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Ross Wilson

Professor of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

Ross Wilson holds a BA (Hons) in Archaeology, an MA by Research in Archaeology and History (York, 2004) and a PhD in Archaeology and History (York, 2008).

I research modern history and heritage, focusing on museums, media and memory in contemporary society. I have written extensively on a wide range of fields but I have concentrated on how individuals and communities form a sense of place in the past and the present. My most recent works include, New York and the First World War: Making an American City (2014), The Language of the Past (2016), Natural History: heritage, place and politics (2017) and Gender and Heritage (2018). I use this research within the Liberal Arts and Humanities programmes that I teach on as I believe that interdisciplinary dialogue can develop innovative teaching and learning experiences.

My research background is varied, taking approaches from archaeology, anthropology, literature and sociology to examine aspects of modern history and its representation in the present. I have research interests in modern British history and the history of the United States and I have written widely on issues of conflict, consumerism, identity, enslavement, literature, museums, heritage, urbanism, landscapes and material culture.

This analysis of cultural history and heritage assesses how individuals and communities use the memory of the conflict to understand current political and social contexts. This work, Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain, was published by Ashgate in July 2013. This investigation builds upon my previous studies of the history and memory of the battlefields of the Western Front. I have conducted extensive research into the experience of British soldiers at the front and behind the lines as well as the representations of this wartime service through historiography, the memorial landscape, film, television, art and literature.

Expertise Summary

My main areas of expertise are within the history and commemoration of the First World War, the representation of the past within contemporary society through museums, media, culture and language and the history of New York.

Teaching Summary

I have an interest in teaching interdisciplinary sessions that allows students to explore issues that mark the past, present and future. The Liberal Arts modules that I convene are designed to engage… read more

Research Summary

My current research examines the history and heritage of health and safety in Britain and the United States, the history and memory of the First World War, the history of New York, digital heritage,… read more

Recent Publications

  • 2024. Immigrants and Minorities. 42, 361-390
  • 2024. Contemporary British History. 39(1), 1-22
  • 2022. . In: Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage Routledge. 582
  • 2022. . In: Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science 550

I have an interest in teaching interdisciplinary sessions that allows students to explore issues that mark the past, present and future. The Liberal Arts modules that I convene are designed to engage students with the wealth of information and perspectives that the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences provide and to utilise these to ask innovative and critical questions. I also have teaching interests in the First World War, New York, heritage studies, memory and urban history and I supervise student projects that cross disciplinary boundaries.

I would welcome any PhD applications that examine the history and memory of the First World War, New York history, modern British and American history and any aspect of memory and heritage studies.

Current Research

My current research examines the history and heritage of health and safety in Britain and the United States, the history and memory of the First World War, the history of New York, digital heritage, memory studies and the role of museums and heritage sites as a mode of social and political reform.

Past Research

In conjunction with this research, I have also been involved with the 1807 Commemorated project at the University of York which provided one of the major assessments of the marking of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in British museums in 2007. This work was published by Routledge in 2011 as Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements.

