
Laura Tabili
- Professor, History
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 626-8420
- Cesar E Chavez Building, Rm. 403F
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- tabili@arizona.edu
Awards
- Visiting Professorship
- Leverhulme, Spring 2013
- Sabbatical leave Spring 2009
- What type of organization made the award?: SBS;, Fall 2009
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2023-24 Courses
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Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Britain 1914 - Present
HIST 321B (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2023) -
Women's Work: Past & Present
GWS 252 (Spring 2023) -
Women's Work: Past & Present
HIST 252 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2022) -
Europe Since 1945
HIST 314B (Spring 2022) -
Europe in Modern World
HIST 150C1 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2021) -
Europe 1870-1945
HIST 314A (Fall 2021) -
Europe in Modern World
HIST 150C1 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Britain 1914 - Present
HIST 321B (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2021) -
Senior Capstone
HIST 498 (Spring 2021) -
Britain 1700-1914
HIST 321A (Fall 2020) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2020) -
Intro Study of History
HIST 301 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2020) -
Europe Since 1945
HIST 314B (Spring 2020) -
Hist of Women In Europe
GWS 455 (Spring 2020) -
Hist of Women In Europe
HIST 455 (Spring 2020) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2019) -
Europe 1870-1945
HIST 314A (Fall 2019) -
Europe in Modern World
HIST 150C1 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Britain 1914 - Present
HIST 321B (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2019) -
Europe in Modern World
HIST 150C1 (Spring 2019) -
Independent Study
HIST 699 (Spring 2019) -
Britain 1700-1914
HIST 321A (Fall 2018) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2018) -
Senior Capstone
HIST 498 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2018) -
Europe Since 1945
HIST 314B (Spring 2018) -
Women and Work
GWS 453 (Spring 2018) -
Women and Work
HIST 453 (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2017) -
Europe 1870-1945
HIST 314A (Fall 2017) -
Europe in Modern World
HIST 150C1 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Britain 1914 - Present
HIST 321B (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2017) -
Hist of Women In Europe
GWS 455 (Spring 2017) -
Hist of Women In Europe
HIST 455 (Spring 2017) -
Britain 1700-1914
HIST 321A (Fall 2016) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2016) -
Europe in Modern World
HIST 150C1 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Tabili, L. -. (2011). Global Migrants, Local Culture: Natives and Newcomers in Provincial England, 1841-1939 corrected proofs submitted December 2010 (except for Index)..
- Tabili, L. -. (2012). Global Migrants, Local Culture: Natives and Newcomers in Provincial England, 1841-1939 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)..More info;Full Citation: Global Migrants, Local Culture: Natives and Newcomers in Provincial England, 1841-1939 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).;
Chapters
- Tabili, L. -. (2009). “Ghulam Rasul's Travels: Migration, Recolonization, and Resistance,” in Rehana S. Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee, eds., South Asians in Britain, 1870-1950: Interactions and Modes of Resistance, (Continuum). Continuum.
- Tabili, L. -. (2010). Ghulam Rasul's Travels: Migration, Recolonization, and Resistance,” for the edited volume Rehana S. Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee, eds., South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1870-1950 (London: Continuum), submitted 27 August 2010, corrected proofs submitted 2.
- Tabili, L. (2014). Encyclopedia article, “Race & Ethnicity”. In Fin de Siecle World, ed. Michael Saler(pp (7000 words)). London: Routledge.
- Tabili, L. -. (2012). Ghulam Rasul's Travels: Migration, Recolonization, and Resistance.More info;Full Citation: Ghulam Rasul's Travels: Migration, Recolonization, and Resistance,” in volume Rehana S. Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee, eds., South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1870-1950 (London: Continuum, 2102), 54-69.;
- Tabili, L. -. (2009). A Homogeneous Society? Britain's `internal others', 1800-present,.More info;Full Citation: A Homogeneous Society? Britain's `internal others', 1800-present," in At Home With the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World, eds. Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 53-76.;
Journals/Publications
- Tabili, L. -. (2009). Empire is the Enemy of Love: Edith Noor's Progress and Other Stories. Gender & History.More info;Full Citation: Empire is the Enemy of Love: Edith Noor's Progress and Other Stories," Gender & History 17, 1(April 2005):5-28.;
- Tabili, L. -. (2009). Having Lived Close Beside Them All the Time': Negotiating National Identities Through Personal Networks. Journal of Social History.More info;Full Citation: `Having Lived Close Beside Them All the Time': Negotiating National Identities Through Personal Networks," for "Kith and Kin," special issue of the Journal of Social History, 39, 2 (Winter 2005): 369-87 (actually appeared January or February 2006);
- Tabili, L. -. (2009). Outsiders in the Land of Their Birth: Exogamy, Citizenship, and Identity in War and Peace. Journal of British Studies.More info;Full Citation: Outsiders in the Land of Their Birth: Exogamy, Citizenship, and Identity in War and Peace," Journal of British Studies 44, 4 (October 2005): 796-815. ;
Presentations
- Tabili, L. (2013, 10 April 2013.). “Provincial & Parochial? Long Distance Migrants in North East England,”. Seminar,. Middlesbrough,: Teesside Centre for Regional & Local Historical Research,.
