Dr Jonathan Colman
Jonathan teaches the history of British, American and Soviet foreign policies. His latest research monograph explores the career of Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts, a diplomat of Lancastrian origins who was one of the founders of Britain’s Cold War in the 1940s and who worked closely with his outstanding US counterpart George F. Kennan.
Jonathan specialises in the history of international relations and has worked previously at the prestigious Department of International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth. He teaches undergraduate modules exploring US domestic history, superpower relations, and the Kennedy presidency. At postgraduate level, he teaches British foreign and defence policies, and the role of secret intelligence in international relations. He is an external examiner for the universities of Wolverhampton and South Wales.
Jonathan is a Research Degrees Tutor and a joint lead for REF UoA28 (History). He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on British and American foreign policies. He is now completing his fourth monograph, Britain’s Mr ‘X’: The Diplomatic Career of Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts 1930-68 (Manchester University Press). This is the first biography of Roberts, a Lancastrian who became one of the most consequential diplomats of his generation. Roberts was especially notable for his close cooperation in Moscow with the celebrated American diplomat George F. Kennan. Jonathan was awarded an Archives By-Fellowship from Churchill College, Cambridge University, to support the project. He has supervised several PhD students and welcomes the opportunity to supervise further research exploring twentieth-century diplomatic and international history, especially British and American foreign policies.
Jonathan is the special issues editor for International History Review and the book reviews editor for Diplomacy and Statecraft.
- PhD in History, University of Liverpool, 2003.
- MA (Distinction) in International Studies, University of Leeds, 1995.
- PGCE in Further, Adult and Higher Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003.
- BA (Hons) First Class in Combined Honours, Liverpool Institute of Higher Education, 1995.
- Churchill College Archives By-Fellowship, University of Cambridge, 2021
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2016
- Diplomatic/international history of the twentieth century, especially British and American foreign policies through the Second World War and the Cold War
- Anglo-American relations
- the Cuban Missile Crisis
- the Vietnam War
- US presidents especially Kennedy and Johnson
- Archives By-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
- Fellow of the Higher Education Authority
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- My main research is the project 'War, Cold War, and European Integration: The Diplomatic Career of Sir Frank K. Roberts', which will lead to the publication of a monograph and articles in peer-reviewed journals.
- Jonathan has been awarded research funding from the British Academy and numerous other sources.
- Jonathan has presented his research findings at conferences of the British International History Group, the Transatlantic Studies Association, and the British Association for American Studies.
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