- Interplay of social and institutional change in postcommunism in issue areas of non-discrimination
- Minority protection
- Migration
- Civil society
Dr Agarin is interested in relationships between the state and society, interrelations between the majority and the minority, issues relating to non-discrimination in the wider Europe and the impact of European integration broadly conceived on societal change and dynamics in political institutions. At the heart of it, is the interest in ethnic politics and their impact on transition from communism in Central Eastern European states.
Using the cases of institutions tasked with minority protection, he investigates how democratising states cooperate with one another as well as with international organisations to reduce ethnic tensions domestically and ensure peace and stability in postcommunist states.
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Dr Timofey Agarin
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- Rituals, symbols and group identity
- Commemoration and memory
- The anthropology of Ireland
- Conflict transformation
- Political violence
- Anthropology and policy
Prof Bryan’s work focuses on power and public space. He is interested in how identity is expressed through rituals and symbols in the public sphere and how these activities bond social groups and create conflict. His particular specialism has been examining conflict and civic space in Northern Ireland with reference to parades, flags and historical narratives. This research has led to a long term engagement with public policy.
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Professor Dominic Bryan
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- Early Modern British and Irish History
- European Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought
- Renaissance Humanism
- Scholasticism and Early Modern Universities
- Church History, whether Catholic or Protestant
Dr Campbell’s research initially explored intellectual life in early modern Ireland, published as Renaissance Humanism and Ethnicity before Race, and his chapter on early modern intellectual history for the new Cambridge History of Ireland.
While he has previously published on both Catholic and Protestant political thought, he is currently writing a history of Franciscan political thought in seventeenth-century Rome. This is part of a wider research project, funded by the European Research Council, into the relationship between faith and warfare in early modern Europe.
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Dr Ian Campbell
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- Twentieth century Ireland
- Irish revolution (1916-23)
- Women in modern Ireland
- Politics and society in independent Ireland (after 1921)
- The Protestant minority in southern Ireland during and after the revolution
My principal research interests are in twentieth-century Irish history, especially the Irish revolution. My recent research has focused on the award of pensions and compensation to revolutionary combatants and civilians injured during the revolution; the Protestant experience of revolution; and gender in the revolution
Irish revolution; ex-combatants; women in modern Ireland; military service pensions; Protestants and the Irish revolution
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Professor Marie Coleman
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- Race and immigration
- Urban history
- The New Left
Prof Stephen Smartt is one of the global leaders in astronomy in the field of sky surveys and astrophysical transients. He has led innovative international projects that survey the sky to find supernovae and exploding stars. Using the Hubble Space Telescope he has directly identified which stars explode as supernovae making a series of discoveries that advanced our understanding of what causes these brilliant flashes of light across the Universe.
He has discovered the most powerful of these explosions, called “super-luminous” supernovae and with his team proposed that the theory of magnetic neutron stars causes their extreme brightness. In 2017, he led one of the international teams to pinpoint the source of gravitational waves, showing that merging neutron stars can produce a brief but luminous explosion powered by radioactivity of the heavy elements.
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Dr Kieran Connell
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- British Political History after 1918, including the Thatcher Era
- Britain and the Cold War
- British Political History and Northern Ireland
Paul Corthorn’s research is concerned with twentieth-century British history, especially its political and international dimensions. He has worked extensively on the politics of the Left and on various aspects of the Cold War in Britain.
His book about Enoch Powell, the Conservative and Ulster Unionist MP, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He is Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project on 'Conservatism and Unionism in the UK, 1968-1997', funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). He is joint editor of the Labour History Review.
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Dr Paul Corthorn
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- Twentieth century Italian history
- Sexuality and emotions in twentieth-century (especially southern) Europe
- The post-war European ‘economic miracle’, 1950s-1970s
- History of motherhood and infant feeding
Niamh Cullen is a lecturer in modern European history, with particular interests in modern Italy, in the history of gender and sexuality in twentieth-century southern Europe, the history of the emotions and the history of motherhood. Her forthcoming book, Love, Honour and Jealousy: An Intimate History of the Italian Economic Miracle (OUP, 2019) explores how ordinary people approached romantic love, and dealt with its darker, related feelings, honour and jealousy, in the context of the rapidly changing Italy of the late-twentieth century.
She is also developing a new project on the twentieth-century history of breastfeeding in comparative, European perspective.
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Dr Niamh Cullen
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I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- Roman history
- Roman law
- early Christianity
- ancient Judaism
- Greek history
- Late Antique history.
My current work focuses on Rome’s relations with the Jews in their own land. I am also pursuing interests in the dialogue within Christianity in late antiquity.
Disciplinary Research Field: Ancient History
Sub-fields: Roman history, Roman law, early Christianity, ancient Judaism, Greek history, Late Antique history
HAPP colleagues working in sub-fields and related projects:
Dr Laura Pfuntner
Dr Sinead O’Sullivan
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Dr John Curran
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- Medieval social and economic history
- Medieval urban history
- Pre-modern markets and trade
James Davis’s main research interests focus upon medieval social and economic history, particularly English markets, trades and towns.
