Luke Reynolds is a New York City born and raised award-winning historian. His work focuses on the cultural, social, and military history of Britain and its empire in the long nineteenth century.
Luke received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) in 2019 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022. He holds a BA in history from Trinity College, University of Dublin; an MA in history from Hunter College, CUNY; and an M.Phil in history from the University of Cambridge.
Luke’s first monograph, Who Owned Waterloo? Battle, Memory, and Myth in British History, 1815-1852, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022 (paperback 2023). Based on his dissertation, it examines the afterlife of the battle of Waterloo in the collective memory of Great Britain, exploring the concept of cultural ownership of a military event and locating the victory in Britain’s creation myth.
Luke is currently an Assistant Professor in Residence in History at the University of Connecticut’s Stamford Campus. He has designed and taught courses covering the history of North America from the moment of permanent contact to 1877, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe, the past half-millennium of World History, and upper-level courses on Twentieth Century Britain, War and Film, and History and Memory.
