MARK JAMES CROWLEY portrait
  • Professor (Lecturer), Management Department
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Research Summary

My research to date has focused on the history of the British Post Office. I am now developing a transnational approach to examine collaboration between the UK and the USA during the Second World War in the area of business, voluntary action, trade unionism and philanthropic activity. Diplomatic and voluntary action to assist China in the Second World War, articulated through the Anglo-American relationship is the focus of my current research.

Education

  • BScEcon, Modern History and Political Science, Cardiff University
  • MSt, Modern History, University of Oxford
  • PhD, Modern History, University of London

Biography

I joined the Department of Management at the David Eccles Business School, University of Utah in July 2019 as an Associate Professor (Lecturer), having previously been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, an Associate Professor in China (Wuhan University) and a student in the United Kingdom.  I was promoted to Professor (Lecturer) in July 2024. At the Business School, I teach MGT 1050 Foundations of Business Thought in both the spring and fall, and  BUS 3900 Women and Capitalism in the twentieth century every fall semester.  MGT 1050 is also taught as a summer class through the Eccles Global program, where I teach this class in Europe.  
 
Additionally, I am research-active in the field of business history, where I am simultaneously working on three projects that focus on various aspects of business, workers and the economy in the Second World War, with a specific focus on Britain and its relatinship with China.
 

I graduated from the universities of Cardiff, Oxford and London. My PhD was funded by an Arts and Humanities Collaborative Doctoral Award in British Postal History. It examined the role of women workers in the General Post Office in Britain from 1939-1945. I was supervised by Professor Pat Thane and Dr. Adrian Steel. 

I am the author of over 10 peer reviewed articles, three edited collections and one monograph in the area of Modern British History. My main research focus to date has been on the social and economic history of the Second World War, with a particular focus on Britain.  I am particularly interested in the history of work and labor in this period, the  workers' experiences during the conflict, together with perceptions of social class and capitalism in Britain and Europe in the Second World War and wider twentieth century. 

 
I have presented over 60 conference papers at national and international conferences. I have received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Political Studies Association, the Royal Historical Society and the Chinese Ministry of Education. 

For the academic year 2018-19 I was a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, where I completed the research for my next monograph on Anglo-American relations vis-a-vis China in the Second World War.  Previously, I worked for eight years in China, first as an EFL teacher for one year at Hubei University of Education, and subsequently for eight years at the Department of History, Wuhan University (postdoctoral researcher, 2011-12, Assistant Professor 2012-13 and Associate Professor 2013-19)  Before that, I was an Associate Lecturer at Cardiff University alongside studying for my PhD.  I taught two courses, namely British Politics (2nd year 30 credit module) and a 20 credit final year module on Wales, Devolution and Multi-Level Governance in the UK. I also contributed to the MA in Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research.