William Kelleher Storey

Associate Professor, Department of History, Millsaps College

Background. Bill Storey was born in New York in 1965 and grew up on Long Island. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover (1983) and went on to earn his bachelor's degree in history at Harvard (1987) and a master's and doctorate in history at Johns Hopkins (1990, 1993). He was a postdoc in science and technology studies at Cornell and a preceptor in expository writing at Harvard before coming to Millsaps as a history professor in 1999. Bill has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, plus grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Historical Association. He has also received the Outstanding Young Faculty Award from Millsaps College; the Abbott Payson Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology; and a Teaching Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council.

Scholarship.  Bill Storey has dedicated his career to studying the history of environmental change, science, and technology, with a focus on southern Africa and the southwest Indian Ocean. His latest book, Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.  He is also the author of Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius (University of Rochester Press, 1997) and the editor of an anthology, Scientific Aspects of European Expansion (Variorum Press, 1996). He has written articles that have been published in Agricultural History, The Journal of World History, and Technology and Culture. He is an active reviewer of books and manuscripts about the environment, technology, and imperialism.

Textbooks. Bill also has experience as an author of short textbooks. His first textbook drew on his experiences teaching historical writing to undergraduates: Writing History: A Guide for Students (Oxford University Press, 1999; 2nd ed. 2003; 3rd ed. 2009). He is now writing a short book for undergraduates about the environmental and technological history of the First World War. It is based on a class that he developed for students who were concerned about the present war in Iraq.

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