Politics and History
| Name and Contact Details | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr Alison Carrol Role: Lecturer in European History Phone: +44 (0)1895 267980 Email: alison.carrol@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 151 |
European history in the modern period, the history of France and Germany, themes of borderlands, politics, identities, imperialism and the centre-periphery relationship in modern Europe. |
| Dr Gareth Dale Role: Director of Postgraduate Research Phone: +44 (0)1895 267298 Email: gareth.dale@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ239 |
Gareth’s current research focuses upon the life and work of Karl Polanyi and international political economy. He is interested in the political economy of climate change, and is involved in the trade-union sponsored “One Million Climate Jobs” programme. His ancillary interests lie in social movement theory, the history of East Germany, the political economy of Eastern Europe, and international migration. |
| Dr Philip Davies Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266 827 Email: philip.davies@brunel.ac.uk Office: GB132 |
Organisation and management of national intelligence institutions; comparative study of intelligence institutions; application of organisation theory to government institutions. |
| Dr Filippo Del Lucchese Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267880 Email: filippo.dellucchese@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ227 |
History of Political Thought, especially the early modern period (from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), history of philosophy and Marxism, cinema and politics. |
| Dr Inge Dornan Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266831 Email: inge.dornan@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ106 |
Dr Dornan’s research interests cover issues of race and gender in the Americas, with a focus on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade in the British colonies. |
| Professor Justin Fisher Role: Head of School; Director of the Magna Carta Institute; Professor of Political Science Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266309 Email: justin.fisher@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ208 |
Elections, Political Parties, Campaigning, Party Finance, Constitutional Reform, Political Methodology, Political Trust, and British and Comparative politics more generally. The research covers both empirical and theoretical aspects of these fields and employs both quantitative and qualitative methodology. |
| Dr Martin H. Folly Role: Senior Lecturer (International History & American History) Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266823 Email: martin.folly@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Bldg 110 |
The Grand Alliance in the Second World War: The foundation of NATO; Anglo-American relations, 1941-51; United States Foreign Policy during the Cold War; Stalin and Churchill. |
| Dr Kristian Gustafson Role: Lecturer, Intelligence and Security Studies Phone: +44 (0)1895 265 436 Email: kristian.gustafson@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ116 |
Research interests include post-1945 US intelligence, covert action, military doctrine, intelligence history & intelligence analysis. |
| Dr Matthew Hughes Role: Reader and Senior Tutor Phone: 01895 266872 Email: Matthew.hughes@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 238 |
Contemporary Military and International History and Politics; the First World War; the British Army; the Arab-Israeli Conflict; and the Palestine Campaign in the First World War. Recent research projects have resulted in articles such as ‘Lebanon’s Armed Forces and the Arab-Israeli War, 1948-49’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 34/2, Winter 2005, 24-41 and ‘Logistics and the Chaco War: Paraguay versus Bolivia, 1932-35’, Journal of Military History, 69/2, April 2005, 411-437. |
| Professor Elke Krahmann Role: Professor Phone: +44 (0)1895 266345 Email: elke.krahmann@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ236 |
Security studies; international relations theory; non-state actors in international affairs; private military and security companies. |
| Dr Thomas Linehan Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266829 Email: thomas.linehan@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ119 |
Dr. Linehan’s research interests and expertise cover the areas of ‘fringe’ parties, movements and politics in Britain, 1880s–present, particularly the British Communist Party; the British Union of Fascists and related fascist and anti-semitic movements more generally; and late Victorian and Edwardian socialism. |
| Dr John MacMillan Role: Senior Lecturer in International Relations Phone: +44 (0)1895 266101 Email: john.macmillan@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 240 |
Liberal states/democracies & war/peace/intervention; the politics of military intervention, international theory, general IR. |
| Dr Stephen Marrin Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895267864 Email: stephen.marrin@brunel.ac.uk Office: 115 Marie Jahoda |
Intelligence, Security |
| Professor Kenneth Morgan Role: Professor of History; Subject Leader in History Phone: +44 (0)1895 266828 Email: kenneth.morgan@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ108 |
Slavery and the Slave Trade; British Imperial and Colonial History, 1650-1850; Maritime History; Australian History; Caribbean History; Music History. |
