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Damon Salesa
Associate Professor
D. Phil., Oxford University, England, 2001
Other U of M Affiliation:
Program in American Culture
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2529 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-4885
E-mail:
salesa@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
The British Empire. New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Racial & colonial discourses, especially race ‘mixedness’.
Indigenous histories (especially of the Pacific), the politics of history making and history writing.
Comparative imperialisms and colonialisms.
History of sport.
Colonial medicine.
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Biography:
Damon Salesa is associate professor in the Department of History, and the Program in American Culture. Born in New Zealand, of Samoan and New Zealand parents, he holds an M.A. (hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand (1996) and a D.Phil in Modern History from Oxford University (2000), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In Auckland he trained primarily as a historian of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, and in Oxford he was concerned with specifically British imperial concerns.
He is currently finishing the revisions of a manuscript based on his doctoral work, which examines the problem of race ‘mixing’, or intermarriage, in the early Victorian British empire. This was a complicated problem that spanned metropolitan scientific and intellectual discourse, colonial policies, and local developments, relations, and encounters in the colonies. He also has another, largely completed, manuscript, which focuses on racial politics in 19th century Samoan history.
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Selected Publications:
‘“The Power of the Physician”: Doctors and the Dying Maori in Early Colonial New Zealand.’ Health and History 3, no. 1 (2001): 13-40.
‘“Travel-Happy” Samoa: Colonialism, Samoan Migration and a “Brown Pacific”.’ New Zealand Journal of History 37, no. 2 (2003): 171-88.
‘Half-Castes between the Wars: Colonial Categories in New Zealand and Samoa.’ New Zealand Journal of History (2000).
‘Samoa's Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison.’ In Tense and Tender Ties: Race and Empire in North American History, edited by Ann Laura Stoler. Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
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Current Projects:
Mixing Races: An Early Victorian Imperial Problem (Oxford University Press: Historical Monographs, forthcoming)
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