The Department of History is advertising two professorial chairs and
three lectureships. The field for the chairs is completely open and
historians of science, technology and medicine are warmly welcome to
apply. The field for the lectureships will be decided in light of the
professorial appointments The advertisment will appear in the
Education Guardian, THES and Jobs.ac.uk. Details below.
Paolo Palladino
Department of History
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YG
(01524) 592 793
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
LECTURERS IN HISTORY: FURTHER PARTICULARS
Reference: A163
1. NEW LECTURESHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Lancaster University is pleased to invite applications for three new
Lectureships in History, at level A or B. These appointments, along with
two new Professors of History to be appointed at the same time (and in
addition to a lecturer appointed in September 2003), demonstrate the
University¹s commitment to the discipline and its willingness to invest
in, and secure a distinguished future for, a large and already
successful department. The History Department¹s Strategic Plan, which
has been endorsed by History assessors external to the University, aims
to raise still higher its international reputation for outstanding
research and teaching, to achieve an excellent appraisal in the
forthcoming Research Quality Assessment, and to maintain that standard
thereafter through innovative research activity and top quality
publications.
2. LECTURESHIP QUALITIES
Those appointed as Lecturers
… will have a completed Ph.D.
… will have a proven record of distinction in research or be on the
way to acquiring one
… will have publications of international standard eligible for
submission in the RQA (expected audit period 1 January 2001 to 31
December 2006)
… will enhance the research culture of the History Department and the
University
… will contribute to the work and evolution of one or more of the
Department¹s four research centres
… may have a record of securing research funding
… will be able to work as part of a research team
… will be committed to excellent teaching
… will be able to design and deliver stimulating undergraduate and
graduate courses compatible with the Department¹s teaching programmes
and to supervise research students
… will have administrative experience or be willing and able in due
course to shoulder appropriate responsibilities.
3. RESEARCH AND RESEARCH CENTRES
The Department¹s research strategy involves focusing research energy
within four Research Centres. Those appointed will be chosen to make a
major contribution to the work and development of one or more of these
Centres.
The Centres have been designed as flagship operations to give
distinction to History at Lancaster, and to co-ordinate much of the
research activity carried out by the Department¹s academic staff,
research associates, postdoctoral fellows, honorary research fellows,
and research students. They are bringing together colleagues working in
congruent areas, to intensify synergies, promote collaborative ventures,
and enhance the research environment. Plans include running seminars,
workshops and reading groups, and inviting distinguished guest speakers
to the Department. The Centres are also guiding colleagues in research
grant applications, and host the projects stemming from successful bids.
They have an inter-disciplinary aspect which enables them to benefit
from connections with colleagues elsewhere in the University, and with
other research institutions and individuals outside it. Their research
remits are intentionally flexible, so that they can adapt to and support
the developing interests and new initiatives of their members, including
newly appointed staff.
… Medieval History (to c.1600). Current leadership is provided by Dr
Alexander Grant, and membership includes Dr Paul Hayward, Dr Andrew
Jotischky, Dr Marcus Merriman, Dr Keith Stringer and Dr Angus
Winchester. At present, the Centre¹s research activity has two
complementary strands, Œlordship, politics and religion¹, and Œspace,
boundaries and cultural interactions¹. Both strands have a comparative
perspective, which ranges from the British Isles (especially
England/Scotland) across continental Europe to the Middle East. Much of
the Centre¹s work involves case studies of individual regions which
illuminate broader national and supra-national issues, including
east-west relations in the Mediterranean world. It has an extensive
chronological brief, from c.400 to c.1600, in order to explore changes
and continuities over the long period. Its members are active in the
so-called ŒM6¹ group of medievalists in the North West, and have
uniquely close contacts (for historians in England) with colleagues in
Scotland. They also have intimate knowledge of relevant archives and
sites in the UK, France, Cyprus and the Middle East. The group has a
good record of obtaining awards, including, recently, an AHRB Research
Leave award (Jotischky) and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship
(Winchester). Stringer has been appointed as a leader, with colleagues
at Durham, of a major Leverhulme Research Project on ŒBorder Liberties
and Loyalties in North-East England in the 13th and 14th Centuries¹.
… Diasporas, Peripheries and Identities. Professor Martin Blinkhorn
leads a team including Dr Sarah Barber, Dr Stephen Constantine,
Professor Eric Evans, Professor Michael Mullett, Dr Corinna
Peniston-Bird, Professor Jeffrey Richards, Dr Deborah Sutton and Dr Alan
Wood. The Centre geographically embraces Europe (specifically Britain,
Russia, Finland and the Iberian Peninsula) and the wider world
(including the Americas, Asia, East Africa and Australasia). It has as
its brief an exploration of the problematic terms in its title. Issues
concern the nature and effects of migration and imperialism, the
distinction between hosts and incomers, the experiences of communities
at geographical and social peripheries, the nature and origins of
prejudice, and the construction of national, ethnic and community
identities. The themes of collectivity, inclusion/exclusion, fluid
boundaries and liminal spaces are also explored in other contexts, such
as gender. International links are already in place. Success in external
funding is indicated by the award of £255,487 to Blinkhorn and
Constantine for a three-year AHRB-funded project on ŒCommunity, society
and identity in 19th- and 20th-century Gibraltar¹, begun in October 2002
(also supporting a research associate and two postgraduate research
students). Other funded research includes work by Sutton on migration
across the Indian Ocean between East Africa and India.
… Knowledge, Technics and Modernity. Currently directed by Dr Tim
Hickman, the group also contains Professor Peter Harman, Dr Paolo
Palladino, Dr Gordon Phillips, Dr Stephen Pumfrey and Dr Thomas
Rohkrämer. The Centre has evolved from Lancaster¹s original History of
Science section, broadening that field of inquiry to include the human
sciences. It situates analyses of nature, science, technology and
society within a wider cultural context with reference to the
relationship between knowledge (systems of thought) and technics (local,
practical interventions). The focus on modernity, specifically the
extent to which modernity is constituted by the extension and overlap of
knowledge and technics, forms an important shared field of research. In
addition, some members¹ research concerns the history of science,
technology and medicine, from the development of early modern scientific
disciplines through modern representations of nature to the present.
Members enjoy strong and fruitful links with colleagues in the
University¹s Institute of Cultural Research, the Centre for Science
Studies, and the Institute for the Environment, Philosophy and Public
Policy. Close contacts also exist with scholars in Edinburgh,
Copenhagen, Berne and Canada. The group has a good record of successful
bids for research funding, including for Harman an AHRB Research Leave
award and a grant from the Royal Society, grants for Pumfrey (and a
colleague in Canada) from the British Academy and the Association of
Commonwealth Universities, and £183,000 to Pumfrey to support a
three-year AHRB project on ŒScience and Patronage in England 1570-1626¹
from October 2003, which also funds a research associate (Dr Frances
Dawbarn) and a postgraduate studentship.
… North-West History and Archives. This Centre, co-ordinated and led
by Dr Michael Winstanley, operates as a network linking regional
historians inside the Department, especially Dr Grant, Professor
Mullett, Dr Phillips, Dr Stringer and Dr Winchester, with historians
elsewhere and with senior figures in the North West Regional Archives
Council, the Lancashire and Cumbria County Record Offices, the National
Archives of Scotland, regional museums and local libraries. Departmental
research across all historical periods has already done much to reveal
the national and indeed international importance and distinctiveness of
this region, which stretches from the Scottish borders to Cheshire.
Regional approaches are also enabling historians to develop a critical
perspective on historical and geo-political interpretations pretending
to more general validity, obliging us to recognise scale and difference.
