Postgraduate study
Areas we'd be willing to offer supervision for postgraduate study are listed below.
- Anna Saunders:
Post-socialist memory; German memory debates; memorialisation; anniversaries; memory of the far-right. - Alyssa Grossman:
Everyday sites and practices of remembrance; Romanian/post-communist memory; museums and archives, amateur filmmaking; memory and visual media. - John E. Richardson:
Holocaust commemoration; mass mediation of collective remembering; popular culture and collective remembering. - Sizen Yiacoup:
Medieval and early modern Iberia; Spanish-Ottoman relations; Afro-Cypriot identities; Translation of pre-modern Spanish texts; Slavery and its afterlives in Hispanic and Ottoman contexts. - Deana Heath:
Historical memory in relation to empire, particularly in India and Britain; I am particularly keen on supervising projects relating to violence or natural history. - Richard Stupart:
Witnessing, trauma, conflict, affect & emotion, ethics and memory. - Les Roberts:
Deep mapping and spatial anthropology, film and urban historiography, liminality and liminal spaces, memory-work and everyday cultures, music and memory, psychogeography and memory. - Jordana Blejmar:
Latin American culture and literature, photography, cultural memory, art history, exhibitions/curation/museums, material culture, disappearance, operational images, forensic aesthetics. - Barbara Spadaro:
Digital, augmented, anti-colonial archives; Transnational Comics and Graphic Novels. Coloniality, Archive, Heritage and Translation. Feminist anticolonial epistemologies. - Sarah Arens:
Memories and histories of Francophone colonialism (Belgian and French), critical theories of memory, environmental histories, the far right and antifascism. - Niamh Thornton:
The war story in Mexico and Latin America, Trauma and Storytelling, Decolonial methodologies, Narrating the past, Gender and Conflict on Screen, Aesthetics and ethics of Memorialisation. - Sophie Fuggle:
Migration, museum studies (including care work, translation, decolonial praxis), convict and penal heritage, comics and graphic novels, and environmental humanities. - Marieke Riethof:
History and memorialisation of exile and transnational solidarity networks in Cold War Latin America; digital archives and community archiving; democracy, dictatorship, and human rights. - Angela Becher:
Memory politics in postsocialist China through the lens of contemporary art and film; history/memory in new media art, decolonisation of remembrance in works of culture.