Douglas Kanter, Chair of the Department of History, specializes in the histories of modern Britain and Ireland, with an emphasis on Anglo-Irish relations in the nineteenth century. He is the author of    The Making of British Unionism, 1740-1848: Politics, Government and the Anglo-Irish Constitutional Relationship    (2009) and co-editor of    Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016    (2019). Dr. Kanter has also contributed a chapter to the    Cambridge History of Ireland    (2018), written biographical entries for    The History of Parliament    and the    Dictionary of Irish Biography, and published articles in such leading scholarly journals as    The English Historical Review, Irish Historical Studies, and    The       Historical Journal.  A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, his research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, the Huntington Library, and Gladstone's Library.

Dr. Kanter is currently completing a book on the Irish policy of the Victorian Prime Minister, William Gladstone.  His other research interests include Irish fiscal, electoral, and parliamentary politics during the "long" nineteenth century.

Before coming to Florida Atlantic University, Dr. Kanter received his B.A. from Northwestern University (1997), and his M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2006) from the University of Chicago.