Brandon Marsh

Brandon Marsh (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin) teaches courses on South Asia, the Middle East, European Imperialism, the World Wars, and World History. Using modern imperialism as an overarching theme, Dr. Marsh’s classes emphasize the importance of trans-national and global trends in understanding local-level politics, economies, and cultures.

Dr. Marsh’s research focuses on British imperialism in the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean Basin. He is currently working on a book manuscript concerning colonial India’s North-West Frontier with Afghanistan between 1918 and 1947, which was the subject of his doctoral dissertation and his most recent publication, "The North-West Frontier and the Crisis of Empire: Post-War India and the Debate over Waziristan, 1919-1923" in the journal British Scholar. His future projects include a social and political study of the Indian Political Service in the first half of the twentieth century.

He received his Bachelor’s degree in history from Lewis & Clark College and Master’s from the University of Texas at Austin. His hobbies include hiking, tennis, college football, spending time with his wife, and walking his border terrier, Mollie. Additionally, he has lived, travelled, and researched extensively throughout South Asia and the United Kingdom.