Prof. Mark Hampton (馬翰庭)

PhD Vanderbilt University, History (1998)

Major field: Europe since 1700; Minor field: Tudor/ Stuart England

MA Vanderbilt University, History (1993)

BA Middle Tennessee State University, History (1992)

Books:

Hong Kong and British Culture, 1945-1997. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.

Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950. Urbana and Chicago: the University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Edited books/ special issue:

The Cultural Construction of the British World (Edited with Barry Crosbie). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.

British Culture and Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Edited with James R. Fichter), special issue of Britain and the World (vol. 5, September 2012).

Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000 (Edited with Joel H. Wiener). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

The Cultural History of Media. General co-editor (with Adrian Bingham) for 6 volume collection; co-editor (with Chandrika Kaul) for volume 5 (1800-1920). Forthcoming: under contract with Bloomsbury (delivery in December 2023).

(co-author for 3 chapters of ca. 10,000 words each)

Articles:

"Journalism History and Media History." Journalism Studies 15 (April 2014): 154-161, 169-171. (This is my contribution to a debate with Prof. Martin Conboy).

"The Political Cartoon as Educationalist Journalism: David Low’s Portrayal of Mass Unemployment in Inter-War Britain." Journalism Studies 14 (October 2013): 681-697.

“Colonial Legacies and Internationalisation: British History in Contemporary Hong Kong” (with Carol C. L. Tsang). Twentieth Century British History 23 (No. 4, 2012): 563-574.

“Projecting Britishness to Hong Kong: the British Council and Hong Kong House, 1950s-1970s.” Historical Research 85 (November 2012): 691-709.

“Journalists' Histories of Journalism: Britain since the 1950s.” Media History 18 (August/ November 2012): 327-340.

“The Cultural British World: Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (with James R. Fichter). Britain and the World 5 (September 2012): 175-182. (This is an editorial introduction to a special issue).

“British Legal Culture and Colonial Governance: the attack on corruption in Hong Kong,

1968-1974.” Britain and the World 5 (September 2012): 223-239.

"Early Hong Kong Television, 1950s - 1970s: Commercialisation, Public Service, and Britishness." Media History 17 (August 2011): 305-22.

"Inventing David Low: Self-Presentation, Caricature and the Culture of Journalism in Mid-twentieth Century Britain." Twentieth Century British History 20 (No. 4, 2009): 482-512.

"The 'Objectivity' Ideal and Its Limitations in Twentieth-Century British Journalism." Journalism Studies 9 (August 2008): 477-93.

“Defining Journalists in Late-Nineteenth Century Britain.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 22 (June 2005): 138-55.

“Censors and Stereotypes: Kingsley Martin Theorizes the Press.” Media History 10 (April 2004): 17-28.

“Liberalism, the Press, and the Construction of the Public Sphere: Theories of the Press in Britain, 1830-1914.” Victorian Periodicals Review 37 (Spring 2004): 72-92.

“‘Understanding Media’: Theories of the Press in Britain, 1850-1914.” Media, Culture & Society 23 (March 2001): 213-31.

“The Press, Patriotism and Public Discussion: C.P. Scott, the Manchester Guardian, and the Boer War, 1899-1902.” Historical Journal 44 (March 2001): 177-97.

“Journalists and the ‘Professional Ideal’ in Britain: the Institute of Journalists, 1884-1907.” Historical Research 72 (June 1999): 183-201.

Book Chapters:

“US-UK: does Anglo-American journalism exist?”, in Marcel Broersma and Mark O’Brien, eds., The Routledge Companion to Transnational Journalism History (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2024).

“Remembering British Rule: the Uses of Colonial Memory in Hong Kong Protest Movements, 1997-2019” (with Florence Mok), in Matthew Roberts, ed., Memory and Modern British Politics: Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy, 1789 to the Present (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).

“Transatlantic Exchanges,” in Martin Conboy and Adrian Bingham, eds., The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3: Power, Popularisation and Permeation, 1900-2017 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), pp. 155-171.

“The uses of monarchy in late-colonial Hong Kong, 1967-97,” in Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery, eds., Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. 225-242.

“Modernization, democratization and politicization: mass media in 1920s Europe” (with J. Hung [lead author], J. Van Eijanatten, P. Ortoleva, and L. Weibull), in K. Arnold, P. Preston, and S. Kinnebrock, eds., The Handbook of European Communication

History (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019), pp. 115-134.

"History of Media and Human Rights" (with Diana Lemberg), in Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord, eds., Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights (London and New York: Routledge, 2017): 30-8.

"'John Stuart Mill's Other Island": the Discourse of Unbridled Capitalism in Post-war Hong Kong,' in Barry Crosbie and Mark Hampton, eds., The Cultural Construction of the British World (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 145-164.

"Historical Approaches to Media Studies," in Fabienne Darling-Wolf, ed., Methods in Media Studies (a volume in The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies) (London: Blackwell-Wiley, 2014), pp. 381-398.

"The Fourth Estate Ideal in Journalism History," in Stuart Allan, ed., The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 3-12.

"Representing the Public Sphere: the New Journalism and its Historians,” in Ann Ardis and Patrick Collier, eds., Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms: Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 15-29.

“Renewing the Liberal Tradition: the Press and Public Discussion in Twentieth Century Britain,” in Michael Bailey, ed., Narrating Media History (London and New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 26-35.

“World War I and the Anglo-American Imagined Community: Civilization vs. Barbarism in British Propaganda and American Newspapers” (with Jessica Bennett), in Joel H. Wiener and Mark Hampton, eds., Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 155-75.

Book Reviews:

Four dozen reviews in journals including American Historical Review; Journal of Modern History; Global Intellectual History; Twentieth Century British History; Journal of British Studies; History; Journal of Victorian Culture; Canadian Journal of History; Media, Culture & Society; Journalism Studies; European Journal of Communication; American Journalism; Victorian Review; Material Culture

Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society (2006)

General Research Fund, Research Grants Committee (January 2016-December 2018; January 2022-December 2024).