Panellists

Jeff Bloodworth recently completed his PhD in History at Ohio University, and has since been appointed Assistant Professor of History at Gannon University. His PhD thesis is to become a book, Farewell to the Vital Center: A History of American Liberalism, 1968-1980, and is currently under review by Northern Illinois University Press.

Kathryn Cramer Brownell is studying for a PhD in History at Boston University, working under Professor Bruce Schulman. Her research addresses the rise of celebrity culture in American politics. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge under the Boston - Cambridge Scholar Exchange Program.

Francisca Fuentes is a first-year PhD candidate in the School of American & Canadian Studies at The University of Nottingham. Having completed her MRes on Paul Fusco’s photobook RFK Funeral Train, she is now researching iconic American funerals in the 1960s for her PhD.

Karen Heath is a first-year PhD candidate at St Anne’s College, Oxford, working with Dr Gareth Davies. Her research addresses federal arts policy, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Christian Right in the 1980s.

William Hynes is a PhD candidate in Economic and Social History at Jesus College, Oxford, researching crime surges in the 1960s and 70s. He holds undergraduate and Master’s degrees from Trinity College, Dublin, and was a Marie Curie Research Training Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2005-06.

Ross Nicolson is completing a PhD at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he is researching the electoral implications of the baby boom. He graduated from King’s College London in 2003 with a BA in history and completed his Master’s at UCL in 2004.

Tom Packer is a PhD candidate at St. Cross College, Oxford, researching the career of Senator Jesse Helms and North Carolina politics in the 1970s and 1980s. He holds undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the London School of Economics.

Clare Russell is a second-year PhD candidate in the School of American & Canadian Studies at The University of Nottingham. She is researching women and social capital in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Citizenship Education Programme in South Carolina, 1964-1968.

Nicholas Witham is a Master’s student in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is currently undertaking research into the historical and political portrayal of U.S. foreign policy in Oliver Stone’s films Salvador and Platoon.