Warren Dockter
Warren Dockter (born 1982) is an author and historian. He was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and is now a lecturer at Aberystwyth University in International Politics. Dockter is a member of the council of the British Institute at Ankara. Biography. Warren Dockter is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and gained his PhD at the University of Nottingham. His book "Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East" (2015) challenged notions surrounding Winston Churchill's Islamophobia. According to Dockter, Churchill's often quoted criticism of Islam was  written during a time of a fundamentalist revolt in Sudan and this statement does not reflect his full views of Islam as a religion, which were "often paradoxical and complex." He could be critical but at times "romanticized" the Islamic world; he exhibited great "respect, understanding and magnanimity." Churchill had a fascination of Islam and Islamic civilization. Winston Churchill's future sister-in-law expressed concerns about his fascination by stating, "[p]lease don't become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to orientalism." However, Dockter also asserted that Churchill "never seriously considered converting" to Islam . Notably, Dockter worked with Boris Johnson as his research assistant for the book the Churchill Factor: How One Man made History. He was not credited, but was thanked in its acknowledgments.