Henry Knight Lozano

Henry is a historian of the United States and Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Exeter. His research explores U.S. expansion, place promotion, and settler colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on California, Florida, and Hawai'i and the cultural, environmental, and economic histories of these U.S. frontier-zones and semi-tropical territories. He holds a PHD in American History from the University of Sussex and taught American Studies at Northumbria University before joining Exeter in 2019. He has published journal articles in Environmental History, the Journal of American Studies, and American Nineteenth Century History. His first book, "Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929," won a Florida Book Award Gold Medal and was the co-winner of the British Association of American Studies Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize. He is co-editor of "The Shadow of Selma." His most recent monograph is "California and Hawai'i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959" (University of Nebraska Press, 2021).