Graduate Student, History
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Michael Collins
Bernhard Rieger |
About
Hana Qugana (1987) is a graduate student at University College London (UCL) where she studies modern British and European History with an emphasis on intellectual history since the 19th century. Indicative of her academic background in both history and music, she approaches the field from a culturally and sociologically informed perspective. The difficulties associated with making transnational history operational without undermining the agency of national contexts form an additional methodological preoccupation she seeks to address.
Her current research interests include the social dimensions of political economy, theories and critiques of modernity, ideologies vis-à-vis policies of the European Right, and the reciprocal impacts of Empire on both the colonised and the colonisers in relation to the aforementioned ideas. This being said, her Ph.D. project considers the interplay of national and transnational agents of conservative and socialist thought in Interbellum Britain. In particular, it intends to shed light on the role of John Hargrave (1894-1982) and the Kibbo Kift in furthering notions of Englishness and concurrently Social Credit, an economic philosophy engineered by C.H. Douglas (1879-1952) that persisted in political discussions, intellectual circles, and public culture both inside and outside the British Isles throughout the period.
Hana was awarded a Research M.A. cum laude from Leiden University in 2011, where she specialised in the History of European Expansion and Globalisation and was the recipient of a Leiden University Excellence Scholarship. Immediately before taking up graduate work in the Netherlands, she completed her B.A. with a double major in History and Music (Theory and Composition) at the University of Richmond.
Aside from her Ph.D. work, she enjoys playing field hockey with the London Academicals Ladies XI, traveling, making music, photography, cooking and riding her 'oma fiets' around London. She is also co-organising this academic year's instalment of the annual UCL Graduate Workshop titled 'Order and Disorder in the City' slated for the 28th of May 2012.
