Madeline Woker

Madeline Woker is a historian of colonialism, capitalism, and taxation and a permanent lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Sheffield. She was previously a fellow at IAS Zürich, a fixed-term Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University. She also serves as the Secretary of the Society for French Historical Studies. Her publications have appeared and are forthcoming in the Journal of Global History and Past & Present. She is also finishing a book about the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire between the 1850s and the 1950s, and she regularly writes for a larger audience about the history and politics of international taxation and the afterlives of empire and colonialism.