University of Connecticut
Roger N. Buckley
Roger N. BuckleyDirector and Professor of HistoryBeach Hall - Room 417 and Wood Hall - Room 333 Phone: 860 486 . 4751 and 860 486 . 3560 Email: Roger.Buckley@uconn.edu
Roger Buckley is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. He earned a Ph.D. in British Empire History at McGill University in Montreal. The focus of his research has been war in history. His writings have sought to demonstrate that the study of war is more than the study of conflict, as important as that is. War in history embraces war in all its various aspects: social, cultural, geographical, medical, economic, gender, legal, intellectual, and political as much as purely military. He has received several major research awards, among them grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Carter Brown Library Fellowship/Brown University, the Sir William Osler Medical Library Fellowship McGill University, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the University of Connecticut Provost Research Fellowship. His scholarly books and articles have been published in the U.S., the Netherlands, the U.K., India, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, and Jamaica. His books include Slaves in Red Coats (Yale University Press, 1979), and The British Army in the West Indies (University Press of Florida/University Press of the West Indies, 1998). He has recently completed a trilogy that examines the issue of race, culture, gender and national identity in the British colonial army of the 19th century through the medium of literary historical fiction. His “Accommodation and Resistance: Three Who Chose Rebellion” trilogy examines the lives of three historical characters who served in the British Army in the Caribbean, India, and Ireland. Congo Jack was published by Pinto Press in 1997, I, Hanuman was published by the Writers Workshop in 2003 in India, while The Death and Life of an Irish Soldier was published by the University Press of the South in 2008. He is currently at work on two major scholarly projects which reflect his interests in India and Japanese American/Canadian wartime relocation and internment: The Intersection of Irish and Indian Nationalism and an Edition of Government of Canada Wartime Relocation Documents. Harvard University Press has requested reading privileges of the former once the manuscript is complete, while the University Press of Hawaii has requested similar privileges of the latter. In his spare time he is writing a series of detective/mystery/speculative novels in which the genre is used as a vehicle to explore current moral, cultural and political issues. The central character in each is someone we have not seen before: a Canadian university professor who moonlights as a detective. The University Press of South has agreed to publish the first two novels in the “Relph Coggins Mystery Series”: Fort Gorges, Maine, which looks at art theft, and Gandhi Forever, which looks at human cloning. A third volume in the series deals with antiquities theft. It is completed and under review for publication.. His scholarly research and training informs all of his works of fiction. Download Roger N. Buckley's Curriculum Vitae (PDF) 416 Beach Hall Phone: 860.486.4751 |