  • 2024. Immigrants and Minorities. 42, 361-390
  • 2024. Contemporary British History. 39(1), 1-22
  • 2022. . In: Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage Routledge. 582
  • 2022. . In: Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science 550
  • 2022. Routledge.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2020. The Public Historian. 42(4), 121-136
  • 2020. Cambridge University Press.
  • 2020. . In: Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War History, Representations and Memory 236
  • 2020. . In: New York: A Literary History
  • 2020. Wartime Reading in the City, 1914鈥�1918. In: New York: A Literary History Cambridge University Press.
  • ROSS WILSON and JANE CHAPMAN, 2018. War in History. 1-16
  • ROSS WILSON, 2018. . In: Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics 1-19
  • ROSS WILSON and WERA GRAHN, eds., 2018. Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics Routledge.
  • 2018. Journal of War & Culture Studies.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2018. . In: SELENA DALY, MARTINA SALVANTE and VANDA WILCOX, eds., Landscapes of the First World War Palgrave. 81-97
  • ROSS WILSON, 2018. . In: SANDRA L. L脫PEZ VARELA, ed., The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences Wiley.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2017. Journal of American Studies. 915-938
  • ROSS WILSON, 2017. The American Experience of the Great War, 1914-1918. In: The Art of Devastation: Medallic Art and Posters of the Great War American Numismatic Society. 1-15
  • 2017. . In: Commemorative Spaces of the First World War Historical Geographies at the Centenary Routledge. 190-208
  • ROSS WILSON, 2017. Natural History: heritage, place and politics Routledge.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2016. . In: Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory Palgrave. 237-248
  • ROSS WILSON, 2016. . In: Memory, Place and Identity: commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict Routledge. 221-235
  • ROSS WILSON, 2016. The Language of the Past Bloomsbury.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2015. European Comic Art. 8(2), 83-102
  • ROSS WILSON, 2015. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 21(5), 476-492
  • ROSS WILSON, 2015. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 21
  • ROSS WILSON, 2015. Memory Studies. 8(4), 454-469
  • ROSS WILSON, 2015. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. 2(1), 72-78
  • ROSS WILSON, 2015. It still goes on: football and the heritage of the Great War in Britain. In: Sport Heritage Routledge. 10-25
  • ROSS WILSON, 2014. Media, War & Conflict. 7(3), 291-308
  • ROSS WILSON, 2014. Seeing and Witnessing: Women and the Great War in Britain. In: From Fields to Factories: Women鈥檚 Work on the Home Front in the First World War 7-18
  • ROSS WILSON, 2014. . In: Great War in Post-Memory Literature, Drama and Film 43-58
  • ROSS WILSON, 2014. . In: Remembering the First World War 59-73
  • ROSS WILSON, 2014. New York and the Great War: Shaping an American City Routledge.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2013. Journal of Heritage Tourism. 9(3), 197-211
  • ROSS WILSON, 2013. Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain Routledge.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2012. International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era. 1(4), 519-534
  • ROSS WILSON, 2012. First World War Studies. 3(1), 87-106
  • ROSS WILSON, 2012. War & Society. 31(1), 22-41
  • ROSS WILSON, 2012. Journal of Urban History. 38(4), 731-752
  • ROSS WILSON, 2012. Landscapes of the Western Front: the materiality of the Great War Routledge.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2011. Journal of Conflict Archaeology. 6(3), 200-222
  • ROSS WILSON, 2011. Historical Geography. 37(3), 338-347
  • ROSS WILSON, 2011. Museum Management and Curatorship. 26(4), 373-389
  • ROSS WILSON, 2011. Assemblage. 11, 1-14
  • LAURAJANE SMITH, GEOFF CUBITT and ROSS WILSON, 2011. . In: Representing enslavement and abolition in museums Routledge. 1-19
  • ROSS WILSON, 2011. . In: Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums Routledge. 131-146
  • LAURAJANE SMITH, GEOFF CUBITT and ROSS WILSON, eds., 2011. Representing enslavement and abolition in museums: ambiguous engagements Routledge.
  • ROSS WILSON, 2010. Museums and Society. 8(3), 165-179
  • ROSS WILSON, 2010. The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies. 6(1), 38-57
  • ROSS WILSON, 2010. European Journal of English Studies. 14(1), 23-36
  • ROSS WILSON, 2010. York Historian. 26, 65-78
  • ROSS WILSON, 2010. . In: Cultural Heritage and Representation: Perspectives on visuality and the past 75-90
  • ROSS WILSON, 2009. Rethinking History. 13(2), 251-267
  • ROSS WILSON, 2009. Discourse and Society. 20(3), 381-399
  • ROSS WILSON, 2009. Writing the Bicentenary 鈥� Reconciling in the Museum through the Written Word. In: Museums as places of reconciliation: Proceedings of the 8th Colloquium of the International Association of Museums of History Historical Museum of Serbia. 150-163
  • ROSS WILSON, 2009. Archaeology Quiet on the Western Front. In: Taking Archaeology out of Heritage 72-90
  • ROSS WILSON, 2008. Post-Medieval Archaeology. 42(1), 144-156
  • ROSS WILSON, 2008. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 28(3), 391-403
  • ROSS WILSON, 2008. Historical Research. 80(211), 150-166
  • ROSS WILSON, 2008. British soldiers and 鈥渢he monster鈥� on the Western Front Dark. In: Dark Reflections, Monstrous Reflections: Essays on the Monster in Culture 285-298
  • ROSS WILSON, 2007. Public Archaeology. 6(4), 227-241
  • . In: BLOOMSBURY HISTORY: THEORY AND METHOD

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