ProfessorBrendon O'Connor
Professor in American Politics
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Professor in American PoliticsFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: American Political History
Summary of opportunity:
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”.
Opportunity synopsis:
Brendon’s research interests are in US foreign policy, US elections and democracy, US presidential politics, US-Australia relations, ideology, and conservatism.
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe 2017 Qatar Crisis: A Critical Analysis of Qatar's Threat Perceptions
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUS Human Rights Foreign Policy – Drawn from case studies of eastern DRC, Venezuela, northern Syria, and western China