Research Outcomes
Many of the activities at CRASSH - conferences, fellowships and networks – produce edited books; some form part of ongoing projects; others spearhead new initiatives and propel them forward to the next stage. Here is just a selection of the latest publications, grants and job announcements.
People
- Mirjam Brusius is currently a visiting scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, undertaking research related to the CRASSH conference William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography.
- Emily Caddick (Conference Convener 2011) is Academic Director & Teaching Officer in Philosophy at the Institute of Continuing Education and also holds a Jacobsen Research Fellowship at the Institute of Philosophy, Birkbeck.
- Richard W Hayes (Visiting Fellow 2009) will speak at the MARC Autumn Lecture Series 2011 on Agency and Activism: The Yale Building Project on 1 November 2011 at the University of Manchester.
- Dr Joanna Kostylo (Buckley Fellow 2007-10) has been awarded the position of assistant to the director of the British School in Rome from September 2011.
- Dr Brian MacGillivray (Mellon Sawyer Seminar Research Fellow) has taken up a four-year research position at Cardiff University.
- Dr Mirca Madianou (Convener of Digital Diasporas) will take up a senior lectureship at the University of Leicester in October 2011.
- Dr Benjamin Morris (Graduate/ Faculty Convener) has been awarded a postdoctoral research bursary at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, where he will be furthering his research on cultural and natural heritage.
- Dr Chitra Ramalingam (Visiting Research Associate 2010-11) is taking up a BA-funded postdoctoral position at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge.
- Arising directly out of the work of the Cultures of Climate Change Graduate/ Faculty research group which Dr Bradon Smith convened with Dr Benjamin Morris, in March Dr Bradon Smith was appointed as the AHRC Placement Fellow for climate change in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. This fellowship is in partnership with the Open University, where he is a research associate in the Geography department.
- Dr Alan Strathern (Early Career Fellow Lent 2011) will move to a new position as Fellow, Tutor and University Lecturer at Brasenose College, Oxford University.
- Dr Mark Turin (Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-11) was elected to a fellowship at Hughes Hall earlier this year and is now also an Associate Research Scientist at the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University.
- Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose (Graduate/ Faculty Convener) takes up a BA post-doc at the Macdonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.
Publications
- Eirini Avramopoulou, Leonidas Karakatsanis, Katherine Leckie, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Thomas Stammers (eds.), Complexities of 'Europe' focus (Thematic Unit), European Review (Cambridge University Press), forthcoming, vol. 20.1 or 20.2, 2012. All editors are former conveners of the European Identities research group at CRASSH.
- William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond photography, ed. Mirjam Brusius, Katrina Dean, and Chitra Ramalingam, Studies in British Art 23, published by the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with Yale University Press (forthcoming 2012). From CRASSH conference 2010.
- Brusius, M, Beyond Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot’s notebooks in the Talbot Collection at the British Library, British Library Electronic Journal 2010, Article 14, 1-31. From CRASSH conference William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography.
- Brusius, M, From photographic science to scientific photography: Photographic experiments at the British Museum around 1850, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Preprint 413, 2011. From CRASSH conference William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography.
- Couldry, N., Madianou, M., and Pinchevski, A. eds. (in preparation) Media Ethics, London: Palgrave. From Ethics of Media conference.
- Delap, L. (Early Career Fellow), ‘Conservative values, Anglicans, and the gender order in interwar Britain’, in Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation Building in Britain Between the Wars ed. Laura Beers and Geraint Thomas, (Institute of Historical Research Publications), 2011.
- Delbourgo, J., Raj, K., Roberts, L., Schaffer, S., ed. 'Fugitive Colours: Shamans’ Knowledge, Chemical Empire, and Atlantic Revolutions', in The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820, Science History Publications, 2009, pp. 271-320.
- Delbourgo, J., 'Sir Hans Sloane’s Milk Chocolate and the Whole History of the Cacao', Social Text 29 (Mar. 2011): 71-101.
- Delbourgo, J., “When the Printer met the Virtuoso,” review essay on J. A. Leo Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, vols. 1-2 (Philadelphia, 2006), in Reviews in American History 36 (Dec. 2008): 485-492.
- Etkind, A, Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience, Polity 2011.
- European Review of Graduate Conference organized by the graduate research group European Identities and Encounters: Complexities of ‘Europe’: Between knowledge, power, citizenship and identity
- Hayes, Richard W. has contributed a chapter to a forthcoming history of architectural education in North America, to be published by MIT Press in 2012. Another essay, “The Black Atlantic and Georgian London” is forthcoming in the book, Colonialist Frames/Nationalist Histories, ed. Madhuri Desai.
- Hernández, F. A selection of papers from the Informality conference will be published by Birkhauser in Summer 2012.
- McNeill, I. 2010. Monograph: Memory and the Moving Image: French Film in the Digital Era, EUP.
- McNeill, I. 2011. 'Virtual Homes: Space and Memory in the Work of Yamina Benguigui', in L'Esprit Createur, Special Issue: Watch This Space: Women's Conceptualisations of Space in Contemporary French Film and Visual Art, eds Marie-Claire Barnet and Shirley Jordan, Spring 2011, Vol.51, No.1, pp.12-25.
- Newfield, C. (Visiting Fellow Easter 2011), Devolving public universities: lessons from America, Radical Philosophy, Sep/ Oct 2011; available online here.
- Newfield, C. (Visiting Fellow Easter 2011), Regents Budget Strategy: Stuck Between Stations; 21 September 2011; available online here.
- A special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Studies in East European Thought (63, 2, May 2011), guest edited by Vanessa Rampton and Muireann Maguire, is now live online. This is the long-term product of the 'Russia on Edge' workshop hosted and funded by CRASSH with CEELBAS in December 2009, and the Contemporary Russian Culture study group and seminar series at CRASSH between 2007 and 2009.
- Spiegelhalter, D.J. And H Riesch, Don’t Know, Can’t Know: Embracing Deeper Uncertainties When Analysing Risks, Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A, 2011. From the Mellon Sawyer Seminar.
- Sivasundaram, S., ed., Focus section for Isis on Global histories of science with own contribution titled, Sciences and the Global: On Methods, Questions and Theory Isis, Vol. 101, 2010. pp. 146-158. From CRASSH conference Are We Ready to Recast the History of Science?.
- Sivasundaram, S., Ethnicity, Indegeneity and Migration in the Advent of British Rule to Sri Lanka in American Historical Review, 2010, pp.428-452. Following his Early Career Fellowship at CRASSH Michaelmas 2007.
- Turin, M. (2011) From Shoebox to Online Archive', in ECS Nepal, February, pp. 84-87.
- Zeisler, B. and Turin, M. 2011. Himalayan Languages and Linguistics, Brill.
Grants
- Dr Mark Turin (Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-11) has recently been awarded a NSF collaborative workshop grant.
Ongoing Projects
- Memory at War, a project led by Alexander Etkind (Mellon Teaching Fellow Lent 2011 and Graduate Research Group Academic Sponsor) is now in its second year.
