University College Dublin | An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath

UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland | Director: Professor Liam Kennedy

Prospective Students

    President Clinton addresses the Institute Sept 2010

Personnel

Director: Professor Liam Kennedy

Lecturer: Dr. Jack Thompson

Newman Fellow; Dr. Andrew Sanders

Manager: Ms Catherine Carey

Visiting Scholars

Professor Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas has been on the staff of the University of Birmingham since 1989 and has been Professor of American Studies since 1997.  A specialist in US and British foreign policy, he has written and edited seven books, including Divided We Stand: Britain, the US and the Suez Crisis; Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union, 1945-56; George Orwell: Life and Times; and The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens, and the New American Century, and published more than 30 major articles.  He is the Executive Director of Libertas: The Centre for the Study of US Foreign Policy, Adjunct Professor of the Institute for North American and European Studies at the University of Tehran, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for American Studies and Research at American University Beirut.  He is also the Associate Editor of the Journal of American Studies.

Professor Lucas is a frequent contributor to American, British, and international media.  A former essayist for the New Statesman, he has written and presented Suez: The Missing Dimension for BBC Radio 4 and co-directed the 2007 film Laban! on the “People’s Power” rising of 1986 in the Philippines.

Professor Lucas is currently completing two articles on the legacy of the Suez Crisis and a trilogy of articles on US foreign policy, political warfare, and “liberation” from the Cold War to the War on Terror.  This will be followed by a breakthrough book, Empire of Liberation?: How American  and the Bush Administration) Failed to Lead the World, to be published in 2009 or 2010.  The research for this project is supported by a two-year fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. 

A native of Alabama in the south eastern United States, Professor Lucas is still a keen fan of baseball, stock car racing and The Onion.

Affiliated Faculty

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