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Philippa Levine

Professor of History

Contact Information
E-mail: philippa@usc.edu
Phone: (213)740-1670
Office: SOS 280

 

Education

  • B.A. History, King's College, University of Cambridge
  • M.A. History, King's College, University of Cambridge
  • Ph.D. History, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, 12/1983

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Levine's most recent work is on race and sexuality in the British Empire, with a particular focus on sexually transmissible diseases and prostitution. She has also published extensively on Victorian feminism and the development of professional history in nineteenth-century Britain. She is now at work on a study of evolution, eugenics and colonialism, as well as a book on the debates around evolutionary theory from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions

  • Institute for British and Irish Studies,http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/history/ibis/

Publications

Book
  • Levine, P. |. (2009). L'impero britannico. Bologna: Il Mulino.
  • Levine, P., Grayzel, S. |. (2008). Gender, Labour, War and Empire in Modern Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Levine, P. (2007). The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset. Harlow: Pearson Longman.
  • Levine, P. (2004). Gender and Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Levine, P. (2003). Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Levine, P., Fletcher, I., Mayhall, L. (2000). Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race. London: Routledge.
  • Levine, P. (1990). Feminist Lives in Victorian England. Private Roles and Public Commitment. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  • Levine, P. (1987). Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
  • Levine, P. (1986). The Amateur and the Professional. Historians, Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Honors and Awards

  • Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, 2007-2008   
  • Visiting Fellow, King's College, University of Cambridge, Spring 2008   
  • Sidney Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Fellow, McMaster University, Canada, 2007  
  • Derek J. Brewer Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, Spring 2007   
  • USC Innovative Teaching Award, Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2005-2006   
  • USC Technology Enhanced Learning Incentive Program Award, 2005-2006   
  • USC Center for Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowship, 2004-2005  
  • Elected Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2005   
  • Distinguished Visitor, Sydney University, Australia, Fall 2004   
  • USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, Awarded to faculty who have excelled in the areas of teaching, research and service to the University, 2003  
  • USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, 2002-2003   
  • Rockefeller Fellowship Recipient, Bellagio Residency, Spring 2002   
  • Gamma Sigma Alpha (USC) Professor of the Year, Spring 2001   
  • elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society, 1994  
  • USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, 1992-1993   

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
  • Editorial Advisory Board, British Scholar, 2008-2009   
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2008-2009   
  • Editorial Advisory Board, British Scholar, 2007-2008   
  • Editor, Empire and Modernity monograph series, Ashgate, 2007-2008   
  • Editorial Advisory Board, History-Compass, 2007-2008   
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2007-2008   
  • Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 2007-2008   
  • Editor, Empire and Modernity monograph series, Ashgate, 2006-2007   
  • Editorial Advisory Board, History-Compass, 2006-2007   
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2006-2007   
  • Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 2006-2007   
  • Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2005-2006   
  • Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 2005-2006   
  • Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2004-2005   
  • Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 2004-2005   
  • Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2003-2004   
  • Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2002-2003   
  • Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2001-2002   
  • Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2000-2001   
Professional Offices
  • Vice-President and President Elect, North American Conference on British Studies, 2008-2010  
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