Rate My Professor Daniel Brückenhaus

Brückenhaus's research interests focus on the history of global anti-imperialism, government surveillance, and emotions in the modern period. His monograph, Policing Transnational Protest: Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, 1905-1945, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017, with a paperback edition in 2020. Other key publications include Anticolonial Comedy: Humor among Vietnamese Activists in France, 1909-1923 in Yearbook of Transnational History (2021); British Passport Restrictions, the League Against Imperialism, and the Problem of Liberal Democracy in The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (2020); Challenging Imperialism Across Borders: Recent Studies of Twentieth-Century Internationalist Networks against Empire in Contemporary European History (2020); Identifying Colonial Subjects: Fingerprinting in British Kenya, 1900-1960 in Geschichte und Gesellschaft (2016); and contributions to Learning How to Feel: Children’s Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2014). In 2018, he received an ACLS Fellowship for his current book project, Laughing at Imperialism: Ridicule and Satire as Anticolonial Strategies, 1880-1970, which explores the use of humor by anticolonial leaders and activists against British, French, and German empires.