Dr Kara Critchell
Senior Lecturer in History; Programme Leader BA History
Dr Kara Critchell is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Chester. She is an interdisciplinary modern British and European historian who explores the cultural legacies, and representations, of conflict, political violence and genocide across national and transnational landscapes.
Dr Critchell has designed, and delivered, a variety of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as contributing to team taught core modules across the History programme.
Kara is able to offer postgraduate (MRes and MPhil/PhD) supervision in the following areas:
- The Holocaust
- The history, memory and representation of genocide
- The body as site of violence
- Memory and memorialisation of death
- Race, eugenics and immigration in Britain
- Perpetrators of genocide, political violence and mass killings
- Sexual violence committed during times of war and genocide
Kara's research interests lie in genocide studies, the history of the body, landscapes of violence and the memorialisation of conflict. In particular she is interested in exploring sensory interactions with nature in genocidal, and post-genocidal, landscapes. Kara has published on areas related to Holocaust memory and education, genocide in British memory and, more recently, the fractured nature of societal grief following the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Remembering and Forgetting: The Holocaust in 21st Century Britain”, Quest: Contemporary Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, (December 2016).
“’Proud to be British; and proud to be Jewish’: The Holocaust and British values in the twenty-first century”, Holocaust Studies, (October 2018).
- BA (Southampton)
- MA (Southampton)
- PhD (Winchester)