Heather Streets is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University, where she teaches World History at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She received her Ph.D. in the History of the British Empire at Duke University in 1998. She is director of the WSU History department's World History Ph.D. program and is co-editor of "World History Connected: the Ejournal of Learning and Teaching". Recent publications include "Martial Races: The Military, Race, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914", published in 2004 by Manchester University Press.