Joanne Clare Fox (born 1978), is a British historian specialising in the history of film and propaganda in twentieth-century Europe. Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London (the IHR's first female director) from 2018 to 2020, Fox was promoted as Dean of London University's School of Advanced Study in 2020.

Education

Joanne Clare Fox graduated with BA and PhD degrees in history from the University of Kent.

Career

Before becoming a university lecturer, Fox intended to use her historical training to work in heritage, but changed her mind after a student at Kent told her, "you have been an inspiration to all of us! You should be teaching!" Fox entered academia as a lecturer at Durham University in 1999, later becoming Professor of Modern History. In 2007, Fox was appointed a National Teaching Fellow. She is also a member of the Council for the International Association of Media and History and is on the editorial board of their academic journal, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. She is the honorary director of communications for the Royal Historical Society. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), she is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Her interest in using new learning technologies influenced others within Durham University, and in other institutions. Notably, she contributed a case study to the National Blackboard Conference, chaired by Lord Dearing. Fox's most significant published work is Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II (2007), in which she compares the use of cinema in propaganda in Britain and Germany in the Second World War.

Media appearances

Fox appeared as an expert for some episodes of the 2010 CBC Television documentary, Love, Hate & Propaganda. She appeared as an expert on the BBC Radio 4 programme Making History in March 2011 to discuss satire and anti-fascist propaganda, and on The One Show in May 2011 to discuss public and media reactions to Rudolf Hess's 1941 parachute landing.

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