Holger Hoock (b. 1972) grew up near Heidelberg in Germany. He studied History, Political Science, and Law at the Universities of Freiburg and Cambridge, and holds a Doctorate in Modern History from Oxford (2001). He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool, where he also was the Founding Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre. Since 2010 he has been serving as the Carroll J. Amundson Professor of British History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Hoock’s publications include The King’s Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture, 1760-1840 (2003) and Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 (2010).
He is now researching a book provisionally entitled Scars of Independence: Violence in the American Revolution.
Hoock has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and in edited collections on subjects ranging from the dinner culture of eighteenth-century artists, the phenomenon of “collecting British” at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the commemoration of military heroes, to international competition over prize antiquities in the Mediterranean and Near East (see the research page).
Dr. Hoock enjoys working as a research and historical consultant with museums, galleries, and other cultural organizations.
Hoock is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held numerous international Fellowships, including at the Library of Congress, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Konstanz, Germany.
In 2006, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in History for internationally recognized young scholars in the UK.
For a full CV please contact Holger Hoock directly.
