Cameron Dunbar

Cameron Dunbar received a Ph.D. in History from Ohio University in 2023, with a primary field in modern Britain and secondary fields in modern Russia and the modern Middle East. His dissertation, “The Chance of New Greatness: The Heath Government and British Entry into the European Community, 1970-1974”, explored Great Britain’s relationship with the European Communities under the government of Prime Minister Ted Heath, examining the broad questions of why the Heath Government decided to seek membership in the European Economic Community, the debates on the political and economic implications of joining, and, following entry in 1973, how membership transformed Britain’s domestic politics and its foreign policy.

Professor Dunbar takes his approach to history education from the renowned Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis: that the purpose of studying history “is to interpret the past for the purposes of the present with a view to managing the future.”