Kara Critchell

Dr. Kara Critchell is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Chester's Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, with affiliations to the Culture and Society Research Institute. Her interdisciplinary research examines cultural legacies of conflict, political violence, and genocide across transnational contexts.

She holds a PhD in History through an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award from the University of Winchester, an MA in Jewish History and Culture from the University of Southampton, and a BA (Hons) in History from Southampton. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Critchell's research focuses on sensory interactions within genocidal landscapes, Holocaust memory in British culture, and societal grief patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her publications critically analyze how trauma becomes embedded in cultural memory and national identity narratives.

She teaches undergraduate courses including 'Deathscapes: Sites of Violence, Spaces of Memory' and 'Genocide in History and Memory', and supervises postgraduate research on perpetrators of violence, memorialization, and sexual violence in conflict contexts.