Karl Hack | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | British |
| Title | Head of the School of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology |
| Spouse |
Vanessa Jones (m. 1989) |
| Children | Three |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Hardye's School (now Thomas Hardye School), Dorchester, Dorset, UK |
| Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford; St Hugh's College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | History of Southeast Asia, the British Empire, insurgency and counter-insurgency |
| Institutions | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Open University, UK |
| Website | http://www.open.ac.uk/people/kah382 |
Karl Anthony Hack is a British historian and academic, who specialises in the history of Southeast Asia, the British Empire, and of insurgency and counter-insurgency. Drawing on interviews with insurgents, his work has demonstrated the role of high-level coercion in winning post-war counter-insurgencies, and explored extreme violence and violence limitation. He has also carried out a wide range of public work, ranging across heritage, memory, the media and the courts. He is a professor of history at The Open University where he has also been head of history, and head of the School of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology . Prior to joining The Open University in 2006, he taught at the National Institute of Education, at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, from 1995 to 2006.[1][2]