Geoffrey Hamm – Curriculum Vitae

GEOFFREY HAMM

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EDUCATION

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Ph.D., Department of History, 2012 Dissertation Title: British Intelligence and Turkish Arabia: Strategy, Diplomacy, and Empire, 1898-1918 Supervisor: Professor James Retallack Committee: Professor Denis Smyth, Professor Eric Jennings Comprehensive Examination Fields: 19th and 20th Century International Relations; German Politics and Society, 1848-1945; European Colonialism.

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada M.A., Department of History, 2003 Thesis: Imperial Defence and the “Ultimate Potential Enemy”: the Royal Navy, British Foreign Policy and the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement Supervisor: Professor Martin Kitchen Committee: Professor John Stubbs, Professor Richard K. Debo

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada B.A. (Honors), Department of History, 2000 Senior Thesis: The Anglo-German Naval Race, 1898-1914 Supervisor: Professor Martin Kitchen

PUBLICATIONS

Articles Hamm, G. “British Intelligence in the Middle East, 1898-1906”, Intelligence and National Security 28, 6 (December 2014), 880-900.

Review Essay Hamm, G. “Revisiting the Great Game in Asia: Kipling and Popular History”, International Journal 68 (2), 2013.

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Book Reviews Polly A. Mohs, Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt: The First Modern Intelligence War. (: Routledge, 2007) Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3 (June 2010).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“British Military Intelligence and the Ottoman Empire, 1895-1914.” New Research in the History of Warfare: An International Graduate Conference, Cambridge, UK, August 2010

“Intelligence as Storytelling, Storytelling as Intelligence: British Military Intelligence and the Ottoman Empire, 1895-1914.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, , QC, June 2010

“Modernity and Tradition in the Prusso-German Officers Corps, 1861-1914.” First Annual American-Canadian Conference in German and Modern European History, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, April 2005.

“Imperial Defence and the ‘Ultimate Potential Enemy’: the Royal Navy, British Foreign Policy and the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement.” Qualicum History Conference, Qualicum, BC, February 2003.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Texas, El Paso

Lecturer INSS 1301: History and Security, Fall 2015 Number of Students: 25 Responsibilities: Course organization and administration, preparation of material, student consultation, and marking of exams and essays.

University of California, Berkeley

Visiting Lecturer HIST N109C: The Modern Middle East, Summer Session II 2013 Number of Students: 15 Responsibilities: Course organization and administration, preparation of lecture material, student consultation, and marking of exams and essays.

Saint Mary’s College of California

Lecturer Jan135: The History of Modern Espionage, January Term 2013

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Number of Students: 27 Responsibilities: Course organization and administration, preparation of lecture material, student consultation, and marking of exams and essays.

Jan121: The History of Modern Espionage, January Term 2012 Number of Students: 33 Responsibilities: Course organization and administration, preparation of lecture material, student consultation, and marking of exams and essays.

University of Toronto

Instructor History 343Y: The History of Modern Espionage, Summer 2009, Summer 2010 Number of Students: 120 Responsibilities: Course organization and administration, preparation of lecture material, student consultation, teaching assistant supervision and marking of exams and essays.

Teaching Assistant History 306F: The , Fall 2009 Course Supervisor: Professor Robert Johnson (Mississaugua satellite campus) Responsibilities: Student consultation and marking of exams and essays.

History 343Y: The History of Modern Espionage, 2006-2010 Course Supervisor: Professor Wesley Wark, Dr. Alexandra Luce (2007-2008) Responsibilities: Student consultation and marking of exams and essays.

History 103Y: Statecraft and Strategy, 1648-1945, 2005-2010 Course Supervisor: Professor Denis Smyth Responsibilities: Running small discussion groups, student consultation and marking of exams and essays.

History 109Y: The Development of European Civilisation, 1350-1950, 2004-2005 Course Supervisor: Professor Kenneth Bartlett Responsibilities: Running small discussion groups, student consultation and marking of exams and essays.

Simon Fraser University

Teaching Assistant History 338: The Second World War (Distance Education), Summer 2003 Course Supervisor: Professor Hilmar Pabel Responsibilities: Student consultation and marking of exams and essays.

History 106: Europe, 1500-1945, Spring 2002, 2003 Course Supervisor: Professor Ian Dyck Responsibilities: Running small discussion groups, student consultation and marking of exams and essays.

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History 105: Europe, From Antiquity to 1500, Fall 2002 Course Supervisor: Professor Paul Dutton Responsibilities: Running small discussion groups, student consultation and marking of exams and essays.

GUEST LECTURES

Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The American Civil War History 501: The American Civil War, Fall 2007 Course Supervisor: Dr. Peter Wronskii

York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Bismarck’s Foreign and Domestic Policies, 1871-1890 History 3320: Modern , 1871-the Present, Fall 2005 Course Supervisor: Professor Deborah Neill

Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, WA, USA Soviet Foreign Policy, 1919-1939. History 230: Survey of Russian History, Spring 2003 Course Supervisor: Professor Darren Williamson

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada The Unification of Germany History 106: Europe from 1500-1945, Spring 2002, 2003 Course Supervisor: Professor Ian Dyck

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Rotenberg Memorial Award in British History, 2010 Value: $5,000

University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship, 2004-2009 Value: $20,000 per year

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2006-2009 Value: $15,000 per Academic Year.

University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, 2008 Value: $1,300

Sir Val Duncan Travel Grant, 2008 Value: $1,000

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Canadian Association of Security and Intelligence Studies Conference Bursary, 2007 Value: Airfare and Accommodation (approximately $1,000).

University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, 2007 Value: $1,630

Alan Marchment Graduate Student Travel Award, 2007 Value: $750

Sir Val Duncan Travel Grant, 2007 Value: $600

DAAD Intensive Language Study Fellowship, 2006 Value: $2,600

University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, 2006-2007 Value: $525

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Research Assistant for Professor James Retallack, University of Toronto, for his book Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Specter of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 (, 2013), 2009-2010.

Research Assistant for Professor Martin Kitchen, Simon Fraser University, for his book Rommel’s Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943 (Cambridge: University Press, 2009), 2004.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

THE500: Teaching For Higher Education, Fall 2009 Course Facilitator: Professor Keren Rice, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto.

SERVICE

Served on Advisory Board for the student-published journal Notebook: A Discussion of Contemporary Jewish Issues at the University of Toronto.

Social Committee co-chair, Graduate History Society, University of Toronto, 2006-2007.

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Graduate student representative on hiring committee for Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies, Department of History, University of Toronto, 2005.

Co-organizer of Simon Fraser University History Department’s Second Annual Hutchinson Memorial Lecture, 2004.

Graduate student representative on hiring committee, Department of History, Simon Fraser University, 2003.

Graduate student representative on Working Environment Committee, Department of History, Simon Fraser University.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

French Reading: intermediate Writing: intermediate Speaking: intermediate

German Reading: intermediate Writing: intermediate Speaking: intermediate

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