Kevin Grant (historian)

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Kevin Grant (historian)

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

Biography
Grant earned his BA at the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, his MA at the University of Chicago in 1991, and his PhD at Berkeley in 1997. He had a Fulbright Research Scholarship to the United Kingdom in 1994–95 and a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in 1996–97. He joined Hamilton College in 1997 as a Visiting Assistant Professor, became an assistant professor in 2000, a professor in 2012, and later held leadership roles as Chair of the History Department (2015–2019) and Faculty Chair (2017–2019). He was named the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of History in 2017 and the Edgar B. Graves Professor of History in 2018.

Research
Grant’s research focuses on modern Britain and Ireland, European imperialism, and international humanitarianism.

Selected publications
- 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)
- Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, 1880–1950 (co-edited with Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
- A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926 (Routledge, 2005)