Thesis Title: Master's thesis (2005)"Religion, Modernity & the Cold War: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Foreign Policy discourse in the Truman Era"
About
As an independent historian, the concluding chapter of Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative contains two phrases which inform my thinking:
“one time, one humanity, one history”(English translation, vol. 3, p. 258) -whether we call it world, global or even universal history, the various levels of encounters between peoples that take place in the vast canvas of human history, how ideas travel in time and space, and most importantly the various types of histories written on the subject fascinate me.
”…life itself, a cloth woven of stories told” (vol.3, p.246) - how metaphors allow past memories to surface to the present, collapsing the boundaries of time, is another source of wonder, as therein lie the fount of oft forgotten narratives. Working at a day job that involves the proofreading or translation of academic texts on textile history, both ancient and modern, the vast amount of textile-related metaphors in our language continues to amaze me.
How the new digital media influence our abilities to present history, with images and sounds (and perhaps even touch someday) rounding off written texts, opening up dialogue with a vaster public, as well as with a wider group of colleagues around the world, and above all what it does to time, narrative and memory is another subject that intrigues me - despite being a technophobe.
Education: MA (History) University of Copenhagen; MA (Area Studies N&ME) SOAS, London; B.Soc.Sc. (International Studies) University of Birmingham, UK.
