Prof. Rappaport is a European cultural historian, interested in the history of gender and consumer cultures in Modern Britain and its Empire. She studies how the history of consumption and commodities were integral to the construction of identities, politics, and economies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her recent work positions the British Empire within a broader global framework and she is currently working on an imperial history of public relations. She enjoys teaching comparative histories of gender, consumerism, urban history, food history, and the history of empires, capitalism and globalization.

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