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Doctoral Student Wins British International History Group Thesis Prize

Former HCA PhD student Camilo Erlichman has won the British International History Group Thesis Prize for 2016. (Published 10 Oct 2016)

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Many congratulations to former HCA PhD student Dr Camilo Erlichman who has been awarded the British International History Group Thesis Prize for 2016 for his thesis, 'Strategies of Rule: Cooperation and Conflict in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-1949'.

The prize is awarded for ‘the best doctoral thesis on any aspect and any period of International History, which has been awarded a degree by a British University or a British University College or College of Higher Education during the calendar year.’

Camilo was a Principal’s Career Development Scholar at the University of Edinburgh and completed his PhD in 2015. He is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, where he is working on a new project tentatively entitled Languages of Reconstruction: A Comparative Political History of Emotions in Western Europe, 1944-1957.

More on the British International History Group can be found at bihg.ac.uk