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Dr Tony McCulloch

Dr Tony McCulloch

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Associate Professor in North American Studies

Programme Director: Canadian Studies

Biography

Tony McCulloch joined the UCL Institute of the Americas in September 2012 as a Senior Fellow in North American Studies. Prior to arriving at 911±¬ÁÏÍø-IA he had worked at several universities in the UK including Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Canterbury Christ Church where he was Head of History and American Studies. He still lives in Canterbury although he is a Londoner by birth.

He undertook his BA in Medieval and Modern History at the University of London, specialising in American history at 911±¬ÁÏÍø. Awarded the Derby Studentship (for the highest 1stÌýclass degree in History) he undertook an MPhil in American history at 911±¬ÁÏÍø before becoming the Alfred Light Scholar in American Studies at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he specialised in the foreign policy of Franklin Roosevelt and gained a DPhil in Politics and International Relations. He also has a PGCE teaching qualification in History and Politics from the Institute of Education, London.

He is a member of theÌý, and a former Secretary of theÌýÌýas well as being the current President of theÌý. He has been a regular commentator on Canadian issues in the media includingÌýÌý,Ìý,Ìý,ÌýandÌý.


Research Summary

Tony McCulloch's academic interests lie chiefly within the field of US foreign policy, especially the ‘special relationship’ with Britain and the 'other special relationship' between the US and Canada. Together with the less studied Canada-UK relationship, these make up the ‘North Atlantic Triangle’. More specifically, much of his research and writing has focused on the foreign policy of Franklin Roosevelt and its significance for Anglo-American relations and for international relations more generally. His recent book,Ìý, on FDR and the origins of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’, 1937-1939, will be followed by another book, Bombshell Diplomacy, on Anglo-American relations during Roosevelt’s first term, 1933-1937. He is also working on a biography of the British politician, Walter Runciman, best known for his mission to Prague in 1938 to try to prevent the outbreak of war with Germany over Czechoslovakia. As well as these monographs, Dr McCulloch is editing a book on 1968 in the Americas with Dr Kate Quinn. He is also the editor of theÌý, published by UCL Press, and a member of the editorial boards of theÌýÌýand theÌý.ÌýFinally, he is a member of the editorial board of theÌý, published by UCL Press.


Teaching Summary

Tony McCulloch currently teaches US foreign policy at graduate level and supervises research in the field of US and Canadian politics and foreign policy.

Post Graduate Taught:

AMER0010:ÌýPolitics of US Foreign Policy

AMER0012: Post-Cold War US Foreign Policy


Research Supervision:

Dr McCulloch supervises research students in the field of US and Canadian politics and foreign policy. He is particularly interested in hearing from students who wish to conduct research in the areas of US-UK or Canada-UK relations since 1865.

Current PhD students:

Muhamad Agush, 'The Turkish Question Revisited: US-EU Relations with Turkey Since 9/11' | primary supervisor

Francesca Akhtar, 'The Pentagon's Spies: A Critical History of the Defence Intelligence Agency, from JFK to Trump' | primary supervisor

Christopher Hoekstra, 'US Special Operations in South Vietnam, 1954-65' | primary supervisor

Mallory Horrill, 'Victorian Image of Canada: English Gentlewomen and their Perceptions of Canada, 1830-1900' | primary supervisor

Midou Tian, 'Promoting Peace? US Soft Power Towards China, 1989-2016' | primary supervisor

Completed PhDs:

Alin Barbantan, 'Free-Riding in the Far East: the impact of burden-sharing on US hegemony' | primary supervisor

Sailin Li, 'Anglo-American Relations and Arms Sales to China (1972-1989)' | primary supervisor

Agisilaos Papageorgiou, 'Interventionism and Ideology:ÌýGreco-American Relations from 1947 to 1974 and their Historical Memory' | primary supervisor

Morgan Baker, 'Regulations or Delegations?: How Congress Delegated Its War Powers to the President Through Discretionary AUMFs' | (2020) | 2nd supervisor

