Departmental news

The Department is pleased to announce that George Roberts will be starting a four-year Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge this July. George first joined the History Department at Warwick as a PhD student in 2013, studying under the supervision of Professor David Anderson and Professor Daniel Branch. He defended his thesis, ‘Politics, decolonisation, and the Cold War in Dar es Salaam’, last September. Since then, he has since been working as a Teaching Fellow in Modern African History. In Cambridge, George is aiming to revise his thesis for publication as a monograph, and to begin a new project on the history of Marxism in Eastern Africa.

For the 2016 round, the internal Leverhulme ECF selection process will run as follows:

• Applications must reach both the Departmental Administrator, Andrea Humber, and the Director of Research, Professor Mark Philp (A.E.Humber@warwick.ac.uk; Mark.Philp@warwick.ac.uk), by no later than midnight on Sunday 8th January 2017.

For further details see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/news/leverhulmeecf2016

Candidates interested in applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Warwick History Department must submit their preliminary application to the History Department by midnight GMT on Sunday 18th September 2016. Please check the details of what is required from potential applicants.

The Warwick University History Department is recruiting a three-year full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Public Engagement) as part of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award project ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000’, a collaborative project between Professor Hilary Marland of the Warwick History Department and Dr Catherine Cox (School of History and Archives, University College Dublin), the project’s two Principal Investigators (PIs). The project runs for five years (2014-19), and a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow is sought for three years commencing 1st January 2017.

For more details and a link to the application form, please see the online advert and job description. The closing date for applications is 6th September 2016.

The City of Castellon's Peace Award 2016 has been awarded to the International Summer School on Peace Education. This is in recognition of four years' work by the project which has been developed and led by Dr Malik Hammad Ahmad, a member of the Warwick History of Violence Network and former PhD student of the Warwick History Department.

Dr Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasis, Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History at the Warwick University History Department, has written and had published the article '5 things you (probably) didn't know about the crusades' for HistoryExtra.

Former History research student John Morgan (now an Economic History Society Power Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London), who successfully defended his Warwick PhD thesis earlier this month, was highly commended in the 2015 Journal of Historical Geography Best Paper Prize. His article 'Understanding Flooding in Early Modern England' (vol. 50, pp. 37-50) was one of three runners-up in this prestigious competition and the department would like to congratulate him on this success.

 
Candidates interested in applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the Warwick History Department must submit their preliminary application to the Department by midnight GMT on Thursday 6th January 2016. Please check the details of what is required from potential applicants.

 
Candidates interested in applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Warwick History Department must submit their preliminary application to the History Department by midnight GMT on Sunday 6th September 2015. Please check the details of what is required from potential applicants.