He has examined the market culture of medieval England through a variety of literary and legal sources and published Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200-1500 with Cambridge University Press in 2012.
His most recent project is on the subject of Medieval Street Life and was supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.
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Dr James Davis
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- Sino-Western encounter, especially China and Italy, France, Ireland or Russia
- Visual sources and historical photography in China
- Sir Robert Hart and Chinese Customs
- Law and society in modern China
Dr De Angeli’s research spans from social and law history of Republican China to historical photography in China.
As member team of the Sir Robert Hart Project she researches the figure and legacy of Sir Robert Hart on the Sino-Western encounter from 1850 to 1950. In particular, she works on Hart’s close collaborators, Piry and Wright.
Her research aims at evaluate the role and legacy of the Sino-Western encounter between 19th and 20th centuries on nowadays China’s leading role in the world.
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Dr Aglaia De Angeli
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- Space and time
- Properties
- Events
- Persons
- Divine attributes
- Divine foreknowledge and human freedom
- Theological anthropology
My research to date has focused on two main areas: the metaphysics of time and the metaphysics of persons. In particular, I am interested in the overlap between philosophy and theology with respect to these areas. So I am wrapping up a project on God’s relationship to time and the metaphysics of events. The purpose of the project is to develop a theory of events which provides the foundation for a plausible and coherent account of God’s relation to time. And I have begun a project on the metaphysics of theological anthropology. The goal of the project is to provide a theologically informed metaphysics of the human person.
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Dr Joseph Diekemper
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- European Reformation History
- Early Modern Religious History (1450-1800)
- Social and Cultural History of Germany
- German Renaissance
Dr Dixon’s research has focussed on the origins and the impact of the European Reformations and the history of religious culture in early modern Europe more generally (1450-1800). He has particular interests in the social and cultural aspects of Reformation history, particularly in Germany, as well as the study of Reformation historiography.
HAPP colleagues working in sub-fields and related projects:
Ian Campbell
Crawford Gribben
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Dr Scott Dixon
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- Nineteenth-century social history
- Crime history
- Women’s history
Elaine’s research focuses on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Irish gender and crime history. She has published on infanticide and concealment of birth, imprisonment and transportation, criminal tattoos, and women in WWI. She leads the AHRC-funded project, ‘“Bad Bridget”: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women in North America, 1838-1918’, with Dr Leanne McCormick (Ulster University). She is also currently working on a history of Irish female convicts in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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Dr Elaine Farrell
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- Nineteenth-century Irish history
- Comparative famine history
- Pre-Troubles history of Northern Ireland
Professor Gray’s research is in the history of British-Irish relations c.1800–70, especially the political history of the Great Famine 1845–50, the politics of poverty and land and British governance in Ireland.
He is researching the Ulster radical William Sharman Crawford. He has wider interests in the history of nineteenth-century political economy and social thought, in comparative imperial and famine history (especially Ireland and India), in historical memory and commemoration, and the history of 20th-century Northern Ireland.
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Professor Peter Gray
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- Puritanism, especially John Owen
- John Nelson Darby
- Contemporary American evangelicalism
Professor Gribben is a cultural and literary historian whose work concentrates on the development and dissemination of religious ideas in the print cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism. He also serves as co-editor of two series of monographs and edited collections entitled 'Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-1800' (Palgrave Macmillan) and 'Scottish religious cultures: Historical perspectives' (Edinburgh University Press).
He is the founding co-director of the Jonathan Edwards Centre (UK), an affiliate of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.
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Professor Crawford Gribben
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- Social and cultural history, gender, family and material culture
- Histories of home
- Histories of intellectual life and/or letter-writing
- Heritage collections and adult learning
Dr Hannan’s research focuses on the home as a site of intellectual activity in the long eighteenth century (c. 1660-1830). She has worked extensively on women’s letter-writing as a way of understanding diverse and under-acknowledged intellectual cultures in early modern society. Her current research focuses on informal practices of science in the home. This research treats intellectual work as just one of many household practices and, by doing so, illuminates new connections between the domestic and the investigative.
Dr Hannan is a social and cultural historian working on British sources but with interests in Ireland, North America and the Atlantic world. Her research has particular relevance for developments within gender and material culture studies and also for interdisciplinary studies of home. The objective of the research activity is to understand broader cultures of knowledge in early modern society that operated beyond the individuals and institutions best known to our histories of intellectual life.
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Dr Leonie Hannan
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- Protestantism in Ireland since 1600
- Comparative history of evangelical Protestantism
- Pre-Troubles religious history of Northern Ireland
Dr Holmes’s research is in the history of protestantism in Ireland since the seventeenth century in a comparative context, especially Presbyterianism, evangelicalism, and the relationship between religion and identity. He has recently completed a study of Presbyterian intellectual and theological life between 1830 and 1930, and is embarking on a Leverhulme-funded study entitled ‘Fundamentalism as an Ulster phenomenon? Popular Protestantism, 1859-1939’.
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Dr Andrew R. Holmes
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- Urban history from the late 19th to mid-20th century in Britain
- The nature of citizenship and belonging
- The place of the past, and especially of historical re-enactment
Dr Hulme’s research is focused on the modern city as the site of belonging and citizenship.
Through his research on urban culture in British and American cities in the twentieth century, he is exploring how governments and associations cooperated to shape better local citizens through architecture, education, festivals, and historical re-enactments.
This research has particular relevance to both continuing and recent discussions about citizenship that which have come following increasing globalisation as well as socio-political shifts like Brexit.
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Dr Tom Hulme
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- 19th and 20thc. African American history
- US labour and social history
- History of the American Left
Dr Kelly’s research focuses on the complicated relationship between labour relations and race antagonism in US history, with a special focus on the post-emancipation US South. This research has particular relevance to discussions around the enduring salience of race and inequality in the modern United States and the wider Atlantic world. He is currently developing collaborative links with scholars in Brazil, with the aim of launching a comparative study or the aftermath of slavery in diverse plantation societies.
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Dr Brian Kelly
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- Modern Europe
- Interwar Europe 1919-1939
- the European Civil Wars, 1914-1945
- the Spanish Civil War
- Modern Spain
- the Second World War
I’m currently working on two new books:
on Soviet policy in the Spanish Civil War and
Biographical panorama of Interwar Europe
Support or complementary work on my two book projects on the Spanish Civil War and Interwar Europe.
HAPP colleagues working in sub-fields and related projects :
Alex Titov
Niamh Cullen
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Dr Danny Kowalsky
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- Cognitive Anthropology of Religion & Ritual
- Cognitive Anthropology of Atheism
Dr. Lanman's research addresses two areas in the scientific study of religion.
1) Atheism & Secularisation: His work on atheism and secularization aims to provide an account of why some individuals become theists and others become non-theists, why some nations have much higher proportions of non-theists than others, and why some non-theists engage in anti-religious social action.
2) Religious Identity, Ritual, and Self-Sacrifice: His work on religion and self-sacrifice aims to provide an account of the relative contributions of belief, ritual, values, and identity in explaining individual willingness to die for a religious group.
For further detail of Dr. Lanman's research, see: https://youtu.be/4XnCnK7kdf8
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Dr Jonathan A. Lanman
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- Music and storytelling in conflict transformation/peacebuilding
- Arts and reconciliation
- Sense and emotion
- Dance, movement and empathy
- Indigenous ritual, religion and performance
- Christianity and missions
- Gender and performance
Fiona Magowan’s research covers three interconnected areas: music, sound and movement; art, emotion and the senses; and religion, identity and transformation. As PI of 'Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation' (2017-2021), she is leading a team of Queen's staff and 10 partner organisations researching across the Middle East, Brazil and Northern Ireland.
Her work focuses on the emotional potentialities of sound, storytelling and music for conflict transformation and peacebuilding in Australia, Brazil and Northern Ireland.
She is also exploring empathy, recognition, resilience and reconciliation in music, dance, art and drama in conflict transformation in Mozambique.
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Professor Fiona Magowan
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- British India Empire History of Imperial of Imperial Science in India
- Nutritional Science History
- British literary representations of India
- Missionaries Environmental History
Ashok Malhotra is a historian of British India. He completed his PhD at Edinburgh University and has previously served as a BA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. He is currently researching the manner in which agricultural and nutritional research, undertaken in British colonial India in the early C20th, influenced the organic movements which emerged in the 20th century in Britain and North America. He is further interested in the construction of racial stereotypes of Indians during the period of the British Raj.
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Dr Ashok Malhotra
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- Early modern British history, particularly social and cultural history
Professor Marsh’s work focuses on the social and cultural history of England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has published work on popular religion, religious nonconformity, social relations, gender relations and popular music.
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Professor Christopher Marsh
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- Modern Irish history
- Politics and culture in 20th century Ireland
- Commemoration and historical memory
Prof McGarry works on modern Irish history. His recent research has focused on the revolutionary era, particularly the Easter Rising. He has published widely on politics in independent Ireland, particularly republicanism and radical political ideology in the inter-war era. An active public historian, he is interested in historical memory, including commemoration, historical films, and museums.
He is currently researching inter-war Irish cultural anxieties about modernity, and leading a major research project assessing the Irish revolution’s global impact.
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Professor Fearghal McGarry
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- African history and the Portuguese-speaking world
- Religion, Christian missionaries, and Islam
- Civil wars, conflict resolution, negotiations and mediation
Eric Morier-Genoud’s research interests are in the history of Africa, the Portuguese-speaking world, and Switzerland. He studies politics, war, conflict transformation, religion, and Christian missions.
He has published books on the civil war in Mozambique, nationalisms in Lusophone Africa, Imperial migration in the Portuguese world, and Swiss churches and Apartheid. He presently works on the diary of emperor Gungunhane's medical doctor (1891-1895).
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Dr Eric Morier-Genoud
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- Oral history
- Working class community
- Deindustrialisation
- Gender history
- Twentieth century Belfast/Northern Ireland's social history
O'Connell is a social historian of modern Britain and Ireland. Teaching specialisms include working-class communities, contemporary Britain, and oral history. He edits Oral History and founded QUOTE Hub, Queen's oral history collective. Current projects include a monograph on the history of joyriding and an international project on Deindustrialisation and the Politics of Our Time. He recently co-authored the report mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries for the Department of Health, which seems to have paved the way for a public inquiry.
