Dr Maike Thier
Dr Maike Thier
BA.(Hons)( London), M.Phil. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (London)
Contact Details
E-mail - mt53@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - (0)1334 462897
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462927
Teaching and Research Interests
Modern European History, especially France but also German-speaking Europe. Particular interest in cultural, intellectual, transnational, and imperial history, the politics of culture and the history of mentalities. I wrote my doctoral thesis on French perceptions and interpretations of the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. During this time I was a member of an AHRC-funded research project on The American Way of Life: Nineteenth-Century Images of the United States in Europe and Latin America, based at University College London. I have now embarked on a new postdoctoral research project with the provisional title From ‘Latin America’ to ‘Latin Africa’: French Conceptualisations of Latinity and Empire, ca. 1830-ca. 1900: I am interested in ideas of ‘Latinity’ as a way of bringing together notions of France’s role both inside and outside of Europe.
Main Publications
- ‘The View from Paris: ‘Latinity’, ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and the Americas, as discussed in the Revue des Races Latines, 1857-64’, The International History Review 33:4 (December 2011).
- ‘Yankeeism and Miss Liberty: Rethinking French Images of the United States in the Nineteenth Century’, Historical Research (forthcoming).
Teaching Duties
Participates in the teaching and lecturing of the following courses at sub-honours level:
- MO1008: Themes in Late Modern History
- HI2001: History as a Discipline: developments and key concepts
Supervises Honours projects and offers the following Honours Course:
Participates in the teaching of the following postgraduate course: