Supervision areas:
I am very interested in supervising students working on the history of the body, French and British cultural history, the history of war and medicine, humanitarianism, French colonial history or the history of 'social explorers' in France and Britain. Please contact me if you have any research plans.
I have supervised a number of students in these areas (Manchester students):
- 2001-2005 - Rebecca Gill on Humanitarianism in Britain 1870-1914. Dr Gill is now lecturer at the University of Huddersfield
- 2001-2008 Peter Wadsworth on the recording industry and studios 1950s-1990. Dr Wadsworth is currently working at the John Rylands University Library
- 2002-2006 Sarah Britton 'The Wembley and Glasgow Exhibitions of the 1920s and 1930s' Dr Britton now works at Coventry university.
- 2002- 2006 John Strachan 'The Colon Culture of French Algeria, 1870-1930'. Dr Strachan is Lecturer at the University of Lancaster.
- 2003-2007 Charlie Wildman 'The Spectacle of the City in Manchester and Liverpool, 1920-1940. Dr Wildman is currently Lecturer at the University of Manchester
- 2003-2008 Naomi Sweeney-Breen 'Representations of Masculine failure in British pedagogical writings 1945-1990' co-supervised with Dr Strange
- 2004-2008 Katherine Davies, 'Catholic Intellectuals in interwar Paris' co-supervised with Prof Stuart Jones
- 2005-2008 James Mansell, 'Sounds Modern: Auditory culture in fin-de-siècle Paris' Dr Mansell is currently lecturing at the university of Nottingham.
- 2005-2009 Lucie Matthew-Jones, 'Religious spaces in the Settlement movement' Dr Matthew Jones currently lectures at the university of Swansea
- 2004 Catherine Feely 'The Diffusion of Karl Marx's Capital'
- 2006 Duncan Hay, 'The Work of Sinclair and Benjamin', co-supervised with Dr Danielli
- 2007 Tom White, 'Albinism and racial ideology 1750-1940', co-supervised with Dr Carden-Coyne
- 2008 David Woodbridge, 'Modernity and Missionaries in China', co-supervised with Dr Zheng
- 2009 Ramsey Janini, 'Mechanical sound reproduction in Britain, 1870-1940', co-supervised with Dr Strange
- 2009, Tom Scriven, Radical cultures of Chartism, co-supervised with Dr Strange
- 2009, Tom Sharp, 'The UPC and Cameroon politics' co-supervised with Dr Pierce
- 2010, Ravi Hensman, La Banlieue in France, 1945-1990, so supervised with Dr Jerram
- 2010, Gary Butler, 'Conservation and Culture in C19 Britain' , co-supervised with Dr Strange
- 2010, Luke Kelly, 'Quakers and missionary work in Russia' co-supervised with Prof Gatrell
Current teaching:
HI 6082 The History of Humanitarian Aid
- MA: HI 4061 History and Postmodernism
