Supervisor bio: Roland Clark is a Reader in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool. He is the President of the Society for Romanian Studies, a Senior Fellow with the Far-Right Analysis Network, the Principal Investigator on the European Fascist Movements project, and the 2022 Lapedatu Fellow at the New Europe College in Bucharest. Clark specialises in the history of East-Central Europe and of interwar Romania in particular. His research interests include fascism, social movements, violence, gender, theology, and lived religion.
Email: clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk
School: Histories, Languages, and Cultures
Department: History
Module code: HIST000
Suitable for students of: Histories, Languages, and Cultures
Desired experience or requirements: Good reading knowledge of French, German, Croatian, or Yiddish is required. Experience working with historical sources and/or searching historical newspapers is strongly recommended.
You need to be computer literate, able to process information quickly, highly organized, self-motivated, and able to work independently. As part of the project you will become skilled at searching digitized newspapers and using MS Access. Given that you will be working with historical sources, ideally you should be studying for a degree in History.
Places available: 2
Start dates: 10 June 2024, 1 July 2024
Project length: 4 - 12 weeks
Virtual option: Yes - virtual, hybrid and in-person options
Project description:
Between 1919 and 1923 a wave of antisemitic riots swept through European universities in at least 11 different countries and then coalesced into organized student movements that agitated for student control of the universities, the expulsion of Jewish students, and supported extremist right-wing parties. Many of these students later became activists in fascist political parties. Although scholars are aware of these riots within their national contexts, antisemitic student activism has never been studied as a transnational phenomenon and historians know very little about how these movements interacted with or supported one another.
The first step in designing a transnational research project of this nature is to identify as many instances of student violence as possible. As part of the research programme, you will search digitized newspapers to identify instances of antisemitic violence and will input them into a pre-existing database using MS Access. This will involve going through foreign newspapers and reports, reading descriptions of student violence and deciding how to describe them. Newspapers will be in French, German, Croatian, or Yiddish, depending on your language skills, but not in English.
Additional requirements: N/A
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