| Professor Mark Neocleous Role: Professor of the Critique of Political Economy; Head of Politics and History Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266824 Email: mark.neocleous@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ237 |
Marx and Marxism; state power and political administration, with specific focus on police, war and security; fascism, conservatism and the political mobilization of fear; the politics of monstrosity; the political imaginary; counter-strategic thought. |
| Dr Niall Palmer Role: Lecturer, Admissions Tutor Phone: +44 (0) 1895 269770 Email: niall.palmer@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ114 |
History of U.S. presidency; U.S. elections and political parties. |
| Dr Tamson Pietsch Role: Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History Phone: +44 (0)1985 267981 Email: tamson.pietsch@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ151 |
The history of Britain and its empire in the 19th and 20th centuries; global and transnational history; the history of ideas; mobility and space; ships and the sea. |
| Dr David Scott Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266825 Email: david.scott@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ113 |
On the geographical front: my interests are in Asia-Pacific international relations, China in the international system, India in the International System, East-West encounters, American/European perceptions and encounters with Asia, and macroshifts encapsulated in talk of the 'Pacific Century'/'Asian Century'. On the International Relations front: my interest are in 'the 'rise and fall of Great Powers' (Kennedy), geopolitics, and the application of various IR identity paradigms like 'International Relations as Intercultural Relations' (Iriye), 'The Clash of Civilizations' (Huntington), and the role of 'images' in international affairs (constructivism). PhD supervision is welcome in Asia-Pacific international relations, Chinese foreign policy, China-EU relationship, Indian foreign policy, South Asia international relations, the application of geopolitics, the role of constructivism image/perceptions in IR, and East-West encounters in History. Current/recent PhD students:
PhD External Examiner work has also been a feature, |
| Dr Astrid Swenson Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267912 Email: astrid.swenson@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ242 |
European history and culture since the late 18th century; comparative and transnational history, history of heritage and memory, art and politics, architectural conservation, nationalism, internationalism, imperialism. ResearchAstrid Swenson works on European history and culture since the late 18th century in a comparative and transnational manner. Specialising in the history of heritage, she is interested in how uses of the past change over time, how buildings, objects and works of art are adapted, how knowledge is moved across cultures and how this intercultural transfer affects ideas about nationalism, internationalism and imperialism. Astrid has published on the history of heritage, memory, exhibitionary culture and museums. Her monograph forthcoming with Cambridge University Press on the rise of 'heritage' in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914, examines exchange within Europe and the impact of increasing internationalisation during the long nineteenth century. Her current research concerns Europe’s relation with the non-European word, focussing on architectural preservation and imperialism. She also currently prepares a general introductory book on Heritage Histories since 1700. External research collaborations include the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group’s ‘Past versus Progress’ Project, the Working Group on ‘Endangerment’ at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Knowledge, Berlin and, as a PI, the ‘Borders of Heritage/Frontières du Patrimoine Project, which hosts a monthly seminar at the EHESS, Paris. |
| Dr Peter Thomas Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267573 Email: peterd.thomas@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ229 |
History of political thought and philosophy, Marxist philosophy and theory, and contemporary social and cultural theory. Dr Thomas's research interests include the history of political thought and philosophy, Marxist philosophy and theory, and contemporary social and cultural theory. He is currently working on three research projects: first, a study of recent debates about the notion of the Political; second, a political and theoretical history of contemporary Western European Marxisms, from 1945 to the present; and third, a critical reconstruction of the history of the concept of conjuncture in modern political thought and the social sciences. |
| Dr Varun Uberoi Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265858 Email: varun.uberoi@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ246 |
Dr Varun Uberoi combines normative political theory and political science to examine the theory and practice of fostering unity amongst the culturally diversity citizens of modern polities. His theoretical work examines what unity amongst the citizens of a polity is, how it differs from similar ideas like loyalty and belonging, why such unity is important and how it can be fostered ethically. His empirical work utilises archival and elite interview data to examine how the governments of two parliamentary democracies, Britain and Canada, have attempted to foster such unity as well as the role that Muslims often play in contemporary debates about unity. |
