About

Philippa Judith Levine

Professor of History

Contact Information
E-mail: philippa@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-1670
Office: SOS 280

 

Education
B.A. History, King's College, University of Cambridge
M.A. History, King's College, University of Cambridge
Ph.D. History, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, 12/1983
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Levine's most recent work is on race and sexuality in the British Empire, with a particular focus on sexually transmissible diseases and prostitution. She has also published extensively on Victorian feminism and the development of professional history in nineteenth-century Britain. She is now at work on a study of evolution, eugenics and colonialism, as well as a book on the debates around evolutionary theory from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Institute for British and Irish Studies,http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/history/ibis/
 

Publications

Book
Levine, P. |. (2009). L'impero britannico. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Levine, P., Grayzel, S. |. (2008). Gender, Labour, War and Empire in Modern Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Levine, P. (2007). The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset. Harlow: Pearson Longman.
Levine, P. (2004). Gender and Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Levine, P. (2003). Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. New York, NY: Routledge.
Levine, P., Fletcher, I., Mayhall, L. (2000). Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race. London: Routledge.
Levine, P. (1990). Feminist Lives in Victorian England. Private Roles and Public Commitment. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Levine, P. (1987). Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Levine, P. (1986). The Amateur and the Professional. Historians, Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 

Honors and Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, 2007-2008   
Visiting Fellow, King's College, University of Cambridge, Spring 2008   
Sidney Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Fellow, McMaster University, Canada, 2007  
Derek J. Brewer Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, Spring 2007   
USC Innovative Teaching Award, Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2005-2006   
USC Technology Enhanced Learning Incentive Program Award, 2005-2006   
USC Center for Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowship, 2004-2005  
Elected Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2005   
Distinguished Visitor, Sydney University, Australia, Fall 2004   
USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, Awarded to faculty who have excelled in the areas of teaching, research and service to the University, 2003  
USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, 2002-2003   
Rockefeller Fellowship Recipient, Bellagio Residency, Spring 2002   
Gamma Sigma Alpha (USC) Professor of the Year, Spring 2001   
elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society, 1994  
USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, 1992-1993   
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Editorial Advisory Board, British Scholar, 2008-2009   
Editorial Advisory Board, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2008-2009   
Editorial Advisory Board, British Scholar, 2007-2008   
Editor, Empire and Modernity monograph series, Ashgate, 2007-2008   
Editorial Advisory Board, History-Compass, 2007-2008   
Editorial Advisory Board, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2007-2008   
Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 2007-2008   
Editor, Empire and Modernity monograph series, Ashgate, 2006-2007   
Editorial Advisory Board, History-Compass, 2006-2007   
Editorial Advisory Board, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2006-2007   
Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 2006-2007   
Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2005-2006   
Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 2005-2006   
Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2004-2005   
Editorial Board, Women's History Review, 2004-2005   
Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2003-2004   
Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2002-2003   
Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2001-2002   
Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies, 2000-2001   
 

Professional Offices
Vice-President and President Elect, North American Conference on British Studies, 2008-2010  
 
 
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