Bruce L. Kinzer

Professor of History

Bruce L. Kinzer earned his B.A. from Eastern Michigan University in 1969, his M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1970, and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1975. After working as a post-doctoral fellow for four years, he taught British history at McMaster University, before moving on the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he moved through the ranks and served a four-year term as chair of the Department of History. In the spring of 1996, he held a visiting fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. He joined the faculty at Kenyon in 2000 as chair of the Department of History, remaining in that position through June 2004.

Areas of Expertise

Modern British history and the British empire

Education

Ph.D. University of Toronto
M.A. University of Michigan
B.A. Eastern Michigan University

Selected Publications

J.S. Mill Revisited: Biographical and Political Explorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

England's Disgrace? J.S. Mill and the Irish Question (University of Toronto Press, 2001)

A Moralist In and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster (co-authored with A.P. Robson and J.M. Robson) (University of Toronto Press, 1992)

Public and Parliamentary Speeches by John Stuart Mill Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Vols. 28-29 (co-edited with J.M. Robson) University of Toronto Press

Courses Taught

HIST 226 The British Empire
HIST 227 British History
HIST 336 Locke, Burke, and Mill
HIST 340 Tudor and Stuart Britain
HIST 387 Practice and Theory
HIST 427 The Rise of British Power
HIST 431 Victorian Culture and Society
HIST 434 History of Ireland
HIST 490 Senior Seminar