
Christopher Lawson is a Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. He is a social and political historian of Modern Britain and the world, and his work focuses on the intersection of decolonisation, deindustrialisation, and the rise of ‘neo-liberalism’ in the mid-to-late 20th century.