Hannah Muller
Degrees
Princeton University, Ph.D.Princeton University, M.A.
Harvard University, A.B.
Expertise
Britain and the British EmpireProfile
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Hannah Weiss Muller is a historian of Britain and the British Empire with particular interests in the long eighteenth century and the intersections of law, monarchy, identity, and subjecthood. She teaches courses on early modern and modern Britain, the British Empire, Modern Europe, Global Wars and Revolutions, and Britain and South Asia.
Muller’s first book, entitled Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Oxford University Press. 2017), argues that subject status served as an organizing and contested principle of the eighteenth century and that the bond between monarch and subject was integral to the coherence of the British Empire. She examines particular debates and struggles that surfaced in Grenada, Quebec, Minorca, Gibraltar, and Calcutta to document the range of peoples who shaped the contours of subjecthood and the array of rights that became associated with British subject status. Her recent articles also examine the anxieties said to haunt isolated garrison societies and the range of interactions between colonial and local populations; transimperial cultures of petitioning; and entangled languages of rights, liberties, and privileges. She is currently working on a comparative history of the aliens acts passed in the 1790s.
Muller received her A.B. from Harvard University (2000) and her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2010). She was a recipient of the ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship in 2009-2010 and was a Golieb Fellow at the New York University School of Law in 2010-2011. Prior to coming to Brandeis in spring 2016, she taught as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Denison University (2013-2015) and as a Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard University (2011-2013).
Courses Taught
| HIST | 52b | Europe in the Modern World |
| HIST | 106b | The Modern British Empire |
| HIST | 136b | Global War and Revolutions in the Eighteenth Century |
| HIST | 178b | Britain and India: Connected Histories |
| HIST | 209b | Empires: Boundaries and Belonging |
| HIST/SOC | 170b | Gender and Sexuality in South Asia |
Awards and Honors
Michael J. Walzer Award for Teaching (2020)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends (2020)
Bernstein Faculty Fellow (2018 - 2019)
Scholarship
Muller, Hannah. "As may consist with their Allegiance to His Majesty: Redefining Loyal Subjects in 1774." Entangling The Quebec Act: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire. Ed. François Furstenberg and Ollivier Hubert. McGill-Queens University Press, 2020
Muller, Hannah Weiss. ""Forging the Laws of Subjecthood after 1763"." Envisioning Empire: The New British World, 1763-1773. Ed. Robert Olwell, James Vaughan. Bloomsbury, UK, 2019
Muller, Hannah Weiss. "Review of Britannia's Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800." by Stephen Conway. English Historical Review 2019
Muller, Hannah Weiss. "Review of American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution, by A. Roger Ekirch." The William and Mary Quarterly vol. 75 (October 2018): 741-745.
Muller, Hannah Weiss. "From Requête to Petition: Petitioning the Monarch between Empires." The Historical Journal (2017).
Muller, Hannah Weiss. "Subjecthood in the Atlantic World." Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. New York: Oxford University Press ed. 2017.
Muller, Hannah Weiss. Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Muller, Hannah Weiss. "Review." Rev. of Reforming Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1789-1815, by Mark Philp. The Journal of British Studies vol. 54 April 2015: 500-502.
Muller, Hannah Weiss. "Review." Rev. of The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding, by Eric Nelson. The Journal of British Studies vol. 54 July 2015: 738-740.
Muller, Hannah Weiss. "Bonds of Belonging: Subjecthood and the British Empire." The Journal of British Studies 53. 1 (2014): 29-58.
Muller, Hannah Weiss. "The Garrison Revisited: Gibraltar in the Eighteenth Century." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 41. 3 (2013): 353-376.