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Dr Richard McMahon

Richard
LecturerÌýin EU Politics
Room:Ìý3.11, 36-38 Gordon Square
Email:Ìýr.mcmahon@ucl.ac.uk

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Biography

Before teaching at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾, I was a researcher, funded by the European Commission’s Marie Curie scheme, and then a senior lecturer in European studies at the University of Portsmouth. Before then, I lectured on EU studies and Chinese history at University College Cork in Ireland. I have also taught a very wide range of subjects (from international law to racial and geopolitical subtexts in literature) at the universities of Bath, Chichester and Siegen (Germany), and at Birkbeck College, interspersed with research fellowships at the universities of Bristol and Siegen. My PhD in History and Civilisation at the European University Institute studies a transnational community of scientists who attempted to classify Europeans by race. Before my academic career, I worked as a journalist of EU affairs in Brussels, focusing on enlargement and relations with the Western Balkans. I have published a monograph, numerous articles and book chapters, and edited seven special issues and edited books with leading journals such as National Identities and European Societies, and with publishers such as Routledge.

Research

My research and publications concentrate on the ways that people think about Europe and nations and how this affects politics. At present, China-EU mutual representations are my key focus. I am currently working on two journal special issues. One, co-edited with ProfessorÌýWolfram Kaiser (University of Portsmouth) on narratives and counter-narratives of the European Union, will appear in Journal of Contemporary European Studies in early 2021. The other, co-edited with ProfessorÌýHongsong Liu (Shanghai Jiaotong University) on Chinese representations of the EU, should be published a year later. My previous work has examined the nationalist and geopolitical identity narratives of transnational communities of race scientists and geneticists, and various aspects of culture-politics relations in the EU, addressing prominent political issues such as Brexit and enlargement.

Publications

Books
  • McMahon, R.Ìý(2016)Ìý. London: Palgrave.

Edited books

  • McMahon, R. (ed.)Ìý(2019)Ìý. Lincoln, NE:ÌýUniversity of Nebraska Press.
  • Kaiser, W. and McMahon, R. (eds.) (2019) . London & New York: Routledge.
  • McMahon, R. (ed.)Ìý(2013)Ìý. London & New York: Routledge.
Journal articles
  • McMahon, R. (Forthcoming)Ìý‘The Mainstream: A Disciplinary or Transatlantic Divide in Political Studies of the EU?’, Journal of European Integration.
  • McMahon, R.Ìýand Kaiser, W. (2022) ‘’,ÌýJournal of Contemporary European Studies,Ìý30(1), pp. 1–9.
  • McMahon, R.Ìý(2022) ‘’,ÌýJournal of Contemporary European Studies,Ìý30(1), pp. 10–25.
  • McMahon, R. (2019)Ìý‘’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
  • McMahon, R. (2018)Ìý‘’, British Journal for the History of Science, 51(1), pp.Ìý41–67.
  • McMahon, R. (2018)Ìý‘’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 56(2), pp.Ìý462–79.
  • McMahon, R. (2017)Ìý‘’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 25(3), pp.Ìý307–324.
  • Kaiser, W. and McMahon, R. (2017)Ìý‘’, National Identities, 19(1), pp.Ìý149–60.
  • McMahon, R. (2017)Ìý‘’, National Identities, 19(1), pp.Ìý231-24.
  • McMahon, R. (2013)Ìý‘The Kremlin’s Grip: New Geopolitical and Cultural Histories of Central and Eastern Europe’, Irish Slavonic Studies, 25, pp.Ìý1–12.
  • McMahon, R. (2012)Ìý‘’, European Societies, 14(4),Ìýpp. 562–85.
  • McMahon, R. (2012)Ìý‘’, European Societies, 14(4),Ìýpp. 473–483.
  • McMahon, R. (2011)Ìý‘’, History of the Human Sciences, 24(1), pp.Ìý70–94.
  • McMahon, R. (2009)Ìý‘’, Nations and Nationalism, 15(4), pp.Ìý575–596.
  • McMahon, R. (2009)Ìý‘’, European Review of History, 16(1), pp.Ìý1–14.
  • McMahon, R. (2009)Ìý‘’, European Review of History, 16(1), pp.Ìý99–120.

Edited journal special issues

  • McMahon, R. and Liu, H. (eds.) (Submitted) Making sense of the European Union: Chinese Representations (specialÌýissue of Journal of Common Market Studies).
  • McMahon, R. and Kaiser, W.Ìý(eds.) (2022)ÌýÌý(special issue of Journal of Contemporary European Studies).
  • Kasier, W. andÌýMcMahon, R. (eds.) (2017) Ìý(special issue of National Identities).
  • McMahon, R and Murphy,ÌýJ. (eds.) (2013)ÌýRussian-East European Relations: From Tsarism to GazpromÌý(special issue of Irish Slavonic Studies).
  • McMahon, R. (ed.)Ìý(2012)ÌýPost-identity? Culture and the Politics of European IntegrationÌý(special issue of European Societies).
  • McMahon, R.,ÌýVincze, O. and Stancu, E. (eds.) (2009)ÌýCultural Communication: New Perspectives in European HistoryÌý(special issue of European Review of History).
Book chapters
  • McMahon, R. (2020) ‘Anthropological Race Classification and Ethnicity: Science with a Nationalist Heart’, in M.ÌýMogilner (ed.)ÌýA Cultural History of Race in the Age of Empire and Nation State. London: Bloomsbury.
  • McMahon, R. (2019)Ìý‘’, in R.ÌýMcMahon (ed.)ÌýNational Races: Scientific Classification and Political Identity. Lincoln, NE:ÌýUniversity of Nebraska Press.
  • McMahon, R. (2019)Ìý‘’, in R.ÌýMcMahon (ed.)ÌýNational Races: Scientific Classification and Political Identity. Lincoln, NE:ÌýUniversity of Nebraska Press.
  • McMahon, R. (2013)Ìý‘’, in R.ÌýMcMahon (ed.)ÌýPost-identity? Culture and European Integration. London & New York: Routledge, pp.Ìý1–13.
  • McMahon, R.Ìý(2013)Ìý‘’,Ìýin R.ÌýMcMahon (ed.)ÌýPost-identity? Culture and European Integration. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 191–211.
  • McMahon, R. andÌýLittoz-Monnet, A. (2013)Ìý‘’, in R.ÌýMcMahon (ed.)ÌýPost-identity? Culture and European Integration. London & New York: Routledge, pp.Ìý212–234.Ìý
Blog articles
  • McMahon, R. (2019)Ìý‘’, UK in a Changing Europe.
  • McMahon, R. (2019)Ìý‘Brexit: Is No-deal Inevitable?’, WeiXin Bulletin of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies.

Teaching

I currentlyÌýteach on ‘Introduction to Politics’, ‘How to Argue about Politics’, and two policy studies modules. In previous years, my teaching has mostly focused on EU politics and on democracy.

I can best help supervise students on subjects related toÌýthe EU and European politics more broadly,ÌýChina,Ìýpopulism and Euroscepticism,Ìýand on the various ways that culture and identity intersect with politics.