MEHRC welcomes applications from prospective visiting academics to work with History Faculty academics. However the space available is limited and therefore all applications will be considered carefully by the MEHRC Management Committee. Prospective applicants should complete the form below which should be read in conjunction with the visitor's agreement and sent to the MEHRC Administrator: Mrs Jane Cunning
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Current Senior Visiting Researchers:
Dr Per Landgren:
Whilst in Oxford at the MEHRC (Nov 2010 - Sept 2012), Dr. Landgren plans to expand his earlier research in theory of history of the late Renaissance. This will lead into new areas in early modern epistemology and theory of science. Having identified and described the early modern Aristotelian concept of history in his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Landgren intends to introduce this neglected concept of history in modern international Renaissance research and investigate its consequences in areas such as the structure of early modern natural philosophy and humanities. Landgren is a post-doctoral fellow of the Swedish Research Council from 2011-01-01 to 2012-09-30 and his research is also supported by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, the Ã…ke Wiberg's Foundation, The Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation and the Magnus Bergvall's foundation.
Professor Laurent Douzou:
Professor Douzou is a professor of contemporary history at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Lyon. His research focuses on the history and the memory of WWII in France and in Europe. Whilst in Oxford as Senior Visiting Research Associate at the MEHRC (Sept 2010 – Sept 2012), he will work on historiographical matters and on oral history both as a practice and a very controversial issue. He is also attached to the Maison Française d’Oxford.
Dr Ric Berman:
Whilst a Senior Visiting Researcher at the MEHRC (Sept 2011 - December 2012), Dr. Berman intends to build upon the work undertaken for his doctoral thesis by extending his research into the development of Freemasonry up to the mid-eighteenth century, focusing in particular on its inter-relationship with and impact upon contemporary politics, economics and society. He will be examining the activities, correspondence and other relevant papers of key protagonists, and exploring the development of competing and complementary organisations and structures within Britain and elsewhere. He theorises that the manner in which Freemasonry altered over the period 1740 to 1760 provides a metaphor for and paradigm by which to understand the changes taking place in society more generally.  Following the completion of this stage of his research in 2012 or 2013, Dr. Berman intends to publish his conclusions in a successor volume to The Foundation of Modern Freemasonry. The Grand Architects, Political Change and the Scientific Enlightenment, 1714-1740, published this year.
Dr Christian Bailey:
Dr Bailey received his PhD from Yale University in 2008, his dissertation focused on support for an integrated Europe in interwar and post-Second World War Germany. He has written a number of articles on that topic and is writing a book based on his dissertation to be published with Berghahn Books(2011). While with the MEHRC, October 2010-June 2011 (ext to 2012) he is expanding the scope of this project by analysing how a European discourse was shaped by encounters and knowledge transfers between Europeans and non-Europeans in the Western bloc formed in the early Cold War period. As a post-doc, from 2008, in the History of Emotions group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, he will work on the bestowing and receiving of political honours in modern Britain and Germany and contribute to a multi-authored conceptual history of emotions written at the Institute, writing a chapter on the history of social emotions, due for publication in 2011.
Dr Sébastien Farré :
Sébastien Farré is a ‘maître-assistant’ of contemporary history at the University of Geneva. His researches focuses on the Spanish Civil War, Spanish emigration, the Second World War and on humanitarian relief history. In 2010 he received a grant from the National Swiss Research foundation. Whilst at MEHRC (October 2011-May 2012) he will expand his latest research into food relief in Europe during the Second World War and the immediate postwar period. He will also focus on the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the main private contributors (OXFAM, CARE, etc.), work on the building of humanitarian operation and on political and social issues raised by the organization of food relief
Dr José-Ignacio MartÃnez Ruiz:
José I. Martinez Ruiz is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Seville, where he teaches Economic History. He has written on local finance and public credit in Spain (XVI-XVIII Centuries), technological change in Spanish agriculture (XIX-XX Centuries), and Andalusian entrepreneurship in historical perspective. His current research focuses on the Anglo-Spanish trade from the Grand Armada to the Treaty of Utrecht. He will join the MEHRC from January to September 2012.
