Matthew Heathcote (PhD)

PhD candidate

Research and projects

Current position(s)

PhD candidate (full-time) at the University of Manchester (supervised by Dr Matthew Jefferies)

Erasmus+ visiting scholar at Humboldt University Berlin (supervised by Dr Sebastian Klotz)

Current project(s)

The Militarisation of German Music and the performative Praxis of Imperial German Military Music.

Former position(s)

MA in Global and Comparative History at Warwick University (dissertation supervised by Dr Anna Ross)

BA in History and Politics with Year Abroad at the University of Warwick (dissertation supervised by Dr Anna Ross)

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

MA: ‘Sex within the State’: The Aristocracy and homoeroticism in Imperial Germany.

BA: “Das Wort aus Stein?” What did Prussian castles and fortresses represent during the Kaiserreich?

Areas of research

Global/transnational history
German history
Musikwissenschaft/Ethnomusikwissenschaft
Spatial history
History of Music
Architectural history
Sexual History

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