Carl Watts
Dr. Carl Watts teaches Modern History, Government and Politics, and Critical Thinking at the Isle of Wight College. He completed his doctoral thesis on the Rhodesian Crisis at the University of Birmingham, where he taught Modern History and War Studies. He has held visiting positions at several universities in the American Midwest, and was a Research Fellow in the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics. Dr Watts has presented his scholarship at conferences in the USA and the UK, and has written many scholarly articles. In 2008 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and in 2010 he became a Research Fellow at Southampton University.
Dr Watts is also an experienced schoolteacher, having taught History and Government and Politics at Tonbridge School (Kent), The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School (Hertfordshire), and Edgbaston High School for Girls (Birmingham). Outside the College he is an officer in the Combined Cadet Force (Army Section). In that role he is a Skill-at-Arms Instructor and is qualified to run military training exercises.
