Jessica Cretney

Thesis title:

German Architectural Modernism, Spatial Perpetration and the Concentration Camp, 1933-1945

Research Area

History

Publications

Jessica Cretney, 'Builders of the Third Reich: The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour by Charles Dick', German History, Vol. 41, Issue 1, 2023, pp. 142–143

Conferences

09/2023
GHS (German History Society) Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, 7th-9th September 2023
Paper: "Nothing to do with Politics": Ernst Neufert and Architectural Standardisation

09/2022
GHS (German History Society) Annual Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 8th-10th September 2022
Paper: Spatial Perpetration: Reconsidering Dachau, the SS and the Limits of Architecture

05/2022
The 25th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites, Zagreb, 9th-15th May 2022
Paper: Spatial Perpetration: Reconsidering Dachau, the SS and the Limits of Architecture

11/2021
New Directions in Holocaust Studies Workshop, Senate House, London, organised by the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, 4th November 2021
Paper: Building and Historical Artefact: The Holocaust, Architecture and Affect

09/2021
Power, Production and Perception: Reconsidering Space and the Built Environment, 29th September 2021
(De Montfort University and Coventry University)
Co-organiser and chair

01/2021
GHIL (German Historical Institute London) Postgraduate Research Students Conference, 7th-8th January 2021
Paper: The Concentration Camp, Spatial Experience and Architectural Modernism

08/2020
Nazi Sites of Persecution Workshop: 'Intertwined Worlds? New Research on Nazi Sites of Persecution', co-organised by the University of Kent, University of Leicester and Harvard University, 5th August 2020
Paper: The Concentration Camp, Spatial Experience and Architectural Modernism

Public Engagement & Impact

05/2023
Leicester Historical Association, online public lecture and panel discussion
Paper: Building and Artefact: The Architecture of the Third Reich

11/2020
War, Crisis and Confinement: Lessons from the Twentieth Century, online public lecture and panel discussion organised by De Montfort University
Paper: Confinement by Design: Space and Nazi Concentration Camps

Other Research Interests

History of architecture
Holocaust and genocide studies
History of medicine

Memberships

German History Society (GHS)
British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies (BIAHS)
Holocaust Culture Network
Institute for Historical Research (IHR) History Lab

Teaching

2020/2021
HIST2016 - Module tutor, second year module Germany During the Second World War
HIST3000 - Supervisor, third year undergraduate dissertation

Other Activities

2021-2022 Postgraduate Research Student Representative for Arts, Design and Humanities, De Montfort University