Assistant Professor

Balsillie School, Departments of History and Political Science (UW)

Contact Information

Office Number: HH 108
Phone Number: 519-888-4567 x36049
Email Address: dpgorman @ uwaterloo.ca

Education

Ph.D. McMaster University, 2003
M.A. Queen's University, 1997
B.A. St. Francis Xavier University, 1996

Areas of Specialization

British Empire
History of International Relations
Politics of Decolonization
Intellectual Property

Short Bio

Daniel Gorman is an Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Waterloo. IPrior to his appointment at the University of Waterloo, he was an Assistant Professor of History at Trent University, and held a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at York University.

His interests are in the history of international relations and the British Empire, international relations theory, and intellectual property rights.

Dr. Gorman is currently working on two research projects, both concerning the role of ideas as agents of global change in the 20th century. The first is a study of the emergence of the "international community" in the interwar years, with a particular focus on the era's many experiments in international governance. These experiments reflected an emerging sense of global inter-connectivity, and anticipated modern conceptions of global governance. The second project assesses the manner in which globalization is being driven by the inter-relationship between new modes of mobility and new forms of knowledge, and the implications this relationship has for questions of social justice. This project looks at the global politics of intellectual property, especially the development of geographical appellations as modes of political mobility and the role of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). His next project will be a study of the role of the UN as a venue for debates over decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s.

Most recent scholarly publications

"Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons?: Globality, the Public Interest, and the Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s and 1930s," Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization, Steven Streeter, John Weaver, William Coleman, eds. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009), 138-156.

"Empire, Internationalism, and the Campaign against the Traffic in Women and Children in the 1920s," Twentieth Century British History, 19, 2, 2008, 186-216.

Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; UBC Press, 2007).

"Liberal Internationalism, the League of Nations Union, and the Mandates System," Canadian Journal of History, XL, Dec. 2005, 449-477.

"The Experience of Commonwealth and Colonial Soldiers in World War II," in Personal Perspectives: World War II, Timothy Dowling, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005, 147-174; and "The War on the Periphery: The Experience of Soldiers Fighting in European Colonies," in Personal Perspectives: World War I, Timothy Dowling, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 51-72.

Recent adacemis/professional awards

SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2007-2010
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2004-2006

Courses taught

HIST 605/GV 720 - Global Governance in Historical Perspective