Recent HOTCUS Member Activities

Craig Fox (Independent) has published “‘Give this copy of the Kourier magazine to your friend. You will help him. You will also help society’: 1920s KKK Print, Propaganda and Publicity.” Chapter 6  [pp. 105-123] in Rachel Schreiber (ed.), Activism in Modern United States Print Culture (Ashgate, April 2013).

Kendrick Oliver (Southampton) has published To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957-1975 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (emeritus Edinburgh) will be talking about his book In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence (OUP, June 2013) at the Oxford Literary Festival (March 21), Words on Monday, King’s Place London (May 20), Glyndwr University (May 23), Gregynog (May 24), the Hay Book Festival (May 31) and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (August 10-26).

Daniel Scroop (Glasgow) has taken up a new post as Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Citizenship in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. In this role he will continue to teach and publish research on US history but will also take a lead in promoting public engagement initiatives connected to the theme of citizenship. On 2 March 2013 he was interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland about Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had an op ed. in The Scotsman (4 March 2013) discussing the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the New Deal. On 4 March he also chaired ‘Lessons of the New Deal’, an event hosted by the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow, featuring Gary Gerstle (Vanderbilt and Oxford) and Tony Badger (Cambridge).

Alison Holmes (Humboldt) was appointed Program Leader of International Studies at Humboldt State University Arcata CA in 2012. Recent publications include: The Embassy in Grosvenor Square: American Ambassadors to the United Kingdom 1938-2008 edited with J Simon Rofe (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and a chapter, 'Transatlantic Diplomacy and Global States' in Anglo-American Relations: Contemporary Perspectives, Alan Dobson and Steve Marsh (eds) (Routledge 2012). Papers were presented to International Studies Association - Western Conference in 2011, 2012, the Transatlantic Studies Association in 2011 and the ISA Annual Convention in 2011 and 2013. Two book reviews forthcoming in International Historical Review and the Transatlantic Studies Association Journal.

Iwan Morgan (UCL) appeared on CNBC on 5 September 2012 to discuss President Obama’s presidency and the forthcoming election.

Iwan Morgan (UCL) and Philip Davies (Eccles Centre) have edited two new collections: From Sit-Ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012) and Broken Government? American Politics in the Obama Era (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2012).

Axel R. Schäfer (Keele) has published Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

Iwan Morgan (ISA), Daniel Scroop (Sheffield), Eleanor Capper (Sheffield) and Jonathan Bell (Reading), presented the HOTCUS panel at the BAAS Annual Conference on 13 April 2012.  The topic was “Liberalism in Transition: The Challenges of a Post-Keynesian Political Economy”.

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