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词条 Michael Heffernan (academic)
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  1. Career

  2. Honours and awards

  3. Selected publications

  4. References

Michael John Heffernan, FBA (born 7 June 1959) is a historical geographer and academic. Since 1999, he has been Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham.

Career

Born on 7 June 1959, Michael John Heffernan graduated from the University of Wales in Swansea in 1980. He then completed his doctorate at St John's College, Cambridge; his PhD was awarded in 1987 for his thesis "The politics of literacy: cultural change and political responses in nineteenth-century provincial France." Heffernan joined Loughborough University as a lecturer in 1985, and was promoted to senior lecturer five years later, then to a readership in 1995. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham.[1][2]

According to his British Academy profile, Heffernan's research focuses on "the history of geography and cartography" and "the historical geography of France and the French Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries".[3] More specifically, he has studied citizenship and national identity in late-19th- and early-20th-century France and Germany, as well as topics of war and memory between the First and Second World Wars, both with geographical and landscape dimensions, as well as the role of maps and the media in modern, western Europe.[4]

Honours and awards

In 2015, Heffernan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[3]

Selected publications

  • The Meaning of Europe: Geography and Geopolitics (Edward Arnold, 1998).

References

1. ^"", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 1 July 2018.
2. ^"The politics of literacy : cultural change and political responses in nineteenth-century provincial France", University of Cambridge Library. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
3. ^[https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-mike-heffernan "Professor Mike Heffernan"], British Academy. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
4. ^[https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/people/mike.heffernan "Michael Heffernan"], University of Nottingham. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
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