{"id":123,"date":"2018-06-12T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:56:43","slug":"member-profiles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/member-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Monroe Group<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\">Dr Mara Oliva<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-338\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Ni0tKLXu_400x400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Ni0tKLXu_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Ni0tKLXu_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Ni0tKLXu_400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Lecturer in Modern US History (20th century)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details:<\/strong> m.oliva@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research:\u00a0<\/strong>American political history; US foreign policy; US Presidency; Cold War; role of domestic politics in US foreign policy making (especially public opinion and media); Sino-American relations; Sino-American culture in the US; Climate Change diplomacy; Public Diplomacy; Digital Humanities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oliva, M. (2020) \u201cNixon in China\u201d in <i>Presidential Image; From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, <\/i>pp. <i>\u00a0<\/i>ed. by Morgan, I. &amp; White, M., I.B. Tauris Publishers, London.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #434241;font-family: Open Sans;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: 0.08px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Oliva, M. (2019) &#8216;Beaten at their own game: Eisenhower, Dulles, US public Opinion and the Sino-US Ambassadorial talks of 1955-1957&#8217;, accepted by <\/span><em style=\"background-color: transparent;color: #434241;font-family: Open Sans;font-size: 16px;font-style: italic;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: 0.08px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">Journal of Cold War Studies,\u00a0<\/em>will be published in winter 2019\/2020 issue.<\/p>\n<p>Oliva, M. &amp; Shanahan, M. (2018) <em>The Trump Presidency &#8211; from campaign trail to world stage, assesing the populist president&#8217;s first year,<\/em> (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).<\/p>\n<p>Oliva M. (2018) &#8216;Much Ado about Nothing: Trump&#8217;s China Policy&#8217; in: \u00a0<i>The Trump Presidency &#8211; from campaign trail to world stage, assessing the populist president&#8217;s first year,<\/i> ed. by Oliva M. &amp; Shanahan M. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).<\/p>\n<p>Oliva, M. (2018)\u00a0<em>Eisenhower and American Public Opinion on China. <\/em>(New York: Palgrave MacMillan).<\/p>\n<p>Oliva, M. (2018) &#8216;The Oratory of Dwight D. Eisenhower&#8217;, in: ,\u00a0<em>Republican Orators from Eisenhower to Trump: Rhetoric, Politics and Society, <\/em>Ed. by <span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #434241;font-family: Open Sans;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: 0.08px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">A. S. Crines and S. Hatzisavvidou, (London: P<\/span>algrave Macmillan) pp.11-39.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD Supervision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dafydd Townley (Sept 2015-July 2018) &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/spies-civil-liberties-and-the-senate-the-1975-church-enquiry\/\">Spies, Civil Liberties, and the Senate: the 1975 Church Enquiry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Darius Wainwright (June 2016-Sept 2019) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/british-and-us-cultural-diplomacy-and-propaganda-in-iran-1953-1958\/\">British and US Cultural Diplomacy and Propaganda in Iran 1953-1958<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Groups\/Centres:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am the <a href=\"https:\/\/usfpgroup.org\" class=\"broken_link\">British Association of International Studies&#8217; US Foreign Policy Group<\/a> Chair and will organising the annual conference in Reading in September 2020. In 2017, I co-founded the Monroe Group for the interdisciplinary study of US political history and politics with Dr Mark Shanahan (Department of Politics).\u00a0I was the Vice-Chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american-politics-group-uk.net\/\">the American Politics Group<\/a>\u00a0of the Political Studies Association from 2016 to 2019. I am a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/hotcus.org.uk\/\">Historians of the Twentieth Century US<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baas.ac.uk\">the British Association of American Studies<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafr.org\/\">the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media:\u00a0<\/strong>I regularly tweet about my research and current events &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaraOlivaPhD\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaraOlivaPhD<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\">Dr Mark Shanahan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Mark_Shanahan_Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title<\/strong>: Political Historian, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details<\/strong>: m.j.shanahan@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><b>Areas of Research:<\/b>\u00a0New developments in T&amp;L pedagogy, especially the use of social media; US government and the celebritisation of American political culture from Eisenhower to Trump (and beyond); the role of Parliament in UK government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shanahan, Mark. (2018) &#8216;The Outsider Presidency&#8217;, in: M. Oliva and M.J. Shanahan (eds), <em>The Trump Presidency &#8211; from Campaign Trail to World Stage. <\/em>(London: Palgrave).<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan, Mark. (2016) <em>Eisenhower at the Dawn of the Space Age. (<\/em>Maryland: Lexington Books), <strong>Winner o<\/strong><strong>f Neudstadt prize for American Politics Book of the Year 2017 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shanahan, Mark. (2015) &#8216;Pursuing the Parallel Track&#8217;,\u00a0 in: A.J. Polsky (ed), <em>The Eisenhower Presidency. <\/em>(Maryland: Lexington Books).