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GEORGE ROBB Curriculum vitae

Teaching Interests

Courses on British and Irish History. Thematic courses on the British Empire, Victorian Culture, and Criminal History.

Research Interests

British Social and Cultural History during the 19th and 20th centuries. The History of Crime. Women's History. The British Eugenics Movement.

Education

1990 Ph.D., History. Northwestern University. Major Field: European History. Concentration: Modern Britain. Minor Field: Russian History.

1984 B.A. (honors), History. University of Texas at Austin.

Publications

White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

"Out of the Doll's House: The Trial of Florence Maybrick and Anxiety Over the New Woman," Proteus, Spring 1996.

"The Way of All Flesh: Degeneration, Eugenics, and the Gospel of Free Love," Journal of the History of Sexuality, April 1996.

"Popular Religion and the Christianization of the Scottish Highlands in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," The Journal of Religious History, June 1990.

Book Reviews

Sean McConville, English Local Prisons 1860-1900. Reviewed in TLS, 1 September 1995.

V.A.C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree. Reviewed in TLS, 2 December 1994.

Marie-Christine Leps, Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Discourse. Reviewed in Victorian Studies, Spring 1994.

F.M.L. Thompson, ed. The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, 3 Vols. Reviewed in The Journal of Economic History, December 1993.

Conference Papers

October 1995. "Sick Unto Death: Florence Maybrick and the Myth of Female Violence," North American Conference on British Studies, Washington, D.C.

January 1995. "Race Motherhood: Eugenics and the Maternal Role in Evolution 1880-1920," American Historical Association Conference, Chicago.

May 1994. "Till Death Do Us Part: Spousal Murder in Victorian England," Carleton Conference on the History of the Family, Carleton University, Ottawa.

October 1993. "From New Woman to Superwoman: Feminist Eugenics in Modern England," North American Conference on British Studies, Montreal.

Awards

1996 Mellon Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library.

1994 American Council of Learned Societies, Summer Research Grant.

1987-88 Fulbright (United Kingdom).