New Staff (Archive)

Dr Elena Kranioti has been appointed to the recently-advertised Lectureship in Forensic Anthropology from January 2010.

Dr Kranioti was the unanimous choice of the Appointing Panel from an extremely strong short list of candidates for this post. She is a graduate of the University of Crete with a doctorate in medicine and a PhD in Forensic Anthropology. Despite having only completed the latter in 2009, Dr Kranioti has already published widely in a number of journals of the highest international quality in her field. She is also the first doctor of medicine to become a member of staff of the School

 

I am delighted to inform you of three further academic appointments. Dr Chris Harding, who has worked in the School for the past 18 months, has been appointed to a permanent lectureship in Asian History. Chris's Oxford DPhil, Religious Transformation in South Asia, is about to be published by Oxford University Press. Dr Matthew Hammond, currently a researcher on the Paradox of Mediaeval Scotland project at Glasgow, has been appointed to a three-year lectureship in Scottish History. And Dr April Pudsey, who has just completed a PhD on demography in Roman Egypt at Manchester, has been appointed to a 10-month post in Ancient History.

I am very pleased to inform you that the School has recently made the following academic appointments:

Dr Felix Boecking has been appointed to a permanent post in Chinese Economic and Political History. Felix holds a BA in Chinese from Oxford and has just completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge on 'Tariffs, Power, Nationalism, and Modernity: Fiscal Policy in Guomindang-controlled China 1927-1941' and is currently employed as Lecturer in East Asian History at Newcastle University . His teaching for the School will span the Economic and Social History and History Subject Areas, and he will also contribute to the College's teaching in East Asian Civilization. Start date: 1 September 2008.

Dr Richard Rawles has been appointed to a three-year Lectureship in Classics (Greek). A Glaswegian, Richard holds BA and PhD degrees from UCL, where he is currently a temporary lecturer. A revised version of his PhD thesis, on the Archaic Greek poet Simonides, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Start date: 1 September 2008.

Finally, two weel-kennt colleagues with existing positions in the School have been appointed to temporary posts as Teaching Associates: Dr Esther Breitenbach (ESH) and Dr Karine Varley (History). Start date: 1 September 2008.

I am delighted to announce that the School, in conjunction with Information Services, has made an excellent appointment to the post of Academic Liaison Librarian in History, Classics, and Archaeology.

Margaret Forrest has an MA in History from this University, a PGDip in librarianship from the University of Strathclyde , an MSc(R) in Medieval History from Edinburgh , and a PGCert in Teaching in Higher Education from the University of Dundee . She joins us from the University of Dundee , where she was Senior Assistant Librarian, 2003-7. She is currently Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in Scotland , and will be its President in 2009.

Margaret's expertise will contribute significantly to the development of our collections and to the effective use of traditional and IT resources in our subjects. We look forward to working closely with her in the future.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Rüdiger von Krosigk will be joining Economic and Social History as a Marie Curie Fellow. Rüdiger holds a Ph.D. in history and civilization from the European University Institute in Florence. His research project explores the spatial dimension of government, namely administrator's offices as a communicative frame and resource of the modern state in Britain and Germany .

We are delighted to announce that Professor Richard Rodger has been appointed to the Chair in Economic and Social History.

Professor Rodger has published widely on the economic, business and urban history of Britain since 1800 and his book The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Frank Watson Prize for works on Scottish history. Ongoing research involves projects on the development of public health in Victorian Scotland, and a study of Edinburgh trusts as part of a comparative analysis of legal and institutional factors affecting the trajectory of urban development. This research strand began while undertaking MA and PhD degrees in Economics and Economic History at Edinburgh, and continued during appointments at Liverpool, Kansas and Leicester Universities, where Rodger was until recently Professor of Urban History and Director of the East Midlands Oral History Archive. In recognition of his numerous publications, and contributions to the study of economic and social history, Rodger was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004.

When not photographing buildings and townscapes, other interests include Scottish cricket, and walking long-distance paths. He has also walked the length of every pre-1914 Edinburgh street – as part of historical research, it should be stressed.

The School is pleased to announce that Dr Esther Breitenbach has been awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Economic and Social History.

Dr Breitenbach will be moving to the School of History and Classics from Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Studies. Since 1995 she has made a contribution to both teaching and research in Social Policy, and also spent several years on secondment from the University of Edinburgh to the civil service in Edinburgh and London. She has written widely on gender equality issues in Scotland and on gender and public policy, and was also co-editor with Eleanor Gordon of two volumes on women's history in Scotland. She is a graduate of the University of Dundee in Philosophy and Political Science, and was recently awarded a PhD (2005) by the University of Edinburgh. Esther's PhD thesis was entitled 'Empire, Religion and National Identity: Scottish Christian Imperialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries'. The purpose of her PDF is to publish work based on her thesis, and to develop proposals for further research.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ulf-Dietrich Schoop to a Lectureship in Archaeology. A graduate of Tübingen University, Ulf currently holds a research fellowship at the German Institute of Archaeology, based in Turkey, and lectures part-time in the Department of History at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.

At Tübingen he studied under the late Professor Manfred Korfmann, working with him on excavations at Troy and Bogazköy in Anatolia. His research interests encompass the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age of the Near East and the East Mediterrranean, with particular emphasis on the archaeology of early Anatolia. His masters thesis (published in 1995) dealt with prehistoric metallurgy in the Near East, and his doctoral thesis (published in 2005) with the chronology of the Anatolian Chalcolithic. Currently, he is working on a major study of the Hittite pottery sequence, and in 2007 he will begin a new field project to investigate the nature of Neolithic and early Chalcolithic settlement in a part of northern Anatolia which is poorly known archaeologically.

The School is delighted to announce the appointment of two new early career lecturers to permanent posts in History.

Dr Paul Quigley (Lecturer in American History) has a BA in American History from Lancaster University and has just completed his PhD ('Patchwork Nation: Sources of Confederate Nationalism, 1848-1865') at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is currently working on a monograph based on his doctoral dissertation.

Dr Monica Azzolini (Lecturer in European History) is currently Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. A graduate of La Cattolica, Milan, Monica holds an MPhil and a PhD ('Leonardo in Context: Medical Ideas and Practices in Renaissance Milan', 2002) from the University of Cambridge. She is the author of 4 articles, including 'In Praise of Art: Text and Context of Leonardo's Paragone and its Critique of the Arts and Sciences', Renaissance Studies 19 (2005), 487-510, which won the Renaissance Society essay prize for the best essay published in 2005. Her next project is a monograph on the role of medicine and astrology in the politics of fifteenth-century Milan.

We look forward to welcoming both to Edinburgh in September.

The School is delighted to announce the appointment of Jim Crow to the newly created Chair of Classical Archaeology. A graduate of Birmingham and Newcastle Universities, Jim is currently Senior Lecturer in Roman and Byzantine Archaeology in the University of Newcastle, where he has worked since 1990. He was previously (interalia) research fellow, British School of Archaeology at Ankara and director of National Trust excavations on Hadrian's Wall. From 2000-5 he was Associate Director of the AHRB/C Centre for Byzantine Cultural History, based at Belfast, Newcastle, and Sussex.

His research since 1975 has focused on the archaeology of late Roman and Byzantine cities and fortifications in the Balkans and Near East and on the study of Roman frontiers in Britain and the eastern empire. He is the author of two books on Hadrian's Wall and of two imminently forthcoming monographs on Constantinople.

Jim's appointment promises welcome synergies both within the existing School (especially in Classics and Mediaeval History) and with our new partners in Archaeology, and he brings considerable experience in excavation, in a wide range of teaching, and in attracting external research funding.