The 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire

Jill C. Bender is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a historian of modern Britain and the British Empire. She holds an M.A. in Culture and Colonialism from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a Ph.D. in History from Boston College. In 2010-11, Bender was a Smith Richardson Pre-Doctoral Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University, Connecticut and in 2009, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Bender has published a number of articles and book chapters on Ireland, India, and the British Empire.