Faculty

Martin Francis
Henry R. Winkler Associate Professor of Modern History
Fields: Twentieth-Century British History,
Gender History

Phone: 513-556-2144
Email: martin.francis@uc.edu
Office: 360F McMicken

Martin Francis received a BA from the University of Manchester and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He held several positions in the United Kingdom, most notably at Royal Holloway, University of London, before coming to Cincinnati in 2003. His interests are in the histories of twentieth-century British politics, gender (especially masculinity) in modern Europe and the United States, and British cinema between the 1930s and 1960s. He is currently completing a book for Oxford University Press on the place of the Royal Air Force flyer in British culture between 1939 and 1945. His non-academic interests include travel and fashion.

Selected Courses:
Belonging: Identities in Europe since the Eighteenth Century (graduate)
The Second World War in Britain, France and the USA (graduate)
Masculinities in Britain and the United States since 1850
Gender and Sexuality in Britain since 1850
Twentieth-Century Britain
Twentieth-Century Europe

Selected Publications:
"A Flight from Commitment? Domesticity, Adventure and the Masculine Imaginary in Postwar Britain", Gender and History, vol.19 no.1 (April 2007)

"Tears, Tantrums and Bared Teeth: The Emotional Economy of Three Conservative Prime Ministers 1951-1964", Journal of British Studies, vol.41 no.3 (July 2002)

Ideas and Policies Under Labour, 1945-1951 (Manchester University Press, 1997)