Caroline Ritter

Caroline Ritter is a historian of Modern Imperial Britain, with particular interests in decolonization, development and media in Africa. She joined the Department of History at Texas State University in 2015 after receiving her PhD in British History from the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research and book project examine the interplay of education and immigration policy, national security concerns, and government-business ties in the evolution of English-language instruction in the United Kingdom after 1945. Given similar questions in the United States today surrounding education standards and access, as well as debates over how to balance immigrants’ participation in higher education against perceived national security challenges, the research carries implications for contextualizing and engaging contemporary challenges. Caroline will be with us for the coming academic year.