Antoinette M. Burton is an American historian, and Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Along with Catherine Hall, Mrinalini Sinha, and Tony Ballantyne (historian) her work has helped define the "new imperial history". With Tony Ballantyne (historian) she has helped define a new approach to world history that focuses on colonialism, race and gender. On November 23rd 2015, Burton was named Chair of the University of Illinois' search for a permanent Chancellor after the resignation of Phyllis Wise.
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship2014 NEH Fellowship==Works== The Trouble With Empire.
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (with Isabel Hofmeyr). Duke University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5827-5An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie (with Mary-Ann Winkelmes). University of Illinois Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-252-08023-4Empires and the Reach of the Global: 1870-1945 (with Tony Ballantyne). Harvard University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-674-28129-5The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader. Duke University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5662-2A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles. Duke University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8223-5188-7Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism. Duke University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8223-4902-0Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire. University of Illinois Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-252-07568-1The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau. Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-4071-3Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8223-3467-5Archive stories: facts, fictions, and the writing of history, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Duke University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8223-3688-4"When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the “American Century," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 75, No. 2, June 2003.Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-19-514425-3After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8223-3142-1Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader, Editor Antoinette M. Burton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 978-0-312-29335-2Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (editor). Routledge, 1999. ISBN 978-0-415-51368-5At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain. University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-520-20958-9Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8078-4471-7 