Elliot Newbold

Thesis title:

Book Review - 'Paul J. Heer, Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia', Journal of American Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May 2020), pp. 439-441.

A 'Bridge' or a 'Chasm'?: Philippine Independence and Cold War Public Diplomacy in the Global South, 1945-1947. International History and Diplomacy Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, May 2019. Served as conference organiser.
The Perfect Place to 'Win Friends and Influence People': Cold War Public Diplomacy and the American Decolonization of the Philippines, 1945-1947. British Association for American Studies conference, University of Sussex, April 2019. Organised panel.
US Cold War Public Diplomacy in the Philippines, 1945-1947. British International Studies conference, Liverpool John Moores University, September 2018.
Philippine Freedom and the Global Cold War, 1945-1947. Historians of the Twentieth Century United States conference, University of Cambridge, June 2018.
Imagining Independence: American Visions of Philippine Freedom in the Global Cold War, 1945-1947. International History and Diplomacy conference, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, May 2018.
Solving the 'Philippine Problem': Frank Murphy, the Great Depression, and the Creation of the Philippine Commonwealth, 1933-1936. America in the Asian Century symposium, University of Nottingham, March 2017. Served as conference organiser.

Contributor to the Ballots & Bullets (nottspolitics.org) blog, produced by the School of Politics & International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Provided in-depth coverage and analysis of the 2016 Philippine general election.
Invited to contribute commentaries for the Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation (appfi.ph), a non-profit organisation committed to enhancing peace, development and cultural understanding for peoples of the Philippines and Asia-Pacific.
University and College Union (UCU) Hourly-Paid & Casualised Workers departmental liaison for American & Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, 2018-present.

American Politics Group (APG), Political Studies Association (PSA)
Asia Research Institute (ARI), University of Nottingham
Association of Southeast Asian Studies, United Kingdom (ASEASUK)
British Association for American Studies (BAAS)
Department of American & Canadian Studies Politics & Foreign Policy Cluster, University of Nottingham
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS)
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
US Foreign Policy Working Group, British International Studies Association (BISA)

Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Midlands 3Cities Doctoral Scholarship, 2018-present.
Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEASUK) postgraduate research grant, July 2019.
Midlands 3Cities Student Development Fund research grant, June 2019.
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library research grant, May 2019.
Midlands 3Cities Student Development Fund conference grant, February 2019.
British International Studies Association US Foreign Policy Working Group conference grant, September 2018.
Political Studies Association American Politics Group conference grant, July 2018.
School of Cultures, Languages & Area Studies Doctoral Studentship, 2018.
Two-time winner of the Asia Research Institute Tomlinson Dissertation Travel Grant, 2015-2016 & 2016-2017.
Midlands 3Cities Nottingham master's studentship, 2016-2017.
School of Cultures, Languages & Area Studies Postgraduate Research Grant, April 2016.

Midlands 3Cities funded research trip to College Park, MD to visit the US National Archives, February 2020.
ASEASUK & Midlands 3Cities funded research trip to Manila, Philippines to visit the Main Library (UP - Diliman), Jorge B Vargas Centre, Jose P Laurel Library, Department of Foreign Affairs Archive, and the private papers of Leon Ma Guerrero, October 2019.
Midlands 3Cities & Truman Library funded research trip to the United States to visit the Truman & Eisenhower presidential libraries in Independence, MO & Abilene, KS, June 2019.
Asia Research Institute funded research trip to Washington DC to visit the US National Archives, Library of Congress, and papers of Millard E. Tydings (University of Maryland), February 2018.
Asia Research Institute funded research trip to Manila, Philippines to undertake archival work in the National Library of the Philippines, Main Library (University of the Philippines, Diliman), and American Historical Collection (Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University), October 2016.
School of Cultures, Languages, and Area Studies funded research trip to the United States to visit Bentley and Lilly libraries (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Indiana University, Bloomington), August-September, 2016.

Winner of 2014/15 University of Hull Departmental Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation.
Editor & social media officer at the Asia Research Institute Asia Dialogue blog, 2017-2019.
Treasurer, Association of Southeast Asian Studies, United Kingdom (ASEASUK), 2018-present.
Digital Media Ambassador, Department of American & Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, 2018-2020.
Organising committee for the International History and Diplomacy Research Group, 2019-present.
Digital Communications Manager, ASEASUK, 2020-present.