Some of the externally-funded research of other Centres has a bearing on
regional history, and there are opportunities for collaboration with
other organisations in the region to obtain research funding from
regional development agencies and from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Winstanley is using his three-year National Teaching Fellowship to
explore the potential of the region¹s archives. Proposals are also in
hand with the National Archives/Historical Manuscripts Commission for a
project to digitise the Manorial Records Register for Cumbria, and with
the National Archives/Public Record Office for a major long-term project
on the records of the Palatinate of Lancaster.
4. RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Those appointed will benefit from the University¹s commitment to high
quality research, which is backed up by effective research support
systems. The University¹s Research Support Office, the
Pro-Vice-Chancellor responsible for research, and the Dean and the
Research Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (the latter a
historian) provide University and Faculty funds for pump-priming
research activities, and offer advice on research grant applications and
management.
At Departmental level, the Head of Department, the Director of
Research and the Research Committee (made up of the directors of each
Research Centre) support the Department¹s research activity
… by providing advice and information on research grant opportunities
… by advising colleagues on their personal research priorities
… by allocating departmental funds for pilot research projects
… by helping to draft grant applications to research bodies
… by controlling the time which has to be devoted to teaching and
administration so as to free up time for research
… by employing teaching assistants and thereby adjusting the teaching
duties of staff with important pieces of research to complete
… and by allocating (generous) periods of sabbatical leave.
5. TEACHING HISTORY
The History Department, like the University, is committed to high
quality teaching, and the lecturers appointed will be expected to add to
its well-deserved reputation.
Student numbers at Lancaster have increased substantially in recent
years, to more than 10,000 including 3000 graduate students, and the
University is highly rated in teaching league tables. As the biggest
single department in the University, with the largest undergraduate
admissions quota (175), the History Department makes a major
contribution to the University¹s teaching success. Standard entry
requirements for undergraduates from 2004 will be BBB at ŒA¹ level.
Currently, over 900 undergraduates are taking history courses. In
addition, around 80 are registered as postgraduates, studying full-time
or part-time as research students or on its MA and Diploma programmes.
Like its research interests, the History Department¹s teaching
ranges widely. Chronologically it extends from the late Roman Empire to
the present day; geographically, it includes the British Isles,
Continental Europe, North America, the British Empire-Commonwealth, and
South Asia; thematically, it embraces political, religious, economic,
intellectual and cultural history. In all, over fifty undergraduate
modules are offered. Degrees range from the single Major History
programme to over a dozen Combined Major and many more MajorMinor
schemes mounted with colleagues in other departments. At postgraduate
level, in addition to M.Phil and Ph.D programmes, the Department¹s MA in
Historical Research emphasises research methodologies and sources, and
contains optional pathways dealing with social and cultural history,
political history, the history of ideas and science, medieval history,
landscape history, and women¹s history. There is also a Diploma and an
MA in Local and Regional History.
The Department has a well-deserved reputation within the University
and outside for the high quality of its teaching. It received a grade of
ŒExcellent¹ in its Teaching Quality Assessment in 1993. Following a
Periodic Quality Review (the equivalent exercise) in 2002, the Review
Committee concluded that it had ŒFull Confidence¹ in the design,
delivery and assessment of the Department¹s undergraduate and
postgraduate programmes. Eight members of the Department have been
awarded University Teaching Prizes, more than any other department of
the University, and one colleague has been awarded a National Teaching
Fellowship. The Department is heavily involved in the Learning and
Teaching Support Network, and is at present leading a £49,000 LTSN
History Lecturing Research Project.
Success as a teaching department is due to
… a commitment to research-led teaching and to the opportunities for
staff to share their enthusiasms with students by teaching mainly on
Œpersonally owned¹ courses derived from their particular research
interests
… teaching within History programmes which are clear about their
Œlearning outcomes¹ and have coherent Œlearning, teaching and assessment
strategies¹
… working with colleagues who take professional pride in their
teaching and have an interest in pedagogy
… collaboration in such regional initiatives as the North-West
Lecturing Project
… good teaching facilities
… and last, but not least, the quality of Lancaster students.
The Department¹s strategic plan, in conformity with the
University¹s, is to increase among its students the proportion of
postgraduates, particularly research students, with overseas students
increasingly represented. At the same time, being in a highly
competitive market, it needs to maintain its reputation for the
innovative teaching of stimulating and challenging undergraduate
courses.
The lecturers appointed will therefore be expected, in general
… to sustain the quality of teaching in the department
… to contribute to a shift towards graduate work
… and to assist initiatives designed to increase the number of
overseas students.
They will be required, in particular
… to contribute undergraduate courses of their own devising which
will fit into the Department¹s degree programme, including, in due
course, a document-based final-year Special Subject
… to supervise final-year dissertation students
… to support the MA programme by at least contributing to existing
taught modules and by supervising MA dissertations
… and to supervise research students.
Applicants should indicate their current or preferred teaching
interests. Beyond the need to offer courses compatible with the
structure of the existing degree programmes, there are no chronological,
geographical or thematic constraints, nor any restrictions in terms of
disciplinary approach. As indicators only of currently perceived
opportunities, the Department would be interested in courses on
… Roman History, especially Roman Britain
… late medieval Europe/the Renaissance
… early modern Britain and/or continental Europe
… the British Isles from 1700 to the present
… the regional history of the North-West
… modern European History, especially France and Russia
… colonial America and/or the Atlantic World
… African history
… the history of medicine.
6. ADMINISTRATION
Given the research priorities of these new posts, lecturers will not be
required immediately to take on major departmental, faculty or
university administrative duties. However, the departmental roles
attached to academic life (such as Examinations Secretary, Director of
Admissions and Directors of Study) are shared as equitably as possible
(using a workload allocation model). Accordingly and in due course,
those appointed will be expected to take on a fair share of
administrative responsibilities in the Department.
7. THE DEPARTMENT
The History Department, part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was
among the first established when Lancaster University was founded in
1964. At present it consists of five Professors (one part-time), two
Readers, eleven Senior Lecturers, four Lecturers, one permanent Teaching
Fellow (shared with Politics), two Research Associates (attached to
externally-funded projects) and twenty Honorary Research Fellows. A
variable number of postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students are
employed as teaching assistants (currently fifteen). The Department is
well served by three secretaries. Information about individual members
of the academic staff is attached as an appendix to this document.
Other historians are active elsewhere in the University, for example
in American Studies, Economics and Geography. Interdisciplinary links
are also fostered with the Departments of English and Creative Writing,
European Languages and Culture, Theatre Studies, Visual Arts, Music,
Religious Studies, Women¹s Studies, and Politics and International
Relations, and with the Ruskin Centre, the Institute for Cultural
Research, the Institute for the Environment, Philosophy and Public
Policy, the Centre for Science Studies, and the Institute for Advanced
Studies.
The Department also founded the Social History Society of the UK,
and remains its administrative home.
The Department occupies spacious premises in Furness College, close
to the heart of the University, and near the Library. All staff have
their own offices, with networked PCs and space for teaching.
8. LIFE AT LANCASTER
Among Lancaster University¹s many advantages is its location. The campus
has been attractively developed in the grounds of the Bailrigg House
estate, in countryside three miles south of the city. The sea is close
by to the west, the hills of the Pennines and Bowland Forest lie to the
east, and the Fylde plain opens up to the south; while Morecambe Bay,
the Lune Valley and the Lake District are readily accessible to the
north.
Lancaster and district embraces around 140,000 people. Once largely
a manufacturing town, the city is now geared towards tourism, retailing
and the services, the last dominated especially by a major hospital
complex and of course by the expanding University. The history of the
city is readily apparent to visitors, with its Roman remains, medieval
castle and priory, robust Georgian and Victorian buildings, attractively
and recently refurbished and pedestrian-friendly centre, and parks and
riverside walks. Former mill buildings have been converted into
apartments. Attractive property is also available in the suburbs and
nearby villages. Most incomers find property prices in the area
noticeably lower than in many parts of Britain, and likewise council
taxes. In Lancaster itself there are excellent local schools (including
two high quality state grammar schools), an arts cinema, theatres, a
very good museum, and (thanks especially to the student population) a
lively nightlife. There is easy and rapid access to additional
facilities in south Lakeland and Preston.
