Alexander Watson
Professor
History
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
BA(Hons) in Modern History, University of Oxford, 2000 DPhil in History, University of Oxford, 2005 Prof Watson has won several prestigious research fellowships to advance his work on East-Central Europe. In 2005-8, he was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship which he held from 2008-11, also at Cambridge University. In 2011-13, he held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at Warsaw University, Poland.
Research Interest
Prof Alexander Watson’s current research focuses on conflict and identity in East-Central Europe. He is interested in all social, cultural and military aspects of ‘total war’, and in the rise of national consciousness, minority integration and pre-Holocaust plans of ethnic cleansing. He has written extensively on these topics, concentrating particularly on the era of the First World War.
Publications
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‘Indecisive Victory? German and British Soldiers at the Armistice, 11th November 1918’ Watson, Alexander. 2013. ‘Indecisive Victory? German and British Soldiers at the Armistice, 11th November 1918’. In: Kate Kennedy and Trudi Tate, eds. The Silent Morning: Memory, Culture and the Armistice, November 1918. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, pp. 286-308. ISBN 978-0719090028
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Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918 Watson, Alexander. 2008. Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521881012
