Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
Dane K. Kennedy
Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs
Office: Phillips 312, 801 22nd Street, N.W.
Phone: (202) 994-6229
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: dkennedy@gwu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Expertise:
British Empire, colonialism in Africa and India, Modern Britain
Background:
Dane Kennedy received his Ph.D. in British history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. He teaches British and imperial history at GW, where he holds the Elmer Louis Kayser professorship. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship for 2003-2004.
Selected Publications:
- The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia (Harvard University Press, 2013);
- The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (Harvard University Press, 2005);
- Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 (London, 2002)
- The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (Berkeley, 1996; Delhi, 1996);
- Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture In Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939 (Durham, 1987); and
- Decentering Empire: Britain, India, and the Transcolonial World, Dane Kennedy and Durba Ghosh, eds. (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006)