1/10/12 → 1/04/17
Research
I completed my doctorate at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2016 and am now a Teaching Fellow in Modern British History at the University of Birmingham alongside Coordinator of the Centre for Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford.
I am currently turning my AHRC-funded doctorate into a book titled 'Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement'. My thesis was titled 'The Women's Guild of Arts: Gender, space, and professional identity in London, c. 1870-1930', and examined this institution, alongside the public and private lives of its members. Far from being mere appendages, my thesis argued, women were integral in disseminating the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement through their art, published work, private letters, sociability in newly formed associations, and through extensive kinship and friendship groups.
I am also pursuing other research projects which reflect my interest in nineteenth and twentieth century history: from women's organisations and historical pageants in the interwar period, the integral involvement of artists and designers in shaping the suffrage campaign, through to the gendered nature of professional identity in modern history.
My first article titled 'At Home with the Women's Guild of Arts: gender and professional identity in London studios, c. 1880-1925' was published in Women's History Review in 2015 and my second article titled 'Historical pageants, citizenship, and the performance of women's history before second wave feminism' will be published in Twentieth Century British History in 2017.
Alongside this, I have extensive experience of teaching modern British, European, and North American history alongside Liberal Arts modules, at the University of Roehampton, Westminster University, King's College London, Royal Holloway, and the University of East London. I have also held internships, paid, and voluntary roles at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and with the National Trust.
Awards
Contact
Please email me at zoemariathomas@gmail.com if you would like to contact me.
I am also on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/_zoethomas.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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