Young Birkbeck historians win Early Career awards
Two young Birkbeck historians awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
Two young academics from the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology have been awarded prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships.
Dr Surekha Davies's research topic is 'Ethnographic Observations and European Ethnology: Genres, Practices and the Construction of Knowledge, 1550-1700'. It considers representations of African, Asian and American peoples across several textual genres. By exploring the movement of information from eye-witness accounts to works written or compiled by people who had not travelled, it links the parts played by travellers and writers in shaping ideas about distant peoples.
Dr Christian Goeschel's new book project investigates organised crime in Germany from the end of WWI to the aftermath of WWII, focusing particularly on Berlin and other German cities and the continuities and discontinuities in organised crime from 1918 until 1948.'