Emma Battell Lowman

Emma Battell Lowman is Lecturer in the History of the Americas at the University of Hertfordshire.  To see the staff pages of my History colleagues click here. 

I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick, and an MA in History from the University of Victoria. My undergraduate degree (HBASc) was in Combined Honours Arts & Science and French Literature with a Minor in Biology. I am a social historian whose interdisciplinary research into nineteenth and twentieth century histories of settler colonies/states is concerned with investigating power and knowledge production, colonialism and identity, and the embodied experience of domination and resistance.  Emma is a Settler Canadian from the borderlands of Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territories, near Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. A dual Canadian-British citizen, Emma has taught and researched on both sides of the Atlantic. Though focused in histories of Empire and Britain, her work spans, Sociology, Literary Studies, and Indigenous Studies.She is a Managing Editor of Settler Colonial Studies, the Assistant to the Editor for the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.