Locating the Hidden DiasporaDr Tanja Bueltmann
PhD, MA, FRHistS
Lecturer in History; British & Irish Worlds Research Group Co-Ordinator; Web Co-Ordination Group Lead
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 323 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 4761 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 tanja.bueltmann@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
Tanja studied at the universities of Bielefeld and Edinburgh for her MA in British Cultural Studies, History and Sociology. With a strong background in Scottish History, she then moved to New Zealand to pursue her doctoral research on the country’s Scottish immigrant community. Funded by the New Zealand government, Tanja completed her PhD at the end of 2008. Returning to Europe in early 2009, she was then appointed to join the History team at Northumbria as senior research assistant, taking up a Lectureship in International History when that position ended.
Qualifications
PhD, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2009
MA, Bielefeld University, Germany, 2005
Teaching Interests
At level 4, Tanja is the module leader of History's new core first year module, HI0412 - Making History. The module gives students a firm grounding in the skills and methods needed for the study of history at degree level, utilising new eLearning technologies such as a Wiki. Beyond the first year, Tanja co-ordinates and teaches HI0518 - Persistent Imperialists: British Overseas Expansion Before 1800 at level 5, and HI0638 - John Bull, Uncle Sam and Johnny Canuck: The United States and Canada in the British Atlantic World, 1850 to 1914 at level 6. She also teaches on the team-taught HI0409 - From Sea to Shining Sea: United States History, 1776-2008. Tanja also contributes to History's new MA, the MRes and the Department of Humanities' PGR training programme.
Research Interests
Tanja’s research interests are in wider British World history, especially the cultural and social history of Scottish, English and German immigrant communities. She is particularly interested in the communities' associational life in North America, the Antipodes and parts of Asia.
Tanja is Co-Investigator of the AHRC funded project 'Locating the Hidden Diaspora: The English in North America in Transatlantic Perspective, 1760-1950'. Her research as part of the project concentrates on exploring the diverse forms of associationalism among the English. English associational activity has been overlooked, but it amounted to a sustained demonstration of ethnic consciousness by any normal measure: the English planted ethnic markers in the form of societies very much like the Scots, Irish or Germans.
Tanja's interest in the English Diaspora stems from here work on the Scots abroad and Scottish associations in particular. In 2010, Tanja was awarded a Small Research Grant from the British Academy for her project 'Ethnicity, Associationalism and Civility: The Scots in Singapore and Hong Kong in Comparative Perspective'. Tanja is currently in the process of assessing the material gleaned during her research in the two cities. The material will feed into her second monograph, Clubbing Together: Ethnicity, Civility and Formal Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930, which is under contract with Liverpool University Press. Moreover, Tanja is also working on a Scottish Diaspora textbook (with Andrew Hinson and Graeme Morton, under contract with Edinburgh University Press). Please also visit Tanja's Scottish Diaspora Blog or follow @scotsdiaspora on Twitter.
Research Students
Tanja supervises Lesley Robinson, who is working on 'English Identity in the "Near Diaspora": Associational Culture and National Celebrations in Britain and Ireland, 1890s-1950s'. Tanja also co-supervises Stephen Bowman, whose PhD explores 'Anglo-Saxon Rapprochement: The Origin, Formation and Activities of the Early Pilgrims Society, 1890s to 1920s'.
On the MRes, Tanja supervises Stan Neal and co-supervises David Hope.
Tanja welcomes enquiries from students wishing to pursue postgraduate work in British World history. In particular, areas of interest are associational culture; cultural transfer, especially in terms of collective memory; roots-tourism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; themes relating to the settlement of New Zealand and Canada.
Affiliations and Memberships
Reviews Editor, Immigrants & Minorities
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Founding Member, International Society for Cultural History
Member, The British Scholar Society
Affiliated Researcher, Academy for British and Irish Studies, University of Huddersfield
Awards and Fellowships
2012: Awarded a 2013 Visiting Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
2012: Grant from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
2012: Resident Scholar, Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (Jan-Feb 2012)
2011: AHRC Research Grant (Standard Route) as Co-I with Don MacRaild (PI) and David Gleeson (Co-I)
2010: British Academy Small Research Grant
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Select Publications
Books:
Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, 1850 to 1930 (Scottish Historical Review Monograph Series, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011). * shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year and Scottish Research Book of the Year Awards
[with David Gleeson and Don MacRaild], Locating the English Diaspora, 1500-2010 (Forthcoming, Liverpool University Press).
[as editor with Andrew Hinson and Graeme Morton] Ties of Bluid, Kin and Countrie: Scottish Associational Culture in the Diaspora (Guelph: Guelph Series in Scottish Studies 2009).
Chapters and Articles:
'Anglo-Saxonism and the Racialization of the English Diaspora', in Tanja Bueltmann, David Gleeson and Don MacRaild (eds), Locating the English Diaspora, 1500-2010 (forthcoming, Liverpool University Press).
[with Don MacRaild], 'Globalising St George: English Associations in the Anglo-World to the 1930s', Journal of Global History, 7 (2012), pp. 79-105.
'"The Image of Scotland which We Cherish in Our Hearts": Burns Anniversary Celebrations in Colonial Otago’, in J. MacKenzie and B. Patterson (eds), Immigrants & Minorities, special issue, 30, 1 (2012), pp. 78-97.
'Manly Games, Athletic Sports and the Commodification of Scottish Identity: Caledonian Gatherings in New Zealand to 1915', Scottish Historical Review 89, no 2 (2010), pp. 224-47.
'"No Colonists are more Imbued with their National Sympathies than Scotchmen": The Nation as an Analytical Tool in the Study of Migrant Communities’, New Zealand Journal of History 43, 2 (2009), pp. 169-181.
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