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  • Job title: Principal Lecturer
  • Dept: History and American Studies
  • Tel: 01227 782607
  • Campus: Canterbury
Dr Tony McCulloch

Tony McCulloch has been Head of American Studies since 1997 and Head of History and American Studies since 2004. He has also been Director of Canadian Studies since 2005.

He did his first degree at Queen Mary College, University of London, where he graduated with a 1st class honours degree in Medieval and Modern History. He was awarded the Derby Scholarship for obtaining the highest first in History in the University of London. He then began a PhD in American History at University College London before being awarded a scholarship at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, where he was the Alfred Light Scholar in American Studies. His D.Phil thesis was on "Anglo-American economic diplomacy and the European crisis, 1933-39".

After his PhD he obtained a PGCE (with distinction) in History and Politics at the Institute of Education, University of London. He then began gainful employment as a lecturer at Middlesex University and Hertfordshire University before moving to Canterbury Christ Church University as a Senior Lecturer in History (and Director of Admissions). Along with colleagues in English, Geography, Film, Art and Social Science, he established the American Studies Programme and became Head of Department.

His academic interests lie chiefly within British, American and Canadian history and politics between 1870 and 1945, although he is interested in just about anything historical and political since Ancient Rome.

He is secretary of the Transatlantic Studies Association (TSA), a member of the Council of the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) and Chair of the BACS Canadian History Group. He is also a committee member of the London Conference for Canadian Studies and a member of the British Association for American Studies, the American Politics Groups and the British International History Group.

He has written widely on American and Canadian history as well as giving regular interviews about American topics such as 9/11 in Kent and London. He is currently finishing a book on Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy and working on a biography of Walter Runciman (1870-1949). He has given papers at a large number of conferences and in March 2007 was an invited speaker at the annual meeting of Sudeten German Council in Marienbad on "The Runciman Mission of 1938".

Recent Publications include:

  • "FDR and Democracy Promotion: the Roosevelt Doctrine of January 1936" in Tim Lynch and Nicholas Bouchet (eds.) American Democracy Promotion: from Wilson to Obama, Palgrave Publishing, 2011
  • "TR and Canada: the Alaska Boundary Dispute and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1901-1909" in Serge Ricard (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
  • "The North Atlantic Triangle: a Canadian Myth?" in International Journal, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Winter 2011)
  • "War and Peace in Canadian History, 1909-2009" in British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Autumn 2010
  • "Franklin Roosevelt: the Founding Father of the Transatlantic Alliance?" in Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, September 2010  
  • "Organised Crime in Canada" in Intelligence Review, September 2010.
  • "Civil Rights and the American Dream, 1945-1981" in Twentieth Century History Review, Vol. 5, No. 4, May 2010.
  • "The Crips Gang in the USA" in Intelligence Review, April 2010.
  • "The Supreme Court and Civil Rights since 1960", Twentieth Century History Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, January 2010.
  • "Mackenzie King and the Transformation of Canada's International relations, 1935-48", London Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 24, October 2009.
  • Special Editor for "The Canadian Papers of the 4th Earl of Minto, 1845-1914" in the BRRAM series (Microform Publishing, August, 2009).
  • "Prohibition in the USA", Twentieth Century History Review,  Vol. 4, No. 3, April 2009.
  • Article on "Red Power: Native American Resistance in the 1960s and 70s", Twentieth Century History Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, January 2009.
  • Special Editor for "The Correspondence of Arthur Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank", 1879 – 1962 in the BRRAM series (Microform Publishing,  October 2008).
  •  "The Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s" Twentieth Century History Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 September 2008. 
  • Article on "Vietnam and the Anti-War Movement, II", Twentieth Century History Review, May 2008, Vol. 20, No. 4.
  • "Vietnam and the Anti-War Movement, II", Twentieth Century History Review, May 2008, Vol 20; No 4.
  • Editor of special issue of Journal of Transatlantic Studies on "Canada and the Transatlantic World", Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2008  
  • "Roosevelt, Mackenzie King and the Royal Visit to the USA in 1939", London Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol.23, 2007-2008.
  • "Vietnam and the Anti-War Movement, I", Twentieth Century History Review, Vol.20. No.1, September 2007.
  • "American Isolationism in the 1930s", Twentieth Century History Review, Vol. 19. No.3, January 2007.
  • "Franklin Roosevelt and the Runciman Visit to Washington, 1937: informal diplomacy and Anglo-American Relations in the era of Munich", Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol.5, No.2, Autumn 2006.
  • "The Supreme Court and Civil Rights: the struggle against racial discrimination, 1945-60" in Twentieth Century Review, Vol 18, No3, January 2006.
  • "The Key Log in the Jam: Mackenzie King, the North Atlantic Triangle and the Anglo-American Rapprochement of 1935-39", London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 20, 2004-2005
  • "Revisiting the North Atlantic Triangle: The Brebner Thesis After Sixty Years", London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 20, 2004-2005,
  • "Canadian Studies in Canterbury: A case study", BAAS Newsletter , Vol.13, No.1, October 2005
  • "British – Canadian trade relations", "Britain and the Americas", Vol. 1 (ABC – Clio, 2005)
  • "John F Kennedy and the New Frontier", Modern History Review, vol 16, No. 2 November 2004.
  • "Franklin Roosevelt and the Runciman Mission to Czechoslovakia, 1938: a new look at Anglo-American relations during the Munich crisis", Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Autumn 2003.
  • Review article on "American Faces" exhibition at National Portrait Gallery, BAAS Journal, Spring 2003.