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Abigail Green

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Abigail Frances Floretta Green[1] is a British historian. She has been a Fellow of the Brasenose College, Oxford, since 2000, and in 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.

Career

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Green's mother was born into the Sebag-Montefiore family.[2] Green completed her undergraduate degree (BA) at the University of Oxford, and then carried out her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge; her PhD was awarded in 1999 for her thesis "Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866".[1][3][4] She was elected to a Title A Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1998, before being appointed a Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 2000.[1][5][6] She remains there as of 2018,[5] and in 2015 was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.[7]

Green specialises in the history of 19th-century Europe, nationalism and regionalism in Germany, Jewish internationalism, and liberalism.[5]

Honours and awards

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Green was awarded the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature's silver medal in 2012 for her biography of Sir Moses Montefiore,[8] which was also named one the New Republic's "Best Books of 2010", included among the Times Literary Supplement "Books of the Year", and a National Jewish Book Award finalist.[9][10]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b c The Brazen Nose: 2015–2016, vol. 50 (Brasenose College, 2016), p. 11.
  2. ^ Abigail Green, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (Yale University Press, 2010), preface.
  3. ^ "Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866", Newton Library Catalogue (University of Cambridge). Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Congregation of the Regent House on 20 March 1999", The Cambridge Reporter, no. 5770 (vol. 128, no. 28) 21 April 1999. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b c "Professor Abigail Green", Brasenose College. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  6. ^ "St John's College", The Cambridge Reporter, no. 5740 (vol. 128, no. 28), 3 June 1998, section 22. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Recognition of Distinction: Successful Applicants 2015" Archived 2018-02-27 at the Wayback Machine, The University of Oxford Gazette, no. 510915, October 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  8. ^ Jennifer Lipman, "Montefiore bigoraphy wins prestigious prize", The Jewish Chronicle, . Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Editors' Picks: Best Books of 2010", The New Republic, 22 December 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  10. ^ Naomi Firestone-Teeter, "Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist... Abigail Green", Jewish Book Council, 6 February 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2018.