Professor Maud Bracke
- Professor of Modern European History (History)
telephone:
01413305908
email:
Maud.Bracke@glasgow.ac.uk
R304 Level 3, History, 1 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9394-5673Research interests
I am a historian of 20th-century social, gender and political history of Europe. I was educated in my native Belgium and Italy, and have worked also in The Netherlands, France and the UK.
I started my career studying West European communism during the Cold War period, specifically the impact of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 on the Italian and French communist parties. This was published as a monograph, and I have authored articles in leading international journals on aspects of communist history, history of the European left, political and social mobilisation around ‘1968’ in Western and Eastern Europe, and collective memory of World War Two. Since 2010 I have turned my attention to women’s and gender history, resulting in a monograph on Italian feminism (2014, Routledge; Italian translation 2019), and numerous articles in leading journals and edited collections. My work has appeared in five languages.
I have edited special issues on transnational social activism in Eastern and Western Europe (Contemporary European History) and on Translating Feminism (Gender & History). The latter formed part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project of which I was the Principal Investigator in 2016-2018: ‘Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation (1945-1990)’.
I have led and collaborated on research projects funded by the AHRC, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy.
I am currently working on a major book project charting the rise of notions of reproductive rights in post-1945 Europe (West and East) in a global perspective.
Grants
- British Academy small research grant, 2007
- British Academy small research grant, 2009
- Royal Society of Edinburgh, European Visiting Research Fellowship, 2013
- AHRC Network Grant, ‘women, Work and Value, 1945-2015’ (Co-I), 2014-5
- Leverhulme International Network Grant on 'Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation (ca 1960-1990)':
- Principal Investigator: Dr Maud Anne Bracke (School of Humanities)
- Co-investigator: Dr Penelope Morris (School of Modern Languages)
- Start date: 4 January 2016
- Length of award: 30 months
- Amount awarded: £108,509
Supervision
Current PhD projects:
- Hannah Yoken: Transnational dimensions of Nordic feminism
- Sonja Ruottonen: Parenthood and migration in Finland
- Ferruccio Quercetti: Punk in 1970s-80s Italy
I have supervised 8 PhDs to successful completion, among which:
- Women and workplace activism in the UK, 1960s-80s (Jonathan Moss)
- The Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain and the question of class (Emily Flaherty)
- Narratives of victims of terrorism in Italy (Emily Ryder)
- Bolshevik women and the question of ‘emancipation’ in Central Asia (Anne McShane)
- The West German radical left following 1968 (Matthias Dapprich)
- Spanish trade unions in the 1920s-30s (Thomas Corkett)
I am interested in supervising in the following areas:
- European social and political history 20th century
- European communism, the European left
- Feminism and gender history
- Women and work
- 1968 and its aftermath
- Transnational and comparative approaches
- Oral history
- Dobson, Imogen
Sex Workers in Contemporary Literature - John, Susan
Satire and Suffragettes - McEwan, Anna
Gendered citizenship and women’s relationship to systems of social care: Investigating the GDR’s Frauenparadies (1971-1989)
Teaching
Postgraduate:
- Gender, Culture and Text (MSc Gender History)
- Gender, Politics and Power (MSc gender History)
- Social Theory and Social History
- Revolution, War and the Left in European history, 1789-1989
Honours:
• Special Subject: 'Demanding the impossible? European Societies in the 1960s'
• European Communism in the 20th Century
• The Cultural and Social History of the Cold War
• The Left and the Nation in Europe, 19-20th Cent.
Pre-Honours:
• History 2B: ‘People, Ideas and Things: The making of modern Societies 1500-2000’
Additional information
- PhD (2004) at the European University Institute, Florence; EUI Prize for best comparative historical PhD, 2005
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Higher Education Academy
- Expert reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC)
- Member of Peer Review College, AHRC;
- Peer-reviewer of senior research proposals for the Czech Science Foundation, FWO-Vlaanderen (Belgium), and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (France)
- External examiner for doctorates: EUI Florence, Aarhus, Barcelona, St Andrews, Queen Mary, University of London, among others
- External examiner for undergraduate programme SEESS-UCL (2009-2012)
- Visiting Researcher at European University Institute, Florence (2007, 2009) and at Centre d'Histoire, Sciences Po, Paris (2014)
- Core member of the European network ‘Les mouvements féministes et leurs périodiques’ (funded by CNRS France (AAPG ANR 2018)
- Invited speaking engagements (selection): Keynote lectures at University Edinburgh, UC Dublin, Warwick; invited lectures at SAIS Bologna, Paris VIII (Saint Denis), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Potsdam University, Universita' di Roma-I La Sapienza, Charles University Prague, University of Oxford
- Former Panel Member, Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (2015-18)
- Editor of the leading and ground-breaking journal Gender & History (since 2015)
- Co-Director of the Centre for Gender History at Glasgow University (since 2018)
- Research Convenor for History (since 2017)
- Co-founder of the Equality and Diversity Committee in History (2019-)
- Former member of the board of directors of Glasgow Women’s Library
- https://glasgow.academia.edu/MaudAnneBracke
