Julie-Marie Strange

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Julie-Marie Strange, FAcSS (born 1973) is a historian. Since 2019, she has been Professor of Modern British History at Durham University.

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Career

Born in 1973, [1] Strange completed a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Wales, Cardiff. [2] From 1996 to 2000, she carried out doctoral studies at the University of Liverpool [3] under the supervision of Andrew Davies and Jon Lawrence; [4] she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for her thesis on death and mourning in the British working classes during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. [5]

After working as a research assistant on the archives of the United Africa Company and (for two years) as a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, she joined the Department of History at the University of Manchester in 2003. [2] She was eventually promoted to be Professor of British History. [2] In 2019, she moved to Durham University to be Professor of Modern British History. [3] [6]

Strange was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019; the citation called her "a leading figure in framing historically-informed research questions around issues of the marketplace and accountability in humanitarian discourse and practice". [7]

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References

  1. "Strange, Julie-Marie, 1973–" [ permanent dead link ], British Library . Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Prof Julie-Marie Strange", University of Manchester . Archived at the Internet Archive on 12 June 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Prof J. Strange", Durham University . Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  4. "Modern Britain and Ireland – Awarded 2000–2009", History Theses 1970–2014: Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the Universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (British History Online). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  5. "This Mortal Coil: Death and Bereavement in Working-Class Culture, c. 1880–1914" [ permanent dead link ], EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  6. "Featured Speakers", JMC Research (University of Turku). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  7. "Press Release: Seventy-Three Leading Social Scientists Conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences", Academy of Social Sciences , 19 March 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2021.