- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1996
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
- Website
- https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/
Tony Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge and Emeritus Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History at the University of Texas in Austin. He holds a PhD from the University of London and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stirling and Birmingham. He has written extensively on African history, imperial history, and globalisation. His publications include: An Economic History of West Africa (1973; 2019), British Imperialism written with P. J. Cain (1993; 3rd ed. 2016), Globalization in World History (2001), Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local (2006), American Empire: A Global History (2018), Africa, Empire and World Disorder: Historical Essays (2020) and numerous scholarly articles.
Current post
Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge; Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Texas at Austin Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History
2002 - 2013
University of Cambridge Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History
1994 - 2002
The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva Professor of International History
1988 - 1994
University of Birmingham Assistant Lecturer; Lecturer; Reader; Professor of Economic History,
1963 - 1988
Publications
Globalization in World History
Edited by A.G. Hopkins - Published in 2002 by Pimlico
