Dr. Carey Watt Appointed Associate Vice-President (Research)

Dr. Carey Watt has been appointed Associate Vice-President (Research) for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2025.

Dr. Watt has been a member of faculty in the Department of History since 2002. He holds a PhD from Cambridge and an MA and BA from Concordia. His research interests include the social, cultural, political, and intellectual history of modern South Asia; colonialism, imperialism, and nationalism; and transnational, comparative, and global history.

“I’m grateful and happy to have been selected as Associate Vice-President (Research), and I look forward to exciting new challenges working with the Office of Research Services staff, STU’s senior leadership, faculty, and staff to support, promote, and continue to build STU’s research culture and a general ‘culture of curiosity’ on campus,” Watt said.

“I look forward to learning more about all the interesting and impressive research that STU faculty and students are doing and to find ways to support it and share it with our local, national, and international communities.”

Dr. Watt has published two books with a third accepted for publication: Serving the Nation: Cultures of Service, Association and Citizenship in Colonial India (2005), Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: From Improvement to Development edited with Michael Mann (2011), and the forthcoming Strongman Eugen Sandow’s World Tour of 1904-1905: The ‘Perfect Man’ in Colonial India and Afro-Asia. He has authored more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes and has delivered numerous conference papers and presentations—locally, nationally and internationally.

Dr. Watt is the recipient of numerous research grants and was awarded the University Scholarship Award for Research in 2018. He has served as a reviewer for Oxford University Press (Canada), Routledge (India), Canadian Scholars Press, various academic journals, and international research associations.