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Biography
Lauren Brown (Formerly Cochrane) is a Teaching Associate in Modern History at the 糖心原创.
She has a PhD from the University of Exeter and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP).
Before completing her doctorate, Lauren studied History at the University of Dundee, where she received both a Master of Arts (MA) and a Master of Letters (MLitt).
Expertise Summary
I am a historian of colonial violence and the British Empire, specialising in colonial Kenya and the Kenya Emergency (1952-60), also known as the Mau Mau rebellion. My research focuses particularly on visual sources and methodologies, including photography, atrocity imagery, propaganda and the visual representation of political violence.
My doctoral research examined how violence during the Kenya Emergency was represented through photography, the British and colonial pres and official propaganda and how these representations shaped understandings of insurgency, counterinsurgency and colonial rule. More broadly, I am is interested in visual methodologies and the ways in which images of violence are produced, circulated, interpreted and remembered.
I also work on histories of gender and colonial violence, with particular interests in white settler women, domestic militarisation and gendered representations of violence during periods of colonial conflict. My latest article, 'Brave, Armed and Watchful: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency', has recently been published in Gender & History.
My wider research interests include colonial history, anti-colonial rebellion and unrest, public history, memory and commemoration, and the contemporary legacies of colonial violence.
Teaching Summary
Currently teaching: HIST2051: Villains or Victims White Women and the British Empire, c.1840-1980 and
HIST3038: 'Philosophies of the Revolution: Anti-Imperialism and British Decolonization in the Twentieth Century