Anne Deighton
{{Short description|British historian}}
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| sub_discipline = History of the European Union
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Anne Deighton {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} is a British historian of the European Union. She is a Emeritus Professor of European International Politics at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Biography
Anne Deighton was educated at the University of Oxford, where she read modern history during a time when the subject's scope "ended decisively in 1939", and the University of Reading, where her doctoral advisor was Avi Shlaim.{{Cite web |title=Doctor Anne DEIGHTON |url=https://fwa.ulb.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Chaire1999_Deighton.pdf |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Fondation Wiener-Anspach}}{{Cite journal |last=Deighton |first=Anne |date=1 April 2020 |title=Sorry: Did I Crack A Glass Ceiling? |url=https://issforum.org/essays/PDF/E210.pdf |journal=Essay Series on Learning the Scholar's Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars |publisher=H-Diplo |access-date=2024-01-01}} She worked at the University of Reading (1987–1991) and the Open University as a lecturer and at St Antony's College, Oxford as a NatWest Senior Research Fellow (1991–1997). She later became Reader in European International Politics at Oxford, before being promoted to Professor and eventually Emeritus Professor.{{Cite web |title=Anne Deighton |url=https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/person/anne-deighton |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Wolfson College, Oxford}}{{Cite web |title=Anne Deighton |url=https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/anne-deighton |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=www.politics.ox.ac.uk |date=18 May 2017 |language=en}}
Deighton became fellow of Wolfson College, and she was eventually promoted to emeritus fellow.{{Cite web |title=Current Fellows |url=https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/current-fellows?first_letter=D |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Wolfson College, Oxford}} She was the Wiener – Anspach Foundation's Ganshof van der Meersch Chair (1999–2000), having received the support of political scientist Eric Remacle.{{Cite web |title=Anne Deighton – Why history matters : European integration past and present |url=https://fwa.ulb.be/activites/chaire-ganshof-van-der-meersch/anne-deighton-why-history-matters-european-integration-past-and-present/ |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Fondation Wiener-Anspach |language=fr-FR}} She has also served as a Jean Monnet Chair in the history of European integration.
As an academic, Deighton specialises in the history of the European Union, especially the history of European integration. In addition to being an editor of several history books on the European Union, she is the author of The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947 (1990), which discusses the United Kingdom's role in the star of the Cold War, particularly in post-war Germany.{{Cite web |title=The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany, and the Origins of the Cold War |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/27386 |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Oxford University Press |language=en}} From 2009 to 2011, she hosted the Cyril Foster Lectures at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.
Deighton is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters's History section.{{Cite web |title=Utenlandske medlemmer |url=https://dnva.no/medlemmer/52 |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi |language=nb}} She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.{{Cite web |title=List of Current Fellows |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/23161452/Fellows-List-Feb-23.pdf |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Royal Historical Society}}
Works
- Britain and the First Cold War (1990, as editor)
- The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947 (1990)
- Western European Union, 1954-1997, Defence, Security, Integration (1997, as editor)
- WEU, 1948-1998: From the Treaty of Brussels to the Treaty of Amsterdam (1998, as co-editor)
- Widening, Deepening, Acceleration, the European Economic Community, 1957-1963 (1999, as co-editor)
- Building Postwar Europe: National Decision-Makers and European Institutions, 1948-1963 (2003, as editor)
- Securing Europe? Implementing the European Security Strategy (2006, as editor)
- The EC/EU: a World Security Actor? 1957-2007 (2007, as co-editor)
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Category:20th-century British historians
Category:21st-century British historians
Category:Historians of European integration
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Alumni of the University of Reading
Category:Academics of the University of Reading
Category:Academics of the Open University
Category:Historians of the University of Oxford
Category:Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Category:Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters