Daniel Gorman

B​iography

I am interested in the history of the British Empire (19th and 20th centuries), modern Britain, and the history of global governance. I am currently working on two projects:

1. A book on international civil society organizations and debates about freedom of expression from the 1920s to the 1960s
2. Global Governance, Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present – a collaborative research project with colleagues in Britain, Switzerland, and the United States.  We are studying historical relationships between political participation, democracy, and international institutions from the First World War to the early 2000s, which will foster greater understanding of how global cooperative mechanisms can be reimagined in the present.

I also teach at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Education

• B.A. (Hon) St. Francis Xavier University
• M.A. Queen's University
• Ph.D. McMaster University

Research and teaching interests​

• British Empire
• Modern Britain
• International relations
• History of global governance

Courses taught

• HIST 101: Global History
• HIST 266 The British empire, 1857-1956
• HIST 268 Comparative history of empires
• HIST 311 International relations, 1890-1951
• HIST/PSCI 369 Decolonization
• HIST 370: Bond, Bowie, and Brexit: Britain from 1945 to the New Millenium
• HIST 605 Global governance in historical perspective

Recent public​ations

          Books

• Uniting Nations: Britons and Internationalism, 1945-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

• Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Oxford University Press, 2022; co-edited with Martin Gutmann)

• International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017).

• The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

• Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
  
  Book Chapters

• “Experiments in Conciliation: The UN, Kashmir, and Decolonization, 1948-1950,” in Elisabeth Röhrlich, Sandrine Kott, and Eva-Maria Muschik, eds., International Organizations and the Cold War: Competition, Cooperation, Convergence (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 99-114.

• "World War II and the San Francisco Conference (1945)," in Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Maja Spanu, and Christian Reus-Smit, eds., The Oxford Handbook on History and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 675-689.
• "Global Institutions," in Andrew Denning and Heidi J.S. Tworek, eds., The Interwar World (London: Routledge, 2023), 207-225.
• "SDG 17 - The History of Global Partnerships and International Cooperation," in Martin Gutmann and Daniel Gorman, co-editors, Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 504-535.
• With Martin Gutmann, "Introduction: The Long and the Short Road to the Sustainable Development Goals," in Martin Gutmann and Daniel Gorman, co-editors, Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022), 1-13.
• “The British Empire, Imperial Citizenship, and the First World War,” in Simone Bellezza and Sara Lorenzini, eds., Cittadinanza imperiale: processi identitari e idee di impero dopo la Prima guerra mondiale [Imperial Citizenship: Identification Processes and Ideas of Empire after the First World War] (Rome: Viella, 2018), 91-108. [translated by Simone Bellezza]
• “Race, the Commonwealth, and the United Nations: From Imperialism to Internationalism in Canada, 1940-1960,” in Laura Madokoro, Francine Mckenzie, and David Meren, eds., Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada's International History (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017), 196-225.
• “Geographic Indications, Mobility, and Identity,” in Suzan Ilcan, ed., Mobilities, Knowledge and Social Justice (Montreal-Kingston: Queen’s-McGill University Press, 2013), 227-52.
• “Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Emerging Property Types,” in William Coleman, ed., Property, Territory, Globalization: Struggles over Autonomy (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011), 122-47.
• “Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons?: Globality, the Public Interest, and the Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s and 1930s,” in Steven Streeter, John Weaver, William Coleman, eds., Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009), 138-56.
• “The War on the Periphery: The Experience of Soldiers Fighting in European Colonies,” in Timothy Dowling, ed., Personal Perspectives: World War I (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 51-72.
• “The Experience of Commonwealth and Colonial Soldiers in World War II,” in Timothy Dowling, ed., Personal Perspectives: World War II (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 147-74.
  
  Articles
• "What is Global History?," Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method (Bloomsbury online; 2023). 
• "Comment on Aidan Forth's Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903" in Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique due Canada 31:2 (2021), 56-62.
• “George Catlin, The Science of Politics, and Anglo-American Union,” Modern Intellectual History 15:1 (2018), 123-52.
• “Fractured Empire: Ideas of Imperial Citizenship in the British Empire after the First World War,” Comparativ 26:6 (2016), 15-36.
• “International Law and the International Thought of Quincy Wright, 1918-1945,” Diplomatic History 41:2 (2017), 336-61.
• “Britain, India, and the United Nations: Colonialism and the Development of International Governance after 1945,” Journal of Global History 9:3 (2014), 471-90.
• “Organic Union or Aggressive Altruism: Conservative and Labour Imperial Internationalism in Africa in the 1920s,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 42:2 (2014), 258-85.
• “The First British Empire Games as a Nexus of Individual, Imperial, and International Identity,” The International Journal of the History of Sport 27:4 (2010), 610-31.
• “Ecumenical Internationalism: Willoughby Dickinson, the League of Nations, and the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches,” Journal of Contemporary History 45:1 (2010), 51–73.
• “Empire, Internationalism, and the Campaign against the Traffic in Women and Children in the 1920s,” Twentieth Century British History 19:2 (2008), 186-216.
• “Liberal Internationalism, the League of Nations Union, and the Mandates System,” Canadian Journal of History 40:3 (2005), 449-77.
• “Race and the late-Victorian Imperial World-view,” John Buchan Journal 32:1 (2005), 41-8.
• “Lionel Curtis, Imperial Citizenship, and the Quest for Unity,” The Historian 66:1 (2004), 67-96.
• “Wider and Wider Still?: Intra-Imperial Immigration, Racial Politics, and the Question of Imperial Citizenship in the British Empire,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3:3 (2002), online.
• “‘The Character Creed’: How Character shaped the British Imperial Enterprise,” Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 4 (1998), 127-40.
  
  Essays
• Co-editor and roundtable participant, H-Diplo Discussion Forum on Histories of Global Order, H-DIPLO, published 25 March 2022
• "World War I: Cooperation, Conflict, and International Order," in Centre for Strategic and International Studied (CSIS), After Disruption: Historical Perspectives on the Future of International Order: https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/200901_Bates_History_FullReport_v1.pdf 
• H-Diplo Roundtable XXI-15 on The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, 9-14.
• All Things to All People? Thought on Liberalism and Imperialism, The Disorder of Things
• India and the UN Security Council, United Nations History Project
• Traditions of British International Thought, International Security Studies Forum (ISSF) review essay, 16-24.
• H-Diplo Forum on “Legacies of World War I Commemorative Issue”, 7-21.
• Ideology, Imperial, in John Mackenzie, ed., The Encyclopedia of Empire (London: Blackwell 2015), 1-3.
• Davies, David Arthur, World Meteorological Organization, 1955-1979, in Bob Reinalda and Kent Kille, eds.,Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations.
• Entries in Globalization and Autonomy Compendium, William Coleman and Heike Häärting, eds., (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005-2007).

Awards and achievements

• Arts Teaching Award, 2018.