Robert Cross

Associate Teaching Professor of History and International Affairs
Before coming to Northeastern, he taught at Colgate, Loyola Marymount, and Tufts, as well as at Vanderbilt, where he held a postdoctoral fellowship from 2012 to 2014. Dr. Cross’s broad range of research interests includes Britain, Spain, and early modern Europe, as well as the Atlantic world, empire, and all things transnational. He is preparing for publication a book and several articles on Anglo-Spanish relations, regime change, and the politics and culture of peacemaking in the seventeenth century. He has extensive teaching experience in a range of subjects, from medieval through modern Europe, the history of political thought from the ancient world to the present, world history, international affairs, and comparative colonialism and empire.
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Education
PhD, 2012, History, Princeton University
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360 Huntington Avenue
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Office Hours
Wednesdays: 1:00-2:00 pm (in-person)
Thursdays: 2:00-3:00 pm (virtual, over Zoom)