Biography
Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson is an associate professor of modern European history, specializing in the social and cultural history of modern Britain and empire. She received her PhD in history from Northwestern University and her MA with a specialization in Public History from Arizona State University. Her research focuses on how the things that shape everyday life–what you eat, where you live, how you work, and who you love–intersect with big historical questions about class, gender, race, empire, and power. She is the author of Working-Class Raj: Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India (Cambridge, 2023), as well as articles published in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History and Victorian Studies. She is currently at work on a project on the early history of social housing in the British Empire. Her work has been supported by the UM College of Liberal Arts, the Sarah Isom Center for Women & Gender Studies, the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester, and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, among others.
Dr. Lindgren-Gibson teaches undergraduate courses in modern European history, British history, gender history, public history, and the global history of food, as well as in the Honors 101/102 sequence. She teaches graduate courses in European historiography, the British Empire, and public history. She enjoys working with students to create public-facing projects. Students in her public history and food history courses have developed websites on the history of Neilson’s Department Store and food blogs featuring family recipes. Her History on Location students have worked with the M Partner community engagement program to develop a walking/driving tour for the MB Mayfield House in Ecru, MS.
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Courses Taught
- HST 199 What is History?, British Empire
- HST 349 Society and the Sexes in Modern Europe
- HST 460 Intro to Public History
- HST 461 Intro to European History 1648-present
- HST 492 Food A Global History
- HST 552 Modern European Historiography
- HST 595 History on Location
- HST 660 Gender History of Modern Europe
Education
Ph.D. History, Northwestern University (2016)