Dr Julia MosesB.A. (Barnard/Columbia), M.Phil. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (Cantab.)Lecturer in Modern History 19th & 20th-century Britain, Germany and Italy; social policy; legal history Office Hours: Autumn 2013-14 - On Research Leave |
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Biography
Julia Moses studied at Barnard College/Columbia University (New York), Oxford and Cambridge (as a Gates Scholar). Before joining the Department of History at Sheffield in September 2011, she was a lecturer at Pembroke and Brasenose Colleges, Oxford. She has been a visiting scholar at the Berlin Collegium for the Comparative History of Europe at the Free University and a professeur invitée at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her main research interests lie in the history of social problems and policy in Western Europe, with a particular focus on Britain, Germany and Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has published on three main strands of her research: the history of private law, and especially torts; transnational history; and, the history of ideas about ‘risk’. She is especially keen to bridge disciplinary boundaries, and her work draws on insights from law, anthropology, politics and sociology. She is a co-chair of the Council for European Studies research network on Industrial Relations, Skill Formation and Welfare State Policies. Membership of Professional Bodies
Research
Current Research Julia Moses is currently completing a monograph on workplace accidents, changing conceptions of risk and responsibility and the origins of modern European welfare policy. The comparative and connective study transcends disciplinary boundaries, linking legal history, political history, social history and the history of science and technology with insights from politics and sociology. Focusing on Britain, Germany and Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book examines the role of government in framing particular risks as social problems. It traces how those conceptions of risk changed over time, with important consequences for the relations between states and citizens and the role of government in everyday life. She is also beginning work on her next two projects: a monograph on the relationship between legal, social-scientific and confessional discourses about marriage and policies on the family in the German Empire, which places developments in Germany within a comparative and transnational context, and a comparative and connective study of the culture of governmental administration in Europe from the 1840s to the 1920s. Julia is involved in three international research projects. First, she is co-convening a research group for the AHRC-funded European Legal Development Project that focuses on the social and intellectual contexts in which tort law evolved in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. She has just finished co-editing (with Michael Lobban, QMUL) a volume related to this project for Cambridge University Press. Second, she is participating in a research project based at SciencesPo (Paris) that investigates the legal, scientific and social contexts in which thinking about industrial diseases, occupational health and, in particular, the illness silicosis took shape across the world during the same period. Finally, she is involved in a new research project based at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales that focuses on industrial risks, including environmental hazards, and accidents at work in Britain and France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is in the process of preparing two volumes related to her research in these areas: (with Martin Daunton, University of Cambridge), ‘Social Policy across Borders’, theme clusters in the Journal of Global History (forthcoming, 2013 and 2014); and, (with Eve Rosenhaft, University of Liverpool), ‘Risk, Social Policy and the State in Twentieth-century Europe’, special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History (forthcoming, 2013).
Research Interests Julia Moses’ research focuses on European welfare policy, conceptions of risk, administrative practices and the roles of legal and scientific expertise in policy-making in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is especially interested in why particular issues come to be seen as social, rather than individual, problems in particular contexts, and she has sought to shed light on the important connections in this regard between social policy, the law and transnational flows of ideas and practices.
Research Supervision and Teaching Julia is keen to supervise students in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European (including British) history, in particular the history of social problems and policy, government and bureaucracy, legal history, marriage and the family and social-scientific expertise.
Current PhD Students Brendan Murphy - 'Killing in the German Army: Organizing and Surviving Combat in the Great War.' Administrative Roles and Responsibilities
Selected Publications
Books - The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Welfare States (forthcoming). - (co-editor with Michael Lobban), The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development (Comparative Studies in the Development of the Law of Torts in Europe; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011; in press).
Articles and Essays - 'Policy Communities and Exchanges across Borders: The Case of Workplace Accidents at the Turn of the Twentieth Century', in Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck and Jakob Vogel, eds., Shaping the Transnational Sphere, 1830-1950 (New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2011; in press). - 'Contesting Risk: Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany and Italy, 1870-1920', in Kerstin Brückweh, Dirk Schumann, Richard Wetzell and Benjamin Ziemann, eds., Engineering Society: The Scientification of the Social in Comparative Perspective, 1880-1990 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011; in press). - 'Risk, Humanity and Injuries to the Body Politic: Governmental Representations of "The Industrial Accident Problem" in Britain, Germany and Italy, 1870-1900', in Christiane Smit, Ilja van den Broek and Dirk Jan Wolffram, eds., Imagination and Commitment: Representations of the Social Question (Leuven: Peeters, 2010). - 'Foreign Workers and the Emergence of Minimum International Standards for the Compensation of Workplace Accidents, 1880-1914', Journal of Modern European History, 7, no. 2 (summer 2009), 219-239. - 'Accidents at Work, Security and Compensation in industrialising Europe: The Cases of Britain, Germany and Italy, 1870-1925', Annual Review of Law and Ethics, 17 (summer 2009), 237-258. |
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