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Aaron Windel is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota (2010) and previously taught at Bowdoin College and the University of Massachusetts. His research focuses on British colonial history, the political economy of development, and the intersection of technology with imperial governance.
Windel’s work examines how colonial powers used cooperative movements and media technologies to manage rural modernization in late imperial contexts. His award-winning book *Cooperative Rule* (UC Press, 2021) traces the transcolonial spread of cooperative systems across Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. He teaches courses on British imperialism, global technology history, and capitalism’s historical dimensions.
- Research Themes: Colonial governance, anti-colonial resistance, media/technology studies, rural development
- Teaching: HIST 111 (Histories of Technology), HIST 300 (Historiography)
He has received the prestigious Cormack Teaching Award (2015) and contributed to major edited volumes on African modernization, imperial historiography, and post-war nation-building. His current projects explore the role of film in colonial education systems and the contested legacies of cooperative movements in post-colonial states.
