Kate Imy, PhD

Kate Imy is a historian of the British Empire in Asia. After receiving her PhD from Rutgers University, her first book, Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army, won the NACBS Stansky Prize and the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch Book Award. Her second book, Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915-1960, was the inaugural title in the new Stanford British Histories series.

She has received a Fulbright fellowship in India, the American Historical Association’s Bernadotte Schmitt Grant, a Lee Kong Chian Fellowship from the National University of Singapore and Stanford University, two Critical Language Scholarships to study Hindi and Urdu in India, and a fellowship from the Institute of Historical Research (UK).

She is also the co-editor of a volume with Leiden University Press, entitled Bodies Beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia.

EDUCATION

PhD, History, Rutgers University, 2016
Dissertation Title: “Spiritual Soldiers and the Politics of Difference in the British Indian Army, 1900-1940.”
MA, History, University of Northern Colorado, 2010
Thesis Title: “Growing Attached to Detachment: South Asian Spirituality, Masculinity and the Self in Interwar Britain.”
BA, History, Metropolitan State College of Denver, 2008
Additional Coursework at the United States Air Force Academy, 2005-2006

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant professor of history, Texas Woman’s University, 2024-present
Associate and assistant professor of history with tenure, University of North Texas, 2016-2022

SINGLE-AUTHOR BOOKS

Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915-1960, Stanford University Press, 2024
Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army, Stanford University Press, 2019.

CO-AUTHORED BOOKS

Kate Imy, Teresa Segura-Garcia, Elena Valdameri, Erica Wald, eds., Bodies Beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia, Leiden University Press, forthcoming 2024.

CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS AND PROGRAMS

Josephson Entertainment Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, 2023-2024
Writers Guild Foundation, Veterans Writing Project, 2023-2024
Outfest Screenwriting Lab, 2022-2023

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Martial Race Ideology,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Military History, in preparation
“Captive Bodies: Soldier and Civilian Internment in the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1942-1945,” in Bodies Beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia, Leiden University Press, forthcoming, 2024
“Dream Mother: Race, Gender, and Intimacy in Japanese-Occupied Singapore,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 52:3, September 2021
“Criminal Femininity: Reflections on Sex, Gender, and Colonialism in India,” extended review essay, American Historical Review 126: 3, September 2021
“Beyond Amritsar: The Indian Army and the Fight for Empire, 1918-1920,” in Romain Fathi, ed. Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918–20 Moment, Manchester University Press, 2021
“Transactions: Sex, Power, and Resistance in Colonial South and Southeast Asia,” in Dagmar Herzog and Chelsea Schields, eds., The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism, 2021, Chapter 4
“Kidnapping and a ‘Confirmed Sodomite’: An Intimate Enemy on the Northwest Frontier of India, 1915-1925,” Twentieth Century British History 28, 1 (March 2017): 29-56
“Fascist Yogis: Martial Bodies and Imperial Impotence,” Journal of British Studies 55, 2 (April 2016):  320-343
“Queering the Martial Races: Masculinity, Sex and Circumcision in the Twentieth Century British Indian Army” Gender & History, 27, 2 (August 2015): 374–396
**Winner of the Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize (Coordinating Council for Women in History), presented at the American Historical Association Conference (January 2017)