Notes on Contributors
Annette Becker
is a Professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre and is deputy Director of the International Research Centre at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne. Among her books are Les cicatrices rouges, 1914–1918, France et Belgique occupées (Paris, 2010); Biographie de guerre d’Apollinaire, 1914–2009 (Paris, 2009 and 2014); and Voir la Grande Guerre, un autre récit (Paris, 2014). She coordinated the French edition (Fayard) of the Cambridge History of the First World War (directed by Jay Winter), 2014. Her latest book, Messagers du désastre, Raphaël Lemkin, Jan Karski et les genocides (Paris, 2018), is a history of the concept of genocide from the Armenians until today: the perpetrators, the victims, and the ‘messengers’, who try to warn, to see, to speak.
Robert Dale
is Lecturer in Russian History at Newcastle University, where he has been based since September 2015. He previously held a British Academy, Postdoctoral Fellowship at King’s College London, and has taught at: Queen Mary, University of London, the University of York, and Nottingham Trent University. His research concentrates on the Soviet experience of the Second World War, and social and cultural history of the war’s aftermath. His monograph, Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad: Soldiers to Civilians, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2015. His current research project explores the post-war reconstruction of Soviet society, paying special attention to how the war’s painful legacy continued to divide and destabilise post-war society.
Alex Dowdall
is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, where he is a member of the Centre for the Cultural History of War. His research is concerned with the impact of military violence on civilians in modern Europe, with a special focus on France during the First World War, as well as the history of refugees in the period of the two world wars. He most recent book is (ed., with John Horne) Civilians under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy (Basingstoke, 2018), and he is currently preparing his first monograph, entitled Communities under Fire: Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914–1918.
Robert Gerwarth
is Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of UCD’s Centre for War Studies. He has published widely on the history of
John Horne
is an historian, emeritus Fellow and former Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin, and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a board member of the Research Centre at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne. In 2016–17 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Oxford University. He is the author and editor of a number of books and over 100 chapters and articles, many relating to the Great War.
Tomás Irish
is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Swansea University. He is the author of The University at War 1914–25: Britain, France, and the United States (Basingstoke, 2015), Trinity in War and Revolution 1912–23 (Dublin, 2015), and (co-edited with Marie-Eve Chagnon), The Academic World in the Era of the Great War (Basingstoke, 2018). He completed his PhD at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Professor John Horne, graduating in 2012. In 2015 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Heather Jones
is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where she was a foundation scholar and a Government of Ireland Research Scholar, and St John’s College, Cambridge. She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne. Her 2011 monograph Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914–1920 was published by Cambridge University Press. She has co-edited two books and published over 27 scholarly articles and chapters on the First World War. Her next monograph on the British monarchy at war, 1914–1918 is forthcoming with cup, 2019.
Alan Kramer
is Professor of European History at Trinity College Dublin. He publishes on the cultural history of violence, war crimes, prisoners of war, and economic history in the era of the First World War in a context extending to the Second World War. He is a founding co-editor of 1914–1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of World War i, and his current research is dedicated to the
Edward Madigan
is Lecturer in Public History and First World War Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work combines cultural, military history and he is particularly interested in the British and Irish experience and memory of the First World War. In his capacity as a historian of the Great War and the Irish Revolution, Edward has appeared on British, Irish and US television and worked with numerous public-facing history and heritage organizations. He also co-edits the Historians for History blog. His publications include Faith Under Fire: Anglican Army Chaplains and the Great War (Basingstoke, 2011), Towards Commemoration: Ireland in War and Revolution, 1912–1923 (Dublin, 2013, with John Horne), and, with Gideon Reuveni, The Jewish Experience of the First World War (Basingstoke, 2019).
Anthony McElligott
is founding Professor of History and chair of the Department of History at the University of Limerick. He has written extensively on the history of the Weimar Republic and the early years of the Third Reich, including: Working Towards the Führer: Essays in Honour of Sir Ian Kershaw (edited with Tim Kirk, Manchester, 2003); Weimar Germany (editor, Oxford, 2010), and Rethinking the Weimar Republic. Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916–1936 (London, 2014). He recently edited, with Jeffrey Herf, Antisemitism before and since the Holocaust. Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives (New York NY, 2016). A study of the destruction of the Jewish community of Rhodes titled: The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2018. He is also working on a study of Himmler’s chief statistician, Richard Korherr. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1999 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2015.
Michael S. Neiberg
is Professor of History and Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. His published work specializes on the First and Second World Wars in global context. The Wall Street Journal named his Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak
John Paul Newman
is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at Maynooth University. He is the author of Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903–1945 (Cambridge, 2015), and the co-editor (with Mark Cornwall) of Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War (New York NY, 2016), and (with Julia Eichenberg) The Great War and Veterans’ Internationalism (Basingstoke, 2013). Until September 2011, he was an erc Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the project “Paramilitary Violence after the Great War”, to which he contributed a case study of violence in the Balkans.
Catriona Pennell
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Exeter. She specialises in the history of 19th and 20th century Britain and Ireland with a particular focus on the relationship between war, experience, and memory. Her publications include A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2012), “Presenting the War in Ireland, 1914–1918”, in Troy R.E. Paddock (ed.) World War i and Propaganda (Leiden, 2014), and “Taught to remember? British youth and First World War centenary battlefield tours”, Cultural Trends, 27 (2018), 83–98.
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
is Professor of History at Maynooth University, in Ireland, and has published extensively on 20th century Portugal and its colonial empire. His works include Portugal 1914–1926: From the First World War to Military Dictatorship (Bristol, 2004), Salazar: a Political Biography (New York NY, 2009) and, with Robert McNamara, The White Redoubt, the Great Powers, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960–1980 (Basingstoke, 2018). He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Daniel Todman
is a Reader in History at Queen Mary University of London. He co-edited, with Alex Danchev, a new edition of the wartime diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke (Berkeley CA, 2001). His first book, The Great War: Myth and Memory (London, 2005) explored the changing way in which the First World
Jay Winter
is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale, Research Professor at Monash University, and a specialist on the First World War and its impact on the 20th century. Winter is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge, 1995) and War Beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present (Cambridge, 2017). He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Graz in 2010, from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2014, and from the University of Paris in 2015. In 2017 he received the Victor Adler prize of the Austrian state for a lifetime’s work in history.