Luke Reader

Instructor

Luke Reader (Ph.D., UC Irvine) is a SAGES Teaching Fellow in the history department at CWRU.  He studies Brexit and internationalism in the British Labour Party in the first half of the 20th century.  He has a particular interest in how policymakers communicate through the media.  Luke Reader teaches contemporary history. Recent courses have discussed Brexit, human rights, the global novel, and democracy and populism.  Luke Reader has published in a wide range of academic and public venues and has been a guest speaker on the Pacifica radio shows The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen and Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar.  He is currently writing a cultural history of Brexit.