<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan, Mark. (2012) The 240,000 mile cul de sac &#8211; how Kennedy won the moon race but got lost in space, <em>49<sup>th<\/sup>Parallel, <\/em>Issue 27, Winter 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk\/back\/issue27\/shanahan.htm\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>http:\/\/www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk\/back\/issue27\/shana<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeapfrogMark\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeapfrogMark<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\">Dr Dafydd Townley\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214 \" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/1-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/1-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/1.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title<\/strong>: Lecturer in US history<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details<\/strong>: d.townley@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research:<\/strong> My primary research interest is the relationship between national security and public opinion. National security encompasses both domestic and foreign policy, and I&#8217;m interested in what policymakers consider as public opinion, and how they are influenced by it in their decision-making. Secondary research areas include the US presidency and the executive branch&#8217;s agencies; protest groups of the 1960s and their influence on foreign policy; and the development of the Sunbelt in the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Townley, D. (2018 &#8211; under review) &#8216;Selling a Blue Ribbon Goat: Gerald Ford and Public Opinion in the Year of Intelligence&#8217;,\u00a0<em>Journal of Cold War Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/spies-civil-liberties-and-the-senate-the-1975-church-enquiry\/\">&#8216;Spies, Civil Liberties, and the Senate: the 1975 Church Committe&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hanesydd\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/hanesydd<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\">Dr Joseph O&#8217;Mahoney\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-594 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/2-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/2-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/2-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/2-4-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/2-4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title<\/strong>: Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Reading<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details<\/strong>: j.p.a.omahoney@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research:<\/strong> My research agenda currently includes the norm dynamics of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, with a focus on how US foreign policy responded to the Indian nuclear test of 1974. I have also studied norm dynamics in other domains, like the role of nonrecognition in maintaining the normative prohibition on conquest, and the role of the British Empire in criminalising homosexuality around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2018)<\/span><i><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\"><a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fglobal.oup.com%2Facademic%2Fproduct%2Fdenying-the-spoils-of-war-9781474434430%3Fcc%3Dus%26lang%3Den%26&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxByQ4PcIy_u_P9zb5jx-jOaHgUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">. Denying the Spoils of War: The Politics of Invasion and Nonrecognition <\/a><\/span><\/i><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">(Edinburgh University Press)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2018) <span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\"><a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledge.com%2FBritish-Colonialism-and-the-Criminalization-of-Homosexuality%2FHan-OMahoney%2Fp%2Fbook%2F9780815367925&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNG7K8fF9qAjD505IBTTNsew9vidcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British<\/a><\/span><i><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\"><a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledge.com%2FBritish-Colonialism-and-the-Criminalization-of-Homosexuality%2FHan-OMahoney%2Fp%2Fbook%2F9780815367925&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNG7K8fF9qAjD505IBTTNsew9vidcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/i><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">(Routledge Focus, 2018)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2017) <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fjosephomahoneyold%2Fgoog_2033511367&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYsa2Fi4G_-cgGilf6zbDqIu3NYQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;<\/a><a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fjosephomahoneyold%2Fhome%2Ffiles%2Fomahoney_proclaimingprinciples_JOGSS_2017.pdf%3Fattredirects%3D0&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNEI_4ZgNybkFJn1eXpU_vK5sXHctQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Proclaiming Principles: The Logic of the Nonrecognition of the Spoils of War&#8221;<\/a>, <i>Journal of Global Security Studies, <\/i>2(3): 204-219. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2017) <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fjosephomahoneyold%2Fhome%2Ffiles%2Fonline_firstview.pdf%3Fattredirects%3D0&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGX6RoHlhZPpXwuaP7yzLTDImjqxw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Making The Real: Rhetorical Adduction and the Bangladesh Liberation War&#8221;, <\/a><i>International Organization, <\/i>71(2): 317-348. