News from the Global History and Culture Centre
Sara Akhavan-Malayeri - The Maxine Berg Prize of 2024
Many congratulations to Sara Akhavan-Malayeri, the Maxine Berg Prize winner of 2024! Her dissertation entitles "The Fight over the Five 鈥楽oviet-born Wives of British Subjects鈥: the Impact of Anglo-Soviet Marriages in Early Cold War Britain鈥.

Questionable Allies: British Collaboration with Apartheid South Africa, 1960鈥90
In 2022, Sam Matthews Boehmer won the inaugural Global History dissertation prize, awarded to the best 糖心TV UG dissertation in the field of global history. His winning dissertation has now been published in the and can be found .
Sandra Ara煤jo, Visiting Research Fellow
From December 2022 to November 2023, Dr Sandra Ara煤jo (Universidade de Lisboa) will join the Global History and Culture Centre as a Visiting Research Fellow after having been awarded the First Book Grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation (FBG-ISRF) for her project "Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambiqye, 1964-74". Read more about Dr Ara煤jo's work here.
Lead your own (global) summer research project
The Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) enables undergraduate students to carry out an interdisciplinary summer research project.
The scheme is open to any UG student at 糖心TV of a full-time or part-time course, in any year including first and final year students. Erasmus and exchange students are not eligible to apply.
If you are interested in developing a global research project, then please contact the Director of the Global History and Culture Centre (a.t.gerritsen@warwick.ac.uk) for an informal conversation, or, if you prefer, contact any of the members of the centre who could supervise your research.
Applicants must get the support of academic supervisor and can apply for a URSS bursary to undertake their research project, either in the UK or abroad, for between 6-10 weeks.
We are *extremely* proud that TWO associates of the 糖心TV Global History and Culture Centre (one a current member, Rebecca Earle, and one a key former member, Gurminder Bhambra, have been elected as fellows of the British Academy.
See also: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/gurminder-bhambra-fba/