The larger conurbations of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, with
their academic resources and other attractions, are little more than an
hour away, via a motorway network only five minutes drive from the
campus. Train services link Lancaster with London, Glasgow and Edinburgh
in around three hours. There are convenient connections to several
international airports.
9. APPLICATIONS AND SELECTION PROCEDURES
Informal inquiries may be made to the Head of Department, Dr Stephen
Constantine (s.constantine@lancaster.ac.uk); tel. 01524-592607; or by
post to the History Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1
4YG.
Applicants are very welcome to visit the Department and meet staff
informally, before or after formally applying. Further information on
the University, the Department and the Lancaster region may be obtained
via:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk and
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/history/histwebsite/homepage.htm .
Applications should be sent to the Director of Personnel Services,
Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, United Kingdom. The
closing date is 14 November 2003.
Applications should consist of two copies of
… a completed Application Form, available at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/personnel/apply.htm,
quoting reference A163 and including the names of three academic
referees, one of whom should normally be your current employer. (Our
practice is to seek references for short-listed candidates before
interviews take place. Please let us know in advance if you would wish
this not to occur without speaking to you beforehand.)
… a letter of application, not to exceed three sides of A4,
explaining your suitability for the post with reference to research,
teaching and administrative experience, your alignment with the work of
one or more of the research centres, your research trajectory, and your
teaching interests
… a curriculum vitae.
Presentations and interviews will take place in Lancaster in January
2004 at a date to be determined. Those selected for the initial short
list will be invited to send examples of their written work, e.g. a
chapter or article, published or unpublished. Those subsequently called
for interview will be asked to make a presentation outlining their
research interests to members of the History Department.
The appointment will take effect from 1 September 2004. It will be
made at an appropriate point on Lecturer A scale (£22,954-£26,327) or
Lecturer B scale (£27,174-£34,838), according to age, experience and
achievements.
Full terms and conditions of appointment will be made available to
the successful candidate; a summary appears at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/personnel/geninfo.htm.
APPENDIX
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ACADEMIC STAFF
Dr Sarah Barber, B.A., Ph.D. (Trinity College, Dublin), Senior Lecturer.
Current Research: English civil war radicalism and republicanism;
Caribbean colonialism and Ireland; marginalisation and prejudice in
early-modern Europe.
Recent publications: Regicide and Republicanism (1998); ŒThe people of
northern England and attitudes towards the Scots, 1639-51¹, Northern
History (1999); A Revolutionary Rogue (2000); Cromwell: Land, Spirit,
Army, Empire (2004).
Current Teaching: British social, political and cultural history,
1500-1750; early modern colonialism; interdisciplinarity and history.
Prof. Martin Blinkhorn, B.A. (Oxford), M.A. (Stanford). D.Phil.
(Oxford).
Current research: Mediterranean brigandage and kidnapping in the 19th
and 20th centuries; Victorian and Edwardian Britain and southern Europe;
Gibraltar.
Recent publications: Fascism and the Right in Europe 1919-1945 (2000);
ŒBritish ransom victims in the Mediterranean periphery, 1860-81¹,
Australian J. Politics and History (2000); ŒEstado y bandolerismo en
Europa mediterraneas, 1815-1914¹ (2004).
Current Teaching: Social and political history of southern Europe in the
20th century; Spanish republic and civil war 1931-9.
Dr Stephen Constantine, B.A., D.Phil. (Oxford), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: Empire migration; child welfare and child migration;
Gibraltar.
Recent publications: ŒMigrants and settlers¹, Oxford History of the
British Empire (1999); ŒThe British government, child welfare and child
migration to Australia after 1945¹, J. Imperial and Commonwealth History
(2002), ŒBritish emigration to the Empire-Commonwealth since 1880: from
overseas settlement to diaspora¹, J. Imperial and Commonwealth History
(2003); ŒChildren as ancestors: child migrants and identity in Canada,
British J. Canadian Studies (2003).
Current teaching: British history since 1750; Empire: colonisers and the
colonised; inter-war Britain; libraries and archives.
Prof. Eric Evans, M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Warwick).
Current research: 18th- and 19th-century British Society; English and
British national identities; research and teaching in higher education.
Recent publications: William Pitt the Younger (1999); Parliamentary
Reform, 1770-1918 (2000); Chartism (2000); The Forging of the Modern
State (2nd edn 2001); Thatcher and Thatcherism (2nd edn 2004).
Current teaching: British social, political and cultural history in the
18th century; Britain 1830-46; Concepts, theories and methods in social
history.
Dr Alexander Grant, B.A., D.Phil. (Oxford), Reader.
Current research: Land and lordship in medieval Clydesdale; Scottish
feudalism and charters; William Wallace; Scottish liberties and
regalities.
Recent publications: ŒFourteenth-century Scotland¹, New Cambridge
Medieval History (2000); ŒService and tenure in late medieval Scotland¹
(2000); ŒActs of lordship: the records of Archibald, fourth Earl of
Douglas¹ (2000); ŒThe construction of the early Scottish state¹ (2000);
ŒThe province of Ross and the kingdom of Alba¹ (2000)
Current teaching: Late medieval British history; Richard III; Fall of
Rome.
Prof. Peter Harman, B.Sc., M.A. (Oxford and Cambridge), Ph.D. (Leeds).
Current research: The culture of nature in Britain, 1680-1860.
Recent publications: The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell
(1998); The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell Volume
III: 1874-1879 (2002).
Current teaching: Science and culture, 1700-1900; Darwin and The Origins
of Species; Enlightenment; Fall of Rome; textual interpretation.
Dr Paul Hayward, B.A., M.A. (Auckland), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Lecturer.
Current research: murdered royal saints in early medieval Europe;
historical writing in the early and high Middle Ages.
Recent publications: ŒDemystifying the role of sanctity in western
Christendom¹ (2000); ŒEadmer, Goscelin and the cult of St Peter¹, J.
Medieval History (2003); ŒGregory the Great as apostle of the English in
post-conquest Canterbury¹ (2004); ŒThe cult of St Alban and the idea of
the protomartyr in England¹ (2004); Kingship, Childhood and Martyrdom in
Anglo-Saxon England (2004).
Current teaching: History of late antique and early medieval Europe;
Fall of Rome.
Dr Tim Hickman, B.S. (Oregon), M.A., Ph.D. (California, Irvine),
Lecturer.
Current research: Narcotic addiction and cultural crisis in the United
States 1870-1920; technology, modernity and postmodernity; theorisations
of temporality, geopolitics and modernity.
Recent publications: ŒDrugs and race in American culture¹, American
Studies (2000), ŒHeroin chic¹, Third Text (2002); Œ³Mania Americana²:
Narcotic addiction and modernity in the United States, 1870-1920¹, J.
American History (2004).
Current teaching: American cultural and social history, 1789-1989;
modernity in American culture.
Dr Andrew Jotischky, B.A. (Cambridge), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale), Senior
Lecturer.
Current research: Crusading and Christian-Islamic/Western-Greek orthodox
relations; medieval colonization of the Levant; spiritual and cultural
identities in the medieval Church.
Recent publications: The Perfection of Solitude (1995); ŒGreek Orthodox
and Latin monasticism around Mar Sabas¹ (2001); The Carmelites and
Antiquity (2002); ŒEthnographic views in the crusader states¹ (2003);
ŒMendicants as missionaries and travellers¹ (2003); ŒPenance and
reconciliation in the crusader states¹ (2004).
Current teaching: Fall of Rome; medieval Europe, 1050-1300; Crusades;
the monastic revolution.
Dr Marcus Merriman, B.A. (Bowdoin), Ph.D. (London), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: France during reigns of Henry II and Francis II;
France and Scotland.
