Group
Memory Studies Research Group
Unit(s) of assessment: History
Research theme(s): Safety and Sustainability
School: School of Social Sciences
Overview
The Memory Studies Research Group brings together colleagues studying how the past is made meaningful in the present – in a wide variety of historical, geographic, cultural, political,
Publications
- Gianluca Fantoni Soldier, Angels and Avengers. A History of the Jewish Brigade (1939 – 1947), forthcoming with McGill-Queen's University Press
- Jenny Woodley “‘Nothing is lost’: Mourning and memory at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.” Memory Studies (2022)
- Jenny Woodley “The Meaning of Emancipation: African American Memory as a Challenge to The Birth of a Nation” in In the Shadow of “The Birth of a Nation”: Race, Reception, Remix, ed. Paul McEwan and Melvyn Stokes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 191-206
- Jenny Woodley “The Cost of Civil Rights: Loss, Grief, and Death at US Civil Rights Museum” in Museums, Heritage, and Death, ed. Trish Biers and Katie Clary (Routledge, forthcoming, July 2023)
- Jenny Wüstenberg Slow Memory: Remembering Gradual Change in an Accelerating World (under review with Oxford University Press)
- Jenny Wüstenberg ‘Taking Stock of Memory Studies’ special issue of Memory Studies, edited with Jeffrey Olick and Aline Sierp (December 2023).
- Jenny Wüstenberg Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism, edited with Yifat Gutman (2023).
- Jenny Wüstenberg De-Commemoration - Removing Statues and Renaming Places, edited with Sarah Gensburger (English edition Berghahn Books, French edition Fayard, 2023).
Events
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Staff
Chris Reynolds
Professor
School of Arts & Humanities
Natalie Braber
Professor
School of Arts & Humanities
Verusca Calabria
Associate Professor
School of Social Sciences
Gianluca Fantoni
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts & Humanities
Jenny Woodley
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts & Humanities
Steven King
Distinguished Professor of Economic and Social History
School of Arts & Humanities
Natasha Hodgson
Associate Professor
School of Arts & Humanities
Rebekah Pickering Wood
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts & Humanities
Andrew Gritt
Head of Department
School of Arts & Humanities
Katharina Massing
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts & Humanities
Amy Fuller
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts & Humanities
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