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Antoinette Burton is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the social sciences, with significant contributions to sociology, political science, history, anthropology, history and philosophy of science, and gender studies.

Throughout their career, they have published extensively on topics including historical studies and socio-cultural analysis, African sexualities and LGBTQ+ issues, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, Vietnamese history and culture studies, colonialism, slavery and trade, historical and contemporary political dynamics, and legal and cultural studies analysis.

Frequent coauthors include Stephanie Fortado, Clare Anderson, Caroline Bressey, Ann Curthoys, and Isabel Hofmeyr.

Antoinette Burton has contributed to multiple academic journals and publication venues with repeated publications in:

  • Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
  • Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
  • The American Historical Review
  • Indian Journal of Gender Studies
  • Settler Colonial Studies

Recent scholarly papers include:

  • Webbed connectivities: the imperial sociology of sex, gender, and sexuality, 2023, Nineteenth Century Contexts
  • Accounting for Colonial Legal Personhood: New Intersectional Histories from the British Empire, 2020, Law and History Review
  • Introduction, 2021, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
  • Stuart Ward and Astrid Rasch, eds. Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 183. $26.95 (paper), 2020, Journal of British Studies
  • Richard Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History, 2020, Journal of Contemporary History

In 2024, Antoinette Burton published a book titled Gender History: A Very Short Introduction through Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

    Antoinette M. Burton

  • Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

    Antoinette Burton;Durba Ghosh;Jeff Sahadeo;Craig Robertson

  • After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation

    Antoinette Burton;Susan D. Pennybacker;Stuart Ward;Heather Streets

  • POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES AND BEYOND

    Ania Loomba;Suvir Kaul;Matti Bunzl;Antoinette M Burton

  • Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India

    Antoinette M. Burton

  • Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

    Antoinette Burton

  • Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History

    Tony Ballantyne;Antoinette M. Burton

  • Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities

    Antoinette M. Burton

  • At the Heart of the Empire

    Antoinette Burton

  • The white woman's burden: British feminists and the Indian woman, 1865–1915

    Antoinette M. Burton

  • The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire

    Antoinette Burton;Faisal Devji;Mrinalini Sinha;Jon Soske

  • At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain

    Antoinette M. Burton

  • Moving subjects : gender, mobility, and intimacy in an age of global empire

    Tony Ballantyne;Antoinette M. Burton

  • Who Needs the Nation? Interrogating ‘British’ History

    Antoinette Burton

  • Connective Tissue: South Asians and the Making of Postcolonial Histories in Britain

    Antoinette M Burton

  • Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation

    Antoinette M Burton

  • Contesting the Zenana: the Mission to make "Lady Doctors for India," 1874-1885

    Antoinette Burton

  • Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories

    Antoinette M Burton

  • Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism

    Antoinette M. Burton

  • Archive Stories : Facts, Fictions, and the Writing History

    Antoinette Burton;Durba Ghosh;Jeff Sahadeo

  • Thinking beyond the boundaries: Empire, feminism and the domains of history

    Antoinette M Burton

  • The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century

    Antoinette Burton

  • Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality

    Antoinette Burton

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