Lynton Lees wins NACBS Dissertation Travel Grant

Lynton Lees, PhD student at Columbia, has been awarded the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Dissertation Travel Grant. Her dissertation, “Democracy’s children: education, citizenship, and the totalitarian challenge to Britain and its empire, 1933-1948”, is an intellectual and political history of interwar educational thought, revealing how an existential threat to liberal democracy posed by totalitarian regimes caused liberals in Britain to repurpose education as a tool to produce democratic citizens in the metropole, on the continent, and in Britain’s former settler-colonies. She will use the award for dissertation research in the UK in the 2020-2021 academic year.