Holger Hoock was educated at Freiburg, Cambridge, and Oxford. He currently serves as the J. Carroll Amundson Professor of British History and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as as editor of the Journal of British Studies. He previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool, where he was also founding director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Center. Hoock is the author of Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750–1850 (London, 2010), and The King’s Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture, 1760–1840 (Oxford, 2003), runner-up for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize. He has recently held fellowships at the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the Konstanz Institute for Advanced Study. He served as research curator for Nelson & Napoleon at London’s National Maritime Museum in 2005 and received the U.K.’s Philip Leverhulme Prize for internationally recognized young historians in 2006. An elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he lectures widely across North America and Europe. Hoock and his family divide their time between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the U.K.