Dr Alexander Marshall
- Senior Lecturer (History)
telephone:
01413308581
email:
Alexander.Marshall@glasgow.ac.uk
History, Room 406, 1 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0378-654XResearch interests
Latest publication: Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way (Yale University Press, ISBN: 978-0300154573)
Research interests:
- Russian/Soviet military and political history
- M.A. Suslov (1902-1982), the 'Grey Cardinal' of Soviet Ideology
- The Caucasus and Central Asia
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Afghanistan
- Radicalism and the History of Ideas
- The Global Cold War
Grants
- 'Asian Security in Trans-National Perspective, 1800-2006' - one year grant from the British Academy (£2,000) commenced 1st January 2006.
- ‘Asian Security in Trans-National Perspective, 1800-200’ - one year grant (£400), Control Risks Group, commenced 1st March 2006.
- ‘Soviet Rule in the Caucasus’ - one year grant from the British Academy (£2,000) commenced 1st January 2008.
- Chancellor's Fund grant (University of Glasgow), 2011 (£2,000).
- Kelvin-Smith Fellowship (University of Glasgow), 2011.
- LINKSCH project (European Commission 7th Framework programme of research): Grasping the links in the chain - understanding the unintended consequences of international counter-narcotics measures for the EU.
Supervision
- Russell Smith 'West Indian and Black Caribbean RAF service volunteers'
- Christina Chatzitheodorou 'Women’s roles in left-wing resistance movements: a comparative analysis of Greece, Italy, and France during the Second World War.'
- Hamad, Sam
The Rise of Illiberalism in the Era of the Global War on Terror - Moroch, Dylan
Armament and Willpower of the Barbudos: The Relationship of Weapons, Strategy, and Insurgency in the Cuban Revolution
- Jack Anderson (full-time MRes): The Stalin cult and the ideological rite of passage
- Allan Gillies (full-time PhD funded by a Kelvin Smith Studentship): Reducing the Flow of Cocaine into the UK? The politics of counter-drug measures on the Andean transit-chain, 2000-2010
- Steinar Skaar (full-time PhD funded by a scholarship from the Norwegian Defence University College): Does Coercive Theory Pass the Test? A theoretical Examination and Case Study of the Utility of Coercive Theory in Contemporary Conflicts with emphasis on the Afghan conflict'
- Richard Burklund (part-time PhD) 'Corpses in the Grass: Strategic Culture and Combat Effectiveness in the Pacific War. A Case Study of the US 7th Infantry division.'
- Yin Lam Ethan Chan (full-time MPhil) 'The Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund in Halle-Neustadt.'
Teaching
Honours Courses:
- 'The Rise of Nineteenth Century Socialism'
- 'The Radical Fringes of Interwar Europe, 1919-1939'
- 'Russian/Soviet Conceptions of National Security in a Changing World, 1856 to the Present.’
- Honours Special Subject - 'Lenin and Leninism. History is not a Neutral Subject'
Postgraduate courses:
- The Global Cold War
Additional information
Scholarly activities
- Member of editorial board of Europe-Asia Studies
- Member of editorial team of the multi-volume centenary project ‘Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’ (Project leaders Dr John W. Steinberg, Georgia Southern University and Dr Anthony Heywood, Aberdeen University).
- Organizer of the 'Study Group for the Russian Revolution' annual conference at Glasgow in January 2011 and 2012.