- Tabili, L. (2013, 13 April 2013.). “Imperialism & Culture”. Distance-learning MA day school,. Sheffield Hallam University,: Leverhulme Foundation.
- Tabili, L. (2013, 17 April 2013.). “Closed Communities? Integrating Migrants in Provincial England,” Leverhulme Public Lecture,,. Leverhulme Public Lecture, S. Sheffield Hallam University: Leverhulme Foundation.
- Tabili, L. (2013, 21 November 2013.). Author Meets Critic: Laura Tabili, Global Migrants, Local Culture: Natives and Newcomers in Provincial England, 1841-1939,. Annual Meeting,. Chicago Illinois,: Social Science History Association.
- Tabili, L. (2013, 22 March 2013.). “Women & Long Distance Migration: North East England, 1841-1939,". Women’s History Seminar,. University of London,: Institute of Historical Research,.
- Tabili, L. (2013, 5 March 2013.). “Overseas Migrants in North East England: Numbers &Networks,”. Seminar,. University of Huddersfield: History Department,.
- Tabili, L. (2013, 9 May 2013). “Bridgeheads or Backwaters? Interwar Settlements & Post-War Migrants,”. Leverhulme Public Lecture. Sheffield Hallam University: Leverhulme Foundation.
- Tabili, L. (2013, International Women’s Day,). “Anchors & Bridges: Women’s Centrality to Global Migration,” 8 March 2013.. Leverhulme Public Lecture,. Sheffield Hallam University,: Leverhulme Foundation.
- Tabili, L. (2014, 24 April 2013.). “The ‘Arab Quarter’ in South Shields: Representations & Recent Findings,”. Seminar of British & Irish Worlds Group,. Northumbria University, Newcastle,: British & Irish Worlds Group,.
- Tabili, L. -. (2012, 2010-04-01). Ghulam Rasul's Travels: Migration, Recolonisation & Resistance in Interwar Britain,” 9 April 2010, as part of panel, “Invisible Port-Cities: The Trans-Local Networks and Onshore World. Association for Asian American Studies. Austin, Texas,.More info;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
- Tabili, L. -. (2012, 2010-09-01). Unimportant People in an Unimportant Place: Overseas Migration to South Shields, 1841-1939,” 24-25 September 2010. Western Conference on British Studies. Austin, Texas,.More info;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
- Tabili, L. -. (2012, 2011-03-01). Bedrock of Social Order or 'Women in Stir'? What Can Feminists Learn From Histories of Marriage?. GWS Colloquium. Women's Studies.More info;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
- Tabili, L. -. (2012, 2013-02-01). Using African History to Teach about Europe, Labor & Empire,” “,” Friday, March 4, 2011.. Innovative Methods in Teaching Global, African, and Oral History: A Symposium in Honor of Allen Howard. Rutgers University,.More info;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
- Tabili, L. -. (2010, 2007-11-01). Transborder Migration in Global and Comparative Perspective,” for Migration Research Dialogue: An Interdisciplinary Discussion: Migrants and Our Arizona-Sonora Border,” sponsored by the Binational Migration Institute, Mexican-American Studies and Research. University of Arizona.More info;Invited: Yes;
- Tabili, L. -. (2010, 2008-11-01). Writing World History by Doing a Local Study: Promise and Pitfalls,” presented to the postgraduate Seminar on the Local and the Global, History Department, Sheffield Hallam University, 5 November 2008 (invited).. Postgraduate Seminar. Sheffield, England.More info;Invited: Yes;
- Tabili, L. -. (2010, 2010-04-01). Ghulam Rasul's Travels: Migration, Recolonisation & Resistance in Interwar Britain,” presented to the Association for Asian American Studies, 9 April 2010, Austin, Texas, as part of panel, “Invisible Port-Cities: The Trans-Local Networks and Onshore World. Association for Asian American Studies. Austin, Texas.More info;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
- Tabili, L. -. (2010, 2010-09-01). Unimportant People in an Unimportant Place: Overseas Migration to South Shields, 1841-1939,” presented to the Western Conference on British Studies, Austin, Texas, 24-25 September 2010.. Western Conference on British Studies. Austin, Texas.More info;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
- Tabili, L. -. (2009, 2005-05-01). A Homogeneous Society? Britain's Internal `Others', 1800-present, presented at At Home with the Empire, conference, University College, London, England, 20-21 May 2005. (invited). At Home with the Empire, conference. London, England.More infoA Homogeneous Society? Britain's Internal `Others', 1800-present, presented at At Home with the Empire, conference, University College, London, England, 20-21 May 2005. (invited);Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
- Tabili, L. -. (2009, 2005-05-01). Reconfiguring British Nationality: Naturalization and Self-Naturalization, c.1860-1920, presented to the Reconfiguring the British Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, England, 26 May 2005. (invited). Reconfiguring the British Seminar, Institute of Historical Research,. London, England.More infoReconfiguring British Nationality: Naturalization and Self-Naturalization, c.1860-1920,""Reconfiguring British Nationality: Naturalization and Self-Naturalization, c.1860-1920," presented to the "Reconfiguring the British" Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, England, 26 May 2005. (invited);Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