Dr Juan Pablo Dominguez:Juan Pablo DomÃnguez is a Research Associate at the Institute for Culture and Society (University of Navarra). He received his PhD in History in December 2010 with a doctoral dissertation concerning the life and works of the eminent Spanish Historian and Politician Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz. His main areas of expertise are the construction of the Spanish national identity and the relationship between politics and memory in Modern Europe. He is currently working on a book about the idea of religious tolerance in Spain in the Age of Revolutions (1759-1845). Dr. DomÃnguez will devote his stay with the MEHRC from February to May 2012 to research on the political and religious conceptions of the Spanish liberals exiled in Great Britain during the first decades of the ninetieth century".
Dr Lu Qihong:
Lu Qihong is an assistant professor at Fudan University, China. Whilst in Oxford as Senior Visiting Research Associate at the MEHRC (Feb 2012 – Jan 2013), he plans to examine the European Jesuits’ works in early modern China, and analyze how Jesuits accounted for Chinese demonology, and how they assimilated traditional Chinese demon lore into the narratives of their tales.
Dr Adrian Zimmerman:
Adrian Zimmermann received his PhD at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland in February 2012). Whilst in Oxford as Senior Visiting Research Associate at the MEHRC (April 2012 – December 2012) he will develop a postdoctoral research project working with a comparative and transnational approach on the history of the labour movement. He will thereby expand from the research done for his doctoral thesis about the development of the relationship between labour, capital and the state in the Netherlands and Switzerland during the first half of the 20th century and from his current work on the history of the Swiss Public Transport Workers' Union (SEV) during the last 40 years.
Dr Laurie Marhoefer:
Laurie Marhoefer is an assistant professor of history at Syracuse University (USA). While at the MEHRC in 2012-2013, she is working on a book on the politics of sexuality under Germany's Weimar Republic. It examines the explosive battles over law and sexualities (including male and female homosexuality, male and female prostitution, transvestitism, and pornography) that shaped Germany's first parliamentary democracy and ultimately contributed to its collapse and to the Nazi seizure of power.
Dr Tatsuya Nakasawa:
Dr Nakazawa is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education & Regional Studies, University of Fukui, Japan. Since 2010, he has also been a visiting professor at Comenius University & Matej Bel University in the Slovak Republic. His major field of interest is Slovak nation-building in the 18th and 19thC. Major publications include: "Slovenská politická myšlienka pocas revolúcie v roku 1848-Proces premeny slovenského národa na štátoprávny subjekt na základe tradicných korporativny principov" (Acta historica neosoliensia, c.9, 2006, pp.48-64), "Slovak Nation as a Corporate Body - The Process of the Conceptual Transformation of a 'Nation without History' into a Constitutional Subject" (Slavic and Eurasian Studies, No.15, 2007, pp.155-182). In 2009 he published a book on Slovak nation-building in the 18th and 19thC in Japanese: A Study on the Theories of the Slovak Nation-Building: A Theory for the Formation of a Modern Nation's Corporate Body for a "Nation without History" (Tousishobo, Tokyo, 2009, 454p). Whilst in Oxford at MEHRC (Apr - Oct 2012), he plans to conduct a comparative research on the theories of nation-building in the composite states of 19thC Europe. His study also covers the nation-building of modern times in Japan - from the late Edo period to the Meiji Restoration.
Current Junior Visiting Researchers:
Aryo Makko:
Aryo is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History, Stockholm University, and will complete his PhD in May 2012. He works on twentieth century international history. Whilst at the MEHRC (Hilary & Trinity terms 2012), he will prepare his post-doctoral research project entitled ‘Transnational Socialism and the Rise and Fall of Internationalism, 1919-1976’. His articles have been published or are forthcoming in academic journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, and the Journal of Cold War Studies.
