Anne Deighton FRHistS is a British historian of the European Union. She is a Emeritus Professor of European International Politics at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Anne Deighton | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | Avi Shlaim |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Modern history |
| Sub-discipline | History of the European Union |
| Institutions | |
Biography
editAnne Deighton was educated at the University of Oxford, where she read modern history during a time when the subject's scope "ended decisively in 1939", and the University of Reading, where her doctoral advisor was Avi Shlaim.[1][2] She worked at the University of Reading (1987–1991) and the Open University as a lecturer and at St Antony's College, Oxford as a NatWest Senior Research Fellow (1991–1997).[1] She later became Reader in European International Politics at Oxford,[3] before being promoted to Professor and eventually Emeritus Professor.[4][5]
Deighton became fellow of Wolfson College,[1] and she was eventually promoted to emeritus fellow.[6] She was the Wiener – Anspach Foundation's Ganshof van der Meersch Chair (1999–2000), having received the support of political scientist Eric Remacle.[3] She has also served as a Jean Monnet Chair in the history of European integration.[1]
As an academic, Deighton specialises in the history of the European Union, especially the history of European integration.[5] In addition to being an editor of several history books on the European Union, she is the author of The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947 (1990), which discusses the United Kingdom's role in the star of the Cold War, particularly in post-war Germany.[5][7] From 2009 to 2011, she hosted the Cyril Foster Lectures at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.[5]
Deighton is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters's History section.[8] She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[9]
Works
edit- Britain and the First Cold War (1990, as editor)[5]
- The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947 (1990)[5]
- Western European Union, 1954-1997, Defence, Security, Integration (1997, as editor)[5]
- WEU, 1948-1998: From the Treaty of Brussels to the Treaty of Amsterdam (1998, as co-editor)[5]
- Widening, Deepening, Acceleration, the European Economic Community, 1957-1963 (1999, as co-editor)[5]
- Building Postwar Europe: National Decision-Makers and European Institutions, 1948-1963 (2003, as editor)[5]
- Securing Europe? Implementing the European Security Strategy (2006, as editor)[5]
- The EC/EU: a World Security Actor? 1957-2007 (2007, as co-editor)[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Doctor Anne DEIGHTON" (PDF). Fondation Wiener-Anspach. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ Deighton, Anne (1 April 2020). "Sorry: Did I Crack A Glass Ceiling?" (PDF). Essay Series on Learning the Scholar's Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars. H-Diplo. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ a b "Anne Deighton – Why history matters : European integration past and present". Fondation Wiener-Anspach (in French). Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ "Anne Deighton". Wolfson College, Oxford. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Anne Deighton". www.politics.ox.ac.uk. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ "Current Fellows". Wolfson College, Oxford. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ "The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany, and the Origins of the Cold War". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ "Utenlandske medlemmer". Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ^ "List of Current Fellows" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 1 January 2024.