John Anderson
Professor
School of History
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
John Anderson gained his PhD from LSE in 1986 and had a six-month post-doctoral study period at Moscow State University in 1987. From 1986 to 1991 he taught at LSE, Westminster, Middlesex and Edinburgh universities before taking up a position at the University of St Andrews in 1991. In 2005, he was promoted to professor.
Research Interest
religion and politics in the countries of the former Soviet Union
Publications
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2011. ‘Conservative Christianity, the global south, and the battle over sexual orientation’, Third World Quarterly, 32:9, 1589-1605.
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2015. ‘On very slippery ground: the British churches, Archbishop Fisher, and the Suez crisis’, Contemporary British History, 29:3, 341-58.
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1999. Kyrgyzstan: Central Asia’s Island of Democracy? (Harwood)
