Warren Dockter

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.

Warren Dockter

Dockter is a former member of the council of the British Institute at Ankara.^[1] Dockter now serves as the President and CEO of the East Tennessee Historical Society in Knoxville, TN.^[2]

Biography

Warren Dockter is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and gained his PhD at the University of Nottingham.^[3] 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."^[4][5] Churchill had a fascination of Islam and Islamic civilization.^[5] 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.^[6][7][8]

Dockter worked with Boris Johnson as his research assistant for the book The Churchill Factor: How One Man made History.^[9] He was not credited, but was thanked in its acknowledgments.^[10]

Publications

• Holt, Andrew; Dockter, Warren (2017), Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister : Foreign Affairs from Churchill to Thatcher, Routledge Studies in Modern British History, 20., Abingdon, Oxon, ISBN 978-1409441809
• Dockter, Warren (2015), Churchill and the Islamic World : Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East, I. B. Tauris, ISBN 978-1780768182
• Dockter, Warren (2015), Winston Churchill at the Telegraph, 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