Camilo Erlichman:
Camilo is a Principal's Career Development Scholar in History at the University of Edinburgh and currently completing a doctorate on the British occupation of Germany after the Second World War. He received his BA from the University of Bonn in 2009 and a M. St. from the University of Oxford in 2010. His current research explores the British occupation of North-Western Germany as as a series of interactions between the occupiers and the occupied. Based on substantial new archival material, his work tries to explain the stability of British rule and assess the legacies of the occupation period by looking at the relations of the occupying authorities with German social intermediaries (such as the trade unions, churches, and provincial administrations) as well as by examining the occupier's broader ruling methods, displays of power and its war for legitimacy. Whilst with the MEHRC (Trinity 2012), Camilo will conduct research on these aspects in Oxford libraries and archival repositories and work closely with a number of Oxford colleagues on convergent research interests in the history of post-war Western Europe.
Former Visiting Researchers:
Dr Anca Șincan:
Received her PhD in History at the Central European University in Budapest with a thesis on the state church relationship in communist Romania. Curently she is a researcher at the "Gheorghe Șincai" Institute for Social Sciences
and Humanities of the Romanian Academy. Whilst with the MEHRC during March and April 2012 her work will be supported financially from a larger research project Crossing Borders: Insights into the Intellectual and Cultural
History of Transylvania (1848-1948) financed by the Romanian Ministry for Education. While in Oxford she will redesign the theoretical framework of her doctoral research preparing it for publication. Her research allows a closer
insight into matters related to central local relations, religion of the nation versus ethnic religion, but also into successful projects to sacralise the nation undertaken by religious actors.
Dr Calin Cotoi :
Calin Cotoi is a lecturer and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bucharest. Whilst a Visiting Researcher at the MEHRC, he expanded his earlier research on the emergence of social expertise and experts, of technocratic social modernity, in interwar and WWII Eastern Europe. The translation of former historiographic and ethnographic dilemmas into “social problems” happened in a context in which claims for scientificity intersected with concerns for national and ethnic purity. While with the MEHRC, he intends to research the role played by scholars and technocratically oriented public administrators in population exchange schemes, during WWII.
Dr Márton Szentpéteri:
From 2008 Dr Szentpéteri was tenured associate professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. His main interests covering early modern intellectual and cultural history, and modern design culture. He is an author of the monograph Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Herborn Legacy in Transylvania (in Hungarian, 2008), and an editor of the Helikon: Revue de littérature générale et comparée, published in Budapest by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. During his affiliation with the MEHRC as Senior Visiting Research Associate and as a recipient of the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship of the European Commission (Sept 2010- Sept 2011) Dr Szentpéteri reworked his Hungarian book on Alsted in English in close association with the interdisciplinary group of Cultures of Knowledge.
Ionuţ Florin Biliuţă:
(Junior Research Associate April-June 2011) Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Orthodox Theology (PhD in Theology). Ionut Biliuta is a PhD student in History at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His doctoral thesis focused on the relation between Orthodox Church and the fascist Iron Guard in interwar Romania and beyond. He was a Junior Research Fellow at New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Studies’ in Bucharest, Romania. His project titled “Bowing at the Altar of the Nation. Orthodoxy and Nationalism in 19th century Romania and Greece” scrutinised the rise of the national churches in the Balkans as a part of the national process building and the nationalist intellectual narrative of the Orthodox theologians as well.
Dr Simon Levis Sullam:
During his affiliation with the MEHRC as Senior Visiting Research Associate (Sept 2009- Oct 2010) Dr Levis Sullam pursued different strands and interests characterized by his recent publications. As part of a Leverhulme research project on toleration in Jewish history. He studied the role of the notion & attitude of toleration in the historiographical œuvre of Gershom Scholem, specialist of the Kabbalah and of Jewish heretical movem initiating a new research project on the role of French and Italian Jewish entrepreneurs, intellectuals, academics and State officers, in the establishment and conduction of colonial projects, through a comparative investigation of the French and Italian experience in Algeria, Ethiopia and Libya in the years 1880-1914. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris which enabled him to extend his association with the MEHRC until 2011 and work on his project: "Catholic Ways to Anti-Semitism:Italy and France 19-20c".
Dr Michael Jonas:
Michael Jonas is a lecturer and postdoctoral research fellow at the Chair of Modern History, Helmut-Schmidt-University (University of the German Federal Armed Forces) in Hamburg. He received his PhD in early 2009 from the University of Helsinki with a thesis on the German-Finnish relations during the late 1930s and the Second World War, which is forthcoming in both German and Finnish. Whilst at Oxford he worked on his research project examining Scandinavia in British and German foreign policy during the First World War from a comparative-historical angle. During his stay at the MEHRC as Senior Visiting Research Associate he was associated with the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War (CCW).
