Hans W. Gatzke '38 Professor of Modern European History

B.A. (1977) California State University

Ph.D. (1985) Harvard University

 

Christopher.M.Waters@williams.edu

Stetson H18

413.597.2524

 

Office Hours

Monday 1:30-3:00, Wednesday 2:15-3:45, Thursday 10-11

 

Courses

HIST 228: Europe in the Twentieth Century

HIST 301A: History, Theory, Practice

HIST 332: Britain 1688- 1832: industrialization, Social Change, and Political Transformation

HIST 333: Britain 1832- 1901: Victorian Culture and Society

HIST 334: Britain 1901-1945: War, Peace, and National Decline

HIST 335: Class, Gender and Race in Post-1945 Britain

HIST 394: Comparative Masculinities: Britain and the United States Since 1800

HIST 490T: History, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Collective Memory

 

Research

I am currently at work on two book-length projects, tentatively entitled:

History and Heritage: Collective Memory and the Working-Class Past in Twentieth-Century Britain.

Queer Treatments: The Rise and Fall of the Therapeutic Ideal in Twentieth-Century Britain.

 

Thesis Students

Emma Golden '06

Ikem Joseph '06

Anastasia Hryhorczuk '98

 

Selected Publications

Books:

Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964 co-edited with an introduction by Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, and Chris Waters (London: Rivers Oram Press; New York: New York University Press, 1999.   Precis

British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture,1884-1918 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990).

Articles and Essays:

"Sexology," in H.G. Cocks and Matt Houlbrook, eds., Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

"New Women and Eugenic Fictions,"History Workshop Journal 60 (Fall 2005).

"Henry Hyde Champion," The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

"Sexuality and the Social Body Between the Wars," History and Theory 42 (February 2003)

"Autobiography, Nostalgia, and the Practices of Working-Class Selfhood," in George Behlmer and Fred Leventhal, eds., Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Society in Modern Britain (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).

"Representations of Everyday Life: L.S. Lowry and the Landscape of Memory in Postwar Britain," Representations (1998).

"Disorders of the Mind, Disoders of the Body Social: Peter Wildeblood and the Making of the Modern Homosexual," in Conekin, Mort, and Waters, eds., Moments of Modernity (see above), 121-150.

"Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud and the State: Discourses of Homosexual Desire in Interwar Britain," in Laura Doan and Lucy Bland, eds., Cultural Sexology: Labelling Bodies and Desires, 1890-1940 (1998).

"Homosexualities" (with Laura Doan), Introduction and selection of documents in part two of Lucy Bland and Laura Doan, eds., Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science (Cambridge: Polity Press; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 39-72.

"Ethnicity, Religion and Wealth: A Commentary on the Uses of Max Weber," in David J. Jeremy, ed., Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain (London: Routledge, 1998), 182-186.

"'Dark Strangers in Our Midst': Discourses of Race and Nation in Britain, 1947-1963," Journal of British Studies (1997).

"The Pink and the Black: Race and Sex in Postwar Britain," Transition (1996).

"Raymond Williams Towards 2000," Victorian Studies (1994).

"J.B. Priestley: Englishness and the Politics of Nostalgia," in Peter Mandler and Susan Pedersen, eds., After the Victorians (1994).