Recent publications: ŒMigiliorini Ubaldini and the fortification of
Scotland in 1548¹ (1999); The Rough Wooings: Mary Queen of Scots
1542-1551 (2000).
Current teaching: British history, 1500-1750; French history 14151715;
Renaissance warfare; Mary Queen of Scots.
Prof. Michael Mullett, B.A. (Wales), M.Litt. (Cambridge), Ph.D.
(Lancaster).
Current research: Life and writings of Martin Luther; the Jews in
Europe.
Recent publications: John Bunyan in Context (1996); Catholics in Britain
and Europe, 15581829 (1998): The Catholic Reformation (1999); ŒQuaker
and Catholic attitudes to work, rest and play¹ (2002); ŒThe Reformation
in the parish of Whalley¹ (2003); Martin Luther (2004).
Current teaching: The Jews since the middle ages; popular culture and
protest in Europe and Britain; Luther and the Reformation.
Dr Paolo Palladino, B.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Minnesota), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: Death, time and history; neurosciences, personhood and
historical memory.
Recent publications: Entomology; Ecology, and Agriculture (1996);
ŒDiscourses of smoking, health and the just society¹ (2001); ŒBetween
knowledge and practice: medical professionals, patients and the making
of the genetics of cancer¹ (2002); ŒMedicine yesterday, today and
tomorrow¹ (2002); Plants, Patients and the Historian (2002); ŒLife Š On
biology, biography, and bio-power¹ (2003); ŒCaveat emptor: on death and
history in late modernity¹ (2004).
Current teaching: history of modern science, technology and medicine;
metaphors of Œnature¹, the Œanimal¹ and the Œmachine¹.
Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird, M.A., Ph.D. (St. Andrews), Lecturer.
Current research: Home defence in Britain in the Second World War;
national identity and tourism; military masculinity and femininity.
Recent publications: ŒDelilah shaves her hair: women, the military and
Hollywood¹ (2000); Œ³Hey, you¹re dead!²: multiple uses of humour in
representations of British national defence in the Second World War¹
(2001); ŒThe Home Guard in Britain: uncertain masculinities?¹ (2003);
ŒClassifying the body in the Second World War: British men in and out of
uniform¹, Body & Society (2003); ŒCoffee, Klimt and climbing:
constructing Austrian national identity¹ (2004).
Current teaching: National identity; gender and warfare; oral testimony
and visual and aural sources.
Dr Gordon Phillips, B.A., D.Phil. (Oxford), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: History of the blind; development of professional
social work; aspects of the history of charity and voluntary
organisations.
Recent publications: The Blind in British Society: Charity, State and
Community, 17801930 (2004). Current teaching: British history since
1750; charity, state and society, 1880-1914; the development of history
as a research discipline; outlaws, outcasts and outsiders.
Dr Stephen Pumfrey, B.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (London). Senior Lecturer.
Current research: Science and patronage; early modern English science;
William Gilbert and De Mundo.
Recent publications: Latitude and the Magnetic Earth (2002); ŒWas Thomas
Harriot an English Galileo?¹ (2003); ŒScience and patronage in England
15701625¹, History of Science (2004).
Current teaching: The enlightenment and modernity; science and
renaissance culture; science and society in early modern England.
Prof. Jeffrey Richards, B.A., M.A. (Cambridge), D.Litt. (Lancaster).
Current research: Victorian theatre; film, propaganda; national identity
in popular culture.
Recent publications: Films and British National Identity (1997);
ŒRethinking British cinema¹ (2000); Imperialism and Music (2001);
ŒImperial heroes for a post-imperial age: films and the end of empire¹
(2001); ŒThe Lancashire novelist and the Lancashire witches¹ (2002); A
Night to Remember (2002).
Current teaching: Film propaganda in the Second World War.
Dr Thomas Rohkrämer, B.A., Ph.D. (Freiburg), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: German History in the 19th and 20th centuries, in
particular the link between politics and culture in regard to
militarism, cultural criticism and aesthetics.
Recent publications: Eine andere Moderne? (1999); ŒGermans and nature¹
(2001), ŒKult der Gewalt unde Sehnsucht nach Ordnung - der soldatische
Nationalismus in der Weimarer Republik¹, Sociologicus (2001);
ŒContemporary environmentalism and its links with the German past¹
(2002); ŒDie Vision einer deutschen Technik. Ingenieure und das ³Dritte
Reich²¹ (2003).
Current teaching: German history since 1800; National Socialism; modern
attitudes towards nature and technology.
Dr Keith Stringer, B.A. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge),
Reader.
Current research: Britain in the 12th and 13th centuries, especially
kingship, nobility, and the Church; the medieval Anglo-Scottish border
region.
Recent publications: ŒActs of lordship: the records of the Lords of
Galloway to 1234¹ (2000); ŒReform monasticism and Celtic Scotland¹
(2000); The Reformed Church in Galloway and Cumbria (1100-1300) (2003);
ŒThe emergence of a nation-state, 1100-1300¹, Oxford Illustrated History
of Scotland (2004); ŒKingship, conflict and state-making in the reign of
Alexander II¹ (2004); ŒArbroath Abbey in context, 1178-1320¹ (2004).
Current teaching: British history 750-1280; King Stephen; Europe in the
central middle ages.
Dr Deborah Sutton, B.A. (York), M.Sc., (Sheffield), Ph.D. (Jawaharlal
Nehru University), Lecturer.
Current research: South Asian agrarian and environmental history; the
Asian diaspora in East Africa.
Recent publications: ŒHorrid sights and customary rights: The Toda
funeral on the colonial Nilgiris¹, Indian Economic and Social History
(2002); Œ³In this land of the Todas²: imaginary landscapes and colonial
policy in 19th-century Southern India¹ (2003); ŒThe aboriginal Toda: on
indigeneity, exclusivism and privileged access to land in the Nilgiri
hills¹ (2004); Œ³What was a splendid wood²: Sholas, forest plantations
and colonial conservancy on the Nilgiris, 1837-80¹ (2004).
Current teaching: History of modern south Asia; Empire: colonisers and
the colonised.
Dr Alan Warburton, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Lancaster), Teaching Fellow.
Current Research: Missile and space programmes, technology of warfare.
Current Teaching: European social and political history since 1870; the
First World War.
Dr Angus Winchester, B.A., Ph.D. (Durham), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: Landscape history of north-west England; medieval
administrative territories; John Denton, antiquary.
Recent publications: The Harvest of the Hills: Rural Life in Northern
England and the Scottish Borders, 14001700 (2000); ŒHill farming
landscapes of medieval northern England¹ (2000); Discovering Parish
Boundaries (2nd edn 2000); Thomas Denton: A Perambulation of Cumberland
168788 (2003); ŒDemesne livestock farming in the Lake District¹, Trans.
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq. & Arch. Soc. (2003); ŒThe moorland
forests of medieval England¹ (2004).
Current Teaching: British history 400-1100; early modern social and
local history; landscape history.
Dr Michael Winstanley, B.A. (Oxford); M.A. (Lancaster); Ph.D.
(Lancaster), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: 19th- and 20th-century rural history; history of
consumption; regional history.
Recent publications: ŒIndustrialisation and the small farm¹, Past &
Present (1996); ŒTemples of commerce: revolutions in shopping and
banking (2000); ŒHistory in cyberspace¹ (2000); ŒRetail property
ownership in Edwardian England¹ (2003).
Current Teaching: British social history since 1750; rural society in
Britain and Ireland; history in the community; sources for local and
regional history; computing for historians.
Dr Alan Wood, B.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Lancaster), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: History of the Romanov empire; Russian revolution;
Siberian exile system; tsarist penal policies.
