Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005).
Assistant Professor of British History and in the College.
British history; the British Empire; the Enlightenment; science and environmental history; political economy.
Edward Cook (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University,
1972).
Associate Professor of American History.
Colonial and revolutionary America; social history; eighteenth-century Britain.
(773) 702-8384
Adrian
Johns (Ph.D. Cambridge University 1992).
Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History of Science.
History of early modern science and the history of the book.
(773) 834-7571
Emmet
Larkin (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1957).
Professor Emeritus of British and Irish History.
Victorian political and religious history; the Celtic fringe.
(773) 702-8376
Alison
Winter (Ph.D. Cambridge University 1993).
Associate Professor of History of Science.
History of medicine and the history of human sciences after 1750; nineteenth-century
science; British history.
(773) 702-8261
Students wishing to study the rise and fall of the British Empire in specific areas often choose to supplement their work on the metropole with departmental scholars who have a specific knowledge of former colonies. Dipesh Chakrabarty is a specialist on South Asia. Ralph Austen works on Africa. Robert Richards is a resource for students interested in modern British Science. Tom Holt and Julie Saville work on British Caribbean History and the African diaspora.
Since the University of Chicago views British History as part and parcel of European History, students frequently supplement their nationally specific studies with work on areas of thematic or chronological interest with faculty in European History.
Interdisciplinarity is a fashionable buzz-word at other universities. At Chicago it is a way of life. Graduate students and undergraduate specialists in British history routinely work with a wide range of scholars working on Britain outside the history department.
The English Department is filled with historically-inclined literary scholars. Early Modernists frequently consult with members of the English Department’s Renaissance group, including Richard Strier, Janel Mueller, Joshua Scodel, Michael Murrin, David Bevington, Bradin Cormack, and Carla Mazzeo. Sandra MacPherson and James Chandler work on Eighteenth Century British Literature. Elaine Hadley and Elizabeth Helsinger are Victorian specialists.
English and British political thought are particularly well served at Chicago. Jacob Levy and Danielle Allen in the political science department are experts on British thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to John Stuart Mill and beyond, as are Nathan Tarcov and Ralph Lerner in Social Thought. Carles Boix is an expert on British and continental parliamentary politics and issues of state formation. R.H. Helmholz in the law school is an expert on late medieval and early modern canon law and English legal culture. Philip Hamburger, another Law School faculty member, has written extensively on eighteenth century English and Colonial American legal history.