Dr Dominque Marshall:
Dr Marshall is professor of Canadian history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is writing a history of humanitarian aid and children's rights in Africa. During her stay at the MEHRC, in August 2010, as a recipient of the Gordon and Jean Southam Fellowship of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, she researched the early history of OXFAM in Canada at the archives of OXFAM in Banbury, and conducted interviews in the Oxford area with pioneer humanitarians. She also works on the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations, a topic she discussed at the MEHRC conference "Towards a New History of the League of Nations" held on 27-28 August in Jesus College.
Dr Jean F Crombois:
Dr Crombois is Assistant Professor of European Studies at the American University in Bulgaria where he teaches courses relating to European integration, such as  the History of European Integration in the 20th Century.  He has previously  published on Belgian financial history,  on post-War reconstruction and the beginnings of European integration.  His current field of research addresses the evolution of international financial diplomacy from 1920 to 1950. During his tenure at the MEHRC throughout May and June 2010, he intends to finish the writing of a book on “Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance”  (to be published by Pickering & Chatto U.K. in 2011) in which he proposes to revisit the discussions that led to the establishment of the Bretton Woods institutions. This project is  based on original material, such as personal archives of the Camille Gutt, Belgian Finance Minister during the Second World War and first Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1946 to 1951.
Professor Andre Liebich:
Andre Liebich is professor of International history and politics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He is writing a biography of Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956), sometime editor of the Times, facilitator of Czechoslovak and Yugoslav independence during the First World War, and, later, staunch opponent of appeasement. This project is a departure from the main thrust of his work which deals with Central and East European history and politics, minorities, citizenship, self-determination and diasporas. He joined MEHRC for Hilary & Trinity terms 2010 as a Senior Visiting Research Associate and was also attached to St. Antony's College (Hilary term) and Nuffield College (Trinity term).
Dr Jesus Astigarraga:
Jesús Astigarraga is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where he teaches Political Economy and History of Economic Thought. He is Research Director of the Xavier MarÃa de Munibe International Institute for Eighteenth Century Studies. He joined the MEHRC as Senior Visiting Research Associate from March to June 2010. His fields of research are the history of economic thought and the international circulation of economic and political ideas. His current research focuses on the Spanish Political Economy during the eighteenth century.
Michał Choptiany:
As a PhD candidate at the Department of Old Polish Literature at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Michal is working on his dissertation on Petrus Ramus’s rhetorical theory and its application and reception in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is also a research and publishing secretary of the Committee on the Study of Reformation in Poland and East-Central Europe at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies "Artes Liberales” (University of Warsaw) and also a secretary of the board of “Polish Journal of Philosophy”. His visit in May 2010 to the MEHRC as a Junior Visiting Research Associate was made possible with the support of the Jagiellonian University Rector’s Florentyna Kogutowska Fund for PhD Candidates.
Valentin Sandulescu:
During his research visit with the MEHRC in May 2010 Valentin was a PhD candidate at the Central European University( Budapest) and in the final stages of completing his dissertation on Romanian fascism entitled: "Revolutionizing Romania from the Right: The Regenerative Project of the Romanian Legionary Movement and its Failure (1927-1937)". He was also a fellow at the New Europe College (Institute for Advanced Study) in Bucharest working on his a research project "The Other Green Intellectuals: A History of Young Interwar Romanian Intellectuals and their Encounters with Fascism and Communism." As part of his fellowship, the New Europe College offered him the opportunity to spend one month with MEHRC as a Junior Visiting Research Associate in May 2010.