Recent publications: ŒRevolution and Civil War in Siberia¹ (1997);
ŒSiberian regionalism: past, present and future¹ (1998); ŒViolence and
violent crime in Siberia¹ (1999).
Current Teaching: History of the Russian empire, 1700-1917;
revolutionary Russia.
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
PROFESSORS OF HISTORY: FURTHER PARTICULARS
Reference: A162
1. NEW PROFESSORIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Lancaster University is pleased to invite applications for two new
Chairs in History. These appointments, along with three new Lectureships
in History to be appointed at the same time (in addition to one made in
September 2003), demonstrate the University¹s commitment to the
discipline and its willingness to invest in, and secure a distinguished
future for, a large and already successful department. The History
Department¹s Strategic Plan, which has been endorsed by History
assessors external to the University, aims to raise still higher its
international reputation for outstanding research and teaching, to
achieve an excellent appraisal in the forthcoming Research Quality
Assessment, and to maintain that standard thereafter through innovative
research activity and top quality publications.
2. PROFESSORIAL QUALITIES
Those appointed as Professors
… will be outstanding researchers, with publications of the highest
international standard eligible for submission in the RQA (expected
audit period 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2006)
… will enhance the research culture of the History Department and the
University
… will contribute substantially to the leadership, work and evolution
of one or more of the Department¹s four research centres
… will have an impressive record of securing research funding
… will be able to manage a research team
… will have a strong teaching record and be committed to excellent
teaching
… will be able to design and deliver stimulating undergraduate and
graduate courses compatible with the Department¹s teaching programmes
… will have experience of successfully supervising research students
… will have administrative experience and be willing in due course to
shoulder appropriate responsibilities.
3. RESEARCH AND RESEARCH CENTRES
The Department¹s research strategy involves focusing research energy
within four Research Centres. It will be the responsibility of each new
professor to make a major contribution to the work and development of
one or more of these Centres, and to provide additional leadership.
The Centres have been designed as flagship operations to give
distinction to History at Lancaster, and to co-ordinate much of the
research activity carried out by the Department¹s academic staff,
research associates, postdoctoral fellows, honorary research fellows,
and research students. They are bringing together colleagues working in
congruent areas, to intensify synergies, promote collaborative ventures,
and enhance the research environment. Plans include running seminars,
workshops and reading groups, and inviting distinguished guest speakers
to the Department. The Centres are also guiding colleagues in research
grant applications, and host the projects stemming from successful bids.
They have an inter-disciplinary aspect which enables them to benefit
from connections with colleagues elsewhere in the University, and with
other research institutions and individuals outside it. Their research
remits are intentionally flexible, so that they can adapt to and support
the developing interests and new initiatives of their members, including
newly appointed staff.
… Medieval History (to c.1600). Current leadership is provided by Dr
Alexander Grant, and membership includes Dr Paul Hayward, Dr Andrew
Jotischky, Dr Marcus Merriman, Dr Keith Stringer and Dr Angus
Winchester. At present, the Centre¹s research activity has two
complementary strands, Œlordship, politics and religion¹, and Œspace,
boundaries and cultural interactions¹. Both strands have a comparative
perspective, which ranges from the British Isles (especially
England/Scotland) across continental Europe to the Middle East. Much of
the Centre¹s work involves case studies of individual regions which
illuminate broader national and supra-national issues, including
east-west relations in the Mediterranean world. It has an extensive
chronological brief, from c.400 to c.1600, in order to explore changes
and continuities over the long period. Its members are active in the
so-called ŒM6¹ group of medievalists in the North West, and have
uniquely close contacts (for historians in England) with colleagues in
Scotland. They also have intimate knowledge of relevant archives and
sites in the UK, France, Cyprus and the Middle East. The group has a
good record of obtaining awards, including, recently, an AHRB Research
Leave award (Jotischky) and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship
(Winchester). Stringer has been appointed as a leader, with colleagues
at Durham, of a major Leverhulme Research Project on ŒBorder Liberties
and Loyalties in North-East England in the 13th and 14th Centuries¹.
… Diasporas, Peripheries and Identities. Professor Martin Blinkhorn
leads a team including Dr Sarah Barber, Dr Stephen Constantine,
Professor Eric Evans, Professor Michael Mullett, Dr Corinna
Peniston-Bird, Professor Jeffrey Richards, Dr Deborah Sutton and Dr Alan
Wood. The Centre geographically embraces Europe (specifically Britain,
Russia, Finland and the Iberian Peninsula) and the wider world
(including the Americas, Asia, East Africa and Australasia). It has as
its brief an exploration of the problematic terms in its title. Issues
concern the nature and effects of migration and imperialism, the
distinction between hosts and incomers, the experiences of communities
at geographical and social peripheries, the nature and origins of
prejudice, and the construction of national, ethnic and community
identities. The themes of collectivity, inclusion/exclusion, fluid
boundaries and liminal spaces are also explored in other contexts, such
as gender. International links are already in place. Success in external
funding is indicated by the award of £255,487 to Blinkhorn and
Constantine for a three-year AHRB-funded project on ŒCommunity, society
and identity in 19th- and 20th-century Gibraltar¹, begun in October 2002
(also supporting a research associate and two postgraduate research
students). Other funded research includes work by Sutton on migration
across the Indian Ocean between East Africa and India.
… Knowledge, Technics and Modernity. Currently directed by Dr Tim
Hickman, the group also contains Professor Peter Harman, Dr Paolo
Palladino, Dr Gordon Phillips, Dr Stephen Pumfrey and Dr Thomas
Rohkrämer. The Centre has evolved from Lancaster¹s original History of
Science section, broadening that field of inquiry to include the human
sciences. It situates analyses of nature, science, technology and
society within a wider cultural context with reference to the
relationship between knowledge (systems of thought) and technics (local,
practical interventions). The focus on modernity, specifically the
extent to which modernity is constituted by the extension and overlap of
knowledge and technics, forms an important shared field of research. In
addition, some members¹ research concerns the history of science,
technology and medicine, from the development of early modern scientific
disciplines through modern representations of nature to the present.
Members enjoy strong and fruitful links with colleagues in the
University¹s Institute of Cultural Research, the Centre for Science
Studies, and the Institute for the Environment, Philosophy and Public
Policy. Close contacts also exist with scholars in Edinburgh,
Copenhagen, Berne and Canada. The group has a good record of successful
bids for research funding, including for Harman an AHRB Research Leave
award and a grant from the Royal Society, for Pumfrey (and a colleague
in Canada) grants from the British Academy and the Association of
Commonwealth Universities, and £183,000 to Pumfrey to support a
three-year AHRB project on ŒScience and Patronage in England 15701626¹
from October 2003, which also funds a research associate (Dr Frances
Dawbarn) and a postgraduate studentship.
… North-West History and Archives. This Centre, co-ordinated and led
by Dr Michael Winstanley, operates as a network linking regional
historians inside the Department, especially Dr Grant, Professor
Mullett, Dr Phillips, Dr Stringer and Dr Winchester, with historians
elsewhere and with senior figures in the North West Regional Archives
Council, the Lancashire and Cumbria County Record Offices, the National
Archives of Scotland, regional museums and local libraries. Departmental
research across all historical periods has already done much to reveal
the national and indeed international importance and distinctiveness of
this region, which stretches from the Scottish borders to Cheshire.
Regional approaches are also enabling historians to develop a critical
perspective on historical and geo-political interpretations pretending
to more general validity, obliging us to recognise scale and difference.
Some of the externally-funded research of other Centres has a bearing on
regional history, and there are opportunities for collaboration with
other organisations in the region to obtain research funding from
regional development agencies and from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Winstanley is using his three-year National Teaching Fellowship to
explore the potential of the region¹s archives. Proposals are also in
hand with the National Archives/Historical Manuscripts Commission for a
project to digitise the Manorial Records Register for Cumbria, and with
the National Archives/Public Record Office for a major long-term project
on the records of the Palatinate of Lancaster.
4. RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Those appointed will benefit from the University¹s commitment to high
quality research, which is backed up by effective research support
systems. The University¹s Research Support Office, the
Pro-Vice-Chancellor responsible for research, and the Dean and the
Research Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (the latter a
historian) provide University and Faculty funds for pump-priming
research activities, and offer advice on research grant applications and
management.
At Departmental level, the Head of Department, the Director of
Research and the Research Committee (made up of the directors of each
Research Centre) support the Department¹s research activity
… by providing advice and information on research grant opportunities
… by advising colleagues on their personal research priorities
… by allocating departmental funds for pilot research projects
… by helping to draft grant applications to research bodies
… by controlling the time which has to be devoted to teaching and
administration so as to free up time for research
… by employing teaching assistants and thereby adjusting the teaching
duties of staff with important pieces of research to complete
… and by allocating (generous) periods of sabbatical leave.
5. TEACHING HISTORY
The History Department, like the University, is committed to high
quality teaching, and the professors appointed will be expected to add
to its well-deserved reputation.
Student numbers at Lancaster have increased substantially in recent
years, to more than 10,000 including 3000 graduate students, and the
University is highly rated in teaching league tables. As the biggest
single department in the University, with the largest undergraduate
admissions quota (175), the History Department makes a major
contribution to the University¹s teaching success. Standard entry
requirements for undergraduates from 2004 will be BBB at ŒA¹ level.
Currently, over 900 undergraduates are taking history courses. In
addition, around 80 are registered as postgraduates, studying full-time
or part-time as research students or on its MA and Diploma programmes.
Like its research interests, the History Department¹s teaching
ranges widely. Chronologically it extends from the late Roman Empire to
the present day; geographically, it includes the British Isles,
Continental Europe, North America, the British Empire-Commonwealth, and
South Asia; thematically, it embraces political, religious, economic,
intellectual and cultural history. In all, over fifty undergraduate
modules are offered. Degrees range from the single Major History
programme to over a dozen Combined Major and many more MajorMinor
schemes mounted with colleagues in other departments. At postgraduate
level, in addition to M.Phil and Ph.D programmes, the Department¹s MA in
Historical Research emphasises research methodologies and sources, and
contains optional pathways dealing with social and cultural history,
political history, the history of ideas and science, medieval history,
landscape history, and women¹s history. There is also a Diploma and an
MA in Local and Regional History.
The Department has a well-deserved reputation within the University
and outside for the high quality of its teaching. It received a grade of
ŒExcellent¹ in its Teaching Quality Assessment in 1993. Following a
Periodic Quality Review (the equivalent exercise) in 2002, the Review
Committee concluded that it had ŒFull Confidence¹ in the design,
delivery and assessment of the Department¹s undergraduate and
postgraduate programmes. Eight members of the Department have been
awarded University Teaching Prizes, more than any other department of
the University, and one colleague has been awarded a National Teaching
Fellowship. The Department is heavily involved in the Learning and
Teaching Support Network, and is at present leading a £49,000 LTSN
History Lecturing Research Project.
Success as a teaching department is due to
… a commitment to research-led teaching and to the opportunities for
staff to share their enthusiasms with students by teaching mainly on
Œpersonally owned¹ courses derived from their particular research
interests
… teaching within History programmes which are clear about their
Œlearning outcomes¹ and have coherent Œlearning, teaching and assessment
strategies¹
… working with colleagues who take professional pride in their
teaching and have an interest in pedagogy
… collaboration in such regional initiatives as the North-West
Lecturing Project
… good teaching facilities
… and last, but not least, the quality of Lancaster students.
The Department¹s strategic plan, in conformity with the
University¹s, is to increase among its students the proportion of
postgraduates, particularly research students, with overseas students
increasingly represented. At the same time, being in a highly
competitive market, it needs to maintain its reputation for the
innovative teaching of stimulating and challenging undergraduate
courses.
The professors appointed will therefore be expected, in general
… to sustain the quality of teaching in the department
… to contribute to a shift towards graduate work
… and to assist initiatives designed to increase the number of
overseas students.
They will be required, in particular
… to contribute undergraduate courses of their own devising which
will fit into the Department¹s degree programme, including, in due
course, a document-based final-year Special Subject
… to supervise final-year dissertation students
… to support the MA programme by at least contributing to existing
taught modules and by supervising MA dissertations
… and to supervise research students.
Applicants should indicate their current or preferred teaching
interests. Beyond the need to offer courses compatible with the
structure of the existing degree programmes, there are no chronological,
geographical or thematic constraints, nor any restrictions in terms of
disciplinary approach. As indicators only of currently perceived
opportunities, the Department would be interested in courses on
… Roman History, especially Roman Britain
… late medieval Europe/the Renaissance
… early modern Britain and/or continental Europe
… the British Isles from 1700 to the present
… the regional history of the North-West
… modern European History, especially France and Russia
… colonial America and/or the Atlantic World
… African history
… the history of medicine.
6. ADMINISTRATION
Given the research priorities of these new posts, professors will not be
required immediately to take on major departmental, faculty or
university administrative duties. However, the headship of the
Department rotates (and is determined largely by the choice of
colleagues) and the departmental roles attached to academic life (such
as Examinations Secretary, Director of Admissions and Directors of
Study) are shared as equitably as possible (using a workload allocation
model). Accordingly and in due course, those appointed will be expected
to take on a fair share of administrative responsibilities in the
Department. Also, as befits experienced senior academics, they may be
called upon eventually to contribute to the overall management of the
Faculty and/or the University.
7. THE DEPARTMENT
The History Department, part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was
among the first established when Lancaster University was founded in
1964. At present it consists of five Professors (one part-time), two
Readers, eleven Senior Lecturers, four Lecturers, one permanent Teaching
Fellow (shared with Politics), two Research Associates (attached to
externally-funded projects) and twenty Honorary Research Fellows. A
variable number of postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students are
employed as teaching assistants (currently fifteen). The Department is
well served by three secretaries. Information about individual members
of the academic staff is attached as an appendix to this document.
Other historians are active elsewhere in the University, for example
in American Studies, Economics and Geography. Interdisciplinary links
are also fostered with the Departments of English and Creative Writing,
European Languages and Culture, Theatre Studies, Visual Arts, Music,
Religious Studies, Women¹s Studies, and Politics and International
Relations, and with the Ruskin Centre, the Institute for Cultural
Research, the Institute for the Environment, Philosophy and Public
Policy, the Centre for Science Studies, and the Institute for Advanced
Studies.
The Department also founded the Social History Society of the UK,
and remains its administrative home.
The Department occupies spacious premises in Furness College, close
to the heart of the University, and near the Library. All staff have
their own offices, with networked PCs and space for teaching.
8. LIFE AT LANCASTER
Among Lancaster University¹s many advantages is its location. The campus
has been attractively developed in the grounds of the Bailrigg House
estate, in countryside three miles south of the city. The sea is close
by to the west, the hills of the Pennines and Bowland Forest lie to the
east, and the Fylde plain opens up to the south; while Morecambe Bay,
the Lune Valley and the Lake District are readily accessible to the
north.
Lancaster and district embraces around 140,000 people. Once largely
a manufacturing town, the city is now geared towards tourism, retailing
and the services, the last dominated especially by a major hospital
complex and of course by the expanding University. The history of the
city is readily apparent to visitors, with its Roman remains, medieval
castle and priory, robust Georgian and Victorian buildings, attractively
and recently refurbished and pedestrian-friendly centre, and parks and
riverside walks. Former mill buildings have been converted into
apartments. Attractive property is also available in the suburbs and
nearby villages. Most incomers find property prices in the area
noticeably lower than in many parts of Britain, and likewise council
taxes. In Lancaster itself there are excellent local schools (including
two high quality state grammar schools), an arts cinema, theatres, a
very good museum, and (thanks especially to the student population) a
lively nightlife. There is easy and rapid access to additional
facilities in south Lakeland and Preston.
