Dr Emma Reisz

History, HAPP, Queen’s University Belfast

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Emma Reisz is a historian of empire and transnational networks, specialising in Britain’s nineteenth-century influence in China. She has a particular interest in photography and in material culture of empire, as well as in digital methods. She is on the Steering Committee of the Centre for Public History and of the Digital Scholarship Hub of Queen’s University Belfast. Her most recent work explores the legacies and afterlives of empire in Northern Ireland, including the forthcoming Routledge edited volume Museums, Empire, Colonialism: Identities, Memory, and Legacies in Ireland with Briony Widdis and Dominic Bryan.