Nicholas Guyatt

Nicholas Guyatt (born 1973) is a British historian and author and a professor of North American history at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.[1][2]

Career

Guyatt studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in English and a MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History.[3] He did his doctorate at Princeton University under Daniel T. Rodgers where he received a Ph.D. in history.[2] Guyatt stayed in Princeton to teach after which he moved to a teaching position at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver where he stayed for three years.[3] He returned to the United Kingdom in 2008 as a lecturer in modern history at the University of York. In 2014 he moved to University of Cambridge where he became a fellow at Jesus College and senior lecturer in North American history.[3] He was later promoted to reader and then professor.

Guyatt's specific interests are on the racial and religious history of the United States. He also wrote a popular book, Have a Nice Doomsday (2007), on Christian fundamentalist belief in the Rapture and how it is changing American foreign policy towards Israel.[4][5][6][7]

Selected bibliography

  • Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876 (2007), a historical study of American ideas of providential nationalism.
  • Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (2016).
  • The Hated Cage (2024), about US prisoners in Dartmoor Prison during the War of 1812.

References

  1. ↑ "Prof Nicholas Guyatt". Faculty of History. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Dr Nicholas Guyatt". Faculty of History. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016. I joined the History Faculty at Cambridge in 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Professor Nicholas Guyatt". Jesus College Cambridge. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  4. ↑ Behr, Rafael (3 June 2007). "This is the modern world". The Observer. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
  5. ↑ Handler, Richard (27 October 2009). "Have a nice doomsday". CBC. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
  6. ↑ Saul, Toby (July–August 2007). "Have a Nice Doomsday by Nicholas Guyatt". New Humanist. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
  7. ↑ Sharlet, Jeff (19 July 2007). "Preachers of doom". New Statesman. Retrieved 12 August 2011.


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