Dr Mike Sewell
Mike Sewell was successively Mellon Research Fellow in US History in the Faculty of History, Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College and a Lecturer in History and International Relations at what was then the Board of Extra-Mural Studies, now ICE. Whilst there he was the founding Course Director of the highly successful MSt degree in International Relations.
Since January 2016 he has been Senior Tutor of Selwyn College and he relinquished his remaining connection to ICE in 2017. He is currently focused mainly on his Senior Tutor duties and is not taking on new students for supervision.
Mike is not currently research active.
Mike has previously supervised PhD, MPhil and MSt dissertations on topics in the History of International Relations, American History, and contemporary America foreign policy as well as a range of undergraduate dissertations. He has not supervised in recent years.
Mike's current focus is on his role as Senior Tutor accompanied by College and intercollegiate committee work.
Contact
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Selwyn College,
Grange Road,
Cambridge CB3 9DQ
Office Phone: 01223-335842
Key Publications
- M Sewell: 'Humanitarian Intervention, Democracy and Imperialism: The American War with Spain, 1898, and after' in Simms, B and Trim, D (eds): Humanitarian Intervention: A History, CUP, 2011.
- M Sewell: 'Review of The Cambridge History of the Cold War', H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Volume I, March 2011, eds. Maddux and Labrosse
- M Sewell: The Cold War, CUP, 2002.
Other Publications
Mike has also previously published on late-19th century Anglo-American relations and on the Civil Rights Movement as viewed from the UK.