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'''Rachel Carter''' is an undergraduate reading history at Bath Spa University. Prior to this she spent eight years working as a Special Needs Teaching Assistant. She has three children. | '''Rachel Carter''' is an undergraduate reading history at Bath Spa University. Prior to this she spent eight years working as a Special Needs Teaching Assistant. She has three children. | ||
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Rachel Carter
Rachel Carter is an undergraduate reading history at Bath Spa University. Prior to this she spent eight years working as a Special Needs Teaching Assistant. She has three children.
Academic interests: history from below, eighteenth and nineteenth century literature.
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Dr John Davies
John Davies recently retired as county archivist for Carmarthenshire, south Wales. He gained a Ph.D from Swansea University, The Cawdor estate in south-west Wales. in 2009, a revised version of which is to be published in 2016. Last year John had published a volume of eighteenth century political correspondence - those of John Campbell MP for Pembrokeshire - as part of the Parliamentary texts and studies series.
Academic interests: Eighteenth century politics.
Sara Fox
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Colin Greenstreet
Colin Greenstreet is co-founder and co-director of the MarineLives project. He studied human sciences, and philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford, and was the recipient of a Kennedy scholarship for study at Harvard Business School. His career has been spent in finance, consulting, pharmaceutical research and development, and as an entrepreneur.
Likes: Mountains, languages, travel, and dogs (plus wife, Yerevag; elder daughter and musician, Rebecca; and younger daughter and aspiring neuroscientist, Francesca)
Dislikes: Broccoli
Languages: English, German, indifferent French, staggers through Dutch with a dictionary and a glass of wine
Academic interests: Editing the private papers of Sir George Oxenden (1620-1669); writing an academic dual biography of Sir George Oxenden and his elder sister and commercial agent, Elizabeth Dallison. For papers, seminar and conference presentations see his academia.edu page
Tweets at at @marinelivesorg.
Dr Philip Hnatkovich
Philip Hnatkovich is a Co-Director of the MarineLives project. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2014. He is a historian of the British and French Atlantics, with interests in early modern maritime networks, cultural geography, and transnational communities. His doctoral thesis ("The Atlantic Gate: The Anglo-Huguenot Channel Community, 1558-1685") examines Anglo-French mercantile networks in English Channel ports during the French Wars of Religion, when a militant alignment of Huguenot and Elizabethan elites oversaw a decades-long collaboration in privateering and experimental transatlantic plantation ventures. He argues that the maritime society of the Channel region produced merchant capital, maritime expertise, and formative models for northern trade and colonial settlement in the Americas.
He resides in Pittsburgh, where he spends his spare time dabbling in local politics, perfecting his barbecue technique, riding his bike, and building blanket forts with his daughter.
Languages: English, French, some bits of Latin.
Tweets occasionally @_beneze_
Dr Patricia Keller
Patricia Keller is a graduate of the History of American Civilization Doctoral Program, Department of History, and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, both University of Delaware. She took her B. A. in American History at Temple University, Philadelphia. Pat works with cultural heritage organizations in a variety of capacities, most recently as a Curator of digital assets for a developing digital humanities research resource. Patricia also researches and organizes original exhibitions of American decorative arts, and has published and lectured widely on a number of museum exhibition and research interests, particularly oriented toward American textiles and needlework history.
Pat tweets at @materialculture.
Sara J Kerr
Prior to returning to full time study, Sara taught English, Media Studies and Film Studies at several schools in the UK.
Academic Interests: Early Nineteenth Century literature, in particular Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth and Sydney, Lady Morgan; R programming.
Tweets at at @data_fiend.
Grace Mallon
Grace Mallon is an undergraduate reading History at University College, Oxford. Her studies are currently focused on 20th-century Germany, but a recent foray into colonial American history has awakened an interest in the workings of the early British empire. Alongside English, she reads German, French and some Latin. In her spare time she plays the piano and sings in her college choir.
Shavana Musa
Shavana Musa is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She will be completing her PhD in 2015, which investigates the right to reparation for the war victim from the middle of the seventeenth century until the present day. She teaches courses on international legal history and world legal systems.
Academic interests: History of international law; international humanitarian law; war and peace; maritime law and history; foreign policy; democracy; constitutional legal history.
Nga Phan-Bellis
Nga Phan-Bellis is a PhD candidate and Graduate teaching assistant in Legal History at University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France). Her PhD thesis deals with French Securities Law, from the 16th century to the French Civil Code of 1804. Before digging in to Legal History, she studied Private Law at the same university.
Languages: Fluent English, French, Vietnamese. Intermediate Spanish and Persian. Notions of Latin.
Academic interests: early modern economic history in Western Europe, ancient history with a particular interest in Mesopotamia, digital humanities.
You can find more details on linkedin or read her tweets at @NgaPhB.
Brodie Waddell