Oral history. Gender, social history, Belfast.
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Professor Sean O'Connell
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- Carolingian history
- Early medieval intellectual history
- Glossing studies
Dr O’Sullivan’s research focuses on the transmission of learning in the early Middle Ages. Her main focus is on early medieval glosses and their importance.
She has published two books on the reception of Late Antique authors: the first on Prudentius (Brill), the second on Martianus Capella in the series Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Brepols).
She has also co-edited a book on Martianus Capella and Carolingian Scholarship (Brepols). Her current work investigates the significance of glosses for mainstream cultural and intellectual history.
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Dr Sinead O'Sullivan
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Dr Pfuntner’s main research areas are the history and material culture of the Roman Mediterranean, ancient urbanism, and Greek and Latin historiography of the Roman era. She has a particular interest in the Roman history of the island of Sicily, and especially the development of its urban communities under the Principate. She is currently developing a new research project on ‘War and Peacemaking in the Roman West in the First Century BC.’
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Dr Laura Pfuntner
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- The British and Irish industrial city 1850-1930
- Urban poverty and welfare 1850-1930
- Public history and memory; heritage
- Child and family welfare
- Urban development and public health
- Irish landed estates and country houses
Professor Purdue is a historian of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, focusing on the British and Irish industrial city and on issues of social inequalities, welfare, and public health. She was co-investigator of the AHRC project ‘Welfare and Public Health in Belfast 1800-1972’ and is currently writing a monograph entitled Spaces of engagement: families and welfare in industrial Belfast 1880-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).
Professor Purdue also works on contested public history, heritage, and Irish country houses and landed estates.
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Professor Olwen Purdue
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- Sino-Western relations and trade
- Imperial and transnational history
- Photography in Asia
- Ireland and empire
Disciplinary Research Field: Asian, imperial, transnational and world history
Sub-fields: Sino-Western relations; British imperialism in Asia; photography and empire; Ireland and empire; trade and commodities; historical social networks
My current research focuses on empire and transnational links in Asia, mapping imperialism and interconnection across space, ideas and social networks. The Robert Hart Project http://sirroberthart.org examines the far-reaching influence of an Irishman, Robert Hart, as Inspector-General of Chinese Maritime Customs in the last half-century of the Qing empire. The AHRC-funded project Reframing the Visualities of Imperial War http://reframingimperialwar.net examines the use of early photography in the development of visual vocabularies through which British imperialism in Asia was understood.
My projects:
Robert Hart Project (CASS, JISC, BA): http://sirroberthart.org @hart_project Reframing Imperial War (AHRC): http://reframingimperialwar.net Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia (ESRC/AHRC): http://go.qub.ac.uk/cirnneasia @cirn_neasia
Close colleagues:
Dr Aglaia De Angeli, http://go.qub.ac.uk/deangeli @AglaiaDeAngeli
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Dr Emma Reisz
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- African American History
- women’s history
- US history in the 18th and 19th centuries
My primary research interests in general are 18th to 19th century African American history, particularly focused on free people of African descent prior to the Civil War, race relations, and American women's history. My current book project, Contested Freedom: Movement and Gendered Violence among Free People of Color in Natchez, Mississippi, 1779-1865, is under contract with the University Press of Georgia. My work examines how freedom, movement, and gendered violence were inextricably linked for free people of color in Natchez across multiple generations from the era of Spanish colonial rule (1779-1795) until the demise of slavery in 1865. I am also developing a database on this population of people in collaboration with Michigan State University’s Matrix.
Names of HAPP colleagues working in these sub-fields and related projects: Brian Kelly, Keira Williams
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Dr Nik Ribianszky
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- Cognitive Anthropology
- Psychology
- Experimental Philosophy
Dr Sousa applies the perspective of the cognitive and evolutionary sciences to anthropological topics, focusing on agency, morality, intergroup conflict and religion and addressing questions such as: how do humans conceptualize (intentional) action? Do agency judgments influence judgements of responsibility? What is the nature of the mechanisms involved in our sense of what is right and wrong? Why do humans seem so prone to intergroup conflicts? Do conceptualizations of supernatural agency play a role in intergroup conflict and moral judgments?
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Dr Paulo Sousa
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- Material Production and Art
- Migration and Transnationalism
- Emotions and Affect
Title of Disciplinary Research Field: Anthropology
sub-fields in which you are active:Political History, History of Art, Cultural Geography
My main research interests include material culture, art, migration and emotions. In the past decade, I have brought these strands together, exploring the mobility and agency of humans, artefacts and images in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity.
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Professor Maruska Svasek
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- Modern European history
- Russia and the Soviet Union
- Intellectual history in the 20th century
- International history and politics
My three main research areas are:
Russian foreign policy and politics since Perestroika
Russian nationalism in the 20th century
political history of the USSR after Stalin.
