Dr Henry Knight Lozano

I am an American Studies scholar and historian of the United States. My work explores U.S. expansion, place promotion, and issues of race, climate, human-animal interactions, and environment, with a particular focus on the United States' tropical and semi-tropical frontiers - California, Florida, and Hawai'i. I am interested in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the United States in both my research and teaching. At Exeter I teach into History and Liberal Arts and also act as the Director of Liberal Arts.

My first monograph,Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929 (2013), was awarded the Florida Book Award Gold Medal in Florida Nonfiction. It also co-won the British Association of American Studies Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize (2014). I have co-edited a published collection exploring the significance and legacies of the 1965 Selma march and Voting Rights Act. In August 2021, my monograph, California and Hawai'i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959, was published by the University of Nebraska Press, as part of a new series exploring Pacific Worlds. My current research projects include a history of human-reptile encounters in frontier Florida.

I have supervised postgraduate research, both at MA and PHD level, in a wide range of topics in American History. Most recently, at Exeter, I supervised MA dissertations exploring race, memory, and politics in the postwar U.S. South and settler colonialism in colonial New England. With a background in American History and American Studies, I am open to discussing research proposals on any relevant subject given my research expertise. I am especially happy to consider working with candidates with interests in the following areas: U.S. regional and/or environmental history, U.S. expansion and settler colonialism, America and the Pacific, race and civil rights, and animal-environmental history.