Lacey Sparks is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southern Maine, in the USA. Her research focuses on Britain and the empire, gender, and the cultural history of food, science, and medicine. She is particularly interested in the multiple and multidirectional exchanges— political, economic, and cultural—that comprised and subverted the Empire. She also teaches World History, History of the British Empire, Women’s History, and History of Africa.