Dr Alex Bryne

Alex Bryne is a historian of United States foreign relations, specialising in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His research interests include United States imperialism, Pan-Americanism, and the American experience of the First World War.

Alex has published a history of the Monroe Doctrine during the early twentieth century and is currently conducting research on the significance of Pan-Americanism in the United States.

Alex joined DMU in 2024 and has previously taught at the University Nottingham, the University of Lincoln, and the University of Roehampton. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2017. 

Institute of History

• Alex Bryne, The Monroe Doctrine and United States National Security in the Early Twentieth Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
• Alex Bryne, “The Potential of Flight: U.S. Aviation and Pan-Americanism during the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, no. 1 (2020), pp. 48-76.
• Alex Bryne, “After One Hundred Years of Service – Hegemony, Pan-Americanism, and the Monroe Doctrine Centennial Anniversary (1923),” Diplomacy & Statecraft 29, no. 4 (2018), pp. 565-589.

• United States foreign relations
• United States imperialism
• Pan-Americanism
• The First World War

• PhD in American Studies and History, University of Nottingham, 2017
• MA History, University of Leicester, 2012
• BA International Relations and History, University of Leicester, 2011

• The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
• Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS)
• British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH)

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• “To Develop and Conserve True Friendship among the American Republics: The Pan American Society of the United States,” Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference, 19-21 June 2024, University of Southampton.
• "Fittingly Observed: Celebrating and Debating the Monroe Doctrine at its Centennial Anniversary, 1923,” Monroe Turns 200: Two Centuries of Inter-Imperial and Trans-Imperial Connections in the Americas, 25-26 May 2023, Università di Torino.
• “The Empire of the Monroe Doctrine in the Early Twentieth Century,” The Everchanging Monroe Doctrine and its Entanglements, 07-09 June 2023, Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover.
• “The Potential of Flight: Pan-Americanism and U.S. Aviation during the Progressive Era,” Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Inaugural Work-in-Progress Meeting, 19 October 2018, University of Nottingham.
• “A Hemispheric Alternative: Proposals for an American League of Nations and the Limits of Pan-Americanism – 1916-1923,” 16-18 June 2017, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference, University College Dublin.
• “A Phantom Peril: The Perception of German Threats to United States Interests in the Western Hemisphere and the Reinterpretation of the Monroe Doctrine - 1898-1919,” British American Nineteenth Century Historians Annual Conference, 28-30 October 2016, University of Cambridge.
• “What We Owe to the Monroe Doctrine: Maintaining and Reframing the Monroe Doctrine During the First World War,” International History and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century Postgraduate Conference, 15 July 2016, Liverpool John Moores University.

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