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Tom Menger is a historian of empire in the period between c. 1870 and 1914. Tom acquired his PhD at the University of Cologne with a transimperial history of fin-de-siècle colonial violence and war (forthcoming as The Colonial Way of War with Cambridge University Press, 2025). During his doctoral phase, he was Associate PhD at Queen Mary University of London (2018) and fellowship-holder at IEG Mainz (2020). His main interests lay in transimperial history, the history of colonial violence and the history of imperial infrastructures. On the subject of colonial violence as a transimperial phenomenon, besides his forthcoming monograph, Tom has published multiple peer-reviewed articles, is co-editing a journal special issue and organised a thematic workshop (LMU, 2022). From 2021 to 2025, Tom was a postdoctoral researcher at the global dis:connect Research Centre at LMU Munich. There, he studied (imperial) infrastructures of early oil extraction, asking how these infrastructures relate to global connectivity and disconnectivity. He furthermore organised several conferences and summer schools on the Centre's research foci and taught on the history of industrial oil extraction. Currently, Tom is working on a project that seeks to take transimperial history beyond the dichotomy of 'continental' and 'maritime' empires by looking at how European empires, sea- and land-based, intervened in security forces reform in the Ottoman Empire in the decade before the First World War. The project also seeks to formulate transimperial answers to questions about possible transfers (or 'boomerangs') of colonial violence to the European continent in the twentieth century.