DR MARK ALLINSON 
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2006-7
History of the German Democratic Republic A second year unit on the history, politics
and society of communist East Germany in the Second Teaching Block.
A final year unit in the Second Teaching
Block considering the development of constitutionality in German and Austrian
history since 1815. Students with a broad interest in concepts of democracy
and dictatorship, and who wish to find out more about the political systems
of different German-speaking states may find this unit of interest.
Introduction to German Studies I shall be giving four lectures in the
summer term as an introduction to German history.
German Language 1: Grammar Workshops See the website via the above link for a guide to these classes, with a full set of exercises and answers to class exercises. Postgraduate teaching: I am happy to receive enquiries from potential postgraduate students. The Department of German can offer tailor made Masters by Research programmes, as well as PhDs. If you wish to find out more about postgraduate research into modern German political and social history, particularly research projects on the German Democratic Republic, please contact me.
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Publications
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My main research interests are in political history, particularly the GDR, interwar Austria and the constitutional history of Germany and Austria since 1815. Much of my teaching is directly related to these research fields. Two doctoral students, Leon Quinn and Anna Saunders, recently successfully completed theses on aspects of the history and society of the GDR and eastern Germany in the immediate post-unification period, and I have also supervised two MPhil students with interests in modern Austria.
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A short biography I was born in 1967 and grew up in Brighton close to the South Downs. After working for a short time for the circulation and sales department of the Evening Argus I moved north to the University of Salford where I studied French and German. During this time I was fortunate to work for Intertext in Berlin - then still the capital of the German Democratic Republic. After graduating in 1990 I initially completed a teacher training course in modern languages at the then Manchester Polytechnic before beginning PhD work on the GDR at University College London under the supervision of Professor Mary Fulbrook. I have been a lecturer in German at the University of Bristol since 1994 and live south of the river in the Bedminster area of the city. |
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Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg.
Department of German
University of Bristol
21 Woodland Road
Bristol
BS8 1TE
ENGLAND
Tel. 00 44 117 9287950
