Catherine Hall
Catherine Hall FRHistS | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) , Northamptonshire, England |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sussex University of Birmingham |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
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Catherine Hall
Early life and education
Catherine Barrett (later Hall) was born in 1946 in
She then attended the
Advocacy and other interests
Hall was involved in student politics and activism in Birmingham around 1968, but then had a baby, which changed her life. She got involved in the
In the early 1960s, she participated in a march for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.[3]
In 1970, Hall attended the UK's first National Women's Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford. She was a member of the Feminist Review collective between 1981 and 1997.[4]
Academic career
Hall is a feminist historian, known for her work on gender, class, race and empire between 1700 and 1900.[5]
She was employed as a "gender historian" at the
She was appointed Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History University College London (UCL) in 1998, and was Principal Investigator of the "Legacies of British Slave Ownership" and "Structure and Significance of British-Caribbean Slave Ownership, 1763–1833" research projects. She retired from her professorship on 31 July 2016.[6]
As of May 2022[update], she is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at UCL and chair of its digital scholarship project, the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, on which she has worked since 2009.[7]
Awards and recognition
- 2016: Offered the Dan David Prize from the Dan David Foundation in Tel Aviv, Israel, which included a £225,000 research fund; however, in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in, Hall rejected the award, stating that it was "an independent political choice" to do so.[8]
- 2018: elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)[9]
- 2019: Honorary degree from the University of York[5]
- 2021: Leverhulme Medal, awarded by the British Academy "in recognition of Professor Hall's impact across modern and contemporary British history, particularly in the fields of class, gender, empire and postcolonial history"[10]
Personal life
Hall met her future husband, cultural theorist and activist
Stuart died in 2014.
Published works
Books
- Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850 (1987, new edition 2002, with Leonore Davidoff)
- White, Male And Middle-Class: Explorations In Feminism And History (1992)
- Gendered Nations: Nationalisms And Gender Order In The Long Nineteenth Century (2000 editor, with Ida Blom and Karen Hagemann)
- Defining The Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender And The British Reform Act Of 1867 (2000, editor, with Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall)
- Cultures Of Empire: Colonisers In Britain And The Empire In Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries (2000, editor)
- Civilising Subjects: Metropole And Colony In The English Imagination, 1830–1867 (2002)
- Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories, 1750 to the Present (2010, editor, with Keith McClelland)
- Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain (2012)
Articles
- "Writing History, Making 'Race': Slave-Owners and Their Stories". Taylor & Francis Online. (Full text can also be requested via Researchgate.)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Hall, Catherine (4 October 2021). "Interview with Catherine Hall". Times Higher Education (Interview). Interviewed by McKie, Anna. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- OCLC 1005885722.
- ^ a b Morley, David; Bill Schwarz (10 February 2014). "Stuart Hall obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Hajkova, Anna (17 February 2020). "Feminist History Group". The University of Warwick. Warwich Un. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Honorary graduates for 2019 announced". University of York. 15 July 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Retirement of Professor Catherine Hall". History. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Staff". Legacies of British Slavery. 12 May 2022. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ Samuels, Gabriel (24 May 2016). "One of Britain's most famous academics refuses Israeli award". The Independent. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy". British Academy. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ "UCL professor recognised for ground-breaking work on legacies of British slavery". University College London. 2 September 2021.
- ^ Morley, David; Schwarz, Bill (11 February 2014). "Stuart Hall obituary - Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review". The Guardian. p. 39. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Grant, Colin (31 March 2017). "Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall review – from Jamaica to the New Left and Thatcherism". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Stuart Hall's Archive". Stuart Hall Foundation. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "Stuart Hall's Library | Centre for Contemporary Literature". Retrieved 6 December 2021.