Dr Alexander Morrison MA, D.Phil (Oxon)

My specialist teaching knowledge covers the history of 19th century European Imperialism, Central Asia ca.1500 - Present,
The Russian Empire ca.1600 - Present, and British India 1757 - 1947. I am happy to supervise undergraduate dissertations on any aspect of Asian history. I teach a third-year Special Subject entitled 'European Imperialism and the Islamic World ca.1780 - 1914', looking at the 19th-century European Empires in comparative perspective, and the Islamic response to colonial rule. The paper covers French rule in Algeria, British rule in Egypt and the Sudan, German, Russian and British informal imperialism in Persia and the Ottoman Empire, British India and Russian rule in the Caucasus and Central Asia. I also teach a second-year paper entitled 'Indian Nationalism and the Partition of the Subcontinent ca.1880 - 1947', which places a particular emphasis on changing religious identities alongside the traditional political narrative of the struggle of Gandhi and the Indian National Congress to free India from British Rule.