Maximilian Hoell, 'What role for Washington? US hegemony and the diversification of Latin American international relations' | (2019) | 2ndÌýsupervisor

Quintijn Kat, 'On the Basis of Consent: Subordinate-state Agency and the US Hegemony in Latin America,1990-2010' | (2020) | 2nd supervisor

Neil Kinghan, 'A brief moment in the sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina' | (2019) | 2nd supervisor

Anthony Teitler, 'TitleÌýUS Policy towards Afghanistan, 1979-2014: A Case Study of Constructivism in International Relations' | (2018) | 2nd supervisorÌý

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Publications

Books and edited journals

Tony McCulloch,ÌýÌý(Edinburgh University Press, 2021)

Tony McCulloch and Christopher Kirkey (eds), 'New Voices on Canada',ÌýBritish Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 28.2 (Liverpool University Press, 2015)

Tony McCulloch (ed), 'War and Peace in Canadian History, 1909-2009',ÌýBritish Journal of Canadian Studies,Ìývol. 23.2 (Liverpool University Press, 2010)

Tony McCulloch, 'The Canadian Papers of the 4th Earl of Minto, 1845-1914',ÌýBritish Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 (Microform Publishing, 2009)

Tony McCulloch (ed), 'Canada and the Transatlantic World',ÌýJournal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 6.1 (Edinburgh University Press, 2008)

Tony McCulloch, ‘The Correspondence of Arthur Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank, 1879-1962’, British Online Archives (Microform Publishing, 2008)

Journal articles and book chapters

  • 'Mackenzie King and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1937-39',ÌýLondon Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, Autumn 2021
  • ‘The Roosevelt Image on Trial: FDR, the Radio and the Supreme Court Battle of 1937’ in Iwan Morgan and Mark White (eds) Presidential Image: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump (London: I. B. Tauris, 2020)
  • 'Churchill's Ambassadors: From Fulton to Suez' in Steve Marsh and Alan Dobson (eds.), Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship (New York and Abingdon, Routledge, 2017)
  • ‘A Quiet Revolution in Diplomacy: Quebec-UK relations since 1960’, American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2, June 2016
  • 'Simply the Best: FDR as America's Number One President' in Michael Cullinane and Clare Elliott (eds),ÌýPerspectives on Presidential Leadership: An International View of the White HouseÌý(New York: Routledge, 2014)
  • 'Franklin D Roosevelt' in Michael Cox, Timothy Lynch and Nicolas Bouchet (eds),ÌýUS Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion: From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack ObamaÌý(New York: Routledge, 2013)
  • 'Theodore Roosevelt and Canada: Alaska, the "Big Stick" and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1901-1909' in Serge Ricard (ed)ÌýThe Blackwell Companion to Theodore RooseveltÌý(New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
  • 'The North Atlantic Triangle: a Canadian Myth?'ÌýInternational Journal, vol. 66.1 (March 2011)
  • 'Franklin Roosevelt as Founding Father of the Transatlantic Alliance',ÌýJournal of Transatlantic Studies,Ìývol. 8.3, September 2010
  • 'Roosevelt, Mackenzie King and the Royal Visit to the USA in 1939',ÌýLondon Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 23, Autumn 2008
  • 'American Isolationism in the 1930s',ÌýTwentieth Century History Review, vol. 19.3, January 2007
  • 'Franklin Roosevelt and the Runciman Visit to Washington, 1937: informal diplomacy and Anglo-American Relations in the era of Munich',ÌýJournal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 4.2, Autumn 2006
  • 'British-Canadian trade relations', in Will Kaufman and Heidi Macpherson (eds)ÌýBritain and the Americas, vol. 2 (ABC-Clio, 2005)
  • 'John F Kennedy and the New Frontier',ÌýModern History Review, vol. 16.2, November 2004
  • 'Franklin Roosevelt and the Runciman Mission to Czechoslovakia, 1938: a new look at Anglo-American relations during the Munich crisis",ÌýJournal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 1.2, Autumn 2003.