- Tabili, L. -. (2009, 2005-10-01). Border Benders, Shapeshifters and Invisible Men in the British Merchant Navy, 1900-1920, presented to the 24th Western Humanities Alliance, 20-22 October 2005, Tucson, Arizona.. Western Humanities Alliance. Tucson, Arizona.More infoBorder Benders, Shapeshifters and Invisible Men in the British Merchant Navy, 1900-1920," presented to the 24th Western Humanities Alliance, 20-22 October 2005, Tucson, Arizona.;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
- Tabili, L. -. (2009, 2005-10-01). State Formation, Citizenship, and Human Rights, 1900-1920, presented to the North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, Colorado, 7 October 2005. North American Conference on British Studies. Denver, Colorado.More infoState Formation, Citizenship, and Human Rights, 1900-1920,” presented to the North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, Colorado, 7 October 2005.;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
- Tabili, L. -. (2009, 2007-11-01). Transborder Migration in Global and Comparative Perspective,” for Migration Research Dialogue: An Interdisciplinary Discussion: Migrants and Our Arizona-Sonora Border,” sponsored by the Binational Migration Institute, Mexican-American Studies and Researc. Migration Research Dialogue: An Interdisciplinary Discussion: Migrants and Our Arizona-Sonora Border,” sponsored by the Binational Migration Institute, Mexican-American Studies and Research Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies, University of. Tucson, Arizona.More infoTransborder Migration in Global and Comparative Perspective,” for Migration Research Dialogue: An Interdisciplinary Discussion: Migrants and Our Arizona-Sonora Border,” sponsored by the Binational Migration Institute, Mexican-American Studies and Research Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, 28 November 2007 (invited).;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
- Tabili, L. -. (2009, 2008-11-01). “Writing World History by Doing a Local Study: Promise and Pitfalls,” presented to the postgraduate Seminar on the Local and the Global, History Department, Sheffield Hallam University, 5 November 2008 (invited).. postgraduate Seminar on the Local and the Globa. Sheffield, England.More info“Writing World History by Doing a Local Study: Promise and Pitfalls,” presented to the postgraduate Seminar on the Local and the Global, History Department, Sheffield Hallam University, 5 November 2008 (invited).;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
Other Teaching Materials
- Tabili, L. (2013. Produced a preliminary inventory of naturalization case files of Sheffield residents held by British National Archives, Kew,. for Applied History Programme, Sheffield Hallam University, April-May 2013..
- Tabili, L. (2013. “Writing Migration History,” research guide to Sheffield archives & libraries, May 2013.. for the Applied History Programme, Sheffield Hallam University,.
Others
- Tabili, L. -. (2009). Woven Together in Their Destinies: Global Migrants, Local Cultures 1841-1939.More infobook manuscript completed January 2009, under consideration 31 December 2009;Full Citation: same as above;Status: Submitted But Not Yet Accepted;
- Tabili, L. (2010). Review of Susan Pennybacker, From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain.More infoReview of Susan Pennybacker, From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain (Princeton University Press, 2009), submitted April 2010. Review of Jacqueline Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2009), Reviews in History (online journal of the Institute of Historical Research, London), December 2009 (submitted August 2009). Review of Michael H. Fisher, Shompa Lahiri, and Sinder Thandi, A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, for Journal of Social History (Spring 2010), 770-772. Review of Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 (Princeton, 2007), Victorian Studies 51, 1 (Autumn 2009) Review of Mica Nava, Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, culture, and the Normalisation of Difference (Berg, 2007) for Patterns of Prejudice apparently appeared Fall 2009 (that's when I received the proofs). Review of Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), submitted to The Historian July 2007. "Lascars and Black Seamen," in the Oxford Companion to Black British History, eds. David Dabydeen and JT Gilmore, (Oxford: 0xford University Press, 2007). Review of Kathleen Wilson, ed., A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840, in The Historian 69, 1 (Spring 2007). Review of Gerald Horne, Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica in International Journal of Maritime History 18, 1 (June 2006): 457-459.
