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Prof Jessica Reinisch

Positions held:
  • Professor of Modern European History, School of Historical Studies
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Jessica's main research interests lie in the social and political history of competing conceptions of internationalism; international organisations and networks; the history of international conferences; humanitarianism; migration and displacement; science and expertise; the world wars and post-war reconstruction.

    She first joined 糖心logo入口 in 2005 as a postdoctoral researcher, after completing her听PhD at听Imperial College London in the Centre for听the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

    贬别谤听听(Oxford University Press, 2013) is an open access monograph.

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    Highlights

    • Jessica is Director of 糖心logo入口's , and听co-editor of the Bloomsbury book series.

    • Jessica has recently completed a听HERA-funded project, . This was a collaborative project which studied the emergence and formats of international conferences in science and technical fields. It brought to light conferences and conferencing as a major pillar of different conceptions of internationalism in practice. Recent project outputs include a 4-part podcast听''听(available on Soundcloud or Spotify).

    • Jessica听served as co-editor of the journal 听for 5 years. The journal听covers the history of Eastern, Western , Southern and Northern Europe, including Britain, from 1918 to the present.

    • Jessica was Principal Investigator of a collaborative research project,, funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. The project studied international organisations and networks in twentieth-century Europe through the lens of public health, medicine and medical science. It brought to light a history of overlapping and competing internationalisms built around a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic priorities. You can read more about the project鈥檚 key findings and activities .

    • Before that, Jessica听was a postdoctoral research fellow on Eric Hobsbawm鈥檚 Balzan Prize Project, . Subsequently she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship before her appointment to a Lectureship.

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  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    Jessica鈥檚 main interests lie in the history of internationalisms and lived internationalism,听international organisations and networks, humanitarianism, migration and displacement, science and expertise, the world wars and post-war reconstruction.

    Current projects include听the history of technical conferences and the听work and impact of a short-lived but highly influential international body, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), whose activities in Europe dominated in the stretches of war-torn Europe that became the frontline of the emerging Cold War.

    Research Centres and Institutes

    • Member of Management Group,
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions within 糖心logo入口:
    8

    I have supervised and advised numerous successful PhD, MRes and MA dissertations on a range of topics, from the aftermaths of the two world wars to histories of particular international organisations, humanitarian programmes, and case studies of migration and displacement. I am happy to hear from prospective PhD students who would like to develop听a project on any of my research interests.


    CURRENT DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS:

    Nicole Albrecht (Full-time, since 2020/1, funded by ESRC Ubel 1+3 studentship)

    Natasha Hobday (Part-time, since 2023/4)

    Lizzie Martin (Full-time, since 2023/4, funded by ESRC Ubel 1+3 studentship)

    Ajmal Waqif (Full-time, since 2023/4, funded by AHRC CHASE studentship)


    DOCTORAL ALUMNI SINCE听2012/13:

    Simon Huxtable

    Nature of Supervision: Principal Supervisor

    Title of Thesis:听A Compass in the Sea of Life: Soviet Journalism, the Public, and the Limits of Reform After Stalin, 1953-1968

    Awarded: 2013

    Current doctoral researchers

    • NATASHA HOBDAY
      Nature of supervision:
      PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      Building the Inter-Allied Machinery that enabled "Allied Control for Allied Supply" in the First World War
    • LIZZIE MARTIN
      Nature of supervision:
      PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
    • AJMAL WAQIF
      Nature of supervision:
      PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      The League Against Imperialism and anti-colonial fronts across the British Empire, 1927-1937.

    Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

    • JEFF PORTER
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor,
      Awarded:
      2015
    • NICOLE ALBRECHT
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Awarded:
      2024
    • JANE MUMBY
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Awarded:
      2022
    • DAVID BRYDAN
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Awarded:
      2016
    • BARBARA WARNOCK
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Title of thesis:
      History Research
      Awarded:
      2016

    Teaching

    I teach courses at all levels on modern political and social history, migration, internationalism, history of science and medicine.

