Adam C. Hill
Adam Hill is a third-year doctoral student in modern European history. He holds a B.A. in history from the University of Missouri at Saint Louis and an M.A. in history from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He has also studied at Concordia University Chicago and Saint Louis Community College.
Adam is interested in the intersection of ideas and politics in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly in the role of the social sciences in changing understandings of empire. He has written extensively on the British archaeologist-cum-spymaster David George Hogarth, whom he privately thinks of as the original Indiana Jones, and his current research focuses on the cultural history of Egyptology in Britain since the late nineteenth century. His primary adviser is Janet Watson.
Selected presentations/publications:
“The Colonial Body as Artifact: Mummies and Curses in Late Modern Britain.” Paper presented to the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Pennsylvania State University at Abington, March 2011.
“‘At Once a Scholar and a Wanderer’: D. G. Hogarth in the Levant, 1887 – 1910.” Paper presented to conference on “The Modern History of the British Abroad: From the Grand Tour to Mass Tourism,” Newcastle University, April 2010.
“‘Inevitably to Touch Politics’: The Wartime Orientalism of D. G. Hogarth, 1910 – 1920.” Paper presented to the Northeast Conference on British Studies, Brown University, October 2009.
“‘A Pioneer Breaking New Ground for Every Science’: The Orientalism of D. G. Hogarth, 1887–1910.” Paper presented to the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Indiana State University, April 2008.
“‘To Lead the National Uprising of Another Race’: Warfare, Modernity, and Race in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” Paper presented to the Mid-America Conference on History, University of Kansas, September 2005.
“‘The Truth is not German, English, or American’: Lutheran Schools in St. Louis, 1917–1929.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly 78:2 (Summer 2005), pp. 117–124.