Anna Novikov-Almagor
Anna joined the MEHRC for April 2010 studying library materials concerning Jewish and Central European matters. Her research deals with the question of identity or affiliation of the Jewish and Upper Silesian societies in the former German city of Kattowitz (Katowice) between the wars. She is currently a fellow at The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Leipzig. Whilst here Anna presented a paper as part of the East & East-Central Europe Seminar Series in Oriel College " Creating a Nation: Jews and Silesians in Interwar Katowice "
Raphaëlle Branche
Raphaëlle Branche is a lecturer at Université de Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne where she teaches modern history and ws at theMEHRC as a Senior Visiting Research Associate until September 2009. Her research focuses on French colonialism and on violence committed by armed forces, be they regular or irregular ones, from the 19th century to the 20th. She is currently working on colonial violence in French Algeria. She is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and was also attached to the Maison Française d’Oxford for this academic year.
Christine Krüger
Christine Krüger was a Senior Visiting Research Associate with MEHRC from September 2008 to August 2009. She is a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation and was research fellow at the Collaborative Research Center “Experiences of War” at the Tübingen University and is presently lecturer at the University of Oldenburg (Germany). Her field of research is German and European History in the 19th and 20th centuries with special interests in Jewish history, anti-Semitism, nationalism, war experiences, volunteering, and civil society. Her PhD thesis is on German Jews during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71. Currently she is working on a comparative study on voluntary youth work in West Germany and Britain after 1945.
Even Lange
Even Lange is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Oslo and a co-director of the Forum for Contemporary History, a research centre attached to the Institute for Archaeology, Conservation and History. His research subjects include industrial development and consumer cooperatives, and he is now directing a project on Norwegian shipping history since 1800.
Even is spending Michaelmas 2008 as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the MEHRC. Together with Professor Knick Harley (St. Antony's College), he organisde the Oslo-Oxford Workshop in March 2009.
Amalia Ribi
Amalia Ribi is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Heidelberg and a Junior Research Associate at the MEHRC. Her research interests centre on imperial and international history of the late 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on free and forced labour, colonialism and human rights. She wrote her DPhil thesis at Oxford on European anti-slavery organisations and their international campaign against slavery in East Africa between 1880 and 1940. Her current project examines the history of labour regulations in agriculture, particularly the shifting terms in which European and non-European governments and pressure groups addressed the issue in international forums between the Great Depression and the Cold War. Whilst at the MEHRC Amalia organised the workshopat the Faculty of History on Saturday 6 June 2009:
" Historical Perspectives on Transnational Networks in Agriculture, Food, Environment and Health"
Klaus Weinhauer
Klaus Weinhauer is research fellow at the University of Bielefeld (Faculty of History). He was Senior Visiting Research Scholar in Trinity Term 2009. His current research interests are in transnational and comparative perspectives on policing, the state and security, political violence/terrorism, juvenile delinquency, consumption, and violence in urban spaces. During his visit he conducted research in these fields in Oxford libraries. He also prepared a comparative research project on Cultures of violence and cultures of fear in urban spaces (1960’s-1990’s). He worked in close cooperation with Dr Martin Conway (Balliol College) with whom he is collaborating on a book on political violence in Europe (in the 19th and 20th centuries). During his stay in Oxford he also gave a public lecture on “Drug Consumption and Policing in London and West Berlin during the 1960’s and 1970’s”.
Joy Wiltenburg
Joy Wiltenburg is a Professor of History at Rowan University in New Jersey,she joined the MEHRC as Senior Visiting Researcher from January - June 2009. She is interested in cultural history and gender in the early modern period, and has published on popular literature and women in England and Germany during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her current project examines popular representations of crime in early modern Germany.
Anne Winter
Anne Winter is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she came to Oxford as a Senior Visiting Research Associate with the MEHRC and Somerville College until mid-February 2009. Her research on urban migration, local migration policies and poor relief in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and concentrates on the Southern Low Countries and present-day Belgium, it is undertaken within a comparative perspective with particular reference to the history of poor relief, settlement, and migration in early modern and early industrial England and Wales.
Einar Lie
Einar Lie is a Professor of Economic History at the University of Oslo and a member of the Forum for Contemporary History. Einar spent Michaelmas 2007 as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the MEHRC. Together with Professor Avner Offer (St. Antony's College), he organised the Oslo-Oxford Workshop in March 2008.
