Retrospectives | 3 Spring 2014
Vanessa Longden (v.longden1@lancaster.ac.uk) is a first-year doctoral student reading History at the University of Lancaster. Her research interests are concerned with the (re)construction of photographic space in which past identities, memory, and forgetting come into focus. In 2014, she delivered a paper entitled: ‘Difficult to
Digest: The Art of Martin Parr’ at the Mindful Body in the Arts of
Eating International Conference at Florida Atlantic University, USA.
Vanessa is currently the co-organiser of the HistFest Annual
Conference at the University of Lancaster, at which she formerly presented ‘Golden Tombs and Glass Coffins: Modernism’s Production in Mad Men ’ in 2013. That same year, she was also the recipient of the Queen’s Studentship and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research Bursary from the University of Lancaster.
Gerald Dyson (gpd500@york.ac.uk) is currently a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of York, having completed his BA and MA at Kentucky Christian University and the University of
York, respectively. He is broadly interested in the early medieval church, lay piety, and book culture, while his current research examines
Anglo-Saxon priests in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Jade Halbert (jade.halbert@yahoo.co.uk) holds a BA in Fashion
Promotion from The London College of Fashion, and an MLitt in
Dress & Textile Histories from the University of Glasgow. In October
2014 she will begin work on her ESRC-funded PhD - Marion
Donaldson: female entrepreneurship and the fashion industry in postwar Glasgow at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include the business of fashion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the social and economic consequences of the changing fashion industry in Europe and America.
Amanda Phipps (adp214@exeter.ac.uk) is a History PhD candidate at the University of Exeter (AHRC funded). Her thesis examines the use of theatre in teaching English schoolchildren about the First World
War and the influence artistic representations in general are having on
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Retrospectives | 3 Spring 2014 the next generation’s cultural memory. Previously, she completed an
MA in War, Culture and History at the University of Manchester
(AHRC funded) and a BA (Hons) in English Literature with the
University of London (Bedford Scholarship funded). Both these institutions developed her interest in the cultural history of warfare as she conducted a variety of research on the subject, particularly into the oral histories of war veterans and the religious disillusionment of First
World War soldier poets. Throughout her higher education she has continuously wrote for university journals and the Imperial War
Museum’s newsletters where she has held a number of intern and voluntary positions.
Collin Lieberg (c.lieberg@warwick.ac.uk) is a third year PhD student at the University of Warwick where he teaches courses on American history. His dissertation is entitled '"A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You":
American and British Cross Cultural Exchange During the British
Invasion’, in which he uses music and musicians from the 1960s to explore issues of national identity, transnationalism and and networking theories. He is currently an assistant editor for US Studies Online .
You can follow his blogging about academia and popular culture on collinlieberg.wordpress.com or on Twitter @collinlieberg
Charles Angelo (c_angelo@btinternet.com) completed his Master's
Degree at the University of Warwick in 2013. His research interests’ centre on the role historiography plays in colonialism and nationalism, with a focus on the Hispanic world. He is currently gathering materials for a project on the role of histories of American independence within
Spanish nation-building in the nineteenth century.
Sophie A. Greenway (s.a.greenway@warwick.ac.uk) is a Masters student in the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. Her
MA research is focused on health and reconstruction in Britain, 1942-
51, leading on to a PhD in the coming academic year on concepts of hygiene and domestic horticulture in twentieth century Britain. She holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. Having previously curated the George Marshall Medical Museum, Worcester, she is looking to build a doctoral project with a strong element of public engagement.
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