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Danielle Kinsey

Associate Professor – 19c Britain and Empire, diamonds, consumption, imperialism and colonialism, global and transnational histories, sensory paradigms and material culture, the body, gender and sexuality

• BA, MA (Calgary), PhD (Illinois)
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Danielle Kinsey focuses on the history of 19th century Britain and empire, comparative women’s and gender history, and global history. She is particularly interested in studying transnational connections and commodity chains that show the centuries-old development of globalization and how interconnection has been formative in the making of the modern world. Her current book project examines the meaning of diamonds in Britain and Empire across the nineteenth century.  Dr. Kinsey completed her MA at the University of Calgary and her PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Danielle Kinsey is currently the co-editor-in-chief of . Email the website at: editorial-material-culture@mail.h-net.org.

Research Interests

• The development of global commodity chains, particularly as they pertain to Imperial Britain; nineteenth-century gold and diamond rushes in a global perspective
• Mining history, especially in Brazil, India, South Africa, and Cornwall, UK
• The connections between trade, consumption, shopping, material culture, sensory paradigms and modern imperialism
• British empire and culture; imperial, colonial, postcolonial, and global studies; transnationalism
• Histories of the body, the senses, women, and gender
• Historical thinking and pedagogy; online teaching

Honours and Awards

2021 Favourite Faculty Member

2020-21 FASS Teaching Development Award

2019 Favourite Faculty Member

2019 Excellence in Blended and Online Teaching Award

2017-2020 Member of the Canadian Historical Association Council

2018 Nominee for “Favorite Faculty Member”

2015 Nominee for a Capital Educator’s Award

2014 New Faculty Excellence in University Teaching Award

2007 Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Fellowship
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship

Select Publications

“,”&�Բ�����;Journal of British Studies, 48:2 (April 2009), 391-419.

“,”&�Բ�����;Atlantic Studies, 11:4 (December 2014), 449-72.

“,” in The Cambridge World History, volume 7, edited by J.R. McNeill and Kenneth Pomeranz, (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2015), 331-65.

“,”&�Բ�����;Canadian Journal of History, 54:1-2 (Autumn 2019), 1-20 and “,” 39-45.

“,”&�Բ�����;Historical Reflections, 47:2 (Summer 2021), 78-90.

“,”&�Բ�����;Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 43:4 (2021), 479-501.

“,&�Բ�����;Journal of Festive Studies, 3:1 (2021), 215-35.

“,” in Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums: “These Are Our Stories” edited by Kris Belden-Adams and Mary Trent, (New York: Routledge, 2022), 115-131.

“,” in Global Handbook of Inequality, edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Boike Rehbein, (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023), 1-22.

“,” with Erica Fraser, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 50, 2 (2024): 1-13.

“,”&�Բ�����;Museum & Society, 22:2-3 (December 2024), 75-89.

“Bodies That Matter: New Directions in the History of the Body,” co-authored with Willemijn Ruberg and Pauline Driven in , edited by Jochen Hung and Ruberg, (Bloomsbury, 2026), 149-66. 

Recent Graduate Supervisions

Dave Wielusiewicz, MA Thesis: “Consuming India: The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Fiction on British Consumer Culture,” (2012)

Samuel McCready, MA Thesis: “Propriety, Performance, and Desire: An Analysis of Consumer Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain,” (2013, co-supervised with Mark S. Phillips)

Arpita Bajpeyi, MA Public History: “Cosmopolitan Kodai: Class, Nature, History and the Performance of Exclusivity in a Postcolonial Hill Station,” (2014)

Erin Gurski, MA Thesis: “From Acceptance to Assimilation: The Changing Role of Travellers in the (Re)Creation of Irish Nationalism, 1920s-1950s,” (2014, co-supervised with Susan B. Whitney)

Natalie McCloskey, MA Thesis: “Isabella Bird: An Argument for Mobility and a Changed Definition of New Womanhood” (2017)

Denise Steeves, MA Public History: “Unboxing Social History: The Importance of 19th and 20th Century Chocolate Boxes in Chocolate Museums,” (2018, co-supervised with David Dean)

Matthew Dodd, MA Digital Humanities: “The Empire of the Old Bailey Online: Why Zero Matters, (2018, co-supervised with Shawn Graham)

Tom Sloss, MA Thesis: “Danger, Deviancy, and Desire in Apartheid South Africa: An Articulated Network Analysis of Transnational Homoerotic Commodities,” (2019 co-supervised with Jennifer Evans)

Katelyn McGirr, MA Thesis: “No Place for Women: A Graphic Narrative of Fanny Duberly’s Crimean War,” (2021)

Diana Kolesnik, MA Thesis Political Economy: “The Reception of The Ladies’ Paradise in 19^th-Century England and the Fight Against Sensual Capitalism” (2021)

Lisa Bullock, MA Public History: “‘I Learned it From a Board Game’: Reading Historical Narratives in Expedition: Northwest Passage”, (2022, co-supervised with David Dean)

Elizabeth March, MA MRE: “Putting the Costume Back into Costume Drama: Examining Clothing in Translation in Jane Austen’s Emma from Novel to Screen,” (2022)

David Laferrière, MA Thesis: “‘Because it is There’: Cartography, Mountaineering and the Colonization of Chomolungma,” (2024, co-supervised with Chinnaiah Jangam)

Hannah Carr, MA Thesis: “‘In Revenge He Has Taken the Stays’: Dandyism and Social Othering in Regency Newspapers, 1814 to 1818,” (2024)

Prof. Kinsey, along with Jo McCutcheon and Carly Ciufo, is also a founding member of and occasional contributor to the Canadian Historical Association’s Teaching and Learning Blog. Visit it at .

In the Media

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9IZN2rrvVY4%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26enablejsapi%3D1%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcarleton.ca

Brahmjot Kaur, “,” NBC News, Feb 17 2023.

Podcast with Phillip Primeau, “,” Jan 16 2023.

Podcast, “,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio National, Dec 5 2022.

Brahmjot Kaur, “,” NBC News, Sept 12 2022.

Lucia Stein, Som Patidar, Tom Joyner, and Lucy Sweeney, “,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, May 2 2023.

Interview with Nil Köksal on , “Crown Jewels,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, May 2 2023.

Kalrav Joshi, “,” New Lines Magazine, May 4 2023.

Podcast, “,” with Ge Tang, Sarah Comyn, Rebecca Macklin, Nick McGee, and Danielle Kinsey, Jan 8 2025.