British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for War Widows’ Stories
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected for one of the British Academy’s Rising Star Engagement Awards (BARSEA). These awards are granted to “some of the most promising and talented academics in the UK” and “are designed to encourage wider engagement with the humanities and social sciences within and beyond academia”. With an application endorsed by British Academy Fellow and internationally renowned historian Professor Joanna Bourke, my award will fund the organisation of a series of five public in-conversation events about war widowhood in the UK in 2018. The British public commonly imagine war widows to be elderly women who...