Heather Streets
Associate Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 315 – 509-335-5570
streetsh@wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Duke University, 1998
Academic & Professional Interests
Streets teaches modern British history, the history of imperialism and colonialism since 1800, European women's history, modern European history, historical geography, and world history. She is director of the Ph.D. program in world history and co-edits, with Tom Laichas of Crossroads School, World History Connected: The e-Journal of Learning and Teaching.
Publications
Streets is the author of Martial Races: The Military, Masculinity, and Race in British Imperial Culture, 1857–1914, which was published by Manchester University Press in 2004. She also co-authored, with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler, the world history textbook Traditions and Encounters, Brief Edition, which was published by McGraw-Hill in September 2006. She is currently working on a text on global imperialism with Trevor Getz at San Francisco University, which will be published by Longman in 2007, and on a monograph about inter-imperial connections between British India, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina between 1880 and 1940.
Her articles include "The Rebellion of 1857: Origins, Consequences, and Themes," in Teaching South Asia, Volume 1, No. 1 (December 2001); "Identity in the Highland Regiments in the Nineteenth Century: Soldier, Region, Nation," in Steve Murdoch and Andrew Mackillop, editors, The Scottish Military Experience, 1600–1800, Brill Academic Press, 2002; "Empire and 'the Nation': Institutional Practice, Pedagogy, and Nation in the Classroom," in Antoinette Burton, editor, After the Imperial Turn, Duke University Press, 2002; and "Military Influence in Late Victorian and Edwardian Popular Media: The Case of Frederick Roberts," Journal of Victorian Culture, Edinburgh University Press, 2003. She is the area editor for Britain and the British Empire for the Encyclopedia of the Modern World, to be published in 2008 by Oxford University Press.