Loughborough University invites applications for 50 fully-funded PhD studentships for 3 years (UK or EU fee status). Each studentship is valued at £13,590 plus tuition fees at the UK/EU rate. The reference number is GSS11B. The studentships are available for PhDs commencing in October 2011. The deadline for receipt of full application is Wednesday, 15 June 2011. Where appropriate, students will also normally be expected to apply for Research Council studentships.
Dr Marcus Collins, Dr Max Edling, Dr Thoralf Klein, Dr Robert Knight, Dr Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Prof Chris Szejnmann would like to hear from anyone interested in studying for a PhD in Modern History.
Marcus Collins is Lecturer in Modern British History. His interests include permissiveness, popular culture, national identity, gender, sexuality, historiography and the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Britain. His first book, Modern Love (2003), explored how women's emancipation changed the theory and practice of friendship, marriage and sexual activity from the fin de siècle to the present. He then edited The Permissive Society and Its Enemies: Sixties British Culture, out of which sprung his current book project entitled ‘Great Freedom: The Beatles and the Permissive Society’. He would particularly welcome enquiries from students wishing to research popular culture or identity politics in the 1960s and beyond.
Max Edling is Lecturer in Modern History and an expert on the American founding and the early national period. His interests are the international history of the American Revolution, the formation and development of the early federal government, and the politics of public finance in the early republic. Dr Edling is currently completing a book on the financing of war and territorial expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War. A future project will interpret the founding as the creation of an American Empire. Edling would in particular like to hear from students interested in early American international law, diplomacy, and federalism, and the legal history of citizenship in the early republic. He is the author of A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (2003) and numerous articles and book chapters on subjects such as the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, the early American fiscal system and national debt.
Thoralf Klein is Senior Lecturer in Modern History. He is a specialist in the modern history of China from about 1800 to the present. His main interests encompass China’s relationship with the world at large, in particular the history and legacy of Western imperialism, the history of religion in modern China and the culture of Chinese politics in the twentieth century. His first book, “Die Basler Mission in der Provinz Guangdong, 1859-1931” (2002) is a study of how a German-Swiss Protestant mission society interacted with local society and popular culture in South China. He has also published a textbook entitled “Geschichte Chinas von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart” (2nd edition 2009). Dr Klein currently works on a study of the Boxer War of 1900/01 as a transnational media event and on a survey of political religion in twentieth-century China. He would welcome students with an interest in transnational history, the history of imperialism, media history, mission history and/or the history of political ideologies.
Robert Knight is Senior Lecturer in International History. His main research interests are the legacy of National Socialism in Germany and Austria, with particular reference to denazification, antisemitism, the restitution of “Aryanised” property and the treatment of Slav minorities. He is especially interested in the way the “high politics” of the Cold War interacted with national and regional politics in Central Europe. Recent publications include articles on on Denazification in the Austrian province of Carinthia (Journal of Modern History), the SOE (Special Operations Executive) in Austria and a review of Tom Segev’s biography of Simon Wiesenthal for the Times Literary Supplement. He was a member of the Austrian Historians' Commission, investigating Austrian restitution and compensation policy (1998-2003) and gave the 2006 Glasgow Holocaust Memorial Lecture on 'Austria and the Holocaust.' He is currently completing a study of the Carinthian Slovenes in post-war Austria and editing a collection on Ethnicity in the Cold War.
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History. She would welcome students interested in women’s history, Islam, autobiography, the culture of travel, education, and/or princely states in modern South Asia. Her current research project is on Muslim women’s autobiographical writing in South Asia with a focus on changing notions of the self. She also leads an AHRC-funded network on ‘Women’s Autobiography in Islamic Societies’. Her publications include Atiya's Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain (with Sunil Sharma) (2010), Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal (2007), A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum's A Pilgrimage to Mecca (2007)and Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (with A. Powell) (2006).
Chris Szejnmann is Professor in Modern History. His interests encompass modern Germany, the phenomena of anti-Semitism and fascism, and teaching and learning methodologies, in particular e-learning and the use of film. The main questions that have engaged him are how people responded to Nazism, how they behaved during the ‘Third Reich’, and how Germans and non-Germans have come to terms with the Second World War and the Holocaust after 1945. His main publications are Rethinking History, Dictatorship and War. New Approaches and Interpretations (ed., 2009), Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspective (eds., with Olaf Jensen, 2008), How the Holocaust Looks Now. International Perspectives (ed., with M.L. Davies, 2006), Vom Traum zum Alptraum. Sachsen während der Weimarer Republik (2000), Nazism in Central Germany: The Brownshirts in ‘Red’ Saxony (1999).
The Department of Politics, History and International Relations has an enviable PhD completion rate and equips all its PhD with computing and office facilities within a friendly and supportive environment.
If you would like to discuss a possible research project informally,
please e-mail Marcus (Marcus.Collins @lboro.ac.uk), Max (medling@stanford.edu), Thoralf (T.E.Klein@lboro.ac.uk), Robert (R.G.Knight @lboro.ac.uk), Siobhan (S.T.Lambert-Hurley @lboro.ac.uk), Chris (C.W.Szejnmann @lboro.ac.uk
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