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Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research extend from the history of the British Empire to global history. She is the author of three prize-winning books. The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (Penguin Press, 2017) examines the dynamics of modern globalization through the life and times of the novelist Joseph Conrad. A New York Times best book of 2017, The Dawn Watch won the Cundill Prize in History, and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize in Biography. Her previous book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Knopf, 2011), presents the first global history of the loyalists who fled the United States after the American Revolution and resettled elsewhere in the British Empire. Liberty's Exiles received numerous distinctions including the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and the George Washington Book Prize; it was also shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. Her first book, the Duff Cooper Prize-winning Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conqu
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Jasanoff, Maya 1974–
PERSONAL: Born 1974; daughter of Jay (a professor) and Sheila (a professor) Jasanoff. Education:Harvard University, A.B. (summa cum laude), 1996; University of Cambridge, M.Phil., 1997; Yale University, Ph.D., 2002.
ADDRESSES: Office—Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400180, Randall Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904; fax: 434-924-7891. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Writer and educator. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, assistant professor of British history.
MEMBER:Phi Beta Kappa.
AWARDS, HONORS: Andrew W. Mellon fellowship in the humanities, 1996–97; Jacob K. Javits fellowship, 1998–2002; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2005; book-of-the-year selection from London Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, and Independent, and from Economist, all for Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850.
WRITINGS:
Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850, Knopf (New York, NY), 2005.
Contributor to scholarly journals, includin
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Maya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University. Her first book, Edge of Empire, was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications including the Economist, Guardian and Sunday Times. Her second, Liberty’s Exiles, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize (now Baillie Gifford Prize). A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the prestigious 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. Her essays and reviews appear frequently in publications including the Guardian, New York Times, and New York Review of Books. She was a finalist for the 2011 Cundill History Prize with Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.
A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Jos
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