Marc Matera
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Division | Humanities Division |
| Department | History Department |
| Phone | 831-459-4060 (office), 831-459-2555 (message) |
| Office | 214 Stevenson |
| Office Hours | Spring 2013: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30AM to 12:00PM |
| Campus Mail Stop | Stevenson Academic Services |
| 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA |
Research Interests
Modern Britain and the British Empire; Black European Studies; Modern European cultural, social, and intellectual history; Black Atlantic; women's and gender history; history of sexuality; and world historyBiography, Education and Training
B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel HillM.A., University of Colorado, Boulder
Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Selected Publications
London and the Black International: African and West Indian Intellectuals in the Imperial Metropolis, 1919-1950 (in progress)The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. Co-authored with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
“Black Intellectuals in the Imperial Metropolis and the Debate over Race and Empire in Sanders of the River.” Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation-building in Britain between the Wars. Laura Beers and Geraint Thomas, eds. London: Institute of Historical Research, 2012.
“An Empire of Development: Africa and the Caribbean in God’s Chillun.” Special Issue on “The Documentary Film Movement and the Spaces of British Identity.” Twentieth Century British History 23, 1 (March 2012).
“Colonial Subjects: Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain.” Journal of British Studies 49, 2 (April 2010): 388-418.
Courses Taught
HIS 101C - Oceans in World HistoryHIS 181 - Modern Britain and the British Empire
HIS 196H - Sex and the City: History of Sexuality in Urban Areas around the Globe