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2017<a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fjosephomahoneyold%2Fgoog_1668006627&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNG2GWgozz2WY3XPSwEPiKAaYbAvXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">) &#8220;<\/a><a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnews%2Fmonkey-cage%2Fwp%2F2017%2F02%2F01%2Ftrump-says-that-spoils-belong-to-the-victor-thats-an-invitation-to-more-war%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDFi-7s2t9sH80oR7zlJMiM5LHvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump says that spoils belong to the victor. That\u2019s an invitation to more war&#8221;,<\/a> <i>Monkey Cage <\/i>at <i>The Washington Post<\/i>, 1 February 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2016) <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F4574466%2Fdonald-trump-international-order-stability%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGSddBdQAI136l5WLYY9tyi0uFqMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;A Liar in the Oval Office Could Threaten the World&#8217;s Order&#8221;<\/a>, <i>Time<\/i>, (with David Banks) 17 November 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2016) &#8220;<a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fvoices%2Fbrexit-eu-referendum-us-special-relationship-britain-will-never-be-a-global-power-again-a7150066.htmlp-britain-will-never-be-a-global-power-again-a7150066.html&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFPctTRd-G1TJ6CWa5L7MhZAA9Z-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">After Brexit<\/a><a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Findependent.co.uk%2Fvoices%2Fbrexit-eu-referendum-us-special-relationship-britain-will-never-be-a-global-power-again-a7150066.html&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhvR__kWGmjWJfeRV4CuidV5kMww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">, Britain is free \u2013 but it will never be a global power again<\/a>&#8221;, <i>The Independent<\/i>, (with David Banks) 22 July 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2015) &#8220;<a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fjosephomahoneyold%2Fhome%2Ffiles%2Fjomahoney_whydidtheydothat_IT_proof.pdf%3Fattredirects%3D0&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNHZizF64CfyFCt1R3G1sfIG69b4vg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Did They Do That?: The Methodology of Reasons for Action<\/a>&#8220;, <i>International Theory<\/i>, 7(2): 231-262.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Open Sans',serif\">O&#8217;Mahoney, Joseph (2014) <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fjosephomahoneyold%2Fhome%2Ffiles%2Fomahoney_ruletensions_EJIR_2013.pdf%3Fattredirects%3D0&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNEgbpuGGvoT2y4ppexCCMvdLwCOXQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Rule Tensions and the Dynamics of Institutional Change: From `To the Victor Go the Spoils&#8217; to the Stimson Doctrine&#8221;, <\/a><i>European Journal of International Relations,<\/i> 20(3): 834-857.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\">Dr Graham O&#8217;Dwyer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-618 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/1-6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/1-6-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/1-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/1-6.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title<\/strong>: Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Reading<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details<\/strong>: g.m.odwyer@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title<\/strong>: Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Reading<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details<\/strong>: j.p.a.omahoney@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research:\u00a0<\/strong>My area of research broadly concerns the relationship between decision-making, irrationality, and theories of cognitive psychology in both American and French foreign policy. My current research looks at Harry S. Truman&#8217;s foreign policy of the 1940s and 1950s in relation to the dropping of the atomic bomb as well as the foreign policy of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, Much of my previous work looked at Franco-American relations during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle. In addition to this, I am also working on an introductory text to cognitive psychology and decision-making for students of both foreign policy and international relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Dwyer, Graham (forthcoming, 2020).\u00a0<em>A Glitch in the (International) System: An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Dwyer, Graham (2017). <em>Charles de Gaulle, the International System, and the Existential Difference<\/em> (Routledge: Oxford)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\">Dr Sophia Hatzisavvidou\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-216 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title<\/strong>: Lecturer in Politics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details<\/strong>: s.hatzisavvidou@bath.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research:\u00a0<\/strong>My research interests lie in the areas of political theory, rhetoric, and environmental politics. I am currently working with members of the Monroe Group on a project that studies Presidential rhetoric on climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, Sophia. (2019) &#8220;Inventing the Environmental State: Neoliberal Common Sense and the Limits to Transformation&#8221;, <em>Environmental Politics, <\/em><span class=\"volume_issue\">29:1,<\/span> <span class=\"page_range\">96-114.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"authors\">Sophia Hatzisavvidou<\/span> <span class=\"date\">(2019)<\/span> <span class=\"art_title\">\u2018The climate has always been changing\u2019: Sarah Palin, climate change denialism, and American conservatism,<\/span> <span class=\"serial_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/19392397.2019.1667251\" class=\"broken_link\">Celebrity Studies<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. and Crines, A. S. (2018) <em>Republican Orators from Eisenhower to Trump <\/em>(Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan).<\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2018) &#8216;The Rhetoric and Oratory of Sarah Palin&#8217;, in: A. Scott Crines and S. Hatzisavvidou (eds),\u00a0<em>Republican Orators from Eisenhower to Trump, <\/em>(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)<\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2018 &#8211; forthcoming) &#8216;Communicating Sustainability: Shifting Context, Altering Content?&#8217;, in: O. Kramer (ed),\u00a0<em>Recontextualising Knowledge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2017) &#8216;Demanding the Alternative: The Rhetoric of the UK Anti-austerity Movement&#8217;, in: J. Atkins and J.Gaffney (eds),\u00a0<em>Voices of the UK Left. <\/em>(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).<\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2017) &#8216;Reading Heidegger in the Anthropocene&#8217;, in: L, Odysseos and A. Cerella (eds),\u00a0<em>Heidegger and the Global Age.\u00a0<\/em>(London: Rowman and Littlefield).<\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2016)\u00a0<em>Appearances of Ethos in Political Thought. <\/em>(London: Rowman and Littlefield Int.).