Dr Kimberley Lustina Weir

Postdoctoral Research Assistant (TSS)

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School of Humanities, University of Hull

Profile

Dr Kimberley Weir recently completed a PhD in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham. Her thesis examined the extent to which the United States’ colonial rule of the Philippines (1898-1946) shaped the country’s memorial landscape over the course of the twentieth century. This PhD formed part of the Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia (COTCA) project, funded by the European Research Council. Kimberley also has an undergraduate degree in American and English Studies from the University of Nottingham, and a Masters in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester. She is Secretary for the Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the UK.

Publications

‘A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”: The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance,’ Journal of American Studies, Vol. 55, No. 1 (February 2021), 75-101. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875820000675 

‘“A big and beautiful city”: Philippine-British Connections 1579 to 2022,’ Isles and islands: Cultural flows between the UK and the Philippines. British Council in the Philippines 2022.