Professor Matthew Seligmann
Professor of Naval History
Marie Jahoda 212
- Email: matthew.seligmann@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267261
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
Summary
I Joined Ã÷ÐÇ°ËØÔ as a Reader in 2012 and became a professor in 2015. I am a specialist on intelligence, threat assessment, security, armaments races and the the origins of modern wars. My main focus is on how the the British government responded to the German challenge in the first decades of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on the naval competition between the two countries. I have published widely on these topics, including authoring or co-authoring over ten books, many book chapters and numerous articles and reviews. My teaching tends to focus on questions of intelligence, security and conflict, but I am also interested in how we (individually and as societies) fashion a past useful for the purposes of the present.
Qualifications
D.Phil History (Sussex)
M.A.(Hons) History (Edinburgh)
Responsibility
Director of Internationalisation
Academic Exchanges and Partnerships
Newest selected publications
Seligmann, MS. (2023) ''. The International History Review, 46 (4). pp. 458 - 470. ISSN: 0707-5332
Seligmann, M. (2023) 'Sir Henry Newbolt, the Naval Staff, and the Writing of the Official History of the Origins and Inauguration of Convoy in 1917'. Journal of Military History (US), 87 (1). pp. 125 - 144. ISSN: 0899-3718
Seligmann, M. (2022) ''. War in History, 29 (4). pp. 763 - 781. ISSN: 0968-3445
Seligmann, MS. (2022) ''. The Mariner's Mirror, 108 (1). pp. 102 - 107. ISSN: 0025-3359
Seligmann, M. (2021) ''. Journal of Strategic Studies, 44 (5). pp. 715 - 736. ISSN: 0140-2390