Courses & Learning
Academic Staff
‘Ben’, Pink Dandelion, BA, PhD
Publications include:
A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers: the silent revolution. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996 (Studies in Religion and Society No. 34)
with Margery Post Abbott, Mary Ellen Chijioke, and John Oliver (eds), The Historical Dictionary of Quakerism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003
with Douglas Gwyn, Rachel Muers, Brian Phillips, and Richard Sturm, Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004
The Creation of Quaker Theory: insider perspectives (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004
The Liturgies of Quakerism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
Introduction to Quakerism. Cambridge: CUP, 2007
With Jackie Leach Scully, eds, Good and Evil: Quaker perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
The Quakers: a very short introduction. Oxford: OUP, 2008.
Research Interests: Present-day Quakerism; Sociology of religion.
Catie Gill, BA, PhD
Publications include:
Articles for the New Dictionary of National Biography:Thomas Aldam, Edward Burrough, Hester Biddle [co-authored with Elaine Hobby], William Dewsbury, Mary Dyer, Elizabeth Fletcher, Mary Forster, Sarah Gibbons, Francis Howgill, Richard Hubberthorne, Mary Mollineux, Mary Pope, Mary Prince, William Rogers, John Stubbs, Theophila Townsend, Dorothy Waugh, Anne Wentworth, Dorothy White, Anne Whitehead (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2004)
‘Identities in Quaker Women’s Writing, 1652-1660’, Women’s Writing, 9 (2002): 267-283
“Ministering Confusion”: rebellious Quaker women’, Quaker Studies 9 (2004): 17-30
Women in the Seventeenth Century Quaker Community: a literary study of political identities 1650 – 1700. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Research Interests: Women’s writing; Representations of gender in the early modern period; the relationship between literature and history; Radical religious movements in the Civil War period and Interregnum.
Betty Hagglund, BA, MA, PhD
Publications include:
‘Celia Fiennes’ and ‘Kate Marsden’ in The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003: 434-435 & 772-773
‘Jane Elizabeth Moore’, ‘Sarah Murray’ and ‘Cassandra Willoughby’ in New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004)
“Not absolutely a native nor entirely a stranger”: the journeys of Anne Grant’ in Tim Youngs and Glenn Hooper (eds), Perspectives on Travel Writing. London: Ashgate, 2004: 41-54
‘Interrupted Travelling: the captivity diaries of Mary and Martha Russell’ in Emin Ozcan (ed.), Sinirlar ve Geçitler. Ankara: University of Ankara, 2004: 111-11'
‘Travel Writing as Domestic Ritual’, Mind and Human Interaction (University of Virginia), vol. 14, no. 1 (2005): 64-70
Research Interests: Travel writing; Origins of early Quakerism; Quaker texts; women’s writing.
Pam Lunn, BA, PGCE, MA
Publications include:
‘You Have Lost Your Opportunity: British Quakers and the militant phase of the women’s suffrage campaign: 1906-1914.’ Quaker Studies 2 (1997): 30-56
‘Anatomy and Theology of Marriage: is gay marriage an oxymoron?’ Theology and Sexuality 7 (1997):10-26
‘Integrating Gender, Faith and Learning: women’s mid-life passage in the experience of some Quaker and Roman Catholic adult students.’ Quaker Studies 4 (1999): 142-156
‘Narratives of a Gendered Self: class, interiority and women’s educational desires’ in Pauline Anderson and Jenny Williams (eds), Identity and Difference in Higher Education: outsiders within. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001: 107-120
‘The Age of Learning and Skills: postmodernism, vocationalism and the disappearance of Rita’ in Diana Leonard (ed.), The Politics of Gender and Education Conference Proceedings 2001. London: Centre for Research and Education on Gender, Institute of Education, University of London, 2002: 90-95.
Research Interests: Self-narratives of mature women students; Issues in narration of religious belief and identity (including spiritual auto/biography); Methodological issues in life-narrative research; Nineteenth century Quaker women social reformers; Life of Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815-1906).
Rosemary Moore, MA, DipTheol, CertEd., BD, PhD
Publications include:
The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain 1646-1666. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Co-operating Editor, Protestant Nonconformist Texts Vol. I, 1600-1700. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.
Co-editor of a forthcoming selected edition with historical and theological introduction of the works of Isaac Penington. London: Quaker Books, 2004.
‘Seventeenth Century Published Quaker Verse.’ Quaker Studies 9 (2004): 5-16
Editor, new edition of The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood. London: Sacred Literature Series of the International Sacred Literature Trust, forthcoming, 2005.
Research Interests: Seventeenth Century Quaker History.
Edwina Newman, BA, PhD
Publications include:
‘The Anti Corn Law League and the Wiltshire Labourer: aspects of the development of nineteenth century protest’ in Land, Labour and Agriculture 1700-1920, ed. by B.Holderness and M.Turner (London: Hambledon Press, 1991)
With A. Randall, ‘Protest, Proletarians and Paternalists. Social conflict in rural Wiltshire 1830-1850’, Rural History, 6 (1995)
‘John Brewin’s Tracts: the written word, Evangelicalism and the Quaker way in nineteenth century England’, Quaker Studies, 9/2 (March 2005)
Research Interests: Quakers’ relationship with books and reading; understanding eighteenth and nineteenth century English Quakers in their historical context; the representation of Quakers in the Old Bailey Proceedings; English rural society in the nineteenth century.
In addition to specific research interests, staff are able to supervise research across the varied areas of Quaker Studies, as well as topics in Literary Studies, History, Women’s Studies, and the Sociology of Religion.
The CPQS Advisory Panel currently consists of, alphabetically:
Richard Allen, Department of History, University of Sunderland
Peter Collins, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
Elaine Hobby, Department of English and Drama, University of Loughborough
Roger Homan, School of Education, University of Brighton
Hugh McLeod, Department of History, University of Birmingham
Michael Mullett, Department of History, Lancaster University
Rachel Muers, Department of Theology, University of Exeter
Janet Scott, Homerton College, Cambridge University
Angus Winchester, Department of History, Lancaster University
To find out more, please contact Ben Pink Dandelion, Programmes Leader, CPQS, at Woodbrooke.
tel: + 44 (0) 121 415 6782
fax: + 44 (0) 121 472 5173
e-mail: B.P.Dandelion@bham.ac.uk (Tuesday to Thursday)
You can apply online at www.postgraduate.bham.ac.uk/apply.htm
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