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226 Carr Building (East Campus)

Box 90719

Durham, NC 27708-0719

Phone: (919) 684-2343

Fax: (919) 681-7670

  • Philip J Stern

  • Assistant Professor
  • History
  • 232 Carr Building
  • Campus Box 90719
  • Phone: 919-668-1695

  • Specialties

    • Politics, Public Life and Governance
    • Medieval and Early Modern History
    • Legal History
    • Intellectual History
    • Global Transnational History
    • Cultural History
    • Comparative Colonial Studies
    • European and Russia
    • Global and Comparative

  • Research Description

    My work focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the early modern period (loosely defined). My current book is a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am also working on or planning projects related to the history of eighteenth-century British overseas exploration and cartography, the historiography of British India, early modern economic thought, and the history of companies and colonization.

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • Columbia University,
      • 2005
      • BA,
      • Wesleyan University,
      • 1997

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Elected Fellow,
      • Royal Historical Society,
      • November 2011
      • Co-Director, BorderWork(s) Humanities Lab,
      • 2011-2015
      • Morris D. Forkosch Prize for Best Book in British, British Imperial, or British Commonwealth History since 1485,
      • American Historical Association,
      • 2011
      • Franklin Humanities Institute/Mellon Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop,
      • October, 2009

  • Recent Publications

      • P.J. Stern.
      • "Corporate Virtue: The Languages of Empire in Early Modern British Asia."
      • Renaissance Studies
      • (August, 2012)
      • .
      • P.J. Stern.
      • "Review of So Great a Proffitt: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism by James Fichter."
      • Journal of British Studies
      • 51
      • .2
      • (2012)
      • .
      • P.J. Stern.
      • "Bundles of Hyphens: Corporations as Legal Communities in the Early Modern British Empire."
      • Legal Pluralism and Empire.
      • Ed. Lauren Benton and Richard Ross.
      • NYU,
      • forthcoming, 2013.
      • P.J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind.
      • ""Introduction"."
      • Rethinking Mercantilism.
      • Ed. P.J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind.
      • Oxford University Press,
      • forthcoming, 2013.
      • P.J. Stern.
      • "“Governance and Regulatory Frameworks in Early Modern British Asia"."
      • British Atlantic and British Asia: Two Worlds or One?.
      • Ed. HV Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke, and John Reid.
      • 2012.
      Publication Description

      In production.

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