Kevin Grant
Chair, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Histo
History
Hamilton University
United States of America
Biography
Grant is a historian of Modern Britain and Ireland, European imperialism, and international humanitarianism. He has authored The Congo Free State and the New Imperialism (2016), A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 (2005), and he is the co-editor of Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1880-1950 (2007). He has also published articles in leading scholarly journals, as well as essays in edited collections. Grant received the John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award at Hamilton in 2003. He is working on a comparative history of hunger strikes. He completed his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997.
Research Interest
Europe and its Empires, c. 1500-1960 England, Ireland, and Empire, 1485-1688 Great Britain, Ireland, and Empire, 1688-1998 South Africa, 1652-1998 Rebellious Union: Great Britain and Ireland, 1690-1998 Hunger in History History of Photography in Britain and the Empire Lives against Apartheid
Publications
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“The Transcolonial World of Hunger Strikes and Political Fasts, c. 1909-1935,†in Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy (eds.), Decentering Empire: Britain, India, and the Transcolonial World. (Orient Longman, 2006), pp. 243-269.
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KEVIN GRANT (2011) “British Suffragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger Strike,†Comparative Studies in Society and History, 53: 113-43.
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KEVIN GRANT (2013) “The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights,†History Compass, 11: 573-83.
