Dr Andrew Dawson
Principal Lecturer
Tel: 020 8331 8945
Email: a.dawson@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 323
Office Hours
Wednesday 12-2pm
Qualifications
B.Sc. Econ. (Wales), Ph.D. (Sheffield)
Research
The American Motion picture industry in the twentieth century.
Teaching areas
Film and its relationship to society and political power; history and film; the development of the US film industry, the experience of working in the motion picture industry.
Authored books
Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890, Aldershot Ashgate 2004. ISBN 0-7546-3396-9
Book Chapters
'Northern Manufacturers and the Coming of the American Civil War, 1850-1861' New approaches to Socialist History, Cheltenham: New Clarion Press 2003. ISBN: 1-873-79741-9
Journal articles
'A new framework for Workshop Contracting: Philadelphia Machine Building, 1870-1914'. Labour History Volume 47 (3) August 2006
'"Bring Hollywood Home!" Stuio Labour, Nationalism and Internationalism, and opposition to "Runaway Production, 1948-2003.' Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis and Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire Volume 84 (4) January 2006
Conference papers
Paper Delivered at the Annual Conference of the History Subject Centre, Learning and Teaching Support Network, Oxford April 2002. History (Web Based Learning) From the Bottom-Up: Integrating Classroom Teaching and ICT
Paper Delivered at the Annual Conference of the History Subject Centre, Learning and Teaching Support Network, Lancaster April 2003. Potential of Online Discussion for Enhancing Student Learning