Michael John Heffernan is a

historical geographer Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. It is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history, anthropology, eco ...

and academic. Since 1999, he has been Professor of Historical Geography at the

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Career

Michael Heffernan was awarded a

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St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...

in 1987 for his thesis on ''The Politics of Literacy: Cultural Change and Political Responses in Nineteenth-Century Provincial France''. Heffernan joined

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

as a lecturer in 1985, and was promoted to senior lecturer five years later, then to a

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in 1995. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Historical Geography at the

. According to his

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profile, Heffernan's research focuses on "the history of geography and

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" and "the historical geography of France and the French Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries"."Professor Mike Heffernan"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 1 July 2018. More specifically, he has studied citizenship and national identity in late-19th- and early-20th-century France and Germany, as well as topics of war and memory between the First and Second World Wars, both with geographical and landscape dimensions, as well as the role of maps and the media in modern, western Europe."Michael Heffernan"
''University of Nottingham''. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

Honours and awards

In 2015, Heffernan was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected publications

* ''The Meaning of Europe: Geography and Geopolitics'' (Edward Arnold, 1998).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heffernan, Michael 1959 births Living people British historical geographers Fellows of the British Academy Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge