Ronald K. Richardson

Ronald K.
Richardson
Fellowship: 
Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow
Term in Residence: 
Fall 2010
Title / Appointment: 
Associate Professor
Location: 
Boston University

Contact Information

E-Mail: 
rrichard@bu.edu

Biography Information

Ronald K. Richardson is an Associate Professor of History at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in European history in 1983. He has taught at SUNY Binghamton, the University of Rhode Island, Howard University, and Clark University in Worcester, MA. Professor Richardson was Assistant Dean at URI and Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. His teaching and research areas include intellectual history, the history and culture of imperialism, world history, and Afro Asian relations. Professor Richardson is the author of Moral Imperium: Afro Caribbeans and the Transformation of British Rule, 1776-1848 (Greenwood Press, 1987). His book Winston S. Churchill: Imagining the Racial Self is forthcoming.

Project Description

Blacks and Asians, Encounters Through Time and Space

This project explores relations between people of African descent and peoples of Asian descent globally from the 16th century to the present.  My focus will be upon intellectual and cultural engagement.