My sub-fields of reserach are: Modern history of Russia and the Soviet Union, modern ideologies esp. nationalism and communism.
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Dr Alex Titov
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I am open to PhD applications in the fields of…
- Popular/folk music and politics
- Creative industries, production and labour
- Performance and identity
- Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and social/political movements
- Aesthetics, genre and improvisation
Ioannis’s main research has focused on the impact of globalisation and the world music market upon Greek subcultures and their conceptions of musical creativity. His current research is concentrating on the cross-cultural examination of the phenomenon of music professionalism and the way that it shapes understandings of musical competence, aesthetics, and the social dynamics of local ‘scenes’. Ioannis’ current focus is on the impact of economic/political crisis on ideas of transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and eclecticism within popular music-making in Greece and the wider Mediterranean.
Disciplinary Research Field:
Anthropology and Ethnomusicology
Sub-fields in which Iaonnis is active:
Popular Music Studies, Political Anthropology, Economic Ethnomusicology
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Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis
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I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- Irish gender and women’s history in the modern period
- Gender legal history especially relating to marriage and its dissolution
- Reform movements
- Modern Irish politics
Research expertise focuses on gender and women’s history primarily in modern Ireland with a particular interest in Northern Ireland/Ulster (from 1800 to the present day). Key interests include female political activism (unionism, nationalism, suffrage, local and national government representation), reform movements (such as the Ladies’ Land League) and aristocratic political patronage. More recent research areas include Irish divorce and abortion as well as the intersections between female conservatism and unionism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
HAPP colleagues working in sub-fields and related projects:
Dr Elaine Farrell
Dr Marie Coleman
Prof. Peter Gray
Prof. Fearghal McGarry
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Professor Diane Urquhart
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- Moral philosophy, including applied ethics, bioethics and normative moral theory
- Transitional justice
- Legal philosophy
- Analytical political philosophy
- Philosophy for children
Much of Dr Watkins' research focuses on ethical questions arising from the wrongs of the past. In some of his recent writings, he has examined the nature and value of forgiveness, particularly in deeply divided societies. He is currently working on the ethics of reparation, both in the context of ordinary interpersonal relationships and at the level of institutional responses to human rights violations.
He has broader research interests in both moral theory (especially moral luck, moral responsibility and deontological ethics) and philosophy of law (especially philosophy of international law).
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Dr Jeremy Watkins
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- political economy of development in Africa
- energy transitions and the future of fossil fuels
- politics and political economy of South Africa
- American Political Development (selected aspects, including energy politics and comparative approaches to race and inequality in South Africa and the American South)
Dr Andreasson’s research background is in comparative politics and southern African politics, as well as international political economy and history of political thought in terms of how these fields help us understand political transitions, development, democratisation and the evolving nature of the postcolonial world, including more recently also the United States.
He is currently researching energy transitions and the future of fossil fuels, including sub-Saharan Africa's energy markets in the context of the competition between Western (especially US) oil and gas companies and those of the emerging powers.
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Dr Stefan Andreasson
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- Green political economy;
- Post-growth economics and politics;
- Green political theory;
- Civic republicanism, socialism, Marxist, feminism and green issues;
- Low carbon energy transitions;
- Climate change politics, policy and governance;
- Heterodox political economy;
- Class, loyalism and republicanism in Northern Ireland;
Normative and theoretical aspects of the politics of sustainability/sustainable development including green political theory, civic republicanism, gender, class and environmental justice, environmental ethics and climate change;
Empirical/policy related studies of the politics and economics of the transition to sustainability, including work on post-growth economics and low carbon/post-carbon energy transitions;
A final set of subsidiary interests relates to the contemporary politics of Ireland/Northern Ireland, with a focus on issues of political economy, sustainable development and working class issues.
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Professor John Barry
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- Weapons politics and arms control
- Materialities of violence and security
- Border control
- Surveillance and sensory politics
- Critical security theories
- New materialism, Science and Technology and post-humanisms
- Interdisciplinary projects
Dr Bourne’s research focuses on a wide range of security issues. He is interested in critical security theories, and the relations of materiality, technology, and violence. His work has engaged issues of arms control (from small arms to nuclear weapons), illicit trafficking, border control, and technology development.
At present his work particularly engages the intersections of sensor technologies and security practices; and theoretical work related to a range of new materialist and process-relational philosophies.
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Dr Michael Bourne
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- Political ethics
- Theories/philosophies of work and economic organization
- Democracy and workplace democracy
- Contemporary republicanism
- Just war theory
- The thought of Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre
- Contemporary political and social theory generally
Keith Breen’s research areas are political and social theory, his focus being questions of political ethics and philosophies of work and economic organization.
He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of Under Weber’s Shadow: Modernity, Subjectivity and Politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre (2012) and co-editor of After the Nation? Critical Reflections on Nationalism and Postnationalism (2010), Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the Public Sphere (2016), and Freedom and Domination: Exploring Republican Freedom (2018).
