History

Before starting at Keele in 2011, Dr. Bright was a post-doctoral fellow at the the University of East Anglia, then taught at the London School of Economics and Goldsmith’s College, London. She completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2009 on Chinese Indentured Labour in South Africa and the Formation of a Nation, 1902-10.

Dr. Bright is a specialist in modern British imperial and African history.  She has a particular interest in migration and information networks in the British Empire, especially concerning race, violence, labour, law, popular politics and identity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Chinese labour, race, violence, and global spectacle in South Africa, 1902-10 (Cambridge Imperial and Postcolonial Studies Series,
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012)

'Asian Migration and the British World, 1850-1914’, in Andrew S. Thompson and Kent Fedorowich (eds.), Empire, Identity and Migration in the British World (Manchester University Press)

'Who is a “Real South African”?  Colonial nationalism and the 1904 Cape Colony Election’ - forthcoming

• HIS-10029 Modern History
• HIS-10030 Historical Research and Writing
• HIS-20066 Imperialism
• HIS-20078 Power in the Modern World
• HIS-30110/HIS-30113 The Making of Comtemporary Africa I & II