ProfessorBrendon O'Connor

Professor in American Politics

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • Professor in American Politics
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

BIO

Brendon O'Connor is the author of A Political History of the American Welfare System: When Ideas have Consequences and Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism: Prejudice and Pride about the USA. He is the co-author of Ideologies of American Foreign Policy and How America Compares. He has also edited seven books on anti-Americanism. Brendon was a Fulbright Fellow at Georgetown University in 2006, a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC in 2008 and 2015, and is a life member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. He is currently working on two new manuscripts “The Ugly American: From Jefferson to Trump” and “Conservative International Relations: From Reagan to Trump”.

SCHOOL

  • School of Social & Political Sciences

AVAILABILITY

  • Research supervision

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)