Society of Scholars
The Society of Scholars is an intellectual community of humanists of diverse generations, academic ranks, and departmental affiliations who contribute to and learn from one another’s work. Each year, approximately eight faculty and three dissertation research fellowships support members of the Society of Scholars. Scholars in year-long residence at the University of Washington may be invited to participate as well. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to discuss their research in progress.
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2023 - 2024 Society of Scholars
2020 - 2021 Society of Scholars Fellow
Taylor Soja (she/her/hers)
Little World Wars: Violence and Experience in the British Empire, 1885-1981
My dissertation is the first academic history of a diverse group of Britons who took part in multiple conflicts in the British empire, from small wars around the African continent to the First World War. Their stories help us to re-consider the relationship of WWI to those imperial wars that came before it, but also to understand the centrality of war and violence to the maintenance and expansion of the British empire, particularly in Africa.