Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Uta Balbier. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Professor Uta Balbier specializes in transnational history, particularly focusing on 20th century United States and the impact of religion on America’s global engagement. She has a comprehensive academic background in European and North American history and is particularly interested in the interplay between politics and culture, as well as the sacred and profane. Her recent monograph, 'Altar Call Europe: Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, Cold-War West,' published by Oxford University Press in 2021, challenges existing notions of the uniquely American relationship with politics and religion. Balbier examines the performativity of religious practices across the Atlantic, arguing for a distinct American religious modernity that influenced her current research themes related to religious, political, and cultural encounters during the periods of decolonization and independence. She has served as Chair of the Historians of 20th Century United States in the UK and is currently a member of the American Society of Church History and Deputy Director of the RAI.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.