Alex Lindgren-Gibson

Associate Professor of History

• Faculty
• Instructor

• Email:

  aslindgr@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  Bishop 310

• Phone:

  662-915-7148

Dr. Alex Lindgren-Gibson is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi.

Research Interests

Dr. Lindgren-Gibson’s book Working-Class Raj puts British working-class history in global perspective, exploring what happened to working-class men and women in the nineteenth century when they left Britain and traveled to India. Once there, their social worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to seemingly unshakeable British social hierarchies. 

Dr. Lindgren-Gibson’s new project, supported by the Isom Center, focuses on histories of friendship, and the traces they leave (or don’t leave) in the archive. 

She teaches undergrad and grad courses in public history and her students have working on local history projects including a heritage trail for the MB Mayfield House in Ecru, MS, a history of Nielsen’s Department Store in Oxford, and a walking tour of post-integration Black student experiences at UM.

Biography

Dr. Lindgren-Gibson received her MA in Public History from Arizona State University before completing her PhD in History from Northwestern University. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in European history, gender history, and public history. Dr. Lindgren-Gibson’s work has been published in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History and her book Working-Class Raj: Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Her research has been supported by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society, the University of Rochester’s Humanities Center, and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies.

Publications

Articles:
“‘I wish I could see you as often as I could see your letter’: Imperial Anxieties and Nonelite Family Life in the Raj,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 17.3 (Winter 2016) 

Courses Taught

• HST 199 What is History?, British Empire
• HST 349 Society and the Sexes in Modern Europe
• HST 460 Intro to Public History
• HST 461 Intro to European History 1648-present
• HST 492 Food A Global History
• HST 552 Modern European Historiography
• HST 595 History on Location
• HST 660 Gender History of Modern Europe

• Office, Department or Center

  Department of History

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Campuses

  Oxford

• Areas of Expertise

  Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson is a historian of modern Britain and empire, focusing on histories of the family, class, and gender and sexuality.