Karl Anthony Hack is a British historian and academic, who specialises in the history of Southeast Asia, the British Empire, and of insurgency and counter-insurgency. Drawing on interviews with insurgents, his work has demonstrated the role of high-level coercion in winning post-war counter-insurgencies, and explored extreme violence and violence limitation. He has also carried out a wide range of public work, ranging across heritage, memory, the media and the courts. He is a professor of history at The Open University where he has also been head of history, and head of the [http://fass.open.ac.uk/overview/school-history-religious-studies-sociology-social-policy-criminology School of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology] . Prior to joining The Open University in 2006, he taught at the National Institute of Education, at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, from 1995 to 2006.
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