Today we chat with Dr. Aimée Fox, Senior Lecturer for Defence Studies at King's College, London. Aimée earned her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, working under Freind of the Pod Jonathan Boff, and she also served as a Teaching Fellow in the History of Warfare at Birmingham. Aimée was also a Visiting Scholar at the Australian Defence Force Academy at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Her first book, Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, winning the Templer Medal for Best First Book as well as the British Army Military Book of the Year for 2018.
Aimée has also published her work in The English Historical Review, War & Society, and War in History, and she is editing a scholarly edition of the papers of Major General Guy Dawnay for the Army Records Society. Her research has been funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and she has held fellowships from the Australian Defence Force, The Australian War Memorial, The Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare at the US Marine Corps University, and the Royal British Legion. Having only finished her Ph.D. in 2015, Aimée has already been elected a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy, and she is a Trustee of the Society for Military History. She served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Military History and is presently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the British Journal for Military History. Perhaps most impressively, she’s got more than 8,000 Twitter followers @DrAEFox.
She is currently pursuing two research projects: first, an exploration of the importance of social relations, gossip, and informal networks to the process of innovation, and the ways in which the social politics of military organizations help or hinder innovation with a particular focus on the role of command and leadership; and secondly, an examination of the emotional mobilization of women during the First World War, exploring how intimacy, feelings, labor, and family were co-opted and exploited by the British military and the ways in which this was negotiated and contested by women. Along with Michael Finch and David Morgan-Owen, Aimée also has a forthcoming edited collection of outstanding essays titled Framing the First World War: Knowledge, Learning and Military Thought, to be published by the University Press of Kansas as part of Modern War Studies.
What a delightful chat with the equally delightful Aimée Fox! We'll discuss what is an Essex Girl, taking sad-naps as an Everton supporter, and BBQ in Georgia, which she has experienced! Yes, we'll talk about her work, having a 7-month old lab puppy (Freddie!), and being married to a military historian, apparently of some repute. Join us!
Rec. 01/13/2022
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