Stephen Howe

Notable work and positions

University of Bristol - Professor in the History and Cultures of Colonialism
openDemocracy - Contributor
New Statesman - Contributor

Biography

Stephen Howe is professor in the history and cultures of colonialism at the University of Bristol. He has contributed to the New Statesman since 1988 and taught politics at Ruskin College, Oxford, and writes regularly for openDemocracy, New Humanist, and the London Review of Books on topics spanning colonialism, decolonization, empire, and Irish history. He is the author of numerous books, including Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002), Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918-1964, Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture, and Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes, and edited volumes including New Imperial Histories. His scholarship examines the intellectual consequences of decolonization and the global growth of colonialism and decolonization as analytical frameworks.

Career highlights

• Professor, History and Cultures of Colonialism, University of Bristol
• Contributor to the New Statesman Since 1988.
• Empire: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press, 2002 · A widely used introductory text on the history of empire.