Ben Ashbridge
PhD Candidate in World History
Having attained a first in Modern History at undergraduate level from the University of St Andrews and a distinction in the World History MPhil at the University of Cambridge, I am currently continuing my research as a PhD candidate at Cambridge's Faculty of History. My research interests have developed across these degrees, stemming from an original curiosity concerning the development of Kikuyu identity in Kenya amidst colonial religious influence on which I based my undergraduate dissertation. Since then I studied the role of Christian missionary organizations in entrenching ethnic divides in Burma, before my MPhil research on the role of mission societies during the Malayan Emergency and the decolonization process in the Malayan colony.
I am currently researching transnational evangelical networks as an element of decolonization processes in the 1950s and 1960s. More specifically, I am exploring the actions of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Malaya and the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya during their respective Emergencies. In doing so I am investigating the dialogue taking place between global and local contextual factors in influencing faith mission policies, and what that can tell us about both shifts within transnational evangelicalism and sociocultural developments amongst the peoples with whom these missions were working in Malaya and Kenya.
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