School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

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Jodi Burkett is Lecturer in History.  She joined the University of Portsmouth in 2010 and is Level One Co-ordinator.  She has previously taught at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University and Leeds Metropolitan University.  Jodi has also taught at York and McGill Universities in Canada where she completed her MA and PhD.  Jodi’s research explores left-wing extra-parliamentary organisations including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Union of Students and a number of groups within the Northern Irish civil rights movement.  She is particularly interested in how predominantly white, middle-class members of the political left-wing have conceptualised British national identity with the end of empire.  Specifically she is interested in how members of these organisations interactions with, and response to, immigrants and people of colour and explores how this has informed their sense of their own racial and national identity in a comparative context. 

Qualifications:

• PhD History (York University, Canada) 2009
• MA History (McGill University, Canada) 2004
• Honours BA with High Distinction (University of Toronto, Canada) 2002

Recent publications include:

‘Re-defining British morality: ‘Britishness’ and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 1958-1968’, Twentieth Century British History, 21: 2 (June 2010) 184-205.

‘Direct Action and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ in NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-state Actors in Society and Politics since 1945. Hilton, Matthew, Nicholas Crowson, & James McKay eds. (Palgrave, 2009)