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Professor Tim Cole
Professor of Social History, Head of Subject
Office: 2.40, 13 Woodland Rd
Phone: +44 (0)117 928 9781
Email: tim.cole@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
His research interests lie broadly within the area of Holocaust Studies. He is specifically interested in the implementation of the Holocaust in Hungary, particularly the spatiality of ghettoization and questions of gender and the Holocaust. He is also interested in contemporary representations of the Holocaust, especially within memorial and museum space.
He has published books on the spatiality of ghettorization in Budapest, social histories of the Hungarian Holocaust and Holocaust representation, as well as writing essays and articles on related themes. He is currently working on a new book - Holocaust Landscapes - that examines the Holocaust through the sites where it was enacted, experienced and has been remembered (and forgotten).
Research supervision
Welcomes research proposals, in particular within Holocaust Studies. Firstly, the history of the Holocaust with particular reference to the implementation of ghettoization, native collaboration, spatiality and the Holocaust, gender and the Holocaust, and the Holocaust in Hungary. Secondly, the history of the representation of the Holocaust in post-1945 Europe, Israel and the United States. More broadly, Tim welcomes proposals focused on historic landscapes and heritage landscapes.
Recently supervised students' topics include:
- The reception of Holocaust survivors in 1950s America
- The discourses engendered by Holocaust film in Italy
- Landscapes of exclusion and resistance in Vichy France
- The Greening of the Ministry of Defence
- Bystanders to the Holocaust in Budapest
- Animal and social histories of Bristol Zoo
Selected publications
- Images of the Holocaust: The Myth of the 'Shoah Business' (1999) / Selling the Holocaust. From Auschwitz to Schindler. How History is Bought, Packaged, and Sold (1999)
- Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto (2003)
- Militarized Landscapes: From Gettysburg to Salisburg Plain (2010) edited with Chris Pearson and Peter Coates
- Traces of the Holocaust. Journeying in and out of the Ghettos (2011)
Full publications
Full list of Dr Cole's publications since 1995 as held in the University's IRIS publications database.
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