Till Geiger
Some information about me
Profile
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Biography: Till Geiger started his academic career as a Research Officer at the London School of Economics before taking up a teaching fellowship at the University of Aberdeen. Before coming to the University of Manchester, he taught European economic history and political economy at Queen's University Belfast from 1992 until 2001. Till joined the History Department as part-time lecturer and research fellow in September 2001 and was appointed to his present post in August 2003.
Degrees: lic. oec. HSG, Hochschule St. Gallen, 1986, Economics; M. Sc. (Econ)., University of London (London School of Economics), 1987 Economic History; Ph.D. in History (part-time), University of Aberdeen, 1999 History.
Other affiliations: CRESC (ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change), University of Manchester
Membership of Research Groups: Research Group on American Power; World Histories Research Group
Visiting appointments: Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (April 2009)
Research and Teaching Interests:
Transatlantic Relationship since 1945; Americanization of Western Europe; European integration history since 1945; European economic history since 1850.
Current research projects include:
- Ireland and the first cold war, 1944-1955;
- The Marshall Pan and European industry
- Political Economy and Economic Impact of British Defence Expenditure, 1945-1964;
- The forgotten Marshall Plan: American Military Aid to Western Europe, 1949-1960.
Current PhD students: I am happy to supervise research students in the areas of my research interest
Michael Johnson (AHRC-funded): British government policy towards Jewish refugees in Germany and Palestine, 1945-1948
Tina Nelis (ESRC-funded): Northern Ireland and the Second World War
Publications
Working Paper
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Till Geiger, Niamh Moore and Mike Savage (2010), 'The Archive In Question', CRESC Working Paper 81.
