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Mara Oliva is an Associate Professor in Modern US History & Digital Humanities at the University of Reading, where she also serves as Digital Humanities Academic Champion and leads the Digital Humanities Community of Practice. She specializes in political history at the intersection of history and digital technologies, focusing on US foreign policy, presidential studies, and environmental diplomacy.
Her research explores twentieth-century US history through multiple lenses: the evolution of presidential influence, soft power dynamics in international relations, climate change diplomacy, and urban heritage studies. She maintains particular expertise in Sino-American relations from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Oliva's extensive publication record demonstrates consistent focus on US foreign policy mechanisms, presidential decision-making, and diplomatic strategies. Her analytical approach combines historical context with contemporary digital methodologies, revealing patterns in policy evolution from Eisenhower to Obama administrations. Recent work examines environmental dimensions of diplomacy and digital mapping applications in historical analysis.
Honors include the Society for Historians of US Foreign Policy Global Scholar Award, British Academy grants, and multiple teaching excellence awards. She has contributed to UK parliamentary reports on climate diplomacy and regularly provides expert commentary for international media outlets.
Current PhD supervision includes projects on US-Guatemalan relations, Nixon-era Italian politics, cultural diplomacy of the San Francisco Ballet, and racial/gender representations at World's Fairs. She maintains active involvement in research networks including the Synthetic Media Research Network.