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Dr Keith Breen
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- Critical war studies
- Sociological and postcolonial approaches to armed conflict
- Society, identity and security
Dr Brighton researches the field of relations between armed conflict, identity and society. He has written on the philosophy and sociology of war, terrorism and counterterrorism and contemporary strategic debates. This work has particular relevance for understanding how societal dynamics relate to armed forces and foreign, defence and security policy.
With Professor Tarak Barkawi (LSE) Dr Brighton has sought to develop ‘critical war studies’ as an interdisciplinary field including military history, political sociology and postcolonial theory.
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Dr Shane Brighton
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- International Relations
- Feminist Security Studies
- Affect, Aesthetics and Embodiment in IR
- The everyday politics of War/Peace
- Feminist Theory and Activism
- Border Politics
- Postsocialism Studies
Maria-Adriana’s research deploys feminist and other critical perspectives to examine the interrelated issues of war, peace, security. She has conducted research on the post- Yugoslav space, the politics of Northern Ireland, EU border politics and security. She has authored papers on gender politics, citizenship and feminist activism in contexts shaped by conflict/international intervention, as well as on everyday (post)conflict experiences as embodied, affective and mediated through aesthetic narratives. She is also interested in creative methods to study global politics.
HAPP colleagues working in sub-fields and related projects:
Dr Jamie J. Hagen
Dr Heather Johnson,
Prof. Debbie Lisle
Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana and Dr Jamie J. Hagen are co-directors of the Centre for the Gender in Politics, Twitter: @CentreForGender
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Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana
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- transatlantic and European defense
- arms control
- US-Soviet and US-Russian strategic relationship
- Cold War Studies
- geopolitics or grand strategy.
My current research deals with the Cold War endgame. The core focus is on geopolitics and arms control. The wider transformation of international relations in the 1980s and 1990s is analyzed in my archival research. The genesis of the post Cold war order is described in extenso.
Sub-fields in which you are active:
Cold War Studies
Diplomatic History
Defense Studies
Superpower Relationship
European and transatlantic defense
Intra-alliance conflict
arms control
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Dr Ralph Dietl
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- Irish politics and history
- the politics and history of nationalism
- political violence and terrorism
Professor English's research focuses on the politics and history of nationalism, political violence, and terrorism, with a particular focus on Ireland and Britain.
His books include Does Terrorism Work? A History (OUP, 2016), Modern War: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2013), Terrorism: How to Respond (OUP, 2009), Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (Pan Macmillan, 2006), Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (Pan Macmillan, 2003), Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual (OUP, 1998), and Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State 1925-1937 (OUP, 1994).
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Professor Richard English
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- Political parties, party organisation and democracy
- Territorial politics and devolution in the UK and in a comparative perspective
- Citizen engagement and democratic innovations
Dr Fabre’s research focuses on the relationship between political parties, territorial politics and citizen engagement. Her project on citizen engagement and regional democracy explores whether regionalism has provided an opportunity to develop new forms of citizen engagement. This project how institutions and political parties engage with their citizens at the regional level.
As national coordinator for France for the Political Parties Database project, she studies developments in the organisation of French parties and the power of party members.
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Dr Elodie Fabre
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- Voting behaviour and public opinion
- Deliberative mini-publics
Professor Garry’s research focusing on understanding citizens’ political attitudes and voting behaviour. He examines elections, referendums and also deliberative mini-publics.
His current research focuses specifically on the case of Northern Ireland and he leads several ESRC funded projects investigating voting in Assembly elections and the EU referendum, public attitudes to the implication of ‘Brexit’ and how Citizens’ Assemblies (mini publics) may contribute to political decision making in Northern Ireland.
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Professor John Garry
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- Brexit and public policy (environment, agriculture, etc.)
- Environmental Policy in the European Union
Dr Gravey's research focuses on the relationship between policy change and shocks to policy-making systems. This is reflected in two main areas of research. First, environmental policy dismantling in the European Union – and its links to further European (dis)integration. Second, having investigating how the EU has shaped UK environmental & agricultural policy and governance, my current work focuses on the potential policy and governance changes linked to the re-patriation of EU law in the UK and the devolved regions after Brexit.
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Dr Viviane Gravey
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With my research I bridge a feminist security studies approach with queer theory to offer a more complete gender analysis of how the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security resolutions impact lesbian, bisexual and transgender women living in conflict-related environments. The central contribution of my research is a queer security analysis of women’s experiences in conflict-related environments. I am also interested in considering how best to include LGBTQ individuals in peacebuilding initiatives in post-conflict environments.
HAPP colleagues working in sub-fields and related projects :
Maria-Adriana Deiana Co-directors of Centre for Gender in Politics, @CentreforGender
Debbie Lisle
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Dr Jamie Hagen
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- Refugees and Migration
- Citizenship and Non-Citizenship
- Critical theories of mobility and migration
- Activism and protest
- Critical security studies, particularly focused on borders
Dr Johnson’s research focuses on irregular migration and asylum seekers, border security, and the practices of resistance, solidarity and protest of non-citizens. She is interested in developing new understandings of mobility and non-citizenship, and particularly in new methods for engaging with these issues.
Heather also writes about visual representations of refugees, particularly through a gender studies lens. Heather’s major current project is about irregular migration in the maritime space, funded through the ESRC Future Research Leaders scheme.
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Dr Heather Johnson
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- Tourism, Militarism and Everyday Life
- Migration, Borders and Security
- Surveillance, Visuality and Technology
- New Materialism, STS and post-humanism in global politics
- Media, technology and global politics
- Creative practice accounts of global politics (esp. film and visual art)
Professor Lisle’s research in critical International Relations and International Political Sociology explores issues of difference, mobility, security, travel, visuality, governmentality, biopolitics, materiality, technology, borders, practice and power. She examines how cultural and visual expressions of global politics (e.g. museum exhibits; photography; tourist brochures) shed light on central geopolitical tensions such as war, mobility and inequality. She is currently examining how mobile humans, security technologies and geopolitical imaginaries come together at global borders, and how those borders fail.
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Professor Debbie Lisle
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- International Public Policy
- Irish Government and Politics
- Public Administration Public Sector Reform Technology in Government
Professor MacCarthaigh has established an international reputation for work in two sub-fields of political science: Public administration and policy, and Irish government and politics.
Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Sector Reform, Irish Politics
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Professor Muiris MacCarthaigh
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- Ethics and politics of recognition
- Republicanism
- Democratic theory
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Political theory
Title of Disciplinary Research Field: Contemporary political theory
Title of sub-fields in which you are active: politics of recognition, republicanism, critical theory, political theory
I am interested in theories of dignity, freedom, social and political equality, and toleration and civility. My work focuses on the connections between ideas of social recognition, social and political freedom. I am currently working on the role of republican ideas in an expanded account of modern social and political freedom which will draw on themes in the work of both Axel Honneth and Philip Pettit, among others.
Names of HAPP colleagues working in these sub-fields and related projects : Keith Breen, Fabian Schuppert
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Dr Cillian McBride
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- Border Studies,
- cross-border cooperation
- conflict and conflict transformation
Disciplinary Research Field: European Studies
Sub research fields: Border Studies, Conflict Studies
My research is on European Union cross-border cooperation and conflict transformation, with a particular focus on the Irish border.
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Professor Cathal McCall
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- The Politics of Brexit
- Populism in Europe and North America
- Far Right Politics
- Right-wing violence in Europe
- Competition policy and single market governance
Professor McGowan’s research focuses on European Politics. He is particularly interested in the structures of EU governance with special reference to European competition policy; the relationship between the UK and the EU; the theme of far right and populist politics and political violence.This research has particular relevance to recent developments and explores two of the most salient themes, Brexit and populism. The objective of the research activity is to advance knowledge and understanding of both research areas.
Professor Lee McGowan, JEAN MONNET CHAIR, 2016-2019
Communciating Europe through Learning and Teaching (CELTTUS)
In August 2016 I was awarded by the European Commission (as part of the ERASMUS+ programme) a prestigious Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration. The Chair award and the first at Queen's University Belfast since the early 2000's - followed a succesful application on a proposal that sought to communicate Europe and is designed to develop, deliver and expand teaching and research on the European Union at Queen's University Belfast as well as using the Jean Monnet Chair to communicating Europe to wider civil society.
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Professor Lee McGowan
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- The Northern Ireland problem and peace process
- Ethnic conflict and peace-making
- International contributions to peace-making (particularly US and EU roles)
- The role of diaspora communities in ethnic conflict and peace-making
Dr McLoughlin works in the broad field of contemporary political history in Ireland and Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the Northern Ireland problem and peace process. His most notable publication in this field is his book on the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, John Hume – John and the Revision of Irish Nationalism (MUP: 2010). Dr McLoughlin’s work also explores international and diaspora contributions to peace-making, and he will soon begin a research project as a Fulbright Scholar on the role of the US government and Irish-America in the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process.
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Dr Peter McLoughlin
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- Conceptual and empirical studies of Strategic Narrative in International Relations
- Studies in Public Diplomacy
- Research on the development of international order, including China’s emerging role
- European and transatlantic security policy
- German foreign and security policy, including German European policy
Professor Miskimmon's research covers a number of areas of politics and international relations. Firstly, the complexities of public diplomacy and how political and economic actors seek to exert influence in international affairs, within the context of the fundamental changes which the internet and the new media ecology have introduced.Secondly, he has a long-standing interest in security studies and foreign policy analysis, particularly in the European and transatlantic context.Thirdly, he is also very interested in debates on the future of international order and the implications of a greater role of China and other emerging powers on the global governance, international organizations and norms in the international system.
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Professor Alister Miskimmon
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- Modern Irish history and politics/the politics of Irish literature
- The politics of commemoration
- British high politics and Ireland
Margaret O’ Callaghan works on cultural identity in the Irish Free state; crime , nationality and the law in Victorian Ireland; the high politics of Britain in Ireland since 1880; Irish political thought; women in independent Ireland; Roger Casement and the British Empire ; genealogies of partition ; the politics of commemoration; the ‘pre-Troubles’ Troubles.She is currently working on Conor Cruise O’ Brien , female Irish political autobiography and Alice Stopford Green and her circles.
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Dr Margaret O'Callaghan
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- Brexit Protocol on Ireland/Norther Ireland
- EU enlargement
- EU External Relations
- EU Treaty Reform
Professor David Phinnemore’s research interests are focused on European integration and cover in particular processes of EU treaty reform and their impact on the EU, the political dynamics underpinning EU enlargement and the EU’s relations with European non-member states. The UK's withdrawal from the EU has led to a recent focus on the negotiation of ‘Brexit’ and in particular the implications of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
European Union, Enlargement, Treaty Reform, Brexit, Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland
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Professor David Phinnemore
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- Political Violence
- Terrorism
- Counterinsurgency
- US foreign policy
Dr Andrew Thomson is a Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast and a Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. His research interests include pro-government militias and civilian defence forces, dynamics of violence in civil war, counterinsurgency and "irregular" warfare, state violence and the Colombian peace process. These broad research interests are divided into three strands.
First, he focuses on the role of militias and mercenaries in US foreign policy. His book, Outsourced Empire: How Militias, Mercenaries and Contractors Support US Statecraft, examined US support to various non-state armed forces in US interventions around the world. Secondly, Andrew examines the effects of mobilizing civilian self-defence forces on the dynamics of violence during civil conflict as well as on the long-term effects on peace processes. He is specifically interested in how mobilizing civilians in counterinsurgency settings, such the Sons of Iraq program, impact insurgent targets of violence.
Finally, he also focuses on the current peace process in Colombia in the context of multiple armed groups. He recently completed a project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund on how FARC members’ interactions with other armed organizations influenced their disarmament process. He is currently developing a project examining ex-combatant dialogues towards reconciliation and conflict transformation.
Civil war, counter-insurgency, terrorism, peace process, Colombia, US counterterrorism/insurgency
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Dr Andrew Thomson
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- Twentieth-Century U.S. History
- Gender Studies
- African American Studies
- U.S. Cultural Studies
Dr. Williams’ research is on the role of gender in U.S. history, with particular emphases on race, class, popular culture, crime, and politics.
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Dr Keira Williams
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- Democratic innovations
- Quantitative methods
- Public opinion
- Political behaviour
- Northern Ireland politics
Dr Pow’s research focuses on the way citizens interact with democratic decision-making, including through elections, mini-publics and referendums. He has investigated the potential for citizens’ assemblies to help address democratic deficits in deeply divided contexts. His current research explores the attitudes of participants and non-participants to democratic innovations, including both deliberative and participatory processes. Other recent projects have explored public opinion towards Brexit. Dr Pow served on the advisory group of the Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland.
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Dr James Pow
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Dr Rebecca Bamford works in 19th Century European philosophy and in ethics, including in bioethics. She has additional research expertise in African philosophy and in social and political philosophy. She is currently working on several book projects on Nietzsche’s experimentalism, on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and on the politics of identity.
Nietzsche, 19th century German philosophy, Continental philosophy, history of philosophy, bioethics, ethics of technology
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Dr Rebecca Bamford
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- Conflict studies
- Terrorism studies
- Leadership studies
- Military innovation and development
My research lies in the realms of international security and conflict studies. I focus on violent non-state actors operating in various conflicts. I pay special attention to organisational dynamics and leadership personalities and research the influence they have on conflict processes and dynamics. Case wise, I focus on the various actors in the Northern Ireland conflict and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but I also look into violent non state actors more broadly. Another area of study I focus on are special operations forces and their development since the Second World War.
conflict, terrorism, civil-wars, leadership
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Dr Ronit Berger Hobson
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- Political economy of regional integration
- Free trade agreements in East Asia
My scholarly interests include international relations, international political economy, free trade agreements (FTAs) and regional economic integration in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. I am particularly interested in the processes and practices involved in FTA negotiations through the examination of interactions between various domestic stakeholders.
international political economy, trade, regional integration, East Asia, South Korea
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Dr Sohyun Zoe Lee
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- Comparative Politics Public Policy
- Public Administration Specific areas of research: Interest Groups / Lobbying Transparency Research
Dr Crepaz's areas of specialisation are Interest Group Politics and Transparency Research. While the first focuses on the examination of interest group influence on public policy, the second explores the way in which contemporary governments have opened to public scrutiny through open data and other tools.
Interest groups; Lobbying; Policy studies; European Union; Ireland; Survey research; Experiments in political science / public administration
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Dr Michele Crepaz
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- The Politics of Progress: Revolution and Enlightenment, 1650-1800 Transatlantic studies, 1600-1900 British and American culture, literature and history, 1600-1900 History of the book and textual cultures American studies Historical biography Cultural theory Digital humanities
My general research field can be described as the study of structures of continuity and rupture in the Age of Revolution and Enlightenment in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800. Consistently marrying archival research with cultural theory, and historiography with the history of ideas, my work explores the evolving symbiosis between historical event and historical consciousness, between power and knowledge, agency and identity.
Transatlantic Studies; Enlightenment Studies; American Revolution; Eighteenth-Century Studies; Politics and Philosophy, 1600-1900
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Professor Wil Verhoeven
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