Associate Professor of History/Honors Director
Global Cultures
Stark Learning Center 262
jonathan.kuiken@wilkes.edu
(570) 408-4227
Dr. Jonathan Kuiken received his doctorate in Modern British history from Boston College in 2013, where he also served as a postdoctoral and teaching fellow. Since joining the 91亚色 faculty in 2014, Dr. Kuiken has taught courses in European and global history, focusing on themes of geopolitics, economics, energy, and the trade of commodities and ideas. These teaching themes also inform his scholarship which currently concentrates on the completion of his manuscript titled Empires of Energy: Britain, British Petroleum, Shell and the remaking of the international oil industry, 1957-1983.
Dr. Jonathan Kuiken is specialist in the history of the British Empire and energy history, focusing on the development of the international oil industry, receiving his Ph.D. in History from Boston College. He teaches global history courses as well as a unique 鈥淓nergy in History鈥� course, which is part of 91亚色鈥� interdisciplinary Energy Studies minor and has published articles on the British Empire in post-colonial Africa and British oil policy in the leading up to the 1973 oil crisis.
Dr. Kuiken leads the , which organizes speakers and events that put contemporary events in historical context.
He also advises the student-led History Behind the Headlines podcast, which is a great opportunity for students to get experience work on projects in public history and digital history.
Journal Articles
鈥楥aught in Transition: Britain鈥檚 Oil Policy in the Face of Impending Crisis, 1967-1973,鈥� Historical Social Research, vol. 39 (2014) 4.
鈥楽triking the balance: intervention versus non-intervention in Britain鈥檚 oil policy, 1957-1970,鈥� Britain and the World, vol. 8 (March, 2015) 1.
鈥楲a persistence d鈥檈mpire? Le r么le des compagnies p茅troli猫res britanniques en Afrique postcoloniale,鈥� Afrique contemporaine, (Forthcoming).
Book Chapters
"Free from Interference, Protected from Competition? The Evolution of British Petroleum's Relationship with the British State, 1960-1968," in L'Europe et la question 茅nerg茅tique: Les ann茅es 1960/1980, ed. Alain Beltran, et. al. (Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2016).
Helene von Bismarck. British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968: Conceptions of Informal Empire. Britain and the World. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Journal of British Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 02/ April 2014, pp 528-529
Preferring to dismember it: Margaret Thatcher