School of Humanities
S.Carroll2@brighton.ac.uk
Sam is a life historian with a range of experience in both the academic and community arenas. She is the administrator for the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories (CMNH) and Steering Group member with responsibility for community history. She represents CMNH on the Centre for Life History and Life Writing at the University of Sussex and is on the management committee of QueenSpark Books. She was employed at the University of Sussex (2004 to 2012), teaching on access, graduate and postgraduate level programmes. Publications include ‘Danger! Official Secret: the spies for peace: Discretion and disclosure in the Committee of 100’, History Workshop Journal (2010); and ‘ “I was arrested at Greenham in 1962': Investigating the oral narratives of women in the Committee of 100, 1962-1968’, Oral History (2004).
School of Sport and Service Management, College of Social Sciences
T.F.Carter@brighton.ac.uk
Thomas is the Director of the Centre of Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies and an anthropologist with diverse research interests. They centre on a number of questions embedded in sport: from the politics of spectacle and the negotiations of identity to the politics of citizenship and sovereignty and experiences of transnational migrants. He conducts ethnographic fieldwork in various locales including Cuba, the United States and England in addition to earlier fieldwork elsewhere in the UK and around the world. Thomas is the author of two ethnographies: The Quality of Home Runs (Duke U Press, 2008) and In Foreign Fields (Pluto, 2011). His current interests revolve around issues related to the production of the Coast, movement, spectacle, and place.
School of Humanities
P.J.Maguire@brighton.ac.uk
Paddy’s relevant research interests spring from two broad, but inter-related concerns: firstly, what we used to call “History From Below”; and secondly, almost the exact opposite, the construction of public or official histories, visually or textually. The first, and longer standing concern is largely based on interests in working class history, movements and cultures in general, and labour and socialist movements in particular. Paddy is author of Towards The Co-operative Commonwealth (History Workshop Trust, 1996) and Design and Cultural Politics In Postwar Britain (Leicester University Press, 1998).
School of Humanities
Z.ElMaasri@brighton.ac.uk
Zeina Maasri is a cultural historian with research specialisms in Middle East Studies and in global and postcolonial visual culture. Her work is historically focused on post-1945 struggles for decolonization, transnational anti-imperialist solidarities and violent conflicts, as complicated by the Cold War. She is the author of Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War (IB Tauris 2009), and curator of related travelling exhibitions and an online archival resource (www.signsofconflict.org).
School of Humanities
E.Michail@brighton.ac.uk
My research focuses on war and violence; popular culture, collective memory and ‘memory shifts’; and the history of history-writing. My work is most often on transnational, European themes, while the regions I mostly work on are the Balkans, and to a lesser extent Germany and Britain. Topics I have worked on are the history and memory of war and political violence in the modern Balkans, and British-Balkan cultural contacts from 1900 to 1950. Currently I am researching two themes: Western reactions to the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, and the uses of history in the Greek crisis.
School of Education
h.morris@brighton.ac.uk
I am an established medical historian currently researching the highly complex relationship between the military and civilian population of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain with emphasis on the development of preventative health in the period prior to the reforms of the post Crimean period. This remains an area which has to date attracted little in-depth analysis and therefore has been significantly misunderstood particularly in terms of identifying shared concerns relating to the nature of illness and health. I also maintain a general interest in establishing medical history within the wider field of medical humanities and the opportunities this creates in understanding the nature of illness from a wide range of accounts and interpretations.
School of Sport and Service Management, College of Social Sciences
C.A.Palmer@brighton.ac.uk.
I am a social anthropologist with experience in ethnographic methods such as observation, interviewing, and photo‐elicitation. My research interests lie in the broad area of culture, space and place, with a particular focus on tourism, heritage, memorialisation and embodiment. Specifically, I seek to explore how heritage sites such as castles, houses, museums are embodied and ‘used’, imagined, remembered, memorialised and contested; and how the construction and experience of identity is woven into and through such sites and embedded in the places, objects, landscapes and people encountered as part of the heritage experience. I am particularly interested in commemorative landscapes of war; in so-called ‘dark tourism’ where the memorialisation of conflict and death may over time become imprinted with a heritage label; and in the whole area of visitor engagement and experience, the encounter with death and the consequences of its aftermath, through the buildings, monuments, objects, and 'souvenirs' of post‐conflict heritage.
School of Humanities
D.Philips@brighton.ac.uk
Deborah has published on the narratives of television, carnival and post-war women's fiction and has a particular research interest in the conventions and structures of the stories employed in popular culture and in everyday life. She has previously developed Creative Writing Groups in a psychiatric hospital and written on the therapeutic potential of writing in a mental health context. Deborah also has a background in journalism and publishing, as a writer and as an editor of Women's Review. Her recent relevant publications include: Writing Well: Creative Writing and Mental Health (with Debra Penman and Liz Linnington) (Jessica Kingsley, 1998); Brave New Causes (with Ian Haywood) (Cassell, 1999); and Writing Romance: Women’s Fiction 1945-2005 (Continuum, 2006).
School of Humanities
A.Rupprecht@brighton.ac.uk
My interdisciplinary research interests focus on the Anglo-American slave trades, slavery and empire. I am particularly interested in the politics of history making, representation and cultural memory in this context. I have published on the relationship between discourses of sentiment and political economy in relation to the representation of British transatlantic slavery, the shaping of British emancipation in the Caribbean and the representation of slave trading and resistance in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century abolitionism. More recently, I have been engaged in research on the development of maritime financial insurance in the context of the transatlantic slave trade and slave ship rebellion. This work is framed by the contemporary politicisation of cultural memory in relation to the campaign for reparations and a critical and reflective engagement with the politics of archival research. Most broadly, I am interested in how we might conceptualise and trace the historical legacies of transatlantic slavery and how they can be represented in the contemporary moment.
School of Humanities
A.Virkar-Yates@brighton.ac.uk
Aakanksha Virkar Yates is a lecturer in Literature working on late nineteenth century and modern British literature. She has recently begun work on a project on 'Literature, Music and Conflict' during the interwar and Second World War period. The project investigates the relationship between literary imagination, memory and music, in the context of conflict. A particular focus is the influence of Beethoven on modern British literature and the interplay of aesthetics, music and politics in these literary works. This project is supported by a University of Brighton 'Rising stars' award 2017-18.
Design Archives
L.K.Whitworth@brighton.ac.uk
Lesley is a social historian trained at Brighton and Warwick universities. Her doctoral research made extensive use of oral testimonies gathered in pursuit of a more nuanced understanding of gendered domestic and consumption practices in the British Midlands in the interwar period. She is Deputy Curator and Senior Research Fellow in the University of Brighton Design Archives, where she helps to look after, and make available to researchers, over 1000 linear metres of records relating to both individuals and organisations, and pertaining to the making of modern environments. She continues to pursue forms of history that judiciously juxtapose personal narratives with visual evidence and records of a more traditional kind, and her recent published work and presentations have considered various aspects of the popular engagement of the Council of Industrial Design (now Design Council)
