Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson

assistant professor of History

Alex Lindgren-Gibson is a historian of modern Britain and empire, with special interests in the history of the family, history of emotions, and the intersections between race, class, and gender. She received her MA in History with a concentration in Public History from Arizona State University and her PhD in History from Northwestern University (2016). Her book, Working-Class Raj: Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India, reframes British working-class history as part of global history, asking what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their social worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to seemingly unshakeable British social hierarchies. Since coming to the University of Mississippi, she has taught courses in British Empire, European gender history, public history, and the global history of food.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: As an Isom Fellow, Alex will be starting work on a new project that thinks through histories of friendship in empire through the lens of gender and sexuality studies.