Professor of History
Matt Stanard has been teaching at Berry College since 2006. He has published a number of books and articles about Europe’s relations with the wider world, with a particular focus on European culture, overseas empire and decolonization. He has lived in or traveled to Europe regularly since the early 1980s.
Education
- B.A., Wake Forest University
- M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington
Teaching Interests
- Modern European History
- Africa since 1800
- World History
- Imperialism, Colonialism, and Nationalism
Research Interests
Dr. Stanard is a historian of modern European history (roughly 1789 to recent times) with an emphasis on Europe's relations with the wider world, in particular European imperialism and decolonization from the late 1800s to the second half of the twentieth century. He has lived or traveled in Europe regularly since the early 1980s. Dr. Stanard has published a number of essays on European overseas imperialism, comparative empires, Belgian colonialism in the Congo, and colonial culture in Europe. He has been a Wolfsonian Fellow at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach, Florida, a Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow in Brussels, a Chancellor's Fellow at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and a participant in the National History Center's Decolonization Seminar in Washington, D.C.
Field Experience
Listen to Dr. Stanard's interview for 'This Week in History: The Congo Free State' for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program Nightlife.
Selected Publications
- Dr. Stanard's Book, Selling the Congo, is now out in paperback with University of Nebraska Press.
- Dr. Stanard's European Overseas Imperialism, 1879-1999: A Short History, has been published by Wiley.
- View Dr. Stanard's author page at Amazon.com.
- Dr. Stanard's latest book, The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock: Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium, has been published by Leuven University Press. (Distributed by Cornell Univ. Press in U.S.)
- Now available for pre-order! Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire Co-edited with Berny Sèbe, Decolonising Europe? offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas and socio-cultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome.