Responsibilities

Member of the Departmental Teaching and Learning Committee
Programme Leader of the BA Humanities and Social Studies (part-time mode)

Background

Appointments

• 1990 Manchester Metropolitan University, Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer, department_id. of History and Economic History
• 1989 Strathclyde University, Lecturer, department_id of Politics
• 1988 Antioch University, British Studies Centre, London, Academic Assistant to the Director

Research Interests

Catherine Danks is a political historian in the Department of History. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of soviet history and contemporary Russian politics. She has recently completed a study of Russian Soldiers' Mothers Committees and is currently working on 'Politics-Russia' for Pearson. She is also a founder member and treasurer of the Global Studies Association.

USSR and China, C20th History, Post-Communist Russia, Women's History Post Communist Russia, including the development of a civil society and human rights.

Current Projects

Russian anti-globalisation Russian historiography of the end of the USSR

National Recognitions / Responsibilities

On line Learning Development, Student Support and Dissemination:

• Converted the unit Post War World, 1945-89 to be partially delivered using WebCT
• Awarded an On Line Learning Fellowship by MMU, Summer term 1999
• Demonstrated On-line learning materials and contributed to forum web site
  Online Learning forum, organised by MMU Educational Services, 22nd February 2000
• Demonstrated On-line learning materials as part of the Departmental users Development programme
  Information and Comunication Technology Day, organised by Department of History and Economic History, MMU. Including contributions from Teeside University and UCL
  5th April 2000
• Converted a component of the unit 'What is History?' to be delivered using WebCT
  Financial support from the Learning and Teaching Committee of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science MMU. Spring term 2000
• Converted the unit Post Communist Russia to partial delivery using WebCT
  Summer 2001
• Demonstrated On-line learning materials
  HAN Conference: Online Conferencing in the Arts and Humanities at De Montford University, Milton Keynes. 13th October 2001
• Established a WebCT site for BA Humanities and Social Studies (Part time mode) students
  November 2001
• Delivered a paper on my experience of developing online learning materials
  Seminar on Online Learning. Organised by the Senior Learning and Teaching Fellows in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, MMU. 17th April 2002

Higher Education

• 1981 MA Soviet Government and Politics, Essex University
• 1978 BA (Hons) Politics and Modern History, Manchester University

Affiliations

• Founder member, executive committee member and treasurer of the Global Studies Association
• Member of the Institute for Learning and Teaching

Publications

• Russian Politics and Society: An Introduction (Longmans: London, 2001)
  (Forthcoming in Chinese) (Huaxia Publishing House: Beijing, 2003)
• Ch. 2 'Russia in Search of Itself' in Globalization and National Identities: Crisis or Opportunity? co-editor with Paul Kennedy (Palgrave: London, 2001)

Papers delivered to international conferences 2003-4:

• 'The origins and development of the Russian Right's anti-globalisation' for the conference on Nationalist Myths and the Modern Media organized by the department_id. of German-Jewish Studies Sussex University. Held at Chatham House London October 2003.
• 'Russian Orthodox Fundamentalism and Anti-Globalisation: The mark of the beast and the coming apocalypse' Global Studies Association (USA), Brandeis University, April 2004

Conference Papers

• 'Globalization and Russia's Identity'
  First International Conference on 'Globalization and National Identities'
  Organised by the Research Unit for Global Studies, MMU. 30th June - 2nd July 1999
  Vol. 1 Conference Papers, ISBN 89999 27 15 8 - 899927 16 8
• 'Russia, globalization and advertising'
  Second International Conference on 'Globalization and Everyday Life'
  Organised by the Research Unit for Global Studies, MMU. 5th-7th July 2000
  Vol 1 Conference Papers, ISBN 1 899927 21 2 -
• 'Nationalism and Regionalism in Post Communist Russia',
  Conference on Regional Identities: Shifting Boundaries and Contested Meanings
  Organised by the Department of History and Economic History, MMU.12th-13th September 2000
• 'Women and Politics in Post Communist Russia',
  Heartlands and Peripheries in Women's History. Local, National and Global Perspectives
  Women's History Network, 9th Annual Conference. 16th-17thSeptember 2000
• 'Materinskii prizyv: Ot materinstva k politicheskoi aktivnosti' , ('Mobilised Mothers: From Motherhood to Political Activism'),
  VI Plekhanov Conference 'Russia: The One Century Way, 1900-2000'
  Dom Plekhanova, St Petersburg, Russia. 30th May - 1st June 2002
• 'Russia and Human Rights',
  Global Studies Association Conference on 'Global Ethics and Civil Society'
  University of Surrey, Roehampton, 22nd-24th July 2002

Book Reviews

• Russia's Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin (Oxford: OUP, 2000)
  Gill, Graeme& Markwick, Roger. Europe-Asia Studies, January 2001
• Political Culture of Russian 'Democrats' Oxford: OUP, 2000
  Lukin, Alexander
• Russia's Liberal Project (University Park: Penn State Press, 2000)
  Weigle, Marcia
• The Stalin Era London: Routledge, 2000
  Boobyer, Philip. Political Studies (forthcoming)

Forthcoming Publications

Forthcoming (contracted) publications:

• Chapter "The Committees of Soldiers' Mothers: Mothers Confronting the Russian State" in Lievesley, Geraldine and Buckingham, Susan (eds) In the hands of women: Paradigms of citizenship (Manchester: MUP, 2005)
• Politics - Russia (Longmans: London, 2007)