Professor Abigail Green

Position

Professor of Modern European History

Academic Background and Previous Positions 

Before my appointment at Brasenose College, I was a Title A Fellow at St. John's College Cambridge. 

Undergraduate Teaching

British and European History, 19 and early 20CC.

Graduate Teaching

I am co-convenor of the Long 19^th Century Seminar and teach on the MSt and MPhil in Modern British and European History. I am keen to supervise projects that relate to my research interests, broadly configured.

Research Interests

The long 19^th century, especially nationalism and regionalism in 19^th century Germany; Jewish internationalism and comparative religious internationalisms; humanitarian philanthropy and the pre-history of human rights; liberalism.

Publications include

Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (2010). Sami Rohr Choice Award Winner 2012, A New Republic Best Book of 2010, and A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

Fatherlands: State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany. (2001). Shortlisted, Das historische Buch 2002.

(ed. with Vincent Viaene) Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750 (Palgrave Transnational History series, 2012)

The Historical Journal 57:4 (2014) 1157-1175:  ‘Humanitarianism in nineteenth-century context: religious, gendered, national’.

History of European Ideas 40 (2014) 747-760: ‘Spirituality, tradition and gender: Judith Montefiore, the very model of modern Jewish womanhood’.

International History Review 36:3 (2014) 473-492: ‘The limits of intervention: coercive diplomacy and the Jewish question in the 19^th century’.

Past & Present 199 (May, 2008) 175-205: ‘The British Empire and the Jews: an imperialism of human rights?’

Comparative Studies in Society and History 50: 2 (April, 2008) 535-558: ‘Nationalism and the “Jewish International”: religious internationalism in Europe and the Middle East c.1840-1880’.

Email address

abigail.green@bnc.ox.ac.uk  

Links

http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/staff/profile/green.html