Erika RappaportErika D. Rappaport is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  She received her PhD from Rutgers University in 1993.  Rappaport is the author of the award-winning Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making ofLondon's West End (Princeton 2000) and numerous articles and essays on the history of gender, urban and consumer culture in Victorian and Edwardian England.  She is completing a study of British consumer culture from the 17th to the 20th century, which uses tea as a lens to examine how British imperial businesses shaped the modern global economy and its culture.  This project is titled, An Acquired Taste: Tea, the British Empire, and the Making of a Global Consumer Culture.  Rappaport is also currently the Modern Britain and Ireland section editor of the on-line journal, History Compass, on the editorial board of Victorian Review, and will become an associate editor of the Journal of British Studies in 2014. Read More Read Less