The larger conurbations of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, with
their academic resources and other attractions, are little more than an
hour away, via a motorway network only five minutes drive from the
campus. Train services link Lancaster with London, Glasgow and Edinburgh
in around three hours. There are convenient connections to several
international airports.
9. APPLICATIONS AND SELECTION PROCEDURES
Informal inquiries may be made to the Head of Department, Dr Stephen
Constantine (s.constantine@lancaster.ac.uk); tel. 01524-592607; or by
post to the History Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1
4YG.
Applicants are very welcome to visit the Department and meet staff
informally, before or after formally applying. Further information on
the University, the Department and the Lancaster region may be obtained
via:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk and
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/history/histwebsite/homepage.htm .
Applications should be sent to the Director of Personnel Services,
Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, United Kingdom. The
closing date is 14 November 2003.
Applications should consist of two copies of
… a completed Application Form, available at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/personnel/apply.htm,
quoting reference A162 and including the names of three academic
referees, one of whom should normally be your current employer. (Our
practice is to seek references for short-listed candidates before
interviews take place. Please let us know in advance if you would wish
this not to occur without speaking to you beforehand.)
… a letter of application, not to exceed three sides of A4,
explaining your suitability for the post with reference to research,
teaching and administrative experience, your alignment with the work of
one or more of the research centres, your research trajectory, and your
teaching interests
… a curriculum vitae.
It is expected that presentations and interviews will take place in
Lancaster over two days at a date to be determined in December 2003.
Those selected for the short list will be asked to outline their
disciplinary approach, current research and research plans, and teaching
interests to members of the History Department.
The appointment will take effect from 1 August 2004. It will be made
at an appropriate point on the professorial scale, current minimum
£42,246.
Full terms and conditions of appointment will be made available to
the successful candidate; a summary appears at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/personnel/geninfo.htm.
APPENDIX
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ACADEMIC STAFF
Dr Sarah Barber, B.A., Ph.D. (Trinity College, Dublin), Senior Lecturer.
Current Research: English civil war radicalism and republicanism;
Caribbean colonialism and Ireland; marginalisation and prejudice in
early-modern Europe.
Recent publications: Regicide and Republicanism (1998); ŒThe people of
northern England and attitudes towards the Scots, 1639-51¹, Northern
History (1999); A Revolutionary Rogue (2000); Cromwell: Land, Spirit,
Army, Empire (2004).
Current Teaching: British social, political and cultural history,
1500-1750; early modern colonialism; interdisciplinarity and history.
Prof. Martin Blinkhorn, B.A. (Oxford), M.A. (Stanford). D.Phil.
(Oxford).
Current research: Mediterranean brigandage and kidnapping in the 19th
and 20th centuries; Victorian and Edwardian Britain and southern Europe;
Gibraltar.
Recent publications: Fascism and the Right in Europe 1919-1945 (2000);
ŒBritish ransom victims in the Mediterranean periphery, 1860-81¹,
Australian J. Politics and History (2000); ŒEstado y bandolerismo en
Europa mediterraneas, 1815-1914¹ (2004).
Current Teaching: Social and political history of southern Europe in the
20th century; Spanish republic and civil war 1931-9.
Dr Stephen Constantine, B.A., D.Phil. (Oxford), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: Empire migration; child welfare and child migration;
Gibraltar.
Recent publications: ŒMigrants and settlers¹, Oxford History of the
British Empire (1999); ŒThe British government, child welfare and child
migration to Australia after 1945¹, J. Imperial and Commonwealth History
(2002), ŒBritish emigration to the Empire-Commonwealth since 1880: from
overseas settlement to diaspora¹, J. Imperial and Commonwealth History
(2003); ŒChildren as ancestors: child migrants and identity in Canada,
British J. Canadian Studies (2003).
Current teaching: British history since 1750; Empire: colonisers and the
colonised; inter-war Britain; libraries and archives.
Prof. Eric Evans, M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Warwick).
Current research: 18th- and 19th-century British Society; English and
British national identities; research and teaching in higher education.
Recent publications: William Pitt the Younger (1999); Parliamentary
Reform, 1770-1918 (2000); Chartism (2000); The Forging of the Modern
State (2nd edn 2001); Thatcher and Thatcherism (2nd edn 2004).
Current teaching: British social, political and cultural history in the
18th century; Britain 1830-46; Concepts, theories and methods in social
history.
Dr Alexander Grant, B.A., D.Phil. (Oxford), Reader.
Current research: Land and lordship in medieval Clydesdale; Scottish
feudalism and charters; William Wallace; Scottish liberties and
regalities.
Recent publications: ŒFourteenth-century Scotland¹, New Cambridge
Medieval History (2000); ŒService and tenure in late medieval Scotland¹
(2000); ŒActs of lordship: the records of Archibald, fourth Earl of
Douglas¹ (2000); ŒThe construction of the early Scottish state¹ (2000);
ŒThe province of Ross and the kingdom of Alba¹ (2000)
Current teaching: Late medieval British history; Richard III; Fall of
Rome.
Prof. Peter Harman, B.Sc., M.A. (Oxford and Cambridge), Ph.D. (Leeds).
Current research: The culture of nature in Britain, 1680-1860.
Recent publications: The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell
(1998); The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell Volume
III: 1874-1879 (2002).
Current teaching: Science and culture, 1700-1900; Darwin and The Origins
of Species; Enlightenment; Fall of Rome; textual interpretation.
Dr Paul Hayward, B.A., M.A. (Auckland), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Lecturer.
Current research: murdered royal saints in early medieval Europe;
historical writing in the early and high Middle Ages.
Recent publications: ŒDemystifying the role of sanctity in western
Christendom¹ (2000); ŒEadmer, Goscelin and the cult of St Peter¹, J.
Medieval History (2003); ŒGregory the Great as apostle of the English in
post-conquest Canterbury¹ (2004); ŒThe cult of St Alban and the idea of
the protomartyr in England¹ (2004); Kingship, Childhood and Martyrdom in
Anglo-Saxon England (2004).
Current teaching: History of late antique and early medieval Europe;
Fall of Rome.
Dr Tim Hickman, B.S. (Oregon), M.A., Ph.D. (California, Irvine),
Lecturer.
Current research: Narcotic addiction and cultural crisis in the United
States 1870-1920; technology, modernity and postmodernity; theorisations
of temporality, geopolitics and modernity.
Recent publications: ŒDrugs and race in American culture¹, American
Studies (2000), ŒHeroin chic¹, Third Text (2002); Œ³Mania Americana²:
Narcotic addiction and modernity in the United States, 1870-1920¹, J.
American History (2004).
Current teaching: American cultural and social history, 1789-1989;
modernity in American culture.
Dr Andrew Jotischky, B.A. (Cambridge), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale), Senior
Lecturer.
Current research: Crusading and Christian-Islamic/Western-Greek orthodox
relations; medieval colonization of the Levant; spiritual and cultural
identities in the medieval Church.
Recent publications: The Perfection of Solitude (1995); ŒGreek Orthodox
and Latin monasticism around Mar Sabas¹ (2001); The Carmelites and
Antiquity (2002); ŒEthnographic views in the crusader states¹ (2003);
ŒMendicants as missionaries and travellers¹ (2003); ŒPenance and
reconciliation in the crusader states¹ (2004).
Current teaching: Fall of Rome; medieval Europe, 1050-1300; Crusades;
the monastic revolution.
Dr Marcus Merriman, B.A. (Bowdoin), Ph.D. (London), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: France during reigns of Henry II and Francis II;
France and Scotland.
Recent publications: ŒMigiliorini Ubaldini and the fortification of
Scotland in 1548¹ (1999); The Rough Wooings: Mary Queen of Scots
1542-1551 (2000).