- Tabili, L. (2012). Review of Ray Costello, Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships (University of Liv.More infoReview of Ray Costello, Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships (University of Liverpool Press, 2012) submitted to New West Indian Guide October 2012Review of Natasha Vall, Cultural Region: North east England, 1945-2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011), submitted to Journal of Modern History 9 November 2011. Review of Margaret Makepeace, The East India Company's London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers, 1800-1858 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2010), Victorian Studies 54, 2 (Winter 2012): 350-352. Review of Gregory Claeys. Imperial Skeptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920. (Ideas in Context.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010) American Historical Review 116, vol.5 (December 2011):1569-1570. Review of Susan Pennybacker, From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain (Princeton University Press, 2009), Journal of Modern History 83, 2 (June 2011):419-421. Review of Jacqueline Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2009), Reviews in History (online journal of the Institute of Historical Research, London), December 2009 (submitted August 2009). Review of Michael H. Fisher, Shompa Lahiri, and Sinder Thandi, A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, for Journal of Social History (Spring 2010): 770-772. Review of Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 (Princeton, 2007), Victorian Studies 51, 1 (Autumn 2009): 177-179. Review of Mica Nava, Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, culture, and the Normalisation of Difference (Berg, 2007), Patterns of Prejudice 43, 5 (December 2009): 525-528. Review of Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), The Historian 70, 4 (Winter 2008): 855-856.
- Tabili, L. (2013, January). Review of G. Balachandran, Globalizing Labour: Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c.1870-1945 (New Delhi: Oxford, 2012),. International Journal of Maritime History.
- Tabili, L. (2014, unknown). Review of Ray Costello, Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships (University of Liv. New West Indian Guide 88, 1/2 (2014): 107-108..More infoReview of Ray Costello, Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships (University of Liverpool Press, 2012) submitted to New West Indian Guide October 2012Review of Natasha Vall, Cultural Region: North east England, 1945-2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011), submitted to Journal of Modern History 9 November 2011. Review of Margaret Makepeace, The East India Company's London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers, 1800-1858 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2010), Victorian Studies 54, 2 (Winter 2012): 350-352. Review of Gregory Claeys. Imperial Skeptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920. (Ideas in Context.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010) American Historical Review 116, vol.5 (December 2011):1569-1570. Review of Susan Pennybacker, From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain (Princeton University Press, 2009), Journal of Modern History 83, 2 (June 2011):419-421. Review of Jacqueline Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2009), Reviews in History (online journal of the Institute of Historical Research, London), December 2009 (submitted August 2009). Review of Michael H. Fisher, Shompa Lahiri, and Sinder Thandi, A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, for Journal of Social History (Spring 2010): 770-772. Review of Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 (Princeton, 2007), Victorian Studies 51, 1 (Autumn 2009): 177-179. Review of Mica Nava, Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, culture, and the Normalisation of Difference (Berg, 2007), Patterns of Prejudice 43, 5 (December 2009): 525-528. Review of Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), The Historian 70, 4 (Winter 2008): 855-856.
- Tabili, L. (2012, unknown). Review of Ray Costello, Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships (University of Liv.More infoReview of Ray Costello, Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships (University of Liverpool Press, 2012) submitted to New West Indian Guide October 2012Review of Natasha Vall, Cultural Region: North east England, 1945-2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011), submitted to Journal of Modern History 9 November 2011. Review of Margaret Makepeace, The East India Company's London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers, 1800-1858 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2010), Victorian Studies 54, 2 (Winter 2012): 350-352. Review of Gregory Claeys. Imperial Skeptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920. (Ideas in Context.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010) American Historical Review 116, vol.5 (December 2011):1569-1570. Review of Susan Pennybacker, From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain (Princeton University Press, 2009), Journal of Modern History 83, 2 (June 2011):419-421. Review of Jacqueline Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2009), Reviews in History (online journal of the Institute of Historical Research, London), December 2009 (submitted August 2009). Review of Michael H. Fisher, Shompa Lahiri, and Sinder Thandi, A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, for Journal of Social History (Spring 2010): 770-772. Review of Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 (Princeton, 2007), Victorian Studies 51, 1 (Autumn 2009): 177-179. Review of Mica Nava, Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, culture, and the Normalisation of Difference (Berg, 2007), Patterns of Prejudice 43, 5 (December 2009): 525-528. Review of Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), The Historian 70, 4 (Winter 2008): 855-856.
- Tabili, L. (2010, (Spring 2010): 770-772.). Review of Michael H. Fisher, Shompa Lahiri, and Sinder Thandi, A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, for. Journal of Social History.