Roper, Jon

Professor Jon Roper studied for a BA honors degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and for a doctorate at Georgetown University, Washington, before becoming a lecturer in the Department of Political Theory and Government at Swansea University. In 1996 he was made head of the Department for American Studies and was appointed professor of the department in 2005. He has a special interest in the American presidency, the impact of war on American politics, and society and Anglo-American political ideas. Dr Roper is the author of The Contours of American Po...