Email: benderji@bc.edu
Education:
The National University of Ireland, Galway (MA in Culture and Colonialism)
College of William & Mary (BA in History)
Research Interests:
At present, I am developing a thesis project on the imperial impact of the Indian "Mutiny." I am particularly interested in the communication and interaction that occurred between the disparate locations of the British Empire during the mid-nineteenth century. Other research interests include Ireland's relationship with the British Empire.
Awards:
American Academy of Political and Social Science, Graduate Fellow International Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, 2001-2002
Publications:
“Mutiny or Freedom fight?: The 1857 Indian Mutiny and the Irish press.” In Newspapers and Empire in Ireland and Britain: Reporting the British Empire, c. 1857-1921, ed. Simon J. Potter. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004.
Conferences:
“The Imperial Politics of Famine: the 1873-4 Bengal Famine and Irish Nationalism.” Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, Ireland Beyond Borders, April 2005
“The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: A Window into Edmund Burke’s Imperial Ideology.” Presented at Fourth Galway Conference on Colonialism, India and Ireland, June 2004
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