Isabella Jackson

Education

Candidate PhD History, University of Bristol, 2008-2011

Supervisor: Professor Robert Bickers

Dissertation: Managing Shanghai: The International Settlement administration and the development of the city, 1900-1943

MPhil Modern Chinese Studies with Distinction, St Cross College, Oxford University, 2008
Supervisor: Dr Rana Mitter

Dissertation: The evolving Chinese perspective and representation of the Shanghai Municipal Council and the broader International Settlement from the Republican era to the present

MA Colonialism in History with Distinction, Bristol University, 2006
Supervisor: Professor Robert Bickers
Dissertation: 'Red-Headed Rascals': The Sikh Policemen of Treaty-Port Shanghai

BA History with First Class Honours, Bristol University, 2005
Supervisor: Professor Robert Bickers
Thesis: The Natural Feet Society: A Case Study in Public Reform in Turn-of-the-Century Shanghai

Awards

Mar-June 2011 Library of Congress AHRC/ESRC Scholarship to spend three months based at the John W. Kluge Research Center using the materials at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

2009 Paula Sandri Prize in Recognition of Innovative and Original Research, Postgraduate Summer School, University of Oslo
2006 - 2011 BICC Studentship Award from the ESRC

2005 - 2006     AHRC Research Preparation Masters Award
2005             Mytton Scholarship, Bristol University
2005             George Hare Leonard Prize for Distinction in History for the highest mark achieved in the final year, Bristol University
2004             Gardenhurst Prize in History for the highest mark achieved in the second year, Bristol University

Publications

'The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai', forthcoming in Modern Asian Studies, 12,000 words. To be published 2012; available online later in 2011.

Conference and Seminar Papers

'An Experiment in International Governance: The Shanghai Municipal Council', Seminar, The John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 22 March 2011.

'Semi-colonialism in Pratice: The Shanghai Municipal Council as a Transnational Institution', Seminar in Comparative Histories in Asia 'seminar series, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, 18 November 2010.

付诸实行的半殖民主义：把工部局作为跨国的机构 ('Semi-colonialism in Practice: The Shanghai Municipal Council as a Transnational Institution'), The 6th International Symposium on the History of Republican China, Nanjing, August 2010.

'Managing a Transnational Municipality: The Shanghai Municipal Council', States of Statelessness: The 3rd International History Postgraduate Intensive, University of Sydney, July 2010.

'The Sikh Policemen of Treaty-port Shanghai: A Flavour of the Raj on Nanjing Road', Joint East Asian Studies Conference, University of Sheffield, September 2009.

'Public Policy in an Evolving City: The Shanghai Municipal Council, 1900-1943', Bristol Postgraduate Network for East Asian Studies Conference 'Public Policy in East Asia', University of Bristol, July 2009.

'The Sikh Policemen of Treaty-port Shanghai: A Flavour of the Raj on Nanjing Road', China Postgraduate Network Annual Conference, University of Manchester, April 2009.

'Chinese Representations of the Foreigners in Treaty-port Shanghai, Yesterday and Today', China Postgraduate Network Re-launch Conference, Oxford University, March 2008.

'"Red-headed Rascals": The Sikh Policemen of Treaty-port Shanghai', Britain in China Workshop, University of Bristol, February 2007.

Positions of Responsibility

English-language editor for the journal Shijie Lishi (World History), published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.
Course Co-Director, first year undergraduate Special Topic 'Communists, Capitalists and Colonialists: Understanding the History of Republican-era Shanghai'.
Tutor on first-year undergradute Outline unit 'Introduction to the History of the British Empire', University of Bristol.

Membership Secretary of China Postgraduate Network (click on tab above for further information).
Member of Editorial Commitee, Ex Plus Ultra, an international postgraduate journal of colonial and imperial history and postcolonial theory. See the journal's webpage, hosted by the University of Sydney: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/research_projects/nationempireglobe/ex_plus_ultra/index.shtml

Research Interests

Isabella's research interests lie in the foreign community of Shanghai during the treaty port period, particularly the Shanghai Municipal Council and the ways in which it interacted with the city's Chinese residents. Isabella is also interested in the history of the Sikh diaspora in China and particularly the Sikh policemen of Shanghai following her MA dissertation.

‘The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai’, in press at Modern Asian Studies, 12,000 words. To be published in 2012; available online later in 2011.

‘Health Within Limits: The Public Health Policy of the Shanghai Municipal Council’, in preparation for submission to the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.