Dr ELIZABETH MACKNIGHT

Dr ELIZABETH MACKNIGHT The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 273885 pref e.macknight@abdn.ac.uk pref School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
King's College
University of Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
Room: Crombie Annexe G08

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Biography

Dr Elizabeth Macknight is an Australian academic who received her BA (1st Class Hons.) from the University of Tasmania in 1998 and her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2003. She was subsequently awarded a Bourse de Troisième Cycle by the French Government, which enabled her to complete a DEA with distinction at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in 2004. In 2005–6 she returned to teach in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, before taking up a lectureship at the University of Aberdeen in January 2007. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 2010 was selected as a participant and prizewinner in the Scottish Crucible programme sponsored by NESTA, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Scottish Funding Council.

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Research Interests

French history, nobilities in Europe, archival theory and practices

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Current Research

Dr Macknight's next book, due to be completed in spring 2013, is a study of aristocratic landownership, which uncovers the experiences of provincial nobles in rural communities both during and after the French Revolution. She has recently finished an article on écoles libres established by lay Catholics with the help of religious orders. She will be on research leave in the first half of 2013 to complete a number of new projects including editing the diary of a French cavalry officer from the First World War.

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Collaborations

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (2010-12) Co-operative Education Trust Scotland-University of Aberdeen: to promote understanding of co-operative, mutual, and employee-owned business models within tertiary education, filling the current gap and broadening CETS’s offering to the education sector. Sponsored by the Scottish Government and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Our film: 'Join the co-op future'

   

The three books resulting from the KTP are an undergraduate text about co-operatives and employee ownership, a guide to setting up a co-operative for students and graduates, and a multidisciplinary edited collection featuring essays by fourteen international scholars. These are open access resources accompanied by a Virtual Learning Environment for co-operative studies.

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Research Grants

£132,830 grant income raised for the period 2007-11 including Knowledge Transfer Partnership (£109,000), Commercialisation Award (£7,160) and Research Grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (£2,470)

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Teaching Responsibilities

HI-1022 Europe in the Twentieth Century

HI-2020 Birth of Modernity: Politics, Culture and Science in Europe, 1700-1870

HI-2520 Global Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century

HI-304M Power and Traditions: France 1799-1900 (co-ordinator)

HI-351H Conflict and its Legacies: France 1900-2007 (co-ordinator)

HI-4015 The French Revolution (co-ordinator)

HI-4515 General Historical Problems

 

Current PhD supervision:

Theresa Antoff - Lust, marriage and murder in eighteenth-century Scotland

Françoise Kunka - French émigrés in nineteenth-century Britain

Jenny Grieve-Laing - Russian emigration and the Zemgor

 

Completed PhD supervision:

Catherine O'Byrne - An oral history of women in the North-Sea oil industry (PhD graduate, University of Aberdeen 2010)

John Barrett - Clearances in Moray (PhD graduate, University of Aberdeen 2012)

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External Responsibilities

Editorial Board member Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques

Director, Board of Co-operative Education Trust Scotland Scottish company No: 284099 Registered Charity No: SCO36543

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Macknight, EC. (2011). 'Archives, Heritage, and Communities'. Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol 37, no. 2, pp. 105-122.
  [Online] DOI: 10.3167/hrrh.2011.370208
• Macknight, EC. (2009). 'Honor and the Military Formation of French Noblemen, 1870-1920'. Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol 35, no. 3, pp. 95-114.
  [Online] DOI: 10.3167/hrrh.2009.350307
• Macknight, EC. (2008). 'A 'Theatre of Rule'? Domestic Service in Aristocratic Households under the Third Republic'. French History, vol 22, no. 3, pp. 316-336.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/fh/crn028
• Macknight, EC. (2007). 'Faiths, Fortunes and Feminine Duty. Charity in Parisian High Society 1880-1914'. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol 58, no. 3, pp. 482-506.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S0022046906008967
• Macknight, EC. (2007). 'Why Weren't They Feminists? Parisian Noble Women and the Campaigns for Women's Rights in France, 1880-1914'. European Journal of Women's Studies, vol 14, no. 2, pp. 127-141.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/1350506807075818
• Macknight, EC. (2006). 'In Memory of Myriad Selves. The Baronne Mathilde de Mackau (1837-1886)'. Magistra, vol 12, no. 1, pp. 46-72.
• Macknight, EC. (2005). 'Cake and Conversation. The Women's Jour in Parisian High Society, 1880-1914'. French History, vol 19, no. 3, pp. 342-363.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/FH/CRI034

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Macknight, EC. (2012). 'Credit and community'. in: The Co-operative Model in Practice. International Perspectives. Co-operative Education Trust Scotland, Glasgow, pp. 19-28.

Peer-Reviewed Chapters

• McDonnell, DP. & Macknight, EC. (in press). 'Policy, principle, and practice: co-operative studies in higher education'. T Woodin (ed.), in: Co-operation, Learning and Co-operative Values. Contemporary Issues in Education. Routledge.
• Macknight, EC. (in press). 'Emotions and Rituals: Responses to Death among the Nobility in Modern France'. B Fowkes Tobin & M Daly Goggin (eds), in: Women and the Material Culture of Death. Ashgate.
• Macknight, EC. (2009). 'A Touch of Distinction: Furnishing French Aristocratic Homes in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'. B Fowkes Tobin & M Daly Goggin (eds), in: Material Women 1750-1950: Consuming Desires and Collecting Practices. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 75-91.
• Macknight, EC. (2005). 'Aristocratic Affairs. Bringing Gender into Historical Research on the Nobility'. in: Women in Research Conference Proceedings. Central Queensland University, Gladstone, pp. 1-10.

Books and Reports

Books

• Macknight, EC. (2012). 'Aristocratic families in republican France, 1870-1940'. Manchester University Press, Manchester.
• McDonnell, DP. & Macknight, EC. (2012). 'The Co-operative Model in Practice. International Perspectives'. Co-operative Education Trust Scotland, Glasgow.
• McDonnell, DP., Macknight, EC. & Donnelly, H. (2012). 'Co-operative Entrepreneurship'. Co-operative Education Trust Scotland, Glasgow.
• McDonnell, DP., Macknight, EC. & Donnelly, H. (2012). 'Democratic Enterprise. Ethical Business for the 21st Century'. Co-operative Education Trust Scotland, Glasgow.
• Macknight, EC. (2005). 'Melbourne University Credit Union : Past, Present, and Future'. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria.

Contributions to Specialist Publications

Special Issues

• Macknight, EC. (ed.) (2011). 'Gender, History, and Heritage in Ireland and Scotland : Medieval to Modern'. Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques.
  [Online] DOI: 10.3167/hrrh.2011.370201

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