Maud A BrackeView profile
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Professor Maud A Bracke is a leading historian of modern European social, gender, and political history at the University of Glasgow. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute (2004) and has held prestigious fellowships including an AHRC Leadership Fellowship (2021-23) for her work on reproductive rights. Her research spans post-war feminist movements, Cold War political dynamics, and transnational activism. Bracke has authored influential monographs such as *Women and the Reinvention of the Political: Feminism in Italy (1968-1983)* and co-edited volumes on feminist translation studies. She currently supervises PhD students researching topics like sex work narratives and suffragette satire. Her teaching includes modules on gender history and European communism. Bracke has held editorial roles at *Gender & History* and the *Journal of Modern European History*, and serves as EDI Convenor for the School of Humanities. Her work interrogates intersections of gender, power, and politics in 20th-century Europe, with a focus on reproductive rights, transnational feminist networks, and the legacy of 1968 movements. Key research projects include analyzing Black feminist critiques of Western reproductive frameworks and the UN’s role in shaping global women’s health agendas. Bracke’s grants total over £400,000, including a Leverhulme International Network Grant for translating feminist discourse. She has been a visiting scholar at Sciences Po Paris, Ghent University, and the European University Institute.
