Dr. Julie Gottlieb, B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer in History [20th Century British Political history; Women's history, British fascism, history of race & ethnicity]
Email: julie.gottlieb@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: Jessop West: 3.04 | Telephone: (0114) 22 22606
Office Hours, Spring 2011-12: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00, Thursdays 12:15-13:15
| Biography |
Julie Gottlieb completed a Joint Honours BA in English and History at McGill University (Montreal) before coming to Britain where she completed an MPhil and a PhD at the University of Cambridge. She was a lecturer at the University of Manchester and at Bristol University, before starting at Sheffield in September 2003.
| Research |
Current Research
Her current project examines women’s participation and their representation in British foreign affairs between the wars; women’s political activism in a range of internationalist, feminist and pacifist organizations; women’s contribution to resistance to fascism at home and abroad; and the gendering of the appeasement in the late 1930s. She is working on a monograph titled "Guilty Women": Gender, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Inter-war Britain. (forthcoming, 2013)
Research Interests
Julie Gottlieb's research interests are, broadly, in modern British political history (principally the period 1918 to 1945), the history of political extremism (with a focus on right-wing extremism in Britain), women's history and gender studies (particularly women in politics, and the construction of gender identities in the political sphere), comparative fascism (particularly gender and fascism in comparative perspective), and race and ethnicity in the British context. Her own research is on gender and political extremism, and she has published a monograph and a number of articles on women and fascism in Britain. She has co-editing a collection concerned with the relationship between the British far right and culture, and another one on constructions of leadership and personality in modern British politics, emerging from an international conference she organised at the University of Manchester in 2002. She is organising an international conference at the University of Sheffield In June 2011 on “The Aftermath of Suffrage: what Happened After the Vote Was Won?”. The conference is linked to collaborative publishing projects. The Aftermath of Suffrage Conference.
Research Supervision
She has supervised postgraduate MA and PhD dissertations at the University of Manchester, the University of Bristol and here at the University of Sheffield on a variety of topics and themes in British gender history, history of political extremism, and race and ethnicity in modern Britain. Her research h-led teaching includes HST276: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain, HST3069/70 Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Britain, 1923-1945, an MA option module on “Sex and Power in Modern Britain”, as well contributing to core and to MA modules. She would be interested to supervise undergraduate and post-graduate research in any of the above fields.
| Administrative Roles and Responsibilities |
She has had various administrative roles in the department, including course assignment coordinator, CILASS representative, course allocations coordinator, and member of Graduate Committee, Research Committee and Teaching Committee. She is currently Level II Tutor, course convenor for HST112 and HST117, Chair of the First Year Sub-Committee, and member of Undergraduate Affairs Committee.
| Selected Publications |
- "Body Fascism in Britain: Building the Blackshirt in the Inter-war Period," Contemporary European History, 20, 2 (2011), pp. 111-136
- "Varieties of Feminist Responses to Fascism in Inter-war Britain," in eds. N. Copsey and A Olechnowicz, Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp.101-118.
- 'The Marketing of Megalomania: Celebrity, Consumption and the Development of Political Technology in the British Union of Fascists,' Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 41 (1), pp.35-55. 2006
- Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics (ed. with Richard Toye) (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005)
- The Culture of Fascism: Visions of the Far Right in Britain, (ed. with Thomas P. Linehan) (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004)
- 'Women and British Fascism Revisited: Gender, the Far Right and Resistance,' Journal of Women's History, Vol. 16, No. 3 (2004), pp. 108-123.
- 'Female Fanatics: Women's Sphere in the British Union of Fascists', in eds. M. Powers and P. Bacchetta, Right Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World, (New York: Routledge, 2002)
- '"Motherly Hate": Gendering Anti-Semitism in the British Union of Fascists', in Gender and History, Vol. 14, No.2 (2002)
- Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-1945, (London: I.B Tauris & Co., distributed by New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000)
- 'Suffragette Experiences Through the Filter of Fascism', in eds. Claire Eustance and Joan Ryan, A Suffrage Reader: Charting Directions in British Suffrage History, (London: Cassell, 2000)
- 'Women and Fascism in the East End', in Jewish Culture and History, Vol. 1, no.2 (Winter 1998). The same article appears in Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society, (Ilford: Frank Cass, 1999)