a singularly impressive contribution to 20th-century British history ... the appearance of Unsettled could not be timelier
Jordanna Bailkin is a scholar of modern Britain and Empire. She is currently the Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies and Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of The Culture of Property (2004), and The Afterlife of Empire (2012). The Afterlife of Empire won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association, the Stansky Book Prize from the North
American Conference on British Studies, and the Biennial Book Prize from the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. She has also written articles on tattooing in Burma, interracial murder in India, and parenthood in Nigeria.