  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Reinisch, Jessica (2024) . Past and Present 264 (1), pp. 283-356. ISSN 0031-2746.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2023) . British Journal for the History of Science 56 (4), ISSN 0007-0874.
    • Bigg, C. and Reinisch, Jessica and Somsen, G. and Widmalm, S. (2023) . British Journal for the History of Science ISSN 0007-0874.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2019) . Contemporary European History 28 (1), pp. 1-5. ISSN 0960-7773.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2016) . Contemporary European History 25 (2), pp. 195-205. ISSN 0960-7773.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2015) . The Political Quarterly 86 (4), pp. 515-522. ISSN 0032-3179.
    • Frank, M. and Reinisch, Jessica (2014) . Journal of Contemporary History 49 (3), pp. 477-490. ISSN 0022-0094.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2013) . Past & Present 218 (S8), pp. 70-97. ISSN 0031-2746.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2011) . Past & Present 210 (S6), pp. 258-289. ISSN 0031-2746.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2008) . Journal of Contemporary History 43 (3), pp. 371-404. ISSN 0022-0094.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2008) . Journal of Contemporary History 43 (3), pp. 451-476. ISSN 0022-0094.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2007) . Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 45 (3), pp. 241-257. ISSN 0026-4695.

    Book

    • Reinisch, Jessica and Brydan, D., eds. (2022) . Histories of Internationalism. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472986986.
    • Frank, M. and Reinisch, Jessica, eds. (2017) . London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472585639.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2013) . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199660797.
    • Mazower, M. and Reinisch, Jessica and Feldman, David, eds. (2011) . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199692743.
    • Reinisch, Jessica and White, E. (2011) . Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230222045.
    • Bardgett, S. and Cesarani, D. and Reinisch, Jessica and Steinert, J.-D., eds. (2011) . Landscapes after Battle. 2, Edgeware, Middlesex, UK: Valentine Mitchell. ISBN 9780853039426.
    • Bardgett, S. and Cesarani, D. and Reinisch, Jessica and Steinert, J.-D., eds. (2010) . Landscapes after Battle. 1, Edgeware, Middlesex, UK: Valentine Mitchell. ISBN 9780853039020.

    Book section

    • Mangion, Carmen M. (2021) . In: Reinisch, Jessica and Brydan, D. (eds.) Europe鈥檚 Internationalists: Rethinking the Short Twentieth Century. Histories of Internationalism. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350107359.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2018) . In: Trentmann, Frank and Sum, A.B. and Riviera, M. (eds.) Work in Progress. Economy and Environment in the Hands of Experts. Munich, Germany: Oekom. pp. 103-130. ISBN 9783962380106.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2017) . In: Reinisch, Jessica and Frank, M. (eds.) Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959: A Forty Years' Crisis?. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 147-175. ISBN 9781472585639.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2011) . In: Reinisch, Jessica and White, E. (eds.) The Disentanglement of Populations: Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in Postwar Europe, 1944-1949. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 185-209. ISBN 9780230222045.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2011) . In: Bardgett, S. and Cesarani, D. and Reinisch, Jessica and Steinert, J.-D. (eds.) Justice, Politics and Memory in Europe after the Second World War. Landscapes after Battle. Edgeware, Middlesex, UK: Vallentine Mitchell. pp. 1-18. ISBN 9780853039426.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2011) . In: Reinisch, Jessica and White, E. (eds.) The Disentanglement of Populations: Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in postwar Europe 1943-1949. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 185-209. ISBN 9780230222045.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2011) . In: Reinisch, Jessica and White, E. (eds.) The Disentanglement of Populations: Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in postwar Europe 1943-1949. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. xiv-xxviii. ISBN 9780230222045.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2008) . In: Crainz, G. and Pupo, R. and Salvatici, S. (eds.) Naufraghi della pace: Il 1945, i profughi e le memorie divise d'Europa. Rome, Italy: Donzelli. ISBN 9788860362711.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2007) . In: Huntelman, A.C. and Vossen, J. and Czech, H. (eds.) Gesundheit und Staat: Studien zur Geschichte der Gesundheits盲mter in Deutschland, 1870-1950. Matthiesen Verlag. pp. 255-274. ISBN 9783786841043.
    • Reinisch, Jessica (2007) . In: Barker, P. and Ohse, M.-D. and Tage, D. (eds.) Views from Abroad: die DDR aus britischer Perspektive. Bertelsmann Verlag. pp. 79-91. ISBN 9783763935697.

    Conference item

    • Reinisch, Jessica Steinert, J.D. and Weber, I., eds. (2008) . Beyond camps and forced labour : current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution, 2008, London, UK

    Other

    • Reinisch, Jessica (2006) . The Balzan Foundation and 糖心logo入口, University of London.