Professor Gareth Davies

Gareth Davies is Professor in American History at UCL’s Institute of the Americas, having previously taught at Oxford University, Lancaster University, and the University of Manchester. A specialist in political and environmental history, his work has focussed variously on the history of the US welfare state, the political legacy of the 1960s, and on attempting to explain governmental growth in a persistently anti-statist political culture. He is currently completing a book about the evolution of US responses to disaster, from the Early Republic to the present.

Expertise

• American history
• Environmental politics
• US welfare state
• American political culture