{"id":1153,"date":"2019-04-06T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T21:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/?page_id=1153"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:18:42","slug":"curriculum-coordinator-ashley-wright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/curriculum-coordinator-ashley-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Director- Ashley Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
\n

Ashley Wright<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

Associate Professor of History
\nDirector, Roots of Contemporary Issues Program
\nWilson-Short Hall 312
\n509-335-4743
\nashley.wright2@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Education<\/h4>\n

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2008.<\/p>\n

Academic & Professional Interests<\/h4>\n

Wright\u2019s research focuses on the British empire in South and Southeast Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book analyzes opium policy in colonial Burma, and she is currently working on a project about marginal women in the British empire. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of empires, modern Britain, and World history.<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cGender, Violence and Justice in Colonial Assam: the Webb case, c. 1884\u201d Journal of Social History <\/em>(2020), 1-18.<\/p>\n

2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cNot just a \u2018place for the smoking of opium\u2019: the Indian opium den and imperial anxieties in the 1890s.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History<\/em>\u00a018, 2 (2017).<\/p>\n

2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMaintaining the bar: regulating European barmaids in colonial Calcutta and Rangoon\u201d\u00a0Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History<\/em>\u00a045,1 (2017), 22-45.<\/p>\n

2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia: Regulating Consumption in British Burma<\/em>. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOpium and Imperial Control in Colonial Burma.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Contemporary Drug Problems<\/em>\u00a035, 4 (2008), 611-646.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

\"Ashley<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ashley Wright Associate Professor of History Director, Roots of Contemporary Issues Program Wilson-Short Hall 312 509-335-4743 ashley.wright2@wsu.edu Education Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2008. Academic & Professional Interests Wright\u2019s research focuses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/rci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}