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List Of Goldsmiths College People
This is a list of Goldsmiths College people, including office holders, current and former academics, and alumni of the Goldsmiths, University of London. An alumnus is a former student or pupil of a school, college, or university. Commonly, but not always, the word refers to a graduate of the educational institute in question. The head of Goldsmiths is known as the Warden. Wardens * 1905–1915: William Loring; first warden, killed in action during the First World War * 1915–1927: Thomas Raymont (1915–1919, Acting Warden) * 1927–1950: Arthur Edis Dean * 1950–1953: Aubrey Joseph Price * 1953: Clive Gardiner (Acting Warden) * 1953–1974: Sir Ross Chesterman * 1974–1975: Francis Michael Glenn Wilson * 1975: Cyril Wallington Green (Acting Warden) * 1976–1984: Richard Hoggart * 1984–1992: Andrew Rutherford * 1992–1998: Ken Gregory * 1998–2004: Ben Pimlott * 2005–2010: Geoffrey Crossick * 2010–2019: Pat Loughrey * 2019–present: Frances Corner Notable academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldsmiths, University Of London
Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths College, University of London, is a constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London. It was renamed Goldsmiths' College after being acquired by the University of London in 1904, and specialises in the arts, design, computing, humanities and social sciences. The main building on campus, known as the Richard Hoggart Building, was originally opened in 1844 and is the site of the former Royal Naval School. According to Quacquarelli Symonds (2021), Goldsmiths ranks 12th in Communication and Media Studies, 15th in Art & Design and is ranked in the top 50 in the areas of Anthropology, Sociology and the Performing Arts. In 2020, the university enrolled over 10,000 students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 37% of students come from outside the United Kingdom a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dejan Djokić (historian)
Dejan Djokić is a Professor of History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Fellow at the Chair of Southeast European History at Humboldt University of Berlin. Djokić specialises in modern history of the Balkans, in particular the political, social and cultural history of former Yugoslavia and the rise and development of national ideologies in nineteenth-century Europe and Cold War history. Djokić received his Ph.D. from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and completed his postdoctoral specialisation at the Harriman Institute of New York's Columbia University, before becoming Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Goldsmiths, University of London and Guest Professor in South-East European History at Humboldt University. He is the founding Director of the ''Centre for the Study of the Balkans'' at Goldsmiths, co-founder of ''Rethinking Modern Europe'' at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London and a Fellow of the Royal H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Heinemann
Margot Claire Heinemann (18 November 1913 – 10 June 1992) was a British Marxist writer, drama scholar, and leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Early life She was born at 89 Priory Road, West Hampstead, London NW6. Her parents were Meyer Max Heinemann, a merchant banker, and Selma Schott, both non-Orthodox Jews from Frankfurt, Germany. Heinemann was educated at Roedean School and at King Alfred School in London, and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1931, later graduating from Cambridge University with a BA with first class honours. She was the lover of John Cornford while a student. The historian Eric Hobsbawm, who studied at Cambridge at the same time, wrote "she probably had more influence on me than any other person I have known." Career She joined the CPGB in 1934, because of its active opposition to the British Union of Fascists. After Cambridge she taught 14-year-old girls at Cadbury's Continuation School in Bournville, now B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Hart (anthropologist)
Keith Hart (born in Manchester, England) is a British anthropologist and writer living in Paris. His main research has focused on economic anthropology, Africa and the African diaspora, and money. He has taught at universities including East Anglia, Manchester, Yale and the Chicago, as well as at Cambridge University where he was director of the African Studies Centre. He contributed the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has published widely on economic anthropology. He is the author of ''The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World'' and ''Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes''. His written work focuses on the national limits of politics in a globalised economy. Early life and education Hart was born in Manchester and attended Manchester Grammar School. He later studied at Cambridge University. He started as classicist before switching to the anthropology of religion, and then studied his PhD at Cambridge in migrant politics in Ghana.Hart, K. (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Guenole
Dr Nigel Guenole is founder of MeasureCo.ai and an Associate Professor and Director of Research for the Institute of Management at Goldsmiths, University of London. Background Guenole completed a PhD at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, under the supervision of Sasha Chernyshenko and Simon Kemp. Guenole specializes in Talent Management and Applied Statistics and has work that has appeared in leading scientific journals including ''Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice and Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology & Measurement'', as well as in the public press including the Sunday Times. He is the current external examiner for organizational behaviour programs at the London School of Economics and University College London. He is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, registered with the Health & Care Professions Council, and a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Grayson (academic)
