Sara Jones

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Professor Jones is always happy to hear from potential postgraduate students looking to work in the fields of the social and cultural history of state socialism, post-socialist memory practices, and interdisciplinary approaches to testimony and memory. She is especially interested in projects that take a transnational, comparative and cross-media approach.

Professor Jones currently supervises nine doctoral research projects:

Jonathan Conde (with Klaus Richter): An examination of Lithuanian nationalism

Vanessa Favali (with Isabel Wollaston): Investigating the use of dark tourist sites in UK secondary school Holocaust education

Sarra Ghersallah (with Anissa Daoudi): Constructing Arab Women’s Memory of Imprisonment through Testimony

George Gibson (with Corey Ross): Letters without signatures: An analysis of the anonymous letters written by citizens of the German Democratic Republic to the BBC German Service circa the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1960-1962

Tina Hofman (AHRC, with Charlotte Galpin): Representing Eastern Europe: Diversity, Inclusion and (De)coloniality in the UK Creative Economies

Johanna Kreft (AHRC, with Emanuelle Rodrigues Dos Santos and Jenny Wuestenberg (Nottingham Trent)): Beyond "colonial amnesia": Decolonising German Institutional Memory through Transformative Social Activism

Danielle Krikorian (with Deniz Soezen and Anissa Daoudi: Women Artists and Aesthetics in times of War (A Story of the other in Lebanon)

Mia Parkes (AHRC, with Mónica Jato and Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (Warwick)): Reconceptualising the Female Political Prisoner: 100 Years of Women's Imprisonment

Emily Stokes (Wolfson, with Camilla Smith): Watching the Boys: Paranoia, Stasi Surveillance, and Queer Visual Cultures in the German Democratic Republic, 1979-1990

Completed PhD Supervisions

Ilaria Bernardi (AHRC, with Charlotte Galpin): Visiting the United States and Bringing It Back Home: the US Exchange Programs with Germany and Italy, 1950-1965. Completed in 2022

Matthew Hines (Wolfson Foundation, with Ute Hirsekorn (Nottingham) and Mónica Jato): Writing a New Society: ‘Aufbau’ in East German Literature 1945-1955. Completed in 2023

Maren Rohe (DAAD, with Julian Pänke): Constructing the Other: Polish and Russian Perceptions of Germany between Media Influence and Individuality. Completed in 2019

Alexander Brown (AHRC, with Joanne Sayner): Rethinking the GDR Opposition: Reform, Resistance and Revolution in the Other Germany. Completed in 2019

Marlene Schrijnders (AHRC, with Joanne Sayner): From London to Leipzig and Back: Post-Punk, Endzeit and Ostgoth. Completed in 2019

David Zell (AHRC, with Joanne Sayner): Major Cultural Commemorations and the Construction of Cultural and Political Identity in the GDR, 1967-1987. Completed in 2018

Josefin Graef (DAAD, with Isabelle Hertner): The Dynamics of Narrating Criminal Violence: The National Socialist Underground and the (Re-) Negotiation of Germanness. Completed in 2016

Leila Mukhida (DAAD, with Elystan Griffiths): Politics and the Moving Image: Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema Through the Lens of Benjamin, Kracauer and Kluge. Completed in 2015

She has also supervised MA Dissertations in the MA Holocaust and Genocide, on representations of the GDR opposition in state-mandated memory, GDR samizdat publications, Romanian and Bulgarian immigration to the UK and Germany, and women’s prison writing in Franco’s Spain.

She is always happy to hear from potential postgraduate students looking to work in her areas of expertise.

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