James Baker

Address Email School of History, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NX, UK. J.W.Baker@Kent.ac.uk

Education PhD, Cartoons and Caricature, University of Kent (2007-2010). Thesis supervisors Professor Grayson Ditchfield & Professor David Welch. Examiners Professor Stephen Conway (UCL) and Professor Mark Connelly. MA, History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton (2004-2005). Thesis supervisor Dr Alastair Duke. BA, History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton (2001-2004). First-class honours. Professional Appointments
Academic

Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2012-2013). Assistant Project Manager, City and Region <http://www.cityandregion.org/> (2010-). Associate Lecturer, School of History, University of Kent (2009-).
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Academic Repository Coordinator, Information Services, University of Kent (2011-). Archive Cataloguer, Rochester Bridge Trust (2011). Learning and Teaching Assistant, JISC CARD project, British Cartoon Archive (2011). Awards and Fellowhips Postdoctoral Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, (2012). Research and Teaching Interests Graphic satire; manufacturing visual culture in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain; responses to the French Revolution; theatre riots; urban protest; satirical printing; spatial analysis; representations of authority; visual theory. Publications
Books

Isaac Cruikshank and the business of satirical printing, 1783-1811 (forthcoming).

Articles

The OP War, Libertarian Communication and Graphic Reportage in Georgian London, European Comic Art 4:1 (June, 2011).
Reviews

Christina Parolin, Radical Spaces: Venues of Popular Politics in London 1790-c.1845, H-Albion, H-Net Reviews (June 2012). Todd Porterfield (ed), The Efflorescence of Caricature: 1759-1838, Reviews in History, 1084 (2011). Jenny Uglow, Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition, in Journal for EighteenthCentury Studies 34:3 (July 2011), 408-409.
Public Writing (most recent)

'Doctor Syntax: A Physical Object Analysis', The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (April 2012). 'Georgian Projections of Revolutionary Madness', The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (January 2012).
Unpublished Work

'Isaac Cruikshank and the notion of British Liberty: 1783 - 1811' (University of Kent PhD thesis, 2010). 'William the Third and an English crisis of representation: visual typologies of a Dutch deliverer: 1688 1702' (University of Southampton, MA thesis, 2005).

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Grants Educational Programme Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 236 (2012). Faculty of Humanities Strategic Research Development Fund, University of Kent, 200 (2012). Graduate School Researcher Development Award, University of Kent, 200 (2012). Graduate School Postgraduate Experience Award, University of Kent, 470 (2011). School of History Postgraduate Research Studentship, University of Kent, 12,000 (2008-2010). Conference and Exhibition Organisation Open Access for Early Career Historians, History Lab Plus (2012 forthcoming). Workshop organiser (with Karen Milloy, JISC), Institute of Historical Research. Thomas Rowlandson (2012 forthcoming). Curator (with Nicholas Hiley), British Cartoon Archive. Cradled in Caricature: a multi-disciplinary conference (2012). Conference organiser (with Danielle Thom), University of Kent. Cradled in Caricature: a multi-disciplinary symposium (2011). Symposium organiser (with Reeta Kangas), University of Kent. Pantomime Parliamentarians: politicians in cartoons past and present (2011). Curator (with Nicholas Hiley and Emily Dennis), British Cartoon Archive. AHRC South East Hub for History, Fourth Annual Postgraduate Conference (2009). Conference organiser (with Jaime Ashworth), University of Kent. Selected Presented Papers
Invited Talks

Ridiculous Liberty, Nottingham Contemporary (May 2012). The Peterloo Massacre then and now, The College of Richard Collyer, Horsham (September 2011). 'Isaac Cruikshank and the idea of British liberty, The Cartoon Museum, London (April 2011).
Conferences

'The Fight for the 'House that Jack Built'', British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40th Annual Conference, Oxford (January 2011). 'The reconstruction of social history from the eighteenth/nineteenth century satirical print', Social History Society Southern Region Workshop - 'Word and Image', Goldsmiths (November 2009). 'Hypocrites censoring hypocrisy: Metropolitan Visual Satire and the Restrictive Power of British Liberty, 1770 - 1820', British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38th Annual Conference, Oxford (January 2009). 'William the Third and an English crisis of representation: visual typologies of a Dutch deliverer, 16881702', Woord en beeld als wapen: niuws en propaganda in de zeventiende eeuw Congres Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw, Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam (August 2008). Teaching Marvels, Monsters and Freaks 1780-1920, HI5075, University of Kent. Second and third year course, seminar leader (2013). Victorian Britain, HI416, University of Kent. First year survey course, lecturer, and seminar leader (2010-). Making History, HI360, University of Kent. First year core course, seminar leader (2009-2012). Britain and the French Revolution, c.1785-c.1804, HI5037/8, University of Kent. Third year special subject course, guest lecturer (2008-). Digital Projects City and Region <http://www.cityandregion.org/> (2010-). ESRC and Rochester Bridge Trust funded research project. Teaching At Kent <http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/teachingatkent/> (2011-). Founder (with Kate Bradley). Supported by the Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, University of Kent.
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Professional Activities History Lab Plus, Institute of Historical Research (2012-). Advisory Board Member. Manchester University Press (2011-). Manuscript Referee. Skepsi: the Interdisciplinary Online Journal of European Thought and Theory in Humanities and Social Sciences (2011-). Referee and Guest Editor. Clio@Kent, School of History Postgraduate Reading Group, University of Kent (2010-) Founder and convenor (with Don Leggett). Associate and Assistant Lecturer Representative, School of History, University of Kent (2010-) Elected position. Professional Affiliations British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories. Software Proficient with a wide range of IT software including office suites, blogging platforms (Wordpress, Blogger), web development applications (Dreamweaver CS6), image processing suites (Photoshop, GIMP), and geographic information systems (arcGIS Desktop), and VLE's (Moodle). References Grayson Ditchfield, Professor of Eighteenth Century History, University of Kent. David Ormrod, Professor of Economic and Cultural History, University of Kent. Stephen Conway, Professor of History, University College London. Alastair Duke, Honorary Reader in History, University of Southampton. Nicholas Hiley, Director of British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent. Robert L. Patten, Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities, Rice University. Anita O'Brien, Curator of The Cartoon Museum, London.

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