Stacie Kent is an Assistant Professor in History and International Studies. Her research and teaching focus on entanglements and transformations generated by global capitalism in imperial and post-colonial contexts. Trained in history and social theory at the University of Chicago, her work connects the temporal rhythms, expansionist needs, and spatial integration of capitalist reproduction to government regulation and work regimes in East and Southeast Asia.
Her current book project,“Colonial Capital” contributes to the fields of colonial governmentality, globalization studies, histories of capitalism, and modern Chinese history. Re-examining interactions between Euroamerican colonialism and globalizing capitalism in the Late Qing Empire, the book argues treaty relations, new commercial regulations, and emergent bureaucratic practices took shape around connections and imperatives generated by transnational capital reproduction.
Her courses in global history ask students to explore histories of capitalism, elements of global modernity, and relationships between imperial pasts and global presents.
Her next project will focus on the transnational production of broadcast television in East and Southeast Asia.
