Dr. Hannah Weiss Muller is a historian of Britain and the British Empire with particular interests in the long eighteenth century and the intersections of law, monarchy, identity, and subjecthood.  She teaches survey courses on early modern and modern Britain, the British Empire, Modern Europe, and Britain and South Asia.  Her upper level seminars focus on global wars and revolutions in the eighteenth century, literature of empire, and colonial and postcolonial studies.

 

Dr. Muller’s current book project, provisionally entitled Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the British Empire, argues that subject status served as an organizing and contested principle of the eighteenth century and that the bond between monarch and subject was integral to the coherence of the British Empire.  She examines particular debates and struggles that surfaced in Grenada, Quebec, Minorca, Gibraltar, and Calcutta to document the range of peoples who shaped the contours of subjecthood and the array of rights that became associated with British subject status.  Her recent article, “The Garrison Revisited: Gibraltar in the Eighteenth Century,” appeared in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2013) and focuses on the profound interdependencies between the garrison at Gibraltar and its surrounding environment.  It revisits the anxieties said to haunt isolated garrison societies and explores the range of interactions between colonial and local populations.  Dr. Muller regularly presents papers and serves as a commentator at national and international conferences.