Dr Anna Brinkman studied at Columbia University as an undergraduate and as a graduate at King's College London. After being awarded her doctorate she conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Warwick. Anna joined the Defence Studies Department in 2020.

Research Interests

• History of strategic thinking (especially maritime) in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• International law, particularly as it relates to neutrality, strategy, and warfare
• The changing character of war

Her current research projects focus on the development of strategic thinking and international law during the Seven Years' War. She is also working on a project on women as strategic thinking and the informal networks that fostered strategic thinking in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Publications

Articles

• “The Heart of the Maritime World: London’s ‘Mercantile’ Coffee Houses in Seven Years’ War and the American War of Independence, 1756-1783” Historical Research, (expected Spring 2021)
• "The Antigallican Affair: Public and Official Responses to Anglo-Spanish Maritime Conflicts 1756-1758", English Historical Review, December 2020.

Chapters

• "Fire No Guns, Shed No Tears: Channel Island Privateers, British Strategic Thinking, and the Politics of Neutrality" in The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Maritime Relations 1689-1918 eds. Andrew Lambert, Jean de Prenuef, and Colin Partridge, Boydell and Brewer (Summer 2021)
• "Merchants of Fortune: British Foreign Policy in the Americas 1775-1782" in Economic Warfare and the Sea: Grand Strategy for Maritime Powers, eds. David Morgan-Owen and L. Halewood, (Liverpool University Press: 2020)