User:Alban Bargain

I am currently employed as a sessional faculty member at York University, where I have been teaching/holding teaching assistantships since 2006.

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 I earned my BA (Honours) at the University of British Columbia in 2005 and my MA at York University in 2006. My doctoral dissertation, entitled  “Mobilis in Mobile: The French and German Socialists in Hostile Environments, 1921-1933 /40,” which I defended in November 2012, explores French and German Socialist newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s.

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 My academic interests include the study of communist, socialist, and anarchist ideologies, parties and movements. I am also interested in the concept of syncretism and the uses of religious symbolism in politics. My current research project involves a comparative study of Arran, Borkum, and Groix, three small islands off the coasts of Scotland, France, and Germany, respectively. This study, which will span the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, will deal with the effects of transatlantic encounters on Arran, Borkum, and Groix, as well as with the social, political, and cultural history of the islands themselves during the 1848-1940 period.