William Bamber

William is a global historian specializing in the history of the Ottoman Middle East and South Asia. His research explores how changing modes of personal consumption and everyday technology enabled novel forms of transnational interconnection and expressions of globalizing selfhood, gender and anti-imperialism across late 18th and 19th century Asia. He is currently working on a book project that uses trans-Asian movements of fashion to illustrate the importance of image-print, machine sewing and mass consumption in shaping early ideals of ‘South-South’ identification and modernizing masculinity in the later 19th century Asian cities. Recently graduated from the University of Washington, he also has degrees from Sabancı University in Turkey, and Newcastle University in the UK. His research has been supported by CLIR-Mellon, SSRC IDRF and ACLS-Mellon fellowships.