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Callaghan’s Members

Title Forename Surname Dept Research Interests
(PG) Ali Al-Hathaf PCS  
Dr David Anderson PCS American Civil War, Post-Civil War South memory studies, nostalgia, soldiers' experience.
(PG) Eram Ashraf PCS Broadening aspects of security studies with a special focus on societies and social identities.
(PG) Nick Barley H&C Ancient Greek military history, personal and state-wide empire building.
Dr Claes Belfrage PCS  
Dr Rob Bideleux PCS Genocide, Comparative orientalisms, paper on the Balkan Vortex.
Dr Peter Black PCS Visual studies in relation to politics/media. In particular visual representations of protest and cartoon discourse in newspaper editorials.
Dr Subarno Chattarji PCS Representations of the Vietnam War and its aftermath: US and Vietnamese; comparative media representations of the war on terror, focusing on the US and South Asia; media, conflict and globalization in the Indian subcontinent. Primarily interested in the representations of and interface between wars and cultures in specific and comparative contexts.
Dr Rebecca Clifford H&C Conflict and memory (esp pertaining to WW2).
Prof Nikki Cooper PCS Colonialism: S Asia, SE Asia, N Africa; War and Memory; Algerian War; French Foreign Legion; Migration;
(PG) Seiriol Dafydd ML Representation of Empire in Literature.
(PG) Stephen Donnachie H&C Medieval history, particularly the Crusades.
Dr Jonathan Dunnage H&C The history of policing in Italy (19th – 20th Centuries), esp. police culture and the lives and careers of policemen under Mussolini; more generally interested in the development of police and military cultures from multi-disciplinary perspectives.
Dr Owen Evans PCS  
Dr Mark Evans PCS All aspects of just war theory but in particular just post bellum and the ethics of postconflict reconstruction.
Prof John France H&C  
Prof Helen Fulton EL&L  
Dr Brigid Haines ML Contemporary writing in German by writers from eastern Europe. Key words: post-communism, migration, memory, trauma.
Dr Stefan Halikowski-Smith H&C  
Dr Katharina Hall ML

Representations of National Socialism and the legacy of the Nazi era in post-1945 German literature, historiography and culture, and in transnational crime fiction. Keywords: National Socialism, memory, history, culture, crime fiction.
Dr Dan Healey H&C Russian & soviet history of the 10-20CC; gender, medicine; medicine in the Gulag forced labour camps 1930-50.
Dr Terence Holmes ML The Schlieffen Plan and the First World War and Alfred von Schliffen's other military writings, especially his reflections on commend and modern communications technology; Carl von Clausewitz, especially his thoughts on preventative war and the relative strength of attack and defence in strategy.
(PG) Colin Hough H&C Greek and Roman siegecraft
Dr Lee Jarvis PCS Security, violence, foreign policy, contemporary political theory
(PG) Scott Jenkins H&C Medieval crime and violence. Urban rebellion. Medieval warfare.
Dr Kathryn Jones ML Memory studies, conflict studies, esp 2nd WW and Algerian War.
Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke EL&L Research explores the intersection of violence, trauma and the historical imagination, specifically how such issues as conflict, power, empire and their legacies are translated and commemorated over time in literature, the arts, and wider culture. Especially interested in issues such as appropriation, spectacle/voyeurism, ‘unrepresentability’, and the ethics of witness bearing, as well as the intersection of these issues with gender, race, and sexuality. The main foci of my work are trauma narratives and the neo-Victorian novel (i.e. historical fiction re-imagining the nineteenth century). I’m currently working on a co-edited collection on Neo-Victorian Tropes of Trauma: The Politics of Bearing After-Witness to Nineteenth-Century Suffering (forthcoming Rodopi 2010) and a monograph on neo-Victorian Mutiny fiction (i.e. fiction of India's First War of Independence). Also a Steering Group member of a long-term Inter-Disciplinary.Net project on Violence and the Contexts of Hostility, supported by annual conferences and publications.
Prof Duncan Large ML Friedrich Nietzsche and French nietzsche interpretation; Austrian modernist literature (esp Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, Arthus Schnizler); German Romantic literature (esp ETA Hoffmann, Ludwig Tieck); Anglo-Germn Literary relations (esp German reception of Shakespeare, Laurence Sterne); Comparative literature; translation and translation studies; Sara Kofman and contemporary critical theory.
(PG) Afa-anwi Che Ma'abo PCS The impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the democratization-war linkage. Also, civil, ethnic and inter-state conflicts.
Dr Steve McVeigh PCS  
  William Merrin PCS Postmodern war, cyberwar, robots in warfare
(PG) John Parajuli PCS Media representation of conflict in Nepal
Dr Nigel Pollard H&C The Roman empire (issues of ideology, power, violence, identity; cultural, political and economic relationships between centre and peripheries); the Roman Army (especially social aspects, army as institution and community, relations with civilians); classical archaeology and modern empires; classical archaeology and the second world war (preservation, damage, looting, soldiers' and civilians' perceptions and uses of archaeological sites)
Dr Julian Preece ML Baader-Meinhof and the German Novel
Dr Maria Pretzler H&C Ancient Greek History - Peloponnesian League (Sparta's alliance C6th CB-C4th BC) general interest in alliances, interstate relations and the political and social aspects of war.
Dr Tracey Rihll H&C Ancient warfare and military technology. Also on Ed Board of Vulcan.
(PG) Nathan Roger PCS Visual culture and aesthetics in international relations, new media and war, postmodern war theorists, strategic studies, terrorism studies and Middle Eastern studies.
Dr Steven Sarson H&C British-American colonies/British-Atlantic Empire, c.1580s-1800.  Currently working on 8 volumes of texts on British-American empire formation and monograph on the Glorious Revolution and the British Atlantic World, 1688-1791. 
Prof Mike Sheehan PCS  
(PG) Sophie Smith ML Completing PhD thesis on constructions of masculinity in postcolonial literature from Islamic countries (Morocco, Algeria and Senegal). Although thesis is literary, prefers sociological approaches. Gender, and in particular masculinity(-ies) will form an integral part of future research plans which currently consist of gender and Islamic fundamentalism and power, sexuality and pornography.
Dr Panayiota Tsatsou PCS Digital/new media technologies, digital/new media policy; digital/new media and children; new technologies and social conflict.
Dr Yan Wu PCS Immigration, media and communication; environmental risks (global climate change) and the media; the new media and social resistance.

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