Roger N. Buckley
Director and Professor of History
Beach Hall - Room 417
and Wood Hall - Room 333
860 486. 4751 and 486. 3560
Roger Buckley received his Ph.D. in British Empire History from McGill University. He is the founding Director of the Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. He has received numerous research awards, among them the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, the William Osler Medical Library at McGill University, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Research Foundation of the University of Connecticut. His articles and books have been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Jamaica. He serves as academic advisor to two student organizations: Tarang and the West Indian Student Awareness Organization. In 1999 he received the Booker/Wrobleski Faculty Advisor Award.
Research Interests and Works in Progress include War and society, modern India, and Asian American History. Recently he has turned his attention to literary historical fiction. He has just completed an original trilogy entitled Collaboration and Resistance: Three Chose Rebellion. It explores the questions of race, ethnicity and national identity as seen in the lives of three historical characters who served in the old British colonial army in the Caribbean and India during the nineteenth century. He is currently at work on two new books: one which examines the life and writings of human and civil rights activist, Yuri Kochiyama, and a novel which chronicles India from 1857 to 1947.
Selected Publications: Books
Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
The Haitian Journal of Lieutenant Howard, York Hussars, 1796-1798. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
The Napoleonic War Journal of Thomas Henry Browne, 1807-1816. London: Army Records Society/Bodley Head, 1987.
Congo Jack: A Novel. Mt. Kisko, NY: Pinto Press, 1997.
The British Army in the West Indies: The Military and Society in the Revolutionary Age. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
I, Hanuman: A Novel. Kolkata (Calcutta): Writers Workshop, 2003.
Selected Publications: Articles
"Slave or Freedman: The Question of the Legal Status of the British West India Soldier, 1795-1807." Caribbean Studies, vol. 17, nos. 3-4 (October 1977/January 1978): 83-113.
"The Destruction of the British Army in the West Indies, 1793-1815: A Medical History." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, LVI, no. 226 (Summer 1978): 79-92.
"Black Man - The Mutiny of the British 8th West India Regiment: A Microcosm of War and Slavery in the Caribbean." Jamaican Historical Review, XII (1980): 52-76.
"The Frontier in the Jamaican Caricatures of Abraham James." Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 58, nos. 3-4 (April 1984): 152-162.
"Kwetsbare Eilandstaatjes in het Caribisch Gebied." Internationale Spectator (The Hague), vol. 38-9 (August 1985): 495-498.
"Native Troops in Colonial Armies: A Research Note on an Incident During the Bengal Army Mutiny of 1857-58." Itinerario (Leiden), vol. VIII (1984).
"The Admission of Slave Testimony at British Military Courts in the West Indies, 1801-1809," in Gaspar and Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977.