Dr Luke Reynolds

Dr Luke Reynolds is an American historian who received his PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and an MPhil in History from the University of Cambridge. Luke’s first book, ‘Who Owned Waterloo? Battle, Memory, and Myth in British History, 1815-1852’, was published in 2022. Based on his dissertation, it examines the afterlife of the battle of Waterloo in the collective memory of Great Britain, exploring the concept of cultural ownership of a military event and locating the victory in Britain’s creation myth. Luke is currently an Assistant Professor in Residence in History at the University of Connecticut’s Stamford Campus.