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Fae is an historian of modern Britain and the
British Empire. She studied at Cambridge
University and University College London and has
since held research and teaching posts at the
University of Sussex, Kings College London and
the University of North Carolina. Her main
interest is in social and cultural history,
particularly questions of race, class and gender
and the politics of domesticity. Dr Dussart’s
work has been varied: she has worked on domestic
servants and their employers in England and
India in the 19th and 20th centuries, settlers
and humanitarians in colonial New Zealand and
shellshock in the First World War.
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Specialisms |
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19th and 20th century British and Imperial
social, cultural and political history,
especially in terms of the significance of race,
gender and class difference, Domestic service in
Britain and India, The family and intimacy in
the 19th and 20th centuries |
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Education: |
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1994-1997 |
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St John’s College Cambridge
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BA (Hons)
History |
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1999-2000 |
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University College London
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MA Modern
History (Distinction) |
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2000-2005 |
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University College London
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PhD London
‘Aspects of Tthe Master-
Servant Relationship in 19th Century England and
India’ (funded by AHRB) |
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Employment: |
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Jan 2010 to present
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Affiliate Lecturer in
British and Imperial History, University of
North Carolina (London Campus). |
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Sept 2008–June2009
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Lecturer in Imperial and
Commonwealth History (fixed term), Kings College
London lecturing and teaching seminar classes on
undergraduate courses ‘Worlds of the British
Empire 1700- 1960’, ‘Historical Skills, Sources
and Approaches’ and ‘Imperial and Commonwealth
History’, and MA courses ‘Britain and the
Dominions 1850 – 1939’ and ‘Concepts and Debates
in Imperial and Commonwealth History’. |
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Jan 2008- ongoing
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Visiting Research Fellow at
the University of Sussex. Research and writing
(until June 2011) |
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Jan 2007 |
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Assistant Lecturer on undergraduate
course ‘Cultures of Colonialism’, Geography
Department, Universityof Sussex, Falmer, Brighton. Lecturing duties. |
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Jan 2005-Jan 2008
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow,
working with Prof Alan Lester on Leverhulme
funded project,
Colonial Contests and Connections: Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa and Britain in the
Nineteenth
Century, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton.
Research and writing duties. |
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These are some of the topics she has lectured
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‘In the Service of Empire: British employers
and their Indian servants in 19th century India’
presented at the
Departmental History Seminar, History
Department, Kings College London, February 2009. |
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‘Domestic Servants and The Ilbert Bill
Controversy’ presented at the Imperial History
seminar at the Institute of
Historical search, November 2008. |
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‘Duty and Service in Empire and Colony 1850
-1914’ invited paper presented at seminar
‘Reconfiguring the British: Nation,
Empire, World’, Institute of Historical
Research, October 2006. |
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‘I beg to remain your humble servant’: Debates
on the ‘Servant Problem’ in The Times between
1850 and 1914’
presented at Modern History Seminar, UCL,
December 2003. |
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‘Behind closed doors: intimacy and
dependence in the servant/employer relationship in 19th
century England’
presented at Modern History seminar, UCL, July
2003. |
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‘Indian Domestic Servants and the Ilbert Bill
Controversy of 1883’ presented at Research
Student Colloquium,
Centre for Asian and African Literatures, SOAS,
Feb 2003. |
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‘The employer/servant relationship in 19th
century India’ invited paper presented at 71st
Anglo-American Conference
of Historians, New Researchers’ Panel, Institute
of Historical Research, July 2002. |
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‘Internal foes’: Domestic servants in 19th
century India’ presented at postgraduate
seminar, History Department, UCL, May 2002. |
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‘Advice Manuals and Household Management in
19th Century India and England’ presented at
postgraduate seminar,
History Department, UCL, April 2001. |
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For further information please contact
Sara Cameron on 020 7209 3777 |
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