During the academic years 1990/91 and 1991/92, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies focused on the problem of colonialism, imperialism, and the colonial aftermath.
Topics Included:
- Imperial legitimation
- Student unrest
- Diaspora
- Mission civilisatrice and justifications for colonialism
- Conversion
- Civil war
- Imperial power
- Slavery and emancipation
- Usury and corruption
- Nationalism
- Feminism
- Alterity
- Religious revolts
Davis Center Fellows
1990-1991
- Colin Dayan, Queen's College
- David Hardiman, University of London
- John M. Hart, University of Houston
- Michael Osborne, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Richard Rathbone, University of London
- Gayarti Chakravorty Spivak, University of Pittsburgh
1991-1992
- Shahid Amin, University of Delhi
- Leonard Blusse van Oud-Alblas, Leiden University
- Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Universite Paris-7
- Richard Elphick, Wesleyan University
- Steven Feierman, University of Florida
- Zachary Lockman, Harvard University
- Richard Price