Dane Kennedy is the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. He teaches courses in British, British imperial, and world history. His publications include The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (2005), Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 (2002), The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (1996), and Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939 (1987). He was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003-4 and is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center, where he is writing a book about British exploration in Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century.