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Dr Holger NehringM.A. (Tuebingen), D. Phil. (Oxon.)Reader in Contemporary European History Post-1945 British and German history, history of violence, historical peace research. Office Hours: Spring 2012-13 - Tuesdays 11am-1pm |
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Major Publications
Modules
Links
- Contemporary European History - Frieden und Krieg (book series) - Studienstiftung des deutschen Volke - Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung - Mershon Center for International Security Studies
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Biography
Holger Nehring is a historian of post-1945 Western Europe, with special interest in the history of social movements in Britain and West Germany, the history of violence and peace as well as environmental history. He received his training in contemporary history, political science and philosophy at Tübingen University (Germany), the London School of Economics, and (as a Rhodes scholar) at University College, Oxford. Before joining the Sheffield History Department in March 2006, he was based at St. Peter's College, Oxford, as a junior research fellow. Holger Nehring has held a number of visiting research fellowships at universities in Europe and north America: at the Forum for Contemporary History, Oslo and the Norwegian Nobel Institute (2007 and 2008); at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Columbus, OH, USA (2009); at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (2009); at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris (as professeur invité in 2010); at the History Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (2012). Together with Mike Foley and Benjamin Ziemann, he founded the Centre for Peace History at the University of Sheffield. Editorships
History of Social Movements (book series with Palgrave Macmillan, co-editor with Stefan Berger). Frieden und Krieg. Beiträge zur Historischen Friedensforschung [Peace and War. Contributions to Historical Peace Research] (book series with Klartext-Verlag, Essen; co-editor together with Jost Dülffer et al.). War and Literature Yearbook (member of the editorial board). Wissenschaft und Frieden (member of the executive collective). Membership of Professional Bodies
Research
Current Research Holger Nehring has just completed a monograph on the British and West German protests against nuclear weapons in the late 1950s and early 1960s to Oxford University Press for publication. He has now embarked on a new project on peace movements and the end of the Cold War. Most recently, Holger Nehring has become interested in conceptualising the Cold War as a ‘war of the imagination’, bringing together philosophy, the history of science and technology, critical theory and history to come to a novel understanding of this period in world history
Research Supervision and Teaching Holger Nehring is keen to supervise students interested in post-1945 European (including British) history, in particular the political, social and cultural history of the Cold War, the history of protest movements in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s and notions of 'security' in society and government.
Current PhD Students
In addition, he has supervised MA dissertations on British defence intellectuals, the British New Left, the technopolitics of nuclear weapons, Thatcherism, the British miners’ strike in 1980s, Cold War liberalism, British Latin-American relations and the rethinking of the Cold War international system. Administrative Roles and Responsibilities
Selected Publications
Books - The Politics of Security. West European Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). - Ed. (together with Karlheinz Lipp and Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin), Frieden und Friedensbewegungen in Deutschland, 1892-1992. Ein Lesebuch (Essen: Klartext, 2010), 300 pp. - (together with Florian Schui) (eds.), Global Debates about Taxation (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)
Articles and Essays - Ed., together with Helge Pharo, 'A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century', theme issue of Contemporary European History, 17, no. 3 (2008). - Ed., together with José Harris and Robert Gerwarth, 'Constitutions, Violence and Civil Society', special issue of the Journal of Modern European History, 6, no. 1 (2008) (154 pp.) 'The Era of Non-Violence: "Terrorism" in West German, Italian and French political culture, 1968-1982', European Review of History, 14, no. 3 (2007). - 'Diverging perceptions of security: NATO and the protests against nuclear weapons', in Andreas Wenger, et al. (eds.), Transforming NATO in the Cold War: Challenges beyond Deterrence in the 1960s (London: Routledge, 2006). - 'National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957–1964', Contemporary European History 14, no. 4 (2005). - 'Politics, Symbols and the Public Sphere: The Protests against Nuclear Weapons in Britain and West Germany, 1958-1963', Zeithistorische Forschungen 2, no. 2 (2005). - 'The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957–64', Contemporary British History 19, no. 2 (2005). - 'The Growth of Social Movements', in Paul Addison/Harriet Jones (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Britain, 1939–2000 (Oxford: Blackwells, 2005). - 'Westernisation – a new paradigm for interpreting West European History in a Cold War context', Cold War History 4, no. 2 (2003/04). |
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