Warren Dockter
{{Short description|American author and historian (born 1982)}}
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Warren Dockter (born 1982) is an author and historian. He was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and a lecturer at Aberystwyth University in International Politics.
Dockter is a former member of the council of the British Institute at Ankara.{{cite web|url=http://biaa.ac.uk/about-the-biaa/people|title=People at the BIAA|website=biaa.ac.uk}} Dockter now serves as the President and CEO of the East Tennessee Historical Society in Knoxville, TN.{{Cite web |title=Dockter named East Tennessee Historical Society executive |url=https://www.graingertoday.com/news/dockter-named-east-tennessee-historical-society-executive/article_f1d11b52-65c7-11eb-aa41-374a243f9f58.html |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=GraingerToday.com |language=en}}
Biography
Warren Dockter is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and gained his PhD at the University of Nottingham.{{cite web |url=http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-warren-dokter |title=Dr A. Warren Dockter — Faculty of History |website=www.hist.cam.ac.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711132332/http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-warren-dokter |archive-date=2014-07-11}} His book Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East (2015) challenged notions surrounding Winston Churchill's Islamophobia. According to Dockter, Churchill's often quoted criticism of Islam was written during a time of a fundamentalist revolt in Sudan and this statement does not reflect his full views of Islam as a religion, which were "often paradoxical and complex." He could be critical but at times "romanticized" the Islamic world; he exhibited great "respect, understanding and magnanimity."{{citation|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/churchills-family-begged-him-not-convert-islam-letter-shows-n276786|publisher=NBC News|title=Churchill's Family Begged Him Not to Convert to Islam, Letter Shows}} Churchill had a fascination of Islam and Islamic civilization.{{citation|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11314580/Sir-Winston-Churchill-s-family-feared-he-might-convert-to-Islam.html|title=Sir Winston Churchill 's family feared he might convert to Islam|author=Patrick Sawer|publisher=The Telegraph}} Winston Churchill's future sister-in-law expressed concerns about his fascination by stating, "[p]lease don't become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to orientalism." However, Dockter also asserted that Churchill "never seriously considered converting" to Islam.{{citation|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/sir-winston-churchill-s-family-begged-him-not-to-convert-to-islam-letter-reveals-9946787.html|title=Sir Winston Churchill's family begged him not to convert to Islam, letter reveals|author=Matilda Battersby|work=The Independent|others=December 29, 2014|date=3 May 2017}}{{citation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/29/family-of-young-winston-churchill-feared-he-might-convert-to-islam-according-to-long-lost-letter/|title=Family of young Winston Churchill feared he might convert to Islam, long-lost letter says|author=Terrence McCoy|others=December 29, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post}}{{cite web|url=http://warrendockter.com/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-winston-churchill-and-the-islamic-world/|title=5 Things you didn't know about Winston Churchill and the Islamic World|author=Warren Dockter|date=February 24, 2014|access-date=November 13, 2015}}
Dockter worked with Boris Johnson as his research assistant for the book The Churchill Factor: How One Man made History.{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/london-mayor-boris-johnson-winston-churchill-legacy-180953538/|title=London Mayor Boris Johnson on Winston Churchill's Cheekiest Quotes|first=Max|last=Kutner|publisher=}} He was not credited, but was thanked in its acknowledgments.{{cite news |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |title=Boris Johnson offered to pay for help writing Shakespeare biography, says scholar |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/02/boris-johnson-offered-to-pay-for-help-writing-shakespeare-biography-says-scholar |access-date=3 July 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=2 July 2021 }}
Publications
- {{citation |last1=Holt |first1=Andrew |year=2017 |title=Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister : Foreign Affairs from Churchill to Thatcher |last2=Dockter |first2=Warren |publisher=Abingdon, Oxon |series=Routledge Studies in Modern British History, 20. |isbn=978-1409441809}}
- {{citation |last=Dockter |first=Warren |year=2015 |title=Churchill and the Islamic World : Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East |publisher=I. B. Tauris |isbn=978-1780768182}}
- {{citation |last=Dockter |first=Warren |year=2015 |title=Winston Churchill at the Telegraph |publisher=Aurum Press |isbn=978-1781314524}}
External links
- http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-warren-dokter
- http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/our-people/warren-dockter