Dr. Troy Bickham

Biography

Troy Bickham is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University, currently serving as the Director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. He holds the Susanne M. Melbern G. Glasscock Director’s Chair and has been a member of the Texas A&M community since 2003. Bickham has also served in various roles at the university's campus in Qatar from 2009 to 2019 before returning to the Department of History. His teaching focuses on the histories of Britain, the British Empire, and the Atlantic world during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early-nineteenth centuries. As a recognized scholar, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Bickham has published extensively on a range of topics in leading academic journals including Past & Present, the Journal of British Studies, and the Journal of Social History. He is the author of four monographs: 'Savages and the Empire' (2005), 'Making Headlines' (2008), 'Weight of Vengeance' (2012), and 'Eating Empire' (2020). His current research projects examine the movement of news in early modern Britain and the history of holiday traditions within Britain and its empire.

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