Gail Hook,
Ph.D.
Ph.D. in History, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
M. ArcH, University of Virginia, 2001
M. Arc, University of Houston, 1987
B.S., Indiana State University, 1977
Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Northern Virginia Community College, 1/09 – present
Email: ghook@nvcc.edu
Extended Learning Institute: 703.323.3347 (1.888.435.6822)
Loudoun Campus, Humanities Division: 703.450.2505
Manassas Campus, Communications Technologies & Social Sciences Division:
703.257.6693
Previous teaching
Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, 8/08-12/08 and 8/02-6/03
Community College of Denver, University of Colorado at Denver, and Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO, 1998-2001
Courses taught
HIS 101 Western Civilization I
HIS 101 Western Civilization I (ELI course)
HIS 102 Western Civilization II
HIS 121 U. S. History I
ARCH 2233 History of Architecture I
ARCH 2234 History of Architecture II
FA 101 Introduction to Art History
FA 201 Survey of Art History I
Research interests
Dr. Hook specializes in the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, especially in the eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, and India. She is currently completing a book based on her Ph.D. dissertation, A Permanent Occupation: Britons in Cyprus, 1878-1914, and also doing research about Malta during British rule from 1800 to 1974. Dr. Hook has published articles and book reviews and presented papers on British colonization and immigration, environmental history, and Islamic art and architecture. She was most recently a Fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies, a Churchill Scholar, and an editorial assistant for BritishScholar journal. She did summer studies at Boğazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2002 and 2004.
Most recent publications
Article, "Mr. Fenech's Colony: Maltese immigration in British Cyprus, 1878 to 1950," in Journal of Cyprus Studies 13 (2007), Eastern Mediterranean University Press
Book review in BritishScholar Journal, Fall 2008
Book review in BritishScholar Journal (online), Fall 2007