People

Professor Dónal Hasset has previously held academic positions at University of Bristol and University College Cork. Dónal is a colonial historian focusing on the history of the French empire. He is particularly interested in the legacies of conflict in colonial contexts, having written extensively on the contested politics of colonial commemoration, the representation of the colonial past in museums and, of course, on colonial veterancy.

Dónal has published widely on these issues in leading international peer reviewed journals, including in the: Journal of Contemporary History, First World War Studies, French Historical Studies, Modern & Contemporary France, and International Journal of Francophone Studies.

Dr Anindita Bhattacharya hails from Bengal and is a scholar of Indian history and literature. Interested in postcolonial theoretical approaches, she is very excited to explore the histories and experiences of Indian veterans in the interwar period.

Dr. Nicola Camilleri is a social and cultural historian of modern Europe in its colonial and postcolonial entanglements. His research focuses on the history of citizenship, militarism and sociability. Nicola is particularly interested in investigating the social dynamics and cultural production around colonial power in the imperial space. His work has appeared in Northeast African Studies, Journal of Modern European History and European History Quarterly.

After working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project PREWArAs The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Armed Associations and Political Violence in Europe before the First World War at the University of Padua, he has held fellowships at various institutions, including the German Historical Institute in Rome and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, in New York.