Timothy Steven Forest, BA, MA, PhD

Dr. Timothy S. Forest is currently an associate professor in Modern European History at the University of Cincinnati – Blue Ash.  His research interests lie in settler colonialism, state-directed colonization, frontiers, and issues of race, gender and identity in the British and French empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  

PhD: University of Texas - Austin Austin, TX, 2008 (Modern British Imperialism)

MA: University of Texas - Austin Austin, TX, 2002 (Modern British History)

BA: McGill University Montreal, QC, 1998 (European History and International Affairs (Combined Major))

My research interests lie in settler colonialism, state-directed colonization, frontiers, and issues of race, gender and identity in the British and French empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  

08-2017 -To Present Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash, Cincinnati, OH

08-2011 -08-2017 Assistant Professor of History, University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash, Cincinnati, OH

08-2010 -08-2011 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash, Cincinnati, OH

08-2009 -06-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

08-2007 -08-2009 Adjunct Professor of History, Austin Community College, Austin, TX

Investigators:Timothy Forest 12-15-2012 -08-15-2013 U.S. Department of State Fulbright Research Award - France Role:PI $38000 Completed Type:Grant Level:International

Investigators:Timothy S. Forest 01-01-2016 -05-31-2016 Unversity of Cincinnati Pathway B - 21st Century Role:PI $25000 Planned/In Preparation Type:Fellowship Level:International

Grant: #R25072 Investigators:Forest, Timothy 04-01-2019 -03-31-2020 UC's URC Faculty Research Cost Support Awards Program Imperial Paradoxes? Martial Races, State- Directed Colonization and the (UN)making of British and French Imperialism, 1871-1900 Role:PI $7,500.00 Active Level:Internal UC

Peer Reviewed Publications

Timothy Forest  (2015). Defenders of Empire, or Agents of Ruin? Hebridean Scots Colonies in British Columbia in the 1920s. Canadian Historical Review, 94 (2)

Timothy Forest  (2012). Epic Triumph, or Epic Embarassment? Commemorations of the War of 1812 Today in the Niagara Region. Ontario History, CIV (1) , 78

Timothy Forest  (2012). Highland Warriors, or Scotch Coolies? Hebridean Crofters in British Columbia, 1887-1893. Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 102 (2) , 79

Timothy Forest  (2010). Negotiating Whiteness on the Frontiers of Empire: The Hebridean Scot and the Group Settlement Scheme in Western Australia. The Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 96 (1) , 1

Timothy Forest  (2002). The Battle of the Books: The Irish Border. British Association of Irish Studies Journal, January-February, 813

Timothy S. Forest  (2025). “Reassembling the Mosaic: Western Irish Colonization and Redefining the “Other” in Canada in the Early 1880s,” . Western Historical Quarterly , 56 (4)

Timothy S. Forest  (2025). “Contempt, Sympathy and Romance: the ‘Othering’ of the Hebridean Scot in British Eyes during the Crofters’ War, 1882–1892,” . Immigrants and Minorities, 1-35

Timothy S. Forest and Leland G. Spencer  (2023). “The Iron Lady’s Capitalist Christianity: Margaret Thatcher’s Rhetorical Theology,”. Journal of Communication and Religion, 46 (3) , 9

Timothy S. Forest and Leland G. Spencer  (2023). “Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, Leadership, and Gender in The Iron Lady and The Crown,”. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 40 (1) , 108

Timothy S. Forest  (2018). “Redeemers, or Destroyers, of Empire? The Irish, State-Directed Colonization, and the Fight for a British-Canadian West, 1880-1882,” . Journal of Canadian History, 53 (1) , 29

Published Books

Timothy S. Forest (2026). Planting Thistles: Scottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian Canada,. Vancouver, UBC Press.

Paper Presentations

Timothy S. Forest (11-2014. ) “Soldiers, Vagrants, Colonizers, Rebels and Beggars? The Rise and Fall of Highland Scots Colonies, 1884-1892” .Minneapolis, MN. Conference. Level:International

Timothy S. Forest (10-2014. ) "Homes Unfit for Heroes: The Rise and Fall of Scottish War Veteran Colonies in Alberta and British Columbia, 1921-1925" .Calgary, AB, Canada. Other Institution. Level:International

Timothy S. Forest (06-2014. ) “Agents of Empire, Agents of Ruin: Highland Scots Colonies in the Canadian West, 1884-1892” .Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK. Other Institution. Level:International

Timothy S. Forest (04-2014. ) “Une Province Perdue, or the Reichsland Elsass? The Cultural and Linguistic Struggle for Alsace, 1870-1918” .Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada. Other Institution. Level:International

Britain, Scotland, Ireland, emigration, empire settlement, bio-imperialism, whiteness, Britishness, racism, Canada, Commonwealth, self-help, nationalism, effeteness, rejuvenation, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Alsace, Algeria, comparative empires

Academic - University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash Muntz Hall, 253FRoom
9555 Plainfield Rd.
Cincinnati  Ohio, 45236
Phone: 513-936-1509
timothy.forest@uc.edu