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Our Alumni Achieve Big Things!
Dana Denis-Smith, who completed her BSc in the Department between 1997 - 1999, has been awarded Officer of Order of the British Empire in the King's New Years Honours List. This was in recognition of her services to women in law.
Dana is the founder of The First 100 Years and the Next 100 Years campaigns and is CEO of outsourced legal services provider Obelisk Support.
Dr Qingfei Yin publishes new book, "State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border"
We are delighted to announce that Dr Qingfei Yin has recently published he new book!
Her work looks to depart from conventional studies of border hostility in inter-Asian relations, exploring how two revolutionary states – China and Vietnam – each pursued policies that echoed the other and collaborated in extending their authority to the borderlands from 1949 to 1975.
Link to the book HERE
The Friends of the Women's Library Prize for 2024
Congratulations to Sarah Engelmann (one of our current Masters students) who has won the The Friends of the Women's Library Prize for 2024.
The Women’s Library is the oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s campaigning and activism.
She won this prize for her 3rd year Undergraduate dissertation, "The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Question of Conscription and Conscientious Objection in Great Britain and the United States, 1915-1945".
Dr David Motadel co-edits new book
We are thrilled to announced the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), co-edited by David Motadel. In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. The book explores the ways in which non-European powers such as China, Ethiopia, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Siam managed to keep European imperialism at bay.
Join the book launches in Honolulu (Wednesday, 28 February 2025, 5pm, Imin Conference Center, University of Hawai'i) and London (LSE, tba) later this year.
Link to book HERE
Ryoya Mizuno publishes new work in the Historical Journal
One of our PhD students, Ryoya Mizuno, has published a new article in the Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press) titled "Reconsidering Arnold J. Toynbee’s World History in Mid-Twentieth-Century Japan".
Read the article HERE