Ellen Boucher is Assistant Professor of European History at Amherst College. She received her Ph.D. in Modern European History from Columbia University in 2008, where she specialized in British Imperial History with a focus on oral history. Before joining Amherst, she held a tenure-track position at Furman University and also taught at Fordham University and Columbia University. One of her articles, 'The Limits of Potential: Race, Welfare, and the Interwar Extension of Child Emigration to Southern Rhodesia', The Journal of British Studies (October 2009), won the 2010 Neil Sutherland Biennial A...