Dr Mark Allinson
Sprechstunden: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am-12 noon
Email: m.allinson@bris.ac.uk
Telephone: + 44 (0117) 928 7950
Room: 1.74
Dr Allinson joined the Bristol German Department in 1994, having completed a PhD on the establishment of communist rule in Thuringia after 1945, under the supervision of Professor Mary Fulbrook. He previously studied German and French at the University of Salford. Dr Allinson was Head of the German Department (2003-6) and Head of the School of Modern Languages (2006-10).
Teaching
In 2011-12 Dr Allinson's teaching programme includes the following undergraduate units:
- GERM 10013 Introduction to German History within the first year Introduction to German Studies unit
- GERM 22037 Divided Germany (1945-1990)
- GERM 32050 Constitutional history of the Germany and Austria
- GERM 32059 Socialism and the Left in Germany since 1848
- MODL 23019 Communism in Europe
Dr Allinson also contributes to the following MA units: 'Concepts of Europe', 'European Society' and 'Constructing Identities'.
With Dr Pinfold he is planning a new unit on United Germany for 2012-13.
Research Interests
Dr Allinson's principal research interests are centred on the social and political history of the GDR, the modern constitutional history of the German-speaking world, and the interwar period in Austria.
He is currently working on a project investigating the workings of the GDR in a 'normal' year in the 1970s.
Dr Allinson has supervised doctoral theses on the development of patriotism in young East Germans before and since the unification of Germany in 1990; and on the handling of environmental politics in East Germany by the government and the opposition. He has also supervised MPhil dissertations on the nature of the Freedom Party of Austria, and on minority groups in the early GDR. He welcomes enquiries from potential postgraduate students with interests in the GDR and modern German or Austrian politics.
Major Publications
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Germany and Austria 1814-2000 published 2002 |
Politics and Popular Opinion in East Germany 1945-1968 published 2000 |
Contemporary Germany published 2001 |
Recent Publications
'1977: The Most Normal Year of the GDR?', in Mary Fulbrook and Alf Lüdtke (eds) Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-79, pp.253-75 (Berghahn, 2009)
'Zentrale Wirtschaftsplanung in der DDR - Fakt oder Fiktion?', in Barker, P, Ohse, M-D and Tate, D (Eds.), Views from Abroad - Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive, pp. 93-105 (Bertelsmann, 2007)
'Politics on the streets: popular political culture in the Austrian First Republic', University of Bristol, Rose, 2007.
'Popular opinion', in Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond (Eds.), The Workers' and Peasants' State. Communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945-71, pp. 96-111 (Manchester University Press, 2002)