Dr Simon LaytonLecturer in Early Global HistoryEmail: s.h.layton@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 2898Room Number: ArtsTwo 2.10ProfileTeachingResearchPublicationsSupervisionProfileI am a historian of the Indian Ocean world, focusing on the role of maritime ‘piracy’ in the development of British imperial policy in South Asia, the Persian/Arabian Gulf and Southeast Asia. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, I completed my doctorate under the supervision of C. A. Bayly at the University of Cambridge, where I also lectured in World History for two years before joining the School of History at Queen Mary. I have previously taught at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and at the University of Otago. Teaching Undergraduate TeachingConvenor: HST4622 – Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History HST5224 – Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden Age HST6393 – Piracy and Empire: Sea Power, Race and Modernity Undergraduate TeachingHST5224 – Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden AgeHST6386 – Sea Power and Empire: Piracy, Race and ModernityResearchResearch Interests: My research focuses on the maritime histories of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Arabia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring the roles that littoral and seafaring communities played in the development of European imperial and naval expansion. I am also interested in the development of international maritime law in this period and maintain active corollary interests Pacific and Environmental history. PublicationsMonograph: Piratical States: British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean world (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). Book Chapters: ‘Taonga and Tupaia: Introduction to a Material History,’ in Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour: A Material History, ed. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (Bloomsbury, 2023). Co-authored. ‘Fishing for Pirates: Institutional Violence and the Cook Commemoration,’ in Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour: A Material History, ed. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (Bloomsbury, 2023). ‘Space Invaders: On Dark Matter and the Oceanic Turn’, in Oceans as Archives, ed. Kristie Flannery, Renisa Mawani and Mikki Stelder (forthcoming). Co-authored. 'Primitive Liberals and Pirate Tribes: Black-Flag Radicalism and the Kibbo Kift', Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation, ed. Harshan Kumarasingham (Routledge, 2020). Co-authored. Articles: 'Primitive Liberals and Pirate Tribes: Black-Flag Radicalism and the Kibbo Kift', The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 46, no. 5 (2018), 984-1008. Co-authored. ‘Hydras and Leviathans in the Indian Ocean world,’ International Journal of Maritime History 25, no. 2 (2013), 213-25. ‘The “Moghul’s Admiral”: Angrian “Piracy” and the Rise of British Bombay,’ Journal of Early Modern History 17, no. 1 (2013), 1-19. ‘Discourses of Piracy in an Age of Revolutions,’ Itinerario 35, no.2 (2011), 81-97. SupervisionI welcome applications from candidates wishing to undertake doctoral research in any area of maritime or oceanic history, particularly with focus on the Indian Ocean and Pacific worlds. Current PhD students: Max Easterbrooke, ‘Merchant Intellectualism in the British Imperial Tea Trade during the 19th Century’ Steven Johnstone, ‘The Role of the Maritime Frontier in the Formation of White Australia, 1850-1914’ Past PhD students: Timothy Riding, ‘Producing space in the English East India Company’s Western Presidency, 1612-1780’ (QMUL, 2018) Examined: Anshul Avijit, ‘Visual Culture of the Santals and their Image: Myth, Morals and Materiality’ (University of Cambridge, 2018) Rebecca Simon, ‘The Crime of Piracy and its Punishment: The Performance of Maritime Supremacy and its Representations in the British Atlantic World, 1670-1830’ (King’s College London, 2017)