Associate Professor Neil Morpeth

My research output has always aimed for a small but high quality output.In this academic context and spirit,my position in Humanities &Social Science(Classics)and major academic role as Convenor of Short Programs/Bridging Courses(ELFSC/DVC-Academic division) have directly influenced my aim to produce small but qualitatively good research outcomes.The researcher's disciplinary fields of scholarly research and distinctive published outcomes can be characterized by the following descriptors: (1) intellectual traditions of thought; (2) Classical Greek history and historiography; (3) the history of ideas and history of philosophy. The researcher has achieved a qualitative research output in the broad research field of intellectual traditions of thought and the history of ideas.My recent book ,Thucydides' War:Accounting for the Faces of Conflict has received a detailed,generous and balanced review in the prestigious Bryn Mawr Classical Review.Earlier, the manuscript had also been critically and favourably assessed for publication by the editorial board of the highly regarded academic European and German publisher, Georg Olms Verlag. This intellectual traditions of thought research examines the dymanics of writing history in and about once contemporary worlds,its intellectual journeys through time, and impact upon twentieth century letters and society.Better understanding our own,often warring,contemporary world requires researchers to come to grips with the dynamics of traditions of thought and their usage and abusage through time.My research has the twin aims of being engagingly educative and scholarly.

Research Expertise
• Contemporary history and the idea of a new interdisciplinary literary genre;
• Classical traditions and legacies – writing for the future in a precarious present-tense historical world. Marc Bloch’s contemporaneous writings and histories, Strange Defeat and The Historian’s Craft, and writing on traditions of thought are not often viewed as a synergy nor given the urgent, comparative enquiry they deserve. The renowned French historian, Marc Bloch, is well known internationally for his work on Feudal Society and as one of two key founders of the Annales School of History. However, no thorough, thematic study has been conducted on his contemporaneous writings and especially those written in July 1940-1942 as an insight into his very particular, complex, subtle deployment of traditions of thought – ancient and modern.