Kevin Grant (historian)

Kevin Patrick Grant is an American academic historian specialising in modern Britain and Ireland, European imperialism, and international humanitarianism. He is the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of History at Hamilton College, New York.

Biography

Kevin Patrick Grant completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988; he then completed a Master of Arts (MA) degree at the University of Chicago in 1991 before returning to Berkeley to carry out his doctoral studies (earning him a PhD in 1997). He received a Fulbright Research Scholarship to the United Kingdom for the 1994–95 academic year and for 1996–97 he was a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. In 1997, he joined the faculty of Hamilton College, New York, as a Visiting Assistant Professor; he was made an Assistant Professor in 2000 and Associate Professor in 2004 at the Faculty.[1][2] By the 2012–13 academic year, he was a full Professor,[3] and in 2017 became Chair of the History Department and as of 2018 he is Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of History there.[1]

Research

Grant's research focuses on modern Britain and Ireland, European imperialism, and international humanitarianism. His publications include:[1]

  • The Congo Free State and the New Imperialism (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016).
  • (Co-edited with Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann) Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, 1880–1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
  • A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926 (Routledge, 2005).

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Kevin Grant", Hamilton College. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Kevin Patrick Grant", Hamilton College, archived at the Internet Archive on 18 April 2005.
  3. ↑ "Kevin Grant", Hamilton College, archived by the Internet Archive on 1 January 2013.
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