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Dr Matthew Hill

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Matthew joined Liverpool John Moores University as a Senior Lecturer in US History and International Relations in April 2014. He currently runs the International Relations and Politics discipline in the School of Humanities and Social Science. As of August 2022, he is a residential fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

Prior to Liverpool John Moores, Matthew was a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University working as the Course Convenor for the MA in International Relations. Prior to that, he worked as a Lecturer in US Politics at the School of Advanced Study, University of London where he taught on the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. He was also the principal investigator for two US-based research projects on UK-US Relations In An Age Of Global War 1939-1945, which examined official UK perspectives towards the US, and examined Women and US Foreign Policy, where he interviewed predominantly women involved, and affected by US foreign policy. Matthew was also a lecturer in politics at De Montfort University, Oxford Brookes University and Cardiff University. He completed his Ph.D. on US democracy promotion in Bosnia and Afghanistan under Presidents Clinton and Bush, and his MA was in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Matthew received a distinction in his Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching and is now a Fellow at the Higher Education Academy (HEA). He is also an active member of the British International Studies Association’s (BISA) US Foreign Policy working group.

Matthew is interested in taking on Ph.D. candidates in the broad topics of statebuilding and liberal peacebuilding and the history and politics of US foreign policy. If interested, please contact him for a chat.

Matthew is currently working on three research projects: 1) examining contemporary US democracy efforts in the Arab Spring, 2) looking at the effects of climate change on democracy at the theoretical and practical levels and, 3) examining sovereignty disputes between the US and the US over certain Pacific Islands during and after WWII.

He is currently the external examiner for the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, is a supervisor to two doctoral students looking at retro-active application of diplomatic immunity and the effects of race and colourism on UK attitudes and approaches to dealing with refugees. He has successfully supported one doctoral candidate that examined the territorial 'remnants' of the British Empire at the political, economic and cultural levels, and has been an external examiner for doctoral students. He is also an active member of the British International Studies Association US Foreign Policy working group.

Languages

Spanish; Castilian

Degrees

2008, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, PhD
2002, School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom, MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies

Certifications

2013, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching

Academic appointments

Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, 2022 - 2022
Leader for International Relations and Politics, Humanities and Social Science, John Moores University, 2019 - present
Senior Lecturer in US History and International Relations, History, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - present

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