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Norry LaPorte is a Lecturer in History and Humanities at Newman University’s Faculty of Arts, Society and Professional Studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Stirling, funded by the Scottish Education Department and DAAD, and has taught at multiple UK universities. His research focuses on German communism, UK-GDR relations, and Cold War identity politics.
Education: PhD (History), University of Stirling (funded by Scottish Education Department and DAAD); previous teaching roles at Stirling, London Metropolitan, Wolverhampton, and the University of South Wales (as Reader in Modern European History).
Research interests include German communist movements during Weimar, Ernst Thälmann’s leadership, and GDR historiography. He edited Weimar Communism as Mass Movement (2017), funded by the Amiel Melburn Trust. His work on Thälmann was supported by the British Academy.
Teaching: Contributes to decolonized history curricula at Levels 4/5, and teaches Level 6 module ‘Revolution and Counterrevolution’ (2021 onward), covering 20th-century political ideologies.
Professional memberships: Board member of Twentieth Century Communism and Arbeiter-Bewegung-Geschichte. Supervised Rhian Thomas’s 2016 PhD on Welsh-DDR Cold War interactions.
Key grants/funding: British Academy (Thälmann biography research), Amiel Melburn Trust (book funding). Research explores East-West Cold War dynamics, transnational labor movements, and memory politics.
