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Overview

Kevin Grant is a historian of the British Empire, humanitarianism, and slavery who joined the Hamilton College Department of History in 1997. He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. By the 2015–16 academic year — the earliest catalog in the corpus that lists him with his full title — he held the rank of Professor of History and served as Chair of the History Department. He has been the holder of the Edgar B. Graves Professorship of History, a named endowed chair, at least from the 2020–21 catalog onward.

Grant chaired the History Department through multiple catalog years (confirmed in 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, and 2020–21), was on leave in fall 2022, and appears in the department faculty listing through 2024–25. In recent catalog years he co-listed courses with colleague Steve Yao.

Relevance to Research

Grant is one of the longest-serving members of the Hamilton History Department in the corpus period. His Edgar B. Graves Professorship is a significant named chair, connecting him to the history of faculty endowments at Hamilton. His courses on international government, humanitarianism, and Black internationalism reflect the department’s scholarly orientation toward global and imperial history.

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