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History

History excelled in the last Research Assessment Exercise in 2008, being deemed as 'World leading' in its research. History at Anglia Ruskin University is now rated among the best in the country.

Most of our History research currently concentrates on two areas:

  • Key aspects of British Labour History
  • 18th and 19th Century Court and Popular Culture


History researchers:

Clarissa Campbell Orr

Specialisms: Gender, Enlightenment and 18th Century Court Studies, especially the role of George III's consort, Queen Charlotte

Selected publications: Women in the Victorian Art World; Queenship in Britain 1660-1837; Royal Patronage, Court Culture and Dynastic Politics; Queenship in Europe 1660-1815: the Role of the Consort

Dr Jon Davis

Specialisms: The Labour Party and its relation with the Soviet Union

Selected publications: Stalin: From Grey Blur to Great Terror; The Labour Party and the Wider World

Dr Rohan McWilliam

Specialisms: Labour Party History; Victorian radicalism and popular culture

Selected publications: The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation; The Victorian Studies Reader

Dr Séan Lang

Specialisms: British India in the 19th century; History education in schools

Selected publications: 'Saving India through its Women' in History Today; 'Obstetrics and Obstruction: Maternity Hospitals in Madras 1840-1854' in The Hospital beyond the West

Philosophy


Our current Philosophy research areas cover a range of themes and topics in modern European philosophy: see below for details. We welcome enquiries about supervision for research in related areas.



Philosophy researchers:
Dr Alison Ainley

Specialisms: Heidegger; Levinas; Simone de Beauvoir; the ethics of sexual difference; phenomenology; the philosophy of psychoanalysis; feminist philosophy

Selected publications: 'The Invisible of the Flesh; Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray', British Journal of the Society for Phenomenology; various entries in Ted Honderich (ed) (Oxford University Press Encylopaedia of Philosophy; chapter in Richard Kearney (ed) Routledge History of Philosophy Series, Vol. 8: Contemporary Continental Philosophy, on French Feminist Philosophy.


Dr Tristan Moyle

Specialisms: Heidegger; Nietzsche; McDowell; Merleau-Ponty; Deleuze;'transcendental empiricism'

Selected publications: Heidegger's Transcendental Aesthetic: An Interpretation of the 'Ereignis'; 'Re-Enchanting Nature: Human and Animal Life in Later Merleau-Ponty,' in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology



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