Emilie CunningGraduate Student
I am a third year history PhD student, specializing in US and the world. I am interested in the connections between the American state and wartime dissenters, particularly dissent that takes hold abroad. I am in the process of researching a network of anti-war activists within the United Kingdom during the Vietnam years who left the nation as exiles, many as draft evaders, and formed organizations which sought to pressure both the American and British governments over their policies in Vietnam. I am interested in how these transnational activists framed their positionality in relation to the American state as exiles and how they formed connections with British anti-war activists in groups such as the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) and the British Campaign for Peace in Vietnam. Understanding how resistance to American imperialism takes root abroad is fundamental to contextualizing the social movements and continued resistance against American military power. I am in the stages of finishing up my comprehensive portfolio in the Fall of 2024 before developing my prospectus and teaching my class on US Cold War History in Spring of 2025.
Education
- B.A. University College of London
- M.A. University of Cambridge
Research Interests
US and the World
US Wartime History
Transnational History
Anti-War Activism
Social Movements
Dissertation Title
TBD
