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Research
Paul Kramer’s central scholarly concern has been the question of how to teach and write the history of the United States in a self-consciously “globalizing” era, in which the intensification of cross-national economic, political, social and cultural connections is challenging older conceptions of U.S. history as primarily bounded by a national framework. His research and coursework have asked how scholars might historicize the United States’ changing relationships to the many worlds outside its national borders, and has revealed the complex ways that U.S. and global history impinge upon, and mutually constitute, each other. His approach to the project of “globalizing” U.S. history both pays close attention to and problematizes questions of dominance and hierarchy, viewing United States history as a history of empire in which transnational flows and connections have occurred along varying and often steep gradients of power. His first book, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, is a history of the transnational racial politics of U.S. colonialism. He is currently at work on a transnational history of U. S. racial politics across the 20th century. Paul received his PhD in History from Princeton University in 1998.
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Teaching
Prof. Kramer will begin teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Fall 2008. Courses he intends to teach include:
- Connecting Histories: The United States in the World since the Mid-19th Century
- Race, Gender and U. S. International History
- Transnational America, 1877-1940
- The United States as Empire
- Comparing Racial Formations
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Publications
- "The Water Cure: Debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago," The New Yorker, February 28, 2008, pp.38-43.
- The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006) [reprinted by Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, 2006.]
- “Race-Making and Colonial Violence in the U. S. Empire: The Philippine-American War as Race War,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 2006), 169-210. [Adapted version at Japanfocus.org]
- “Decolonizing the History of the Philippine-American War,” preface to Leon Wolff, Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century’s Turn ( New York: History Book Club, 2006), ix-xviii.
- “The Darkness that Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution during the Philippine-American War,” in Ann Stoler, ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History ( Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), 366-404.
- “Empires, Exceptions and Anglo-Saxons: Race and Rule Between the British and U. S. Empires, 1880-1910,” Journal of American History, Vol. 88 (March 2002), pp. 1315-53. Republished in Julian Go and Anne Foster, eds., The U. S. Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives ( Durham: Duke University Press, 2003).
- “White Sales: The Racial Politics of Baltimore’s Jewish-Owned Department Stores, 1935-1965,” in Enterprising Emporiums: The Jewish Department Stores of Downtown Baltimore (Baltimore: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2001), 37-66.
- “Making Concessions: Race and Empire Revisited at the Philippine Exposition, St. Louis, 1901-1905,” Radical History Review, Vol. 73 (Winter 1999), 74-114.
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Awards
& Service
- Program Chair, Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), June 2009.
- Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), 2008.
- Top Young Historian, History News Network, selected August 2007.
- Finalist, National Book Award, Social Sciences Category, Manila Critics Circle, Philippines, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, 2007.
- Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2007-8.
- Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 2007-8 [declined]
- Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), 2007.
- James A. Rawley Prize, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, Organization of American Historians, 2007.
- American Studies Association (ASA) Delegate to “Framing American Studies in a Trans-Pacific Context,” colloquium of the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), Nagoya, Japan, June 2006.
- Co-Editor, “The United States in the World: Transnational Histories, International Perspectives, Cornell University Press, 2005-present.
- Conference Co-Organizer, “Pairing Empires: Britain and America, 1857-1947,” Johns Hopkins University, November 2000.
- Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), for “Making Concessions,” March 2000.
- Fulbright Research Grant on Philippine-American Relations, Spring 2000.
- Kenan Grant for innovative teaching, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 1999.
- Worked profiled in “Tensions of Empire: New American Studies of the Asia Pacific Region,” Chronicle of Higher Education, December 11, 1998.
- Conference Co-Organizer, “1898: War, Literature and the Question of Pan-Americanism,” Princeton University, March 1998.
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