Richard Sean Grayson (born 18 April 1969 in Hemel Hempstead) is a British historian. He is currently the Head of School of Education, Humanities and Languages at Oxford Brookes University. Education Grayson was educated at Lime Walk Primary School, Hemel Hempstead (Comprehensive) School, the University of East Anglia (1st Class BA Honours in English and American History), and The Queen’s College, Oxford (Doctor of Philosophy in Modern History). Academic research His historical research is currently concentrated on Ireland and the First World War, with his most important books being ''Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War'' (Continuum, 2009) and ''Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution'' (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He also edited ''At War with the 16th (Irish) Division, 1914-18: The Staniforth Letters'' (2012) and co-edited (with Fearghal McGarry) ''Remembering 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Graeber
David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American and British anthropologist, Left-wing politics, left-wing and anarchism, anarchist social and political activist. His influential work in Social anthropology, social and economic anthropology, particularly his books "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" (2011), "The Utopia of Rules" (2015) and "Bullshit Jobs" (2018), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time. Born in New York to a Working class, working-class family, Graeber studied at Purchase College and the University of Chicago, where he conducted Ethnography, ethnographic research in Madagascar under Marshall Sahlins and obtained his doctorate in 1996. He was an assistant professor at Yale University from 1998 to 2005, when the university controversially decided not to renew his contract. Unable to secure another position in the United States, Graeber ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Glasser
Stanley "Spike" Glasser (28 February 1926 – 5 August 2018), was a South African-born British composer and academic who settled in Britain in 1963. Biography Born on 28 February 1926 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the elder son of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, he first came to the UK in 1950 to study with Benjamin Frankel and (from 1952) Mátyás Seiber, then read music at King's College Cambridge (1955–1958). Returning to South Africa, he became a music lecturer at Cape Town University for four years. In 1959, he was the musical director of ''King Kong'' by Todd Matshikiza and Harry Bloom, based on the life of boxer Ezekiel Dlamini. It was a big hit in South Africa, and was billed at the time as an "all-African jazz opera". In 1961, Glasser composed South Africa's first full-length ballet score, ''The Square''. In 1962, Glasser also composed a musical, ''Mr Paljas'', with lyrics by Harry Bloom, and although it was less successful, a cast recording w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Fuller (author)
Matthew Fuller is an author and Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is known for his writings in media theory, software studies, critical theory and cultural studies, and contemporary fiction. Work His book ''Media Ecologies'' examines the interactions of complex media systems in current art practices. Drawing on the theories of Marshall McLuhan, Félix Guattari, and William Burroughs, Fuller explores unorthodox and non-traditional uses of media. The book analyses interventionist art projects by BIT (Bureau of Inverse Technology), Irational.org, pirate radio projects, surveillance video projects, and the work of conceptual artist John Hilliard. According to WorldCat, this book is in 890 libraries In ''Evil Media'', Fuller and co-author Andrew Goffey examine media power in the form of information systems, addressing, as the book states, "the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris French
Christopher (Chris) Charles French (born 1956) is a British psychologist who is prominent in the field of anomalistic psychology, with a focus on the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. In addition to his academic activities, French frequently appears on radio and television to provide a skeptical perspective on paranormal claims. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, which he founded in 2000. French emphasizes the importance of understanding why people believe in the paranormal and advocates for taking these claims seriously to explore the underlying psychological factors involved. He has conducted research on various paranormal phenomena, including psychic abilities, ghosts, UFO abductions, and astrology. French is also involved in academia, teaching courses on psychology, parapsychology, and pseudoscience. He has published numerous art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Fouracre
Paul J. Fouracre is professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Manchester. His research interests relate to early medieval history, the history of the Franks, law and custom in medieval societies, charters, hagiography and serf-lord relations in the eleventh century.Prof Paul Fouracre - personal details. University of Manchester. Retrieved 9 October 2015. His recent work on the cost of the liturgy, focusing on the social and economic effects of providing "eternal light", is a study of the interplay between belief and materiality. Fouracre was co-ordinating editor of ''Early Medieval Europe'' from 2005 to 2009 and editor of the first volume of '' The New Cambridge M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture. Fisher published several books, including the unexpected success '' Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?'' (2009), and contributed to publications such as ''The Wire'', ''Fact'', ''New Statesman'' and '' Sight & Sound''. He was also the co-founder of Zero Books, and later Repeater Books. After years intermittently struggling with depression, Fisher committed suicide in January 2017, shortly before the publication of ''The Weird and the Eerie'' (2017). Early life and education Fisher was born in Leicester and grew up in Loughborough to working-clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
