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Professor Susan Carruthers

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Room 3.76, third floor, Faculty of Arts Building
024 7652 3487 (x23487)
S.Carruthers@warwick.ac.uk

Tues 12-1pm; Fri 10-11am

https://www.susanlcarruthers.com

Please email me to arrange appointments during my office hours or at other mutually convenient times

 

Academic Profile

  • 2025: May/June, Konrad Adenauer Senior Fellow, Centre for International History & Law, University of Cologne, Germany
  • 2017 - present: Professor of US/International History, University of Warwick
  • 2002-2017: Associate Professor/Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark
  • 2015: Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University
  • 2010-11: Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  • 2006-7: Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
  • 1993-2002: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Teaching

  • HI3H6 Postwar: Aftermaths of World War II (UG final-year module)
  • HI2C9-15 War, Sex and Gender in the United States: From Civil War to World War II (UG second year optional module)
  • HI2C6-14 Sex and the US Military: From Cold War to the "War on Terror" (UG second year optional module)
  • HI111 History of the United States (UG 1st year team taught module)

Research

Susan Carruthers is an international historian of twentieth-century, with particular interests in the foreign relations of the United States and the United Kingdom. Much of her work focuses on war and the ways in which individuals, and societies more broadly, have made sense of conflict and its aftermath. She is the author of several books, including Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America(Cambridge University Press, 2022); The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace (Harvard University Press, 2016); The Media at War (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011 and 2000); Cold War Captives (California University Press, 2009) and Winning Hearts and Minds (Leicester University Press, 1995), as well as numerous essays in journals such as American Quarterly, Diplomatic History and the Journal of American History. Her most recent book, inspired by teaching her final-year module 'Postwar', is Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) which proposes that clothing was fundamental to postwar entitlement struggles and the politics of redress.

Making Do

Dear John

Selected Publications

Books

  • Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World (Cambridge University Press, 2025), 400pp
  • Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
  • The Good Occupation: Americans Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace (Harvard University Press, 2016: Japanese translation 2019), 386pp; shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
  • The Media at War (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011) 336pp [2nd edition]
  • The Media At War: Communication and Conflict in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2000; Chinese language edition, Xinhua Publishing House, Beijing, 2002), 321pp
  • Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape, and Brainwashing (University of California Press, 2009), 346pp
  • Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency 1944-60 (Leicester University Press, 1995), 307pp

Edited Volumes

  • With Ian Stewart, War, Culture and the Media: Representations of the Military in 20th Century Britain (Flicks Books, 1996), 202pp