Dr Edward Bujak, FRHistS          
British Studies and History

With his degrees and teaching experience from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Dr Bujak came to Harlaxton in 2001. In addition to the undergraduate programme in British Studies - which he has chaired since 2004 - he teaches courses on British, European, and international history as well as the two world wars. In 2006, he received the Outstanding Teacher Award of the University of Evansville. His research interests include the great estate system in England, the Victorian land reform movement, and landownership in the British Empire. His book, England’s Rural Realms: Landownership and the Agricultural Revolution, was published by I. B. Tauris in 2007. In May 2008, Dr Bujak was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

You can contact Dr Bujak via email at ebujak@harlaxton.ac.uk.

Dr David Green           
British Studies

Dr Green is a graduate of the universities of Exeter (BA) and Nottingham (MA, PhD). Before coming to Harlaxton in 2007 he lived in England, Scotland and Ireland, lecturing at the universities of Sheffield, St Andrews and Trinity College, Dublin. His current research interests lie in later medieval British, Irish and European history including kingship, Plantagenet colonialism and concepts of national identity. He has published the following books: The Black Prince (Tempus, 2001); The Battle of Poitiers, 1356 (Tempus, 2002); Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe (Longman, 2007). He is currently working on a volume on The Hundred Years War for Yale University Press.

Dr Green's email address is dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk.

Dr James Owen           
British Studies

Dr Owen received his PhD in History and his MPhil in European Studies from Girton College, University of Cambridge and his BA in History and Politics from the University of Nottingham. Before joining Harlaxton in 2007, he lived in the United States, teaching World History and Modern British History at Greensboro College, North Carolina. His research interests lie in nineteenth-century British political history, particularly party organization and early 'socialist' movements. He has forthcoming articles on these subjects appearing in Parliamentary History and Labour History Review. Funded by the British Academy, Dr Owen’s most recent research project has focused on parallels between ‘caucus’ politics in Britain and North America.

Dr Owen's email address is jowen@harlaxton.ac.uk.

Dr Helen Snow           
British Studies and English Literature

After undergraduate work at Southampton University and her MA and PhD from the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham in Stratford-upon-Avon, Dr Snow first came to Harlaxton in the early 1990s, taking an active part in the creation and early evolution of the British Studies course as well as teaching Shakespeare and other literature, drama, and creative writing courses. After switching to the Open University for some years, both teaching and advising there, she returned to Harlaxton in 2004 and now combines working at the OU with teaching and advising on British Studies here. Her publications and research interests deal with Shakespeare in performance, gender in Shakespeare, and pedagogy and methodology in higher education, particularly in the field of study abroad (cf. also our conferences).

Dr Snow’s email address is hsnow@harlaxton.ac.uk.

Dr Gordon Kingsley           
British Studies and Principal of Harlaxton College

In a long academic career, Dr Kingsley has been professor of literature and religion at Tulane University, Mississippi College, the University of Louisville, and William Jewell College, all in the United States. At the latter school he also served as academic dean and, for thirteen years, as president. In a study funded by the Exxon Foundation, he was adjudged among the top 5% of America’s 'most effective university leaders'. He holds degrees from Mississippi College (BA), the University of Missouri (MA), and the New Orleans Theological Seminary (BD, ThD), where his research was conducted jointly at Tulane University. He holds honorary doctorates from Mercer University (LittD) and Seinan Gakuin University, Japan (LHD). Though he describes the college presidency as a 'shortcut to illiteracy', he has managed to produce three books and some 100 articles, monographs, and reviews, chiefly in popular religious subjects.

You can email Dr Kingsley at jgkingsley@harlaxton.ac.uk.