<\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2016) &#8216;Disputatious Rhetoric and Political Change: The Case of the Greek Anti-mining Movement&#8217;,\u00a0<em>Political Studies,\u00a0<\/em>65, 1, pp.215-230.<\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2015) &#8216;Defending the Indefensible: Obama&#8217;s Rhetoric in the Aftermath of the Torture Report&#8217;,\u00a0<em>Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought,\u00a0<\/em>5, 4. pp. 509-522.<\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2015) &#8216;Disturbing Binaries in Political Thought: Silence as Political Activism&#8217;.\u00a0<em>Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest,\u00a0<\/em>14, 5, pp.509-522.<\/p>\n<p>Hatzisavvidou, S. (2015) &#8216;An Ethos Against Scarcity: Sketching an Ethic of Care and <em>Dike<\/em> for Late Modernity&#8217;.\u00a0<em>Ethics and the Environment,\u00a0<\/em>20, 2, pp.24-47.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrSophiaH\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrSophiaH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\">Darius Wainwright<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-215\" style=\"background-color: transparent;color: #434241;font-family: Open Sans;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;height: 268px;letter-spacing: 0.08px;max-width: 621px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2-300x268.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2.png 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title<\/strong>: Sessional Lecturer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details<\/strong>: darius.wainwright@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research:<\/strong> My principal research interests lie in &#8216;special relationship&#8217;, Anglo-American foreign policy and Iran since 1945. I am particularly interested in how the UK and US used culture to achieve their diplomatic goals in Iran and to attract Iranians towards their respective values and lifestyles. My future research plans are to build on the foundations of my PhD to further examine US foreign policy, specifically cultural diplomacy, as well as on US-Iran relations post-Cold War.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wainwright, D. (2016) &#8216;Equal Partners? The Information Research Department, SAVAK and the Dissemination of Anti-Communist Propaganda in Iran, 1956-68&#8217;,\u00a0<i>The British Journal of Middle Eastern<\/i><i> Studies.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>PhD:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/british-and-us-cultural-diplomacy-and-propaganda-in-iran-1953-1958\/\"><b>British and U<\/b><b>S Cultural Diplomacy and Propaganda in Iran 1953-1958<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistoryDarius\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistoryDarius<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: #009000\"><span class=\"emphasise\">Melanie Khuddro<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-571\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/1-4-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/1-4-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Unorganized\/1-4.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Doctoral Researcher and Sessional Lecturer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details:\u00a0<\/strong>melanie.khuddro@pgr.reading.ac.uk\/ m.khuddro2@reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Research:\u00a0<\/strong>My thesis traces the emergence of New Religious Movements in the US during the 19th century. In particular, I am interested in the establishment of the Christian Science Church and the influential women who were members. Through insisting itself to be an apolitical movement, the political alliances of each of these women were clearly informed by their faith. I seek to draw parallels between the theology and practices of the Church with popular social politics at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Groups: <\/strong>I&#8217;m the project Impact Assistant for the Astor100 research project headed by Dr Jacqui Turner (University of Reading), and Social Media Lead for the year-long Digital Exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Recipient of the American Politics Group Travel Award.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emphasise\">Beth Snyder<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-303\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/IMG_4236-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/IMG_4236-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/IMG_4236-2.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Social Media Editor for the Monroe Group<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Details:\u00a0<\/strong>b.snyder@student.reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><b>Areas of Interest:<\/b> My key interests lie in American and women&#8217;s history, particularly the study of women in positions of leadership and politics. I am currently researching the impact of women in the US cabinet on environmental policy, and I plan to go on to a PhD on First Ladies and environmental politics.<\/p>\n<p>I was awarded a MA with distinction and the Jeanette Martin Prize for Best student of the Year by the University of Reading in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monroe Group Dr Mara Oliva Job Title:\u00a0Lecturer in Modern US History (20th century) Contact Details: m.oliva@reading.ac.uk Areas of Research:\u00a0American political history; US foreign policy; US Presidency; Cold War; role&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#97;&#109;&#101;&#114;&#105;&#99;&#97;&#110;&#45;&#104;&#105;&#115;&#116;&#111;&#114;&#121;&#45;&#112;&#111;&#108;&#105;&#116;&#105;&#99;&#115;&#47;&#109;&#101;&#109;&#98;&#101;&#114;&#45;&#112;&#114;&#111;&#102;&#105;&#108;&#101;&#115;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":208,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-123","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Member Profiles - The Monroe Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/american-history-politics\/member-profiles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Member Profiles - The Monroe Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Monroe Group Dr Mara Oliva Job Title:\u00a0Lecturer in Modern US History (20th century) Contact Details: m.oliva@reading.ac.uk Areas of Research:\u00a0American political history; 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