Maddie Hale
PhD Student
Institute of Arts and Humanities
Research Degree Students
email: halm1_19@uni.worc.ac.uk
Maddie is a full-time PhD student in American History at the University of Worcester.
Maddie’s main research interest is the incarceration of Japanese Americans in prison camps during World War Two. Her PhD research focuses on the newspapers of the incarceration camps, with a particular emphasis on the representation of American identity and the inclusion of women’s features. Her thesis is titled: ‘‘With the Womenfolk’: Women’s Features in Japanese American Incarceration Camp Newspapers, 1942-1945’.
Her Director of Studies is Dr Wendy Toon and her supervisor is Professor Neil Fleming.
Research and Academic Dissemination
- Conference paper, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) Winter Symposium, ‘The United States and World War II: Impacts and Legacies at Home and Abroad’, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, titled: ‘‘WE MUST! WE WILL! WE CAN!’: American identity in the newspapers of Japanese American incarceration camps, 1942-1945’ (February 2025)
- Conference paper, Pro- and Anti-War Voices Conference, University of Worcester, titled: ‘‘It’s my flag too, the Red, White and Blue’: Reflections on American Entry into World War II in Japanese American Assembly Center Newspapers’ (November 2023)
Exhibition boards, ‘Pro- and Anti-War Voices’ exhibition, The Hive, Worcester, titled: ‘Japanese Americans and World War II’ (November 2023)
Awards and Prizes
- Worcestershire Historical Society Prize for Worcestershire History (2024)
‘Disproportionate female institutionalization? Characterizations of women in Powick Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1862-1892’
Stanford History Group Prize for the Best Dissertation in History (2022)‘A comparison of women admitted to Powick Lunatic Asylum in the years 1862 and 1892’
Qualifications
- MRes History, 2023, University of Worcester
- BA (Hons) History, 2022, University of Worcester