History

I joined Keele in September 2011 as Lecturer in Modern History. After completing a BA in History at the University of Leeds, I studied for an MA in Central and East European History at University College London, from where I subsequently gained my PhD on land reform and the Hungarian peasantry. Before coming to Keele, I previously taught at King’s College London, University College London and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

My main research interests lie in the social and cultural history of Central and Eastern European from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, with particular reference to the Habsburg Monarchy and the successor states. I am currently working on monograph on rural society, landscape and environment in Hungary in the years before 1848. Previously I have worked on the 1848 revolutions and the liberal, nationalist reform movements of the nineteenth century, and the impact of the Enlightenment in Central Europe. I am also interested in spatial history, historical geography and landscape and environmental history more broadly.

“’Revolutionary’ Forces in a ‘Traditional’ Society: The Place of The Peasantry in 1848”, in M. Rady and L. Peter, eds., Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe, Commemorating 1956, (London, 2008)

‘Land, Crown and Nation – The Problem of Land Reform in Nineteenth-Century Hungary’, in E. Ihatsu and R. Manytysalo, eds., Heritage and Risk in Rural Europe: Hungary, (Oulo, 2006)

Undergraduate Teaching

• HIS-10029 Modern History
• HIS-10030 Historical Research and Writing
• HIS-20074 The Holocaust
• HIS-20075 Right-wing Movements in Modern Europe

Postgraduate Teaching

• HIS-40002 Approaches to Historical Research

Doctoral Research

I am happy to supervise research in most aspects of Central and Eastern European history.  I would also welcome research students interested in many aspects of rural, landscape and environmental history, including cultural and historical geography, that lie beyond the scope of my own research.