John Mclean
Senior Lecturer in History
Tel: 020 8331 8970
Email: j.r.mclean@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 335
Office Hours
Tuesday 11-12 noon
Wednesday 1-2pm
Thursday 1-2pm
I joined the School of Humanities & Social Sciences in 1988. My research interests lie in Indian and African history. I have researched on French colonial West Africa in the 1930s-50and on late eighteenth century South India. I have been on television (BBC 4) talking about 'Tippoo's Tiger' in relation to this.This is an object in the Victoria and Albert Museum and I have long had a teaching interest in Museum and Gallery Studies. I mainly teach about this now in History: Theory and Practice. I have taught courses on Modern Indian and African history at BA and MA level.
I helped create the History degree which I led in the early 1990s and again in the 2000s. I have more recently helped create the Social and Cultural History degree and the joint honours in Citizenship.
I teach on a number of History courses including History: Theory and Practice (Level 2) and Rise and fall of Apartheid South Africa (Level 3). I also developed the History Placement which I ran for some years.
Publications and papers
'White Mutiny in Madras 1809 : race, class and conciliation under the
Raj' paper delivered to international conference, 'Mutiny at the margins' in 2007
Review of R.J.Blyth, Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East 1858-1947 in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , 38,2 (May 2006)
'Vellore 1806: The Meanings of Mutiny' in J. Hathaway (ed) Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Perspective (Praeger, USA 2001)