Mara Oliva

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Associate Professor
Director of MA in History
Postgraduate supervision
I have supervised many MA dissertations on 20th century US history
I am currently supervising two PhD students:
- Dafydd Townley: Spies, Civil Liberties, and the Senate: The 1975 Church Committee'
- Darius Wainwright: Cultural diplomacy, soft power, the 'special relationship', foreign policy, Middle East history
- American political history;
- US foreign policy;
- US Presidency;
- Cold War; role of domestic politics in US foreign policy making (especially public opinion and media);
- Sino-American relations;
- Sino-American culture in the US;
- Climate Change Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy, Digital Humanities.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Part One:
- contribution to Journeys Through History 1 & Research Skills and Opportunities;
- Option: From Berlin to Baghdad: The Origins of the War on Terror
Part Two Option:
- The American Dream? US History from Colonial Times to late twentieth century
Part Three Option:
- The US and the Cold War
Special Subject:
- The US and China in the historical context
Postgraduate
- Contribution to MA programme core modules;
- option: US Foreign Policy in 20th & 21st centuries
Professional bodies/affiliations
I am the Vice-Chair of the of the American Politics Group (APG)
I am co-director of The Monroe Group
Member of:
- Historians of the Twentieth Century US (HOTCUS)
- British Association of American Studies (BAAS)
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
Further information:
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Publications
- Oliva, M. (2022) City diplomacy: the New York World's Fair of 1939/40. AMPS Proceedings Series , 24 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN: 2398-9467
- Snyder, B. and Oliva, M. (2021) A maternal brand of environmentalism: Carol Browner’s gendered leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency. Journal of Women's History ISSN: 1527-2036
- Oliva, M. (2020) Nixon in China. In: Morgan, I. and White, M. , (eds.) The Presidential Image: A History from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump. I.B. Tauris , London. ISBN: 97811788313599
- Oliva, M. (2019) Much ado about nothing: Trump and China. In: Oliva, M. and Shanahan, M. , (eds.) The Trump Presidency - From Campaign to World Stage. The Evolving American Presidency Palgrave Macmillan , New York. ISBN: 9783319963242 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96325-9
- Oliva, M. and Shanahan, M. , eds. (2018) The Trump presidency: from campaign trail to world stage. Palgrave MacMillan ISBN: 9783319963242 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96325-9
- Oliva, M. (2018) Eisenhower and American public opinion on China. Palgrave MacMillan ISBN: 9783319761947 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76195-4
- Oliva, M. (2017) The oratory of Dwight D. Eisenhower. In: Crines, A. and Hatzisavvidou, S. , (eds.) Republican orators from Eisenhower to Trump. Rhetoric, Politics and Society Palgrave MacMillan pp. 11-39. ISBN: 9783319685441 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68545-8