Scholars Council, 2007 - present
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Kluge Chair for Countries and Cultures of the North, 2010
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W. ROGER LOUIS is Kerr Chair of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author or editor of some 30 books including "Imperialism at Bay" (1977), "The British Empire in the Middle East" (1984) and "Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization" (2006). He is editor-in-chief of the four-volume project on "The History of Oxford University Press." He was chairman of the U.S. State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee until he resigned on a point of principle in November 2009. A past President of the American Historical Association, he was the Founding Director of the AHA’s National History Center. In 2009, Dr. Louis was selected as Professor of the Year at the University of Texas.

Selected Publications

• "The History of Oxford University Press" (2013)
• "Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization" (2006)
• "The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism" (1984)
• "Imperialism at Bay 1941-1945: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire" (1977)

Events

• "#ScholarFest: Life/Past: How We Write About Those Who Came Before Us" (Jun. 11, 2015)
• "#ScholarFest: Freedom of Expression & Why it Matters" (Jun. 11, 2015)
• Lecture: "Another Dimension of Empire: The History of the Oxford University Press" (Jul. 30, 2013)
• Lecture: "European Colonial Empires in Asia and Africa" (Jul. 12, 2010)
• The International Seminar on Decolonization (2006 - 2015) - Hosted by The John W. Kluge Center and sponsored by the National History Center with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation