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Staff research interests and selected publications Historians abound at Lancaster, not just in History but in such departments as English Religious Studies, Politics, Geography, Sociology and Modern Languages. The list below, though, highlights the activities of publishing historians working from the History Department itself, providing guidance on the areas of expertise in which they are available for supervision or consultation. BARBER, Sarah, BA (Hons), PhD Trinity College, Dublin; FRHistS, FRA, Senior Lecturer in History. Teaching: early-modern history of particularly Britain, Ireland, western Europe and the Americas. I also have a particular interest in non-written history. Research: the constructions of identity in early-modern Europe, the history of the Caribbean and American colonialism, Ireland, and the construction of history using visual, oral and aural sources. Publications: (ed. with Steven G. Ellis) Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State, 1485-1725 (1985); Regicide and Republicanism: Politics and Ethics in the English Revolution, 1646-1659 (1998); A Revolutionary Rogue: Henry Marten and the English Republic (2000); (ed. with Corinna Peniston Bird) History beyond the Text: a Student's Guide to approaching alternative sources (2009). On founding editorial board of National Identities and Journal of Early American History. The major concentration of my research and thus MA and PhD supervision at present concerns the collection, centralisation and digitisation of sources for Anglophone Caribbean history between c.1600 and c.1720, which facilitates research in numerous fields of enquiry whilst focusing on relations between Britain and the eastern seaboard from Virginia to Surinam. I am also continuing to work on themes of identity and prejudice in the context of Scandinavia, the British Isles, Spain, the Americas and non-traditional expressions of cultural identity. CAMINO, Mercedes: BA, MA, PhD (Auckland/UCSD), F.R.Hist.S. Professor of Hispanic Studies. Teaching: Early Modern Exploration, Spanish History and Film, Cultural and Memory Studies. Current Research: Spanish Resistance Fighters in Film, Exploration of the Pacific. Recent/Major Publications: Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania (1519-1794) (Manchester University Press, 2008), Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War (forthcoming Palgrave MacMillan), ‘”Vivir sin ti”: Motherhood, Melodrama and Spanishness in Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre (1999) and Volver’ (2006) (Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2010),‘Blood of an Innocent: Guillermo del Toro’s Laberinto del fauno (2006) and Montxo Armendariz’s Silencio roto (2001)’ (Studies in Hispanic Cinema 2010), Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives of Spanish Exploration (1567-1606). (Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2005). Cross-cultural voyages of exploration, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Literature and Culture (especially women writers), Early Modern Colonialism, History of Cartography, Spanish and European Film and Media Studies, Memory Studies. GRANT, Alexander: B.A. D.Phil. (Oxford, Worcester College). F.R.Hist.S. Research: Late Medieval British History, especially nobles and noble society in late Medieval Scotland. Publications: Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469 (1984); (ed.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community (1993); (ed.) Nations, nationalism and patriotism in the European past (1994); (ed.) Social and political identities in western history (1994); (ed.) Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History (1995). Lancaster Pamphlet: Henry Vll (1985) GREGORY, Ian: B.Sc. (Lancaster, 1992), Ph.D. (London, 2001). Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities. Teaching: Digital humanities, uses of ICT in historical research. Research: the use of computing approaches generally, and spatial and mapping approaches in particular to research in history and the humanities more broadly. Some major/recent publications: “Mapping the English Lake District: A literary GIS” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2011, in press (with D Cooper); “Comparisons between the geographies 30
of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s to 2001: Spatial analysis of census and mortality statistics” British Medical Journal, 2009, 339: b3454, pp. 676-679; “The railways, urbanisation, and local demography in England and Wales, 1825-1911” Social Science History, 2010, 24, pp. 199-228 (with J. Marti Henneberg); “Different places, different stories: Infant mortality decline in England & Wales, 1851-1911” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98, pp. 773-794; Historical GIS: Technologies, methodologies and scholarship. Cambridge University Press, 2007 (with P.S. Ell) Areas of research supervision: Any area in which digital or computing based approaches to your research are appropriate. HAGOPIAN, Patrick: B.A. (Sussex, 1982); M.A. (Pennsylvania, 1989); Ph.D (Johns Hopkins, 1993). Senior Lecturer. Teaching: modern American History, the Vietnam War, women’s and family history; Research: Commemoration, war, oral history, the public history of race and slavery; Major Publication: The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing. Articles in the Journal of American History; Prospects: An Annual in American Cultural Studies; the Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium in the History of Landscape Architecture, and elsewhere. Areas of research supervision: museums, commemoration, war and justice, post–World War II American cultural and political history. HAYWARD, Paul: HAYWARD, Paul Antony: B.A., M.A. (Auckland, 1988, 1990), Ph.D. (Cantab., 1994). Lecturer. Teaching: Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; Germany in the Central Middle Ages; Medieval Sources, especially Historiography. Research: Medieval Europe c.600–1200, with particular reference to the development of historical writing, political practice, and the cult of saints. Major/recent publications: The Politics of Sanctity in Anglo-Norman England (O.U.P., forthcoming); The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles: Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to the Work of John of Worcester, 2 vols. (2010); The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown (edited with James Howard-Johnston, 2000, 2002). Chapters in Crick and van Houts (eds), A Social History of England, 900–1200 (forthcoming); Hall and Higham (eds), St Wilfrid (forthcoming); Bale (ed.), St Edmund, King and Martyr (2009); Leemans (ed.), The Dismodule of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identity (2005); Hunter, Laursen and Nederman (eds), Heresy in Transition (2005). Articles in Anglo-Norman Studies, English Historical Review, Historical Research, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Medieval History, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and elsewhere. Member of the editorial board, Journal of Medieval History (2007–). Areas of research supervision: Earlier medieval Europe, especially England, c.600–1200; The Cult of Saints in Latin Christendom, c.400–1200; Medieval historical writing. HICKMAN, Tim: B.A. (Oregon), M.A., Ph.D. (California, Irvine) Research: U.S. cultural and social history; narcotics and professional medicine; 19 th and 20 th century American fiction, art and politics; critical theory; the meanings of ‘modernity’ in American culture. Publications: The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction, Modernity and Professional Medical Authority in the United States, 1870-1920 (2007); articles on narcotics and professional medicine in the United States. JOTISCHKY, Andrew: B.A. (Cambridge 1986), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale 1988, 1991). Professor of Medieval History. Teaching: medieval history, including modules on the Crusades; monasticism; contributions to HIST 100. Research: Crusading and the Latin East, monasticism in 12 th and 13 th century, friars, religious life and culture in the Middle Ages. Major/recent publications include: 31
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