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Biography
Dr Sophie Joscelyne obtained her PhD in American History at the University of Sussex. This project was awarded full funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Between 2021 and 2023, she worked as Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex, where she taught widely on modern US history, politics, culture, and foreign policy. She is currently working on her first monograph, which uncovers the importance of the concept of “totalitarianism” in US intellectual life after 1960. She is also developing a new project on neoconservatism and human rights in the late twentieth century. Her work has appeared in the journal Modern Intellectual History and H-Diplo. She has received prestigious funding awards to support archival research and presentations in, among other places, Austin, Berkeley, Chicago, and Norman, Oklahoma.
Teaching Summary
Undergraduate:
AMER0095: The United States Empire: Place and Power in US Foreign Relations
Postgraduate Taught:
AMER0106: Free Bound: Ideas of cod War Foreigh Policy
AMER0057: Researchng the Americas
Links:
Modern Intellectual History | journal website
H-Diplo | journal website
