The project fused intellectual history and biography to investigate four key issues: the increased engagement of intellectuals with the American public in the 1930s and 1940s; the conflict between the Old and New Left in the 1950s and 1960s; the tensions between the intellectual right and left in the 1970s and 1980s; and the role of public intellectuals during and after the Cold War. Additionally, the project asks what Kristol’s later works can tell us about the nature of American capitalism.
Awards | Grants | Scholarships | Funding
My project is funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship
June 2021: BFWG Caroline Coignou Award
March 20212: BAAS Postgraduate Short-Term Research Assistance Award, the John D. Lees Award
March 2021: HOTCUS Travel Award
Conference papers and presentations
- June 2021: “Irving Kristol and the Urban Crisis: Understanding how the Great Society Shaped the Development of Neoconservatism,” Historians Of Twentieth Century United States.
- March 2021: Heidelberg Spring Academy
- February 2021: “An American Journalist in London: How the English Conservative Tradition Shaped Irving Kristol’s Neoconservative Thought,” Historians Of Twentieth Century United States Winter Symposium.
Conference and event organisation
June 2021: UCL Americas Research Network Conference: Histories of Inequality
Publications
September 2021: “Antti Lepistö, The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism: The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment,” Book review for USSO here.
May 2021: “Nancy Sinkoff, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History,” Journal of American Studies, 55 (2), E14. Doi: 10.1017/S0021875821000177.
Beyond the cultural Cold War: 'Encounter' and the post‑war emergence of Anglo‑American conservatism. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, March 2021
Teaching
Associate Fellow AFHEA | PGTA 2020-2023
Media appearances and citations
- October 2020: Emily Hull, “I’d Rather Vote for a Tuna Fish Sandwich: The Never Trumpers and the 2020 Election,” U.S. Studies Online
- June 2020: Emily Hull, “Where is Irving Kristol?” Society for U.S. Intellectual History
E-mail: emily.hull.13@ucl.ac.uk