Group
Memory Studies Research Group
Unit(s) of assessment: History
Research theme: Sustainable Futures
School: School of Arts and Humanities
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
Our events will be accessible via the Eventbrite for the Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies.
Staff
Chris Reynolds
Professor
School of Arts & Humanities
Natalie Braber
Professor
School of Arts & Humanities
Verusca Calabria
Senior Lecturer
School of Social Sciences
Gianluca Fantoni
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts & Humanities
Jenny Woodley
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts & Humanities
Sharon Monteith
Distinguished Professor
School of Arts & Humanities
Steven King
Professor of Economic and Social History
School of Arts & Humanities
Natasha Hodgson
Associate Professor
School of Arts & Humanities
Dr. Heather Alberro
Senior Lecturer
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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