Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: History and American Studies
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Campus: Canterbury
John Bulaitis teaches nineteenth and twentieth European history. He is particularly interested in the histories of France, labour movements, communism and, that other political extreme of the twentieth century, fascism.
Before arriving at Canterbury Christ Church in 2009, John held posts at University Campus Suffolk and the University of Essex. He has also taught history at Queen Mary (University of London), Royal Holloway, Birkbeck College and the Open University. He taught French translation at London South Bank University. He believes that Higher Education be open to all with the ability to succeed, whatever their social background or age. With this motivation, he has worked in Widening Participation, organising outreach work in schools and colleges at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
John's favourite historical personality is Flora Tristan –a French woman who fled an abusing husband, became a social commentator, travel writer, artist, champion of the poor, campaigning feminist and socialist, all before dying in 1844 at the tragically young age of 31.
Research in Progress
John is currently writing a book on Maurice Thorez, the leader of the French Communist Party who died in 1964.
Some background to the work can be found in this paper delivered at the European Social Science History Conference (Ghent, April 2010): 'The Notebooks and Diaries of Maurice Thorez: A New Source for the History of French Communism'
http://www2.iisg.nl/esshc/programme.asp?selyear=10&pap=7535|