Current teaching: British history, 1500-1750; French history 14151715;
Renaissance warfare; Mary Queen of Scots.
Prof. Michael Mullett, B.A. (Wales), M.Litt. (Cambridge), Ph.D.
(Lancaster).
Current research: Life and writings of Martin Luther; the Jews in
Europe.
Recent publications: John Bunyan in Context (1996); Catholics in Britain
and Europe, 15581829 (1998): The Catholic Reformation (1999); ŒQuaker
and Catholic attitudes to work, rest and play¹ (2002); ŒThe Reformation
in the parish of Whalley¹ (2003); Martin Luther (2004).
Current teaching: The Jews since the middle ages; popular culture and
protest in Europe and Britain; Luther and the Reformation.
Dr Paolo Palladino, B.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Minnesota), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: Death, time and history; neurosciences, personhood and
historical memory.
Recent publications: Entomology; Ecology, and Agriculture (1996);
ŒDiscourses of smoking, health and the just society¹ (2001); ŒBetween
knowledge and practice: medical professionals, patients and the making
of the genetics of cancer¹ (2002); ŒMedicine yesterday, today and
tomorrow¹ (2002); Plants, Patients and the Historian (2002); ŒLife Š On
biology, biography, and bio-power¹ (2003); ŒCaveat emptor: on death and
history in late modernity¹ (2004).
Current teaching: history of modern science, technology and medicine;
metaphors of Œnature¹, the Œanimal¹ and the Œmachine¹.
Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird, M.A., Ph.D. (St. Andrews), Lecturer.
Current research: Home defence in Britain in the Second World War;
national identity and tourism; military masculinity and femininity.
Recent publications: ŒDelilah shaves her hair: women, the military and
Hollywood¹ (2000); Œ³Hey, you¹re dead!²: multiple uses of humour in
representations of British national defence in the Second World War¹
(2001); ŒThe Home Guard in Britain: uncertain masculinities?¹ (2003);
ŒClassifying the body in the Second World War: British men in and out of
uniform¹, Body & Society (2003); ŒCoffee, Klimt and climbing:
constructing Austrian national identity¹ (2004).
Current teaching: National identity; gender and warfare; oral testimony
and visual and aural sources.
Dr Gordon Phillips, B.A., D.Phil. (Oxford), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: History of the blind; development of professional
social work; aspects of the history of charity and voluntary
organisations.
Recent publications: The Blind in British Society: Charity, State and
Community, 17801930 (2004). Current teaching: British history since
1750; charity, state and society, 1880-1914; the development of history
as a research discipline; outlaws, outcasts and outsiders.
Dr Stephen Pumfrey, B.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (London), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: Science and patronage; early modern English science;
William Gilbert and De Mundo.
Recent publications: Latitude and the Magnetic Earth (2002); ŒWas Thomas
Harriot an English Galileo?¹ (2003); ŒScience and patronage in England
15701625¹, History of Science (2004).
Current teaching: The enlightenment and modernity; science and
renaissance culture; science and society in early modern England.
Prof. Jeffrey Richards, B.A., M.A. (Cambridge), D.Litt. (Lancaster).
Current research: Victorian theatre; film, propaganda; national identity
in popular culture.
Recent publications: Films and British National Identity (1997);
ŒRethinking British cinema¹ (2000); Imperialism and Music (2001);
ŒImperial heroes for a post-imperial age: films and the end of empire¹
(2001); ŒThe Lancashire novelist and the Lancashire witches¹ (2002); A
Night to Remember (2002).
Current teaching: Film propaganda in the Second World War.
Dr Thomas Rohkrämer, B.A., Ph.D. (Freiburg), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: German History in the 19th and 20th centuries, in
particular the link between politics and culture in regard to
militarism, cultural criticism and aesthetics.
Recent publications: Eine andere Moderne? (1999); ŒGermans and nature¹
(2001), ŒKult der Gewalt unde Sehnsucht nach Ordnung - der soldatische
Nationalismus in der Weimarer Republik¹, Sociologicus (2001);
ŒContemporary environmentalism and its links with the German past¹
(2002); ŒDie Vision einer deutschen Technik. Ingenieure und das ³Dritte
Reich²¹ (2003).
Current teaching: German history since 1800; National Socialism; modern
attitudes towards nature and technology.
Dr Keith Stringer, B.A. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge),
Reader.
Current research: Britain in the 12th and 13th centuries, especially
kingship, nobility, and the Church; the medieval Anglo-Scottish border
region.
Recent publications: ŒActs of lordship: the records of the Lords of
Galloway to 1234¹ (2000); ŒReform monasticism and Celtic Scotland¹
(2000); The Reformed Church in Galloway and Cumbria (1100-1300) (2003);
ŒThe emergence of a nation-state, 1100-1300¹, Oxford Illustrated History
of Scotland (2004); ŒKingship, conflict and state-making in the reign of
Alexander II¹ (2004); ŒArbroath Abbey in context, 1178-1320¹ (2004).
Current teaching: British history 750-1280; King Stephen; Europe in the
central middle ages.
Dr Deborah Sutton, B.A. (York), M.Sc., (Sheffield), Ph.D. (Jawaharlal
Nehru University), Lecturer.
Current research: South Asian agrarian and environmental history; the
Asian diaspora in East Africa.
Recent publications: ŒHorrid sights and customary rights: The Toda
funeral on the colonial Nilgiris¹, Indian Economic and Social History
(2002); Œ³In this land of the Todas²: imaginary landscapes and colonial
policy in 19th-century Southern India¹ (2003); ŒThe aboriginal Toda: on
indigeneity, exclusivism and privileged access to land in the Nilgiri
hills¹ (2004); Œ³What was a splendid wood²: Sholas, forest plantations
and colonial conservancy on the Nilgiris, 1837-80¹ (2004).
Current teaching: History of modern south Asia; Empire: colonisers and
the colonised.
Dr Alan Warburton, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Lancaster), Teaching Fellow.
Current Research: Missile and space programmes, technology of warfare.
Current Teaching: European social and political history since 1870; the
First World War.
Dr Angus Winchester, B.A., Ph.D. (Durham), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: Landscape history of north-west England; medieval
administrative territories; John Denton, antiquary.
Recent publications: The Harvest of the Hills: Rural Life in Northern
England and the Scottish Borders, 14001700 (2000); ŒHill farming
landscapes of medieval northern England¹ (2000); Discovering Parish
Boundaries (2nd edn 2000); Thomas Denton: A Perambulation of Cumberland
168788 (2003); ŒDemesne livestock farming in the Lake District¹, Trans.
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq. & Arch. Soc. (2003); ŒThe moorland
forests of medieval England¹ (2004).
Current Teaching: British history 400-1100; early modern social and
local history; landscape history.
Dr Michael Winstanley, B.A. (Oxford); M.A. (Lancaster); Ph.D.
(Lancaster), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: 19th- and 20th-century rural history; history of
consumption; regional history.
Recent publications: ŒIndustrialisation and the small farm¹, Past &
Present (1996); ŒTemples of commerce: revolutions in shopping and
banking (2000); ŒHistory in cyberspace¹ (2000); ŒRetail property
ownership in Edwardian England¹ (2003).
Current Teaching: British social history since 1750; rural society in
Britain and Ireland; history in the community; sources for local and
regional history; computing for historians.
Dr Alan Wood, B.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Lancaster), Senior Lecturer.
Current research: History of the Romanov empire; Russian revolution;
Siberian exile system; tsarist penal policies.
Recent publications: ŒRevolution and Civil War in Siberia¹ (1997);
ŒSiberian regionalism: past, present and future¹ (1998); ŒViolence and
violent crime in Siberia¹ (1999).
Current Teaching: History of the Russian empire, 1700-1917;
revolutionary Russia.
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