William Anthony Hay
Jack Miller Center Summer Institute Faculty
Associate Director for Public Programs and Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
William Anthony Hay is the Associate Director for Public Programs and Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. A historian specializing in Britain and the Atlantic World, he also writes on international relations and foreign policy. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the National Interest, and History Today. Hay taught in the History Department at Mississippi State University for 20 years and worked previously with the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. His books include Lord Liverpool (2018) and The Whig Revival (2005). Additionally, he is the author of King George’s Generals: The British Struggle for North America, 1763-1781, forthcoming from Basic Books
He earned a BA in history and philosophy at the University of the South (1990) and a doctorate in history from the University of Virginia (2000) where he also worked on the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. Along with research grants from the Earhart Foundation and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Hay has been a research fellow with the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library and Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University, the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan, and the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
Research interests:
British History
History of the Atlantic World
International Relations
Foreign Policy
