Barnaby Crowcroft

Barnaby Crowcroft is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton Center. Before coming to UF, he has held postdoctoral and research fellowships at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin, as well as at the universities of Vienna and Berlin. Crowcroft’s research explores new perspectives on the rise and fall of the British empire, mostly in the Middle East and West Africa, as well as the history of alliances and international human rights regimes. He writes regularly for the Literary Review.

Current Project

Crowcroft’s current book project, The British Empire of Protectorates, is under contract with Penguin Books and offers a revisionist history of the British empire, from around the middle of the nineteenth century and through its post-war decolonization.

Courses

• Special Topics: The End of Empires: Imperialism to Decolonization

Education

• Ph.D. in History, Harvard University, 2019
• M.A. in History, Harvard University, 2014
• M.A. in International Relations, Yale University, 2010
• B.Sc. in International Relations and History (First Class Honours), London School of Economics, 2007

Publications - Articles

‘The Radical Nationalist as Constitutional Head of State: Nigeria, 1960–1966’, in Viceregalism: Political Crises in the Post-war Commonwealth, ed. Harshan Kumarasingham (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 179–202.

‘The Problem of Protectorates in an Age of Decolonisation: Britain and West Africa, 1955–60’, in Protection and Empire: A Global History, eds. Lauren Benton, Bain Attwood and Adam Clulow (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 228–244.

‘Britain’s Egyptian Allies and the Suez Crisis’, in Effervescent Adventures in Britannia, ed. Wm. Roger Louis (I.B. Tauris, 2017).

‘Egypt’s Other Nationalists and the Suez Crisis of 1956’, The Historical Journal 59 (2016), 253–285.