Dr Rachel Chin

Researcher Development Specialist (Writing and Communication) (Research Services)
Lecturer in War Studies (History)

email: Rachel.Chin@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Room 401, 1 University Gardens

Biography

My research focuses on 20th century Franco-British relations, in particular through the lenses of conflict and empire. My book, War of Words: Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2022), explores the role of rhetoric as a strategic policy tool in the context of clashes over French imperial territory during the Second World War. My research on historic and contemporary Franco-British relations has appeared in The Conversation, Britain and the World, The European Review of History and the Journal of Contemporary History. I am currently embarking on new research examining the rhetoric around empire and imperial migration in the 19th and 20th century. This includes an RSE-funded project exploring the Chinese community in British Jamaica.

As a Writing Specialist with the Research Culture & Researcher Development team I coordinate non-discipline specific writing support for PGRs and Research Staff. This includes running a series of four academic writing workshops, hosting in person and online writing retreats and offering 1:1 writing support sessions for PGRs. Find out more about academic writing support. Find out more about or annual two-week writing festival Write of Spring.

Research interests

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Imperial History (France and Britain)
Imperial Violence
The Second World War
Franco-British Relations
Migration, particularly in relation to empire
Chinese migration to the Caribbean
History and Memory

Current Projects

The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations since 1815 (AHRC)
Empire, citizenship and belonging: the Chinese in Jamaica (RSE)

Publications

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Number of items: 13.

2025

Chin, R. and Huneke, S. (Eds.) (2025) Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501779190

Chin, R. (2025) Empire and Global France during the Second World War. In: Middell, M. (ed.) French Globalization Projects. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 427-446. ISBN 9783666302176

2024

Chin, R. (2024) When you don’t know what to write. [Website]

Chin, R. (2024) So what? Supporting PGRs to write about why their research matters. [Website]

Chin, R. (2024) Researchers as writers. [Website]

Chin, R. (2024) La politique britannique et la construction d'une identité française libre: 1940-1941. In: Cornil-Frerrot, S., Faucher, C., Humbert, L., Piketty, G. and Vaisset, T. (eds.) Françaises et Français libres: Une identité née de la pluralité. Presses Universitaires de Rennes. ISBN 9782753597068

Chin, R. (2024) H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-16 on Faucher, Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power. H-Diplo, XXV(16), pp. 5-8. [Book Review]

2022

Chin, R. (2022) War of Words: Britain, France and Discourses of Empire During the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781009181013 (doi: 10.1017/9781009180993)

2021

Pastor-Castro, R. and Chin, R. (2021) France and the UK: behind two men scoring political points are teams of diplomats behaving like grown ups. Conversation, 3 Dec.

Chin, R. (2021) History and foreign policy: Franco-British cooperation towards Greek independence 1828-1830. Britain and the World, 14(2), pp. 151-173. (doi: 10.3366/brw.2021.0370)

2020

Chin, R. (2020) After the fall: British strategy and the preservation of the Franco-British alliance in 1940. Journal of Contemporary History, 55(2), pp. 297-315. (doi: 10.1177/0022009419846951)

2018

Chin, R. (2018) The Levant mandates and Charles de Gaulle's provisional government: power, culture and messages of imperial reform. European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 25(2), pp. 312-329. (doi: 10.1080/13507486.2017.1409701)

2017

Chin, R. (2017) 'The real question at issue': Mers el-Kébir and the rhetoric of imperial confrontation in July 1940. In: Thomas, M. and Toye, R. (eds.) Rhetorics of Empire: Languages of Colonial Conflict After 1900. Series: Studies in imperialism. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 91-107. ISBN 9781526120489

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