Member Profile
Name:
Mr Stephen Dunning
Institution:
University of Exeter
Academic status:
Student
Main discipline:
History
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
Other societies:
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (Sep 2025 - present).
Royal Historical Society (Nov 2024 - present).
British Institute in Eastern Africa (Oct 2024 - present).
Social History Society (Sep 2024 - present).
Society for the History of Technology (Apr 2024 - present).
British Society for the History of Science (Oct 2023 - present).
South West Federation of Museums (Jan 2020 - present).
Museums Association (Oct 2016 - present).
Society of Genealogists (Oct 2016 - present).
Royal Historical Society (Nov 2024 - present).
British Institute in Eastern Africa (Oct 2024 - present).
Social History Society (Sep 2024 - present).
Society for the History of Technology (Apr 2024 - present).
British Society for the History of Science (Oct 2023 - present).
South West Federation of Museums (Jan 2020 - present).
Museums Association (Oct 2016 - present).
Society of Genealogists (Oct 2016 - present).
Research interests:
Stephen is a postgraduate researcher at the Universities of Exeter and Southampton. He is a member of the Exeter Centre for Research on Africa and the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the University of Exeter, and the Centre for Imperial and Postcolonial Studies and the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research at the University of Southampton. He is also an Affiliated Researcher with the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA).
Stephen's research utilises interdisciplinary methods and social science theory to interrogate new primary sources in an exploration of imperial and global history, focusing on the history of nineteenth-century civil engineering technologies and their relationship to imperial and social ideologies in domestic and colonial contexts.
Stephen's PhD investigates the construction of engineering technologies and imperial ideologies during railway engineering projects in Devon and British colonial-era East Africa. His research examines these case studies in the context of historiographical debates on ‘networked’ conceptions of empire, the relationship between technology and empire, and how imperialism shaped domestic and colonial experiences.
Stephen's wider research interests also include empires of religion and their place within religious and imperial history, focusing on ecumenism, non-violent protest, historic rhetorical preaching in Christian denominations, and the history of religious preaching as a political act.
Stephen's research utilises interdisciplinary methods and social science theory to interrogate new primary sources in an exploration of imperial and global history, focusing on the history of nineteenth-century civil engineering technologies and their relationship to imperial and social ideologies in domestic and colonial contexts.
Stephen's PhD investigates the construction of engineering technologies and imperial ideologies during railway engineering projects in Devon and British colonial-era East Africa. His research examines these case studies in the context of historiographical debates on ‘networked’ conceptions of empire, the relationship between technology and empire, and how imperialism shaped domestic and colonial experiences.
Stephen's wider research interests also include empires of religion and their place within religious and imperial history, focusing on ecumenism, non-violent protest, historic rhetorical preaching in Christian denominations, and the history of religious preaching as a political act.