An honorary fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also director of British Studies. As a graduate student, he studied under A. J. P. Taylor at Oxford from 1960 to 1962. Thereafter, he taught at Yale and, since 1970, at the University of Texas. The AHR published one of his early articles in 1966. His research focuses on the interaction of British imperialism and Asian and African nationalism. He has written or edited some two dozen books, including Imperialism at Bay (1975) and The British Empire in the Middle East (1984). He was editor-in-chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire (1997–99). He recently received the award of Pro Bene Meritis, the highest honor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas. In 1999, a festschrift appeared in his honor: Robert D. King and Robin Kilson, eds., The Statecraft of British Imperialism: Essays in Honor of Wm. Roger Louis (1999). In the same year, in recognition of his contribution to historical scholarship, Queen Elizabeth appointed him Commander of the British Empire.

Bibliography

Ruanda-Urundi, 1884-1919, by Wm. Roger Louis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963; Reprinted, Greenwood Press, 1979.

Great Britain and Germany's lost colonies, 1914-1919, by Wm. Roger Louis. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1967.

Britain and Germany in Africa: imperial rivalry and colonial rule. Edited by Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis. With the assistance of Alison Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.

E. D. Morel's history of the Congo reform movement; edited by Wm. Roger Louis and Jean Stengers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.

British strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939, by Wm. Roger Louis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

France and Britain in Africa: imperial rivalry and colonial rule. Edited by Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971.

National security and international trusteeship in the Pacific. Edited by Wm. Roger Louis. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1972.

The origins of the Second World War: A. J. P. Taylor and his critics, edited by Roger Louis. New York: Wiley, 1972.

Imperialism: the Robinson and Gallagher controversy, edited with an introd. by Wm. Roger Louis. New York: New Viewpoints, 1976.

Imperialism at bay 1941-1945: the United States and the decolonization of the British Empire, by Wm. Roger Louis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.

Imperialism at bay: the United States and the decolonization of the British Empire, 1941-1945, by Wm. Roger Louis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Ruanda-Urundi, 1884-1919, by Wm. Roger Louis. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979, c1963.

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands since the First World War, edited by William S. Livingston and Wm. Roger Louis. Austin: University of Texas Press, c1979.

The Transfer of power in Africa: decolonization, 1940-1960, edited by Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1982.

The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951: Arab nationalism, the United States, and postwar imperialism, by Wm. Roger Louis. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

The End of the Palestine mandate, edited by Wm. Roger Louis and Robert W. Stookey. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.

The "Special relationship": Anglo-American relations since 1945, edited by Wm. Roger Louis and Hedley Bull. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Decolonization and African independence: the transfers of power, 1960-1980, edited by Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Musaddiq, Iranian nationalism, and oil, edited by James A. Bill and Wm. Roger Louis. 1st University of Texas Press ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988.

Suez 1956: the crisis and its consequences, edited by Wm. Roger Louis and Roger Owen. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

The Iraqi revolution of 1958: the old social classes revisited, edited by Robert A. Fernea and Wm. Roger Louis. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 1991.

In the name of God, go!: Leo Amery and the British Empire in the age of Churchill, Wm. Roger Louis. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, c1992.

Churchill, edited by Robert Blake and Wm. Roger Louis. 1st American ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993.

Adventures with Britannia: personalities, politics and culture in Britain, edited by Wm. Roger Louis. London: I.B. Tauris; Austin, Tex.: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995.

The Oxford history of the twentieth century, edited by Michael Howard and Wm. Roger Louis. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

The statecraft of British imperialism: essays in honour of Wm. Roger Louis, editors, Robert D. King and Robin W. Kilson. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999.

A revolutionary year: the Middle East in 1958, edited by Wm. Roger Louis and Roger Owen. London; New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers; Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002.