Kevin Patrick Grant is an American academic historian specialising in modern Britain and Ireland, European imperialism, and international humanitarianism. He is the Edgar B. Graves Professor of History at Hamilton College,

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Biography

Kevin Patrick Grant completed his

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(BA) degree at the

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, in 1988; he then completed a

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(MA) degree at the

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in 1991 before returning to Berkeley to carry out his

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studies (earning him a PhD in 1997). He received a Fulbright Research Scholarship to the

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in 1994–95 and then a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in 1996–97. Subsequently, in 1997, he joined the faculty of Hamilton College,

, as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He was made an Assistant Professor in 2000, an Associate Professor in 2004,"Kevin Grant"
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Research

Grant's research focuses on modern Britain and Ireland, European imperialism, and international humanitarianism. His publications include: *''Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890–1948'' (University of California Press, 2019). *''The Congo Free State and the New Imperialism'' (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016). * (Co-edited with

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and

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) ''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

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