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Professor Josie McLellan serves as Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Bristol, where she conducts innovative research at the intersection of academic and public history through community partnerships across Bristol.
Her educational background includes a B.A. from Sussex University, an M.St. from Oxford University, and a D.Phil. from Oxford University.
McLellan specializes in social and cultural history with particular expertise in public history and co-produced research methodologies. Her work bridges academic scholarship and community engagement through projects with Single Parent Action Network, Outstories Bristol, and Openstorytellers, focusing on women's history, LGBT+ history, disability history, and the history of work. She has developed groundbreaking approaches to incorporating non-academic expertise into historical research.
Her recent publications demonstrate an evolution from her foundational work on East German history toward localized Bristol-based community projects, reflecting her commitment to making historical research accessible and relevant to diverse publics through digital mapping, exhibitions, and storytelling.
- Ernst Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History (2011) for Love In The Time Of Communism
McLellan has supervised numerous PhD and MPhil students on diverse topics including Soviet rock music, wartime Budapest management, postwar German rural life, and East German medical history. She has secured significant funding including AHRC grants for projects like 'Mapping LGBT+ Bristol' and 'Women, Work and Value in Europe, 1945-2015', while serving as co-investigator on 'Dropping Out of Socialism' and 'Know Your Bristol On The Move'.
She currently collaborates with Barton Hill Settlement on a participatory history of Single Parent Action Network and continues her advocacy for inclusive higher education through the Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities program, which she helped direct for three years.
