Recent Publications
- New Delhi: The Last Imperial City (Palgrave 2015)
- “Competing Visions of Empire in the Colonial Built Environment: Sir Bradford Leslie and the Building of New Delhi,” Britain and the World, vol. 8, no. 1 (March 2015)
- David Johnson, “Land Acquisition, Landlessness and the Building of New Delhi,” Radical History Review, issue 108 (fall 2010)
- “Commemorations of Imperial Sacrifice at Home and Abroad: British Memorials of the Great War,” The History Teacher, vol. 43, no. 4 (August 2010) — co-authored with Dr. Nicole Gilbertson
- “Architecture and Visual Literacy: Reading the Colonial Built Environment,” World History Bulletin (spring 2009) — co-authored with Dr. Nicole Gilbertson
- ” A British Empire for the Twentieth Century: The Inauguration of New Delhi, 1931, “Urban History, Vol. 35, no.3 (December 2008)
- World History for High School: A Curriculum, University of California, Irvine, fall 2003
Research Interests
British Colonial Studies, British India, World and Transnational History, Urban History, and Cultural Studies
Courses Taught
- HIST 2600 Methodologies: Modern World Revolutions
- HIST 3000 The Making and Unmaking of the British Empire in South Asia
- HIST 3000 Unappeasable Appetites: World History and Desire
- HIST 3000 Early Modern British Empire
- HIST 3000 Modern British Empire
- HIST 4000 Historiography: The Expansion of the British Empire
- HIST 4600 Research seminar: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Current Projects
Death and the End of Empire in India is a monograph-length study that examines the history, economics, and cultural politics of Britain’s release and India’s acquisition of imperial cemeteries and memorials after Indian independence in 1947. Research for this project is funded by a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship at Regent’s University London.
“Death, Monumentality, and the End of Empire in India” is an article-length study that examines New Delhi’s All-India War Memorial’s colonial and post colonial histories.