Dr. Brett M. Bebber
Assistant Professor of History
Office location: Neville Hall 101A
Office phone: 864-833-7163
Email address: bebber@presby.edu
Research fields: Modern Britain, Modern Europe, Racism and Migration, History of Sport and Leisure, Environmental History, History of Sexuality
I received my B.A. in history and religious studies from Hope College in 2001, an M.A. in history from the University of Arizona in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Modern European history from the University of Arizona in 2008. My research examines the intersections of popular culture, racisms, and political ideologies in the postwar Britain, while firmly setting particular social and cultural dialogues about race and migration in their contextual and historical settings. My first book, Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968-98 (Pickering & Chatto, 2011), explored the cultural implications of social control, working-class violence and political racisms in modern British football. I also edited a collection of articles entitled Leisure and Cultural Conflict in Twentieth Century Britain (Manchester University Press, 2012), which looked at the ways in which forms of leisure mediated and catalyzed broader cultural and social struggles. I am currently working on two other research threads. One ongoing project studies working-class conservatism and responses to black and Asian migrants to Britain in popular culture, including television, film, and popular literature. My other project will analyze the history of British anti-racist institutions and their connections to American civil rights movements.
Courses Regularly Taught:
- HIST 362: British History Since 1689
- HIST 340: Global History of Sport
- HIST 341: Environmental History
- HIST 342: The Holocaust
- HIST 378: Twentieth-Century Europe
- HIST 458: European Imperialism
