Laura Beers
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Associate Professor, American University
Full Biography
Laura Beers is an associate professor at American University. Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist won the Stansky prize for best book in Modern British History from the North American Conference on British Studies. She is also the author of Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party (Harvard, 2010), and co-editor of Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation Building in Britain (London, 2012).