Professor Peter Gatrell FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Summary
Following graduate study at the University of Cambridge and Kiev State University, Peter Gatrell has spent his entire academic career at the University of Manchester, where he was appointed in 1976 and where he has taught a variety of subjects including 19th and 20th century Russian history, European economic history, the social and cultural history of modern war and, for the past 15 years, the history of mass population displacement in the modern world. He has directed several research projects on population displacement, state-building and social identity in the aftermath of the two world wars. In July 2018 he started a three-year collaborative research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, entitled Reckoning with refugeedom: refugee voices in modern history, 1919 to 1975, which inter alia draws upon the extensive individual case files held by UNHCR, Geneva.
Peter Gatrell is affiliated to the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). He has served on the ESRC Research Grants Board and on the AHRC Postgraduate Awards Committee. Between 2010 and 2014 he chaired Sub-Panel 27 (Area Studies) for REF 2014 and was ex officio a member of Main Panel D (Humanities). In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Current post
University of Manchester Professor of Economic History
Past appointments
University of Manchester Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Economic History
Publications
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
Peter Gatrell - Published in 2019 by Penguin Books Ltd
Europe on the Move: Refugees in the Era of the Great War, 1912-1923
Ed. by Peter Gatrell and Liubov Zhvanko - Published in 2017 by Manchester University Press
Free World? The Campaign to Save the World’s Refugees, 1956-1963
Peter Gatrell - Published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press
Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945-1950
Ed. by Peter Gatrell and Nick Baron - Published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan
Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History
Peter Gatrell - Published in 2005 by Routledge
Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924
Ed. by Peter Gatrell and Nick Baron - Published in 2004 by Anthem Press
A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during the First World War
Peter Gatrell - Published in 1999 by Indiana University Press
Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism
Peter Gatrell - Published in 1994 by Cambridge University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Patricia Clavin FBA
The international and transnational history of the 20th and 21st centuries; internationalism and global organisations, notably the League of Nations; European and US foreign policies, reappraising notions of security; the Great Depression
Professor Alison Bashford FBA
Modern world history; 19th and 20th century environmental history; population and historical thought
Professor Nicola Miller FBA
The history of Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries, especially intellectual life, knowledge and culture; comparative history of nationalism and national identity; transnational and global history
