Dr. Richard Drayton

Biography

Richard Drayton was born in Guyana and raised in Barbados. He studied at Harvard and Oxford, and completed his PhD at Yale. He has held various academic positions including Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine's, Cambridge, and Tutor in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford. He has also served as Associate Professor of British History at the University of Virginia and returned to Cambridge as a University Lecturer in Imperial and Extra-European History. In 2009, he became the sixth Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. Drayton has been a Visiting Professor at several prestigious institutions and has received numerous awards including the Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association and the Humboldt Prize in recognition of his lifetime research achievements. His research interests encompass the history of European empires, their impact on the economies and societies of their hinterlands, particularly focusing on the British Empire from circa 1600 to the present. He supervises research students interested in these areas and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on global history, slavery, and the British Empire.

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