Mr Paul Hutchinson

My research focuses on how histories of the enviroment and histories of gender intersect. I am exploring this connection in my doctoral thesis which examines the role that masculinty played in the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s American West. I am interested in uncovering past experiences of manhood in nature through utilising photographs, oral histories, literature, and artworks. 

I am fully funded by the AHRC South, West, and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership with supervisors Dr. Adrian Howkins at Bristol and Dr. Henry Knight Lozano at Exeter. I have also received fellowships from The Huntingdon Library, Library of Congress, and the Center for the Study of the American West. 

Before beginning my PhD I completed my undergraduate degree at University College London, with a year spent at the University of Toronto, and my master's degree at the University of Oxford.