Who teaches Modern European History at @CamHistory?

Back in 2018 we ran a series of @MEHcambridge academic staff profiles that proved rather popular, so with a few new faces and an increased Twitter presence, we decided it's time to run it again!

Every week day we'll post a little about one of our members (we'll start alphabetically!) on this thread until we get through the whole MEH Subject Group.

Without further ado, here's the @MEHcambridge line up!

1) @ArthurAsseraf joined @CamHistory in 2017 as Lecturer in the History of France and the Francophone World and is a Fellow of @Pembroke1347.

He's convened the MEH Research Seminar, and at the MPhil level teaches 'The Mediterranean World'.

For undergrads, he's convened Paper 18 - European History since 1890 and teaches the Themes and Sources option 'Fighting for Algeria, Fighting for France' in addition to lecturing for Paper 17 - on 19th century Europe, and Paper 23 - 20th century World History

An expert on modern France, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, with particular interests in the history of colonialism and information, @ArthurAsseraf's first book, 'Electric News in Colonial Algeria', was published with @OUPHistory last year.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/electric-news-in-colonial-algeria-9780198844044?cc=gb&lang=en&

His current research revolves around two projects: the relationship between race and rumour in Fifth Republic France, and a microhistory of an Algerian man in the 19th century who manipulated information to generate a large-scale scandal. Exciting stuff!

You can read more about this research on his @CamHistory webpage
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-arthur-asseraf

2) Hanno Balz is the @DAADCamHub Lecturer in Modern European History, and is a Fellow of @TrinityHallCamb.

He convenes the @MEHcambridge MPhil and teaches on @CamHistory's Paper 18 and Historical Argument and Practice, as well as @GermanCambridge's German Text and Culture.

Hanno also co-convenes the @MEHcambridge Research Seminar and has supervised a number of MPhil dissertations.

He has been interviewed about his research by @DHIPTweets, and you can read more about that here https://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2018/11/13/how-has-protest-in-europe-evolved-an-interview-with-dr-hanno-balz/

His publications include, 'Von #Terroristen, Sympathisanten und dem starken Staat. Die öffentliche Debatte über die #RAF in den 70er Jahren ( @CampusVerlag)' and '"All We Ever Wanted...": Eine Kulturgeschichte europäischer #Protestbewegungen der 1980er Jahre ( @KarlDietzBerlin)'.

Hanno's current research focusses on two themes: the history of anti- #communism in #Germany, and the history of the colour #red & the symbolism of the red flag, which traces the politicisation of that colour - a fascinating and wide-ranging approach!

For further information on Hanno's research and publications, make sure to check out his @CamHistory webpage here!
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-hanno-balz

3) Professor Sir Christopher Clark is @Cambridge_Uni's Regius Professor of History at @CamHistory, and is the Ostrer Professorial Fellow in History at @Catz_Cambridge.

He currently convenes the @MEHcambridge Subject Group and supervises an extensive roster of graduate students.

An expert on #Prussia, his publications include the @WolfsonHistory Prize-winning 'Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947' ( @Harvard_Press, 2006), and 'The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914' ( @AllenLaneBooks, 2011), which won the @LATimesBooks Prize.

Chris' most recent book is 'Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich', which was published by @PrincetonUPress last year.

In 2015 he was made Knight Bachelor by @RoyalFamily & in 2019 received Germany's Pour le Mérite.

He teaches undergrads for Papers 17 & 18, and contributes to the @MEHcambridge MPhil.

For a little bit more about Chris and some of his earlier publications, be sure to have a read through his @CamHistory webpage!

https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-chris-clark

4) @CeliaDonert joined the @MEHcambridge team in 2019 as University Lecturer in 20th Century Central European History after leaving a personal chair at @LivUniHistory.

She is also a Fellow of @WolfsonCam and a Co-Editor of Contemporary European History ( @ContEuroHistory).

Prior to joining to @CamHistory, Celia held both a Visiting Professorship in the History of Human Rights and #Democracy at @UniVienna and a Visiting Fellowship at @FU_Berlin's Global History Department.

She also convenes @IHR_History's Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar.

Her research focusses on transnational approaches to East Central Europe, #socialism, #gender, nationalism, and the history of #HumanRights.

She supervises PhD and MPhil students in such areas, as well as @BritishAcademy_, @MSCActions & @AHRCpress projects.

Celia's first monograph, 'The Rights of the #Roma: The Struggle for #Citizenship in Postwar #Czechoslovakia' ( @CambUP_History, 2017), won the Czechoslovak Studies Association Book Prize in 2019 and was a Finalist for @WienerLibrary's Frankel Prize in 2018.

You can read more about @CeliaDonert's ongoing projects, 'Legacies of the Roma #Genocide in Europe since 1945' & 'How Women's Rights became Human Rights: Gender, Socialism and #Postcolonialism in Global History, 1917-2017' (the basis for her new book!)

https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/theme/modern-european-history

To learn more about @CeliaDonert's publications and research projects, make sure to visit her @CamHistory webpage

https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-celia-donert

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