J. Lee Thompson

Dr. J. Lee Thompson

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1996
M.A., University of Houston, 1992
B.A., University of Houston, 1973

Archer 200J
(409) 880-8044
jlthompson1@my.lamar.edu
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J. Lee Thompson teaches Issues in World Cultures, the British Empire, Victorian England, World War I, 19th-Century Europe, and 20th-Century Europe, as well as the U.S. history surveys.  His research interests include modern Britain and Europe, the British Empire, British politics, and propaganda.  He has published Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Theodore Roosevelt Abroad: Nature, Empire and the Journey of an American President (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire (Pickering and Chatto, 2007); Forgotten Patriot: A Life of Alfred, Viscount Milner of St. James’s and Cape Town (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006); Northcliffe: Press Baron in Politics, 1865-1922 (John Murray Publishers, 2000); and Politicians, the Press and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919 (Kent State University Press, 1999).  His current research projects examine Theodore Roosevelt as a writer and historian and the intertwined careers of four British Imperial Proconsuls: Lords Kitchener, Cromer, Curzon, and Milner.  Dr. Thompson served as president of the Western Conference on British Studies from 2004 to 2006 and since 2006 has been a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University.  Lamar University Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for 2007, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.