Academic Profile

• 2010-2012: Professor of Twentieth Century History, Department of History, University of Warwick
• 2005-2010: Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century History, Department of History, University of Warwick
• 2001-2005: Lecturer in Twentieth Century History, Department of History, University of Warwick
• 2000-2001: Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Huddersfield
• 1997-2000: Associate Professor, Department of History, Western Oregon University
• 1998-1999: Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
• Spring 1997: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Kassel, Germany
• 1994-1997: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Western Oregon University
• 1993-1994: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Montana State University
• 1992: Ph. D. (History), University of Michigan
• 1988: M.A. (History), University of Michigan
• 1981: B.A. (History), University of Minnesota

 
Undergraduate Modules Taught

• The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in Western Europe since 1945 (HI157)
• Antifascism, Resistance and Liberation in Western Europe (HI392)

 
Postgraduate Modules Taught

• Term One Core Course in MA in Culture and Society in the Cold War

 
Selected Publications

• The Spirit of Vatican II: Western European Left Catholicism in the Long Sixties, 1959-1980 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• The Moment of Liberation: Western Europe (1943-1948) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• Western European Liberation Theology, The First Wave (1924-1959) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) 
• The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) 
• European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Letters From Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War, edited volume (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009) 
• 1968 und die Arbeiter: Studien zum 'proletarischen Mai' in Europa, coedited with Bernd Gehrke (Hamburg: VSA Verlag, 2007)
• Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945, 1968, 1989, coedited with Padraic Kenney (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) 
• Left Catholicism: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation, 1943-1955, coedited with Emmanuel Gerard (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001)
• Various articles in Belgian, British, Canadian, French, German, Italian and US journals
• Chapters in several British, French, German, Italian and US edited volumes

 
Research

 
My overall research interests can be described as:

• i. Transnational Continental Western European History, 1920s-1970s
• ii. History of Social Movements

Concretely, ongoing research and publication projects include:

• The Moment of Liberation: Western Europe, 1943-1948
• Left Catholicism and the 'Sixties', 1959- ca. 1980
• The Western European Far Left, 1968- ca. 1980