We welcome Dr Sophie Joscelyne to our academic staff

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Sophie Joscelyne will be joining the Institute of the Americas in September 2023 as Lecturer (Teaching) in the History of the United States and the World.

Dr Sophie Joscelyne obtained her PhD in American History at the University of Sussex. This project was awarded full funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.  Between 2021 and 2023, she worked as Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex, where she taught widely on modern US history, politics, culture, and foreign policy. She is currently working on her first monograph, which uncovers the importance of the concept of “totalitarianism” in US intellectual life after 1960. She is also developing a new project on neoconservatism and human rights in the late twentieth century. Her work has appeared in the journal Modern Intellectual History and H-Diplo. She has received prestigious funding awards to support archival research and presentations in, among other places, Austin, Berkeley, Chicago, and Norman, Oklahoma.

At the Institute of the Americas, she will be teaching modules at UG and PGT levels on topics including the role of ideas in US foreign policy, modern US history, and US empire.

A very warm welcome to Dr Joscelyne!

Links:

Modern Intellectual History | journal website

H-Diplo | journal website

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Dr Sophie Joscelyne