Kristie Patricia Flannery is a postdoctoral fellow (2019-21) in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Her work offers new insight into processes of empire-building beyond the Atlantic by interrogating the nature and evolution of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines from 1750 to 1800, a period marked by the dramatic expansion of the British Empire in the region. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a higher education policy officer for the Australian government.