Jean-Frederic Schaub
Jean-Frederic Schaub is a Professor at the L'Ecole des hautes Etudes in Paris. His research focuses on Iberian Empires and Early Modern Western Europe. He was attached to the MEHRC as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar for a two-year period, commencing Michaelmas Term 2006. Jean-Frederic was also attached to the Maison Francaise D'Oxford. Information concerning activities in Oxford organised by Prof. Schaub.
Yann Decorzant
Yann (University of Geneva) is currently working on his thesis 'La Société des Nations et la naissance d’une conception de la régulation économique internationale'. He was attached to the MEHRC as a Junior Visiting Research Scholar for Michaelmas 2007 andf Hilary Term 2008.
Helge Pharo
Helge Pharo is Professor of International History at the University of Oslo and Director of the Forum for Contemporary History, a research centre attached to the Institute for Archaeology, Conservation and Historical Studies. The Forum currently hosts 15 doctoral students and 5 postdoctoral fellows and 8 senior scholars are working on Forum projects. Pharo directs two of these projects, The Norwegian Peace Tradition 1905-2005 and America in Our Hearts?
Pharo spent Michaelmas Term 2006 as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the MEHRC and had a visiting fellowship at St. Catherine's College. Together with Dr. Patricia Clavin he planned the annual May joint workshop 'The Value(s) of International Organizations: Historical Reflections' organized by the MEHRC and the Forum, which took place in May 2007.
Professor Pharo has worked extensively on Cold War international history, with a particular interest in Norwegian foreign economic policy and Norway's relationship with the Anglo-Americal powers. He is currently in the process of completing a volume in English on a history of Norwegian development aid 1952-2002.
Pharo has served several times as chair of the Department of History at the University of Oslo, he is a consultant to the Norwegian Nobel Committee and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Peter Romijn
Peter Romijn was a visitor at the Modern European History Research Centre in Michaelmas Term 2006. He is Head of Research at the NIOD, the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam and Professor of 20th Century History at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA).
His fields of research are: War and Occupation in 20th century Europe; the aftermath of war, in particular related to retributive justice; racial persecution and genocide. Earlier this year he published a monograph on the attitude of local authorities in the Netherlands during the German occupation. He was one of the project leaders and editors of the official report commissioned by the Dutch government about the fall of the enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia (1995), focussed upon the involvement of Dutch troops and the mass murder of the Bosnian Muslim Population. An English language version of the report, as well as a list of Peter Romijn’s publications is available on NIOD’s website (an English version is available) www.niod.nl
Currently, Peter Romijn is engaged in finishing a project financed by the European Science Foundation at Strassbourg on the impact of National-Socialist and Fascist occupation in Europe. Together with co-teamleader Dr. Martin Conway (Balliol College, Oxford) he is writing and editing a book on the struggle for political legitimacy in occupied Europe.
Alison Falby
Alison Falby was a visitor at the Modern European History Research Centre in Michaelmas Term 2006. She has published on the role of psychology and cultural exchange in religious change, and is currently engaged in a three-year research project entitled “Redefining Belief: Unorthodox Spiritualities in England between the Wars”. Financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the project focuses on the popularity of Eastern religions in the 1920s and 30s and investigates their role, and the role of colonialism, in increasing personal conceptualizations of belief.
Carl Levy
Carl Levy is a Reader in European Politics in the Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has published widely in the fields of comparative European history and politics, modern Italian politics and policymaking and regulation within the European Union. Carl is spending Trinity Term 2007 as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the MEHRC and is also a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Pierre Purseigle
Pierre Purseigle is a historian of Europe during the First World War. His research focuses on the comparative history of the war of especially on the experience of the British, French and Belgian populations. He graduated in Political Sciences (Sciences Po) from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Lyon and in in Modern History from the University of Toulouse. Pierre co-founded the International Society for First World War Studies and has been appointed as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar in Hilary and Trinity Term 2007.
Catriona Pennell
Catriona Pennell (Trinity College, Dublin) has been awarded an RHS Centenary Fellowship at the IHR and is currently working on her thesis topic 'Responses within the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland to the Outbreak of World War One'. She has been awarded Junior Visiting Research Scholar status in Hilary and Trinity Term 2007.
