movements for Pakistan and Palestine, Erin O'Halloran rewrites their histories into a new narrative about the making of the postcolonial world ”
—Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford
Meet the Author
Dr. Erin M.B. O’Halloran is a historian of empire and transnational connectivity across North Africa, the Levant and South Asia. Working at the intersection of Area Studies, Global & Imperial History, and Critical Heritage Studies, her scholarship and writing illuminate the importance of the past for understanding our own tumultuous present day.
Erin has lived and worked across Europe, North America, the Middle East and South Asia, in roles ranging from in-house Publications Editor at the Carnegie Middle East Centre & the United Nations headquarters in Beirut, to first hire at Al-Monitor.com. She holds a Doctorate in Global History from the University of Oxford (where she taught Middle Eastern History for four years), and research degrees from the London School of Economics & the American University of Beirut. She was formerly a Research Associate with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Toronto, where she lectured on International History.
She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she serves as Principal Investigator on the British Academy & European Commission-funded Gernika as Orient: Bombs, Art & Fake News. This interdisciplinary research project connects 20th and 21st century histories of aerial bombardment across Europe and the MENA region, and highlights the deep entanglement of the visual and material cultures they have given rise to.
