{"id":734,"date":"2024-10-10T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/?page_id=734"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:49:13","slug":"bio-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-7426cb86bdaa727626bda502fd96196d\" style=\"grid-template-columns:43% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/01\/download.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Stanard\" class=\"wp-image-553 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/01\/download.jpg 422w, https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/01\/download-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px\">I am Professor of History at Berry College in Georgia, specializing in modern European history, imperialism, and decolonization. I teach courses on modern Europe, Africa since 1800, and world history, as well as a course on imperialism, colonialism, and decolonization. I currently serve as President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchcolonial.org\/\">French Colonial Historical Society.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px\">As a historian of modern Europe, my research focuses on European overseas imperialism, decolonization, comparative empires, Belgian colonialism in the Congo, and colonial culture in Europe. My two current projects are a one-volume history of Belgian colonialism (Polity Press) and a global history of the Spanish island of Majorca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px\">I have held fellowships at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wolfsonian.org\/research\/fellowships\/\">Wolfsonian-FIU<\/a> and as a <a href=\"https:\/\/baef.be\/\">BAEF Fellow<\/a> in Brussels, Belgium. I was a Chancellor&#8217;s Fellow at Indiana University-Bloomington (1999-2003). In addition, I was a participant in the 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/perspectives-article\/forming-a-field-from-fragments-of-empires-the-decolonization-seminars-and-their-alumni-help-create-new-subdiscipline-november-2012\/\">National History Center\u2019s Decolonization Seminar <\/a>in Washington, D.C., as well as a co-leader of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/research\/opportunities-for-academics\/conferences-and-workshops\/research-workshop-program\/propaganda-workshop\">the USHMM research workshop on Nazi propaganda<\/a> in August 2025. I have lived or traveled in Europe regularly since the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Professor of History at Berry College in Georgia, specializing in modern European history, imperialism, and decolonization. I teach courses on modern Europe, Africa since 1800, and world history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-734","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/734\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/mstanard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}