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Contact Info: Department of History Tufts University East Hall, room 07 Medford, MA 02155 617.627.2538 Email Prof. Malchow Office Hours: Mon 8:00-9:00am Wed 8:00-9:00am or by appointment Download CV

Biography

Born in Indiana and raised in Texas, I came to Tufts University (in 1974) from Stanford University, where I studied modern British social and imperial history under the distinguished historian of modern British culture, Peter Stansky. My dissertation treated the politics of 19th century British empire-emigration (published as Population Pressures: Emigration and Government in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain) and subsequent research interests included the social background of 19th century reform movements (Agitators and Promoters in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli), the cultural milieu of Victorian entrepreneurs (Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman), and the construction of "race" in Britain in the 19th century (Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth Century Britain).

With the new millennium, my teaching and research interests (the one somehow informing the other as often happens) drifted away from the Victorians toward post-war, indeed contemporary Britain. In the past few years I have given courses on youth culture in the 1970s, Thatcherism, Britain in the Second World War, the Suez Crisis, the "new ethnicities" of post-imperial Britain, and the Anglo-American "Special Relationship" considered as a matter of cultural rather than political relations. This latter area has provided much of the focus for my current research and writing. My most recent book (Special Relations) is an exploration of the "Americanization" (a somewhat contested concept) of Britain, and especially how the anti-war movement, student rebellions, and black, feminist and gay liberationisms resonated and circulated transatlanticly.

I continue to teach a range of survey and upper level courses on modern Britain and its Empire (from the 18th century), the Anglo-American special relationship (since the Second World War), and aspects of European and American diplomatic history. I have recently developed a wide-ranging general survey course on "the historical perspective in International Relations."

Education

• Ph.D. Stanford University, 1972
• M.A. Stanford University, 1968
• B.A. Southern Methodist University, 1967

Major Publications

• Special Relations: The Americanization of Britain? (2011)
• Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1996)
• Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman (1991)
• Agitators and Promoters in the Age of the Gladstone and Disraeli (1983)
• Population Pressures: Emigration and Government in Late 19^thCentury Britain (1979)

Research in Progress

• Theory, International Relations and the problem of interdisciplinarity

Courses

• History 10: International Relations: The Historical Perspective
• History 65: Great Britain and the British Empire
• History 163: Special Relations: Britain and America Since WWII