Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Faculty Member, Centre for British Studies

Lecturer and Researcher in British History

About

I have been a Lecturer and Researcher in British History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since November 2008. I teach a number of courses at BA and Masters level including Women and Gender in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Britain, British Identities, Britain and Europe and An Introduction to Gender History: Theory and Methods. I also supervise Masters theses in a variety of areas of British history.

I completed my DPhil in Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford in December 2009. The thesis, supervised by Dr. Jane Garnett and Prof. Stephen Harrison, examined the relationship between generational conflict and university reform at Oxford in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is due to appear with Brill as part of the series 'Scientific and Learned Cultures and their Institutions' in August 2012.

My post-doctoral project investigates the relationship between masculinity and
scientific culture in Britain 1831-1939. It focuses on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, on the role which discourses of gender and masculinity played in its foundation and development as well as in the self-perceptions of many of its leading members. In particular, the project considers the extent to which the professionalisation of science as an academic discipline and as an industry within Britain in this period was shaped by concepts of masculine identity.

My research interests include:

- 18th, 19th and 20th century British history
- history of universities and higher education
- history of science
- history of gender especially masculinity
- history of age and generations

I have recently co-organised three conferences:

- The Changing Role of the Humanities in the Academy and Society (with Dr Georgia Christinidis, Berlin) at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 15-17 September 2011. This conference was generously sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

For more information on our 'Why Humanities?' project, visit our blog at http://why-humanities.blogspot.com/

- Juvenile Delinquency in the 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons (with Lily Chang, Oxford) at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 12 and 13 March 2011. This conference was also sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

- Anglo-German Scholarly Relations in the Long Nineteenth Century (with PD Dr Ulrike Kirchberger, Bamberg) at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 19 and 20 August 2011.

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