Dr Carmen M. Mangion
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Overview
Overview
This member of staff is currently on sabbatical.
Office hours
Please contact me by email to arrange for a meeting.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of London, 2005
- MA Modern History, University of London, 2000
Web profiles
Administrative responsibilities
- I am currently on research leave.
Professional activities
Advisory Committee for project ‘Globalizing Profession: Women Religious in the Anglophone World, 1840-1960’ managed by the Cushwa Centre for American Catholicism, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana USA and University of Aberdeen (2019-21)
Catholic Record Society, Council Member (2019-2022)
International Federation of Research in Women’s History, Treasurer (2020-25)
Deputy Editor, Women’s History Review (2019 – current)
External Examiner for postgraduate MA degrees, Kingston University (2017-2020)
Co-founder of the Historians of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI), a network of approximately 300 international scholars connected via an electronic list and a website (http://www.history.ac.uk/history-women-religious/) (2001-current)
Chair of the Religious Life Research Projects Advisory Team managed by the Centre for Catholic Studies, University of Durham, the Margaret Beaufort Institute in Cambridge and the Religious Life Institute in Heythrop (2016-2019)
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2015- current)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015, PR076685)
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Research
Research
Research overview
I am a historian of British and Irish religion and gender. My research is used to highlight wider themes of social identities; intentional communities; transnational religious life; Catholic internationalism; philanthropy; medicalised and sacred spaces; the medical missions; and the lived history of the Second Vatican Council.
My current research has two strands. The first examines the decline of the lay sister category of religious life. The second examines the gendered nature of the Catholic medical missionary movement of the early twentieth century in both Britain and Ireland. nineteenth-century asking how religion and gender shaped medical provision.
Research Centres and Institutes
- Birkbeck Centre for the study of Internationalism
- Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research clusters and groups
- Difference and inequality
- Mind and Body
- Internationalism
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
This member of staff is currently on sabbatical.
Supervision
I welcome proposals for PhD dissertations on aspects of the social and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland with themes that reflect an interest in gender and religion (especially Catholicism, Anglo-Catholicism and religious life) as it intersects with internationalism, philanthropy/voluntary action, medical care and long 1960s social movements especially those associated with the Second Vatican Council.
Current Supervisions
- Joint Principal Supervisor for 3 Birkbeck students
- Second Supervisor for 3 Birkbeck students
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2019) A new Internationalism: endeavouring to ‘build from this diversity, unity’, 1945-1990. Journal of Contemporary History 55 (3), pp. 579-601. ISSN 0022-0094.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2018) ‘Tolerable Intolerance’: Protestantism, Sectarianism and voluntary hospitals in late-nineteenth-century London. Medical History 62 (4), pp. 468-484. ISSN 0025-7273.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2015) Book Review: Margaret H. Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 38 (1-2), pp. 299-300. ISSN 0703-1459.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) Housing the ‘decayed members’ of the middle classes: social class and St Scholastica’s Retreat, 1861-1901. Continuity and Change 29 (3), pp. 373-398. ISSN 0268-4160.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) Book Review: E. Fleischmann, S. Grypma, M. Marten & I.M. Okkenhaug (eds.), Transnational and Historical Perspectives on Global Health, Welfare and Humanitarianism. Social History of Medicine 27 (4), pp. 836-8. ISSN 0951-631X.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) Book Review: Abbie Reese, Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns. Oral History 42 (2), pp. 113-113.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Roundtable on Hilary M. Carey, "God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908". Britain and the World 6 (2), pp. 276-290. ISSN 2043-8567.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Book Review: Rene Kollar, "A Foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign against Convents in Victorian England". Recusant History 31 (3), pp. 501-503. ISSN 0034-1932.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Book Review: S. Karly Kehoe, "Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, gender and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Scotland". Northern Scotland 4 (1), pp. 96-99. ISSN 0306-5278.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Book review: Nancy Lusignan Schultz, "Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow and the Cure That Shocked Washington City". Social History of Medicine 26 (1), pp. 157-158. ISSN 0951-631X.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) Book Review: Edna Hamer, "Elizabeth Prout, 1820-1864: A Religious Life for Industrial England". Recusant History 31 (2), pp. 309-311. ISSN 0034-1932.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) Faith, philanthropy and the aged poor in nineteenth-century England and Wales. European Review of History 19 (4), pp. 515-530. ISSN 1350-7486.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) To console, to nurse, to prepare for eternity: the Catholic sickroom in late nineteenth-century England. Women's History Review 21 (4), pp. 657-678. ISSN 0961-2025.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) Why would you have me live upon a gridiron?: pain, identity, and emotional communities in Nineteenth-Century English convent culture. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 15, ISSN 1755-1560.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2012) The business of life: educating Catholic deaf children in late nineteenth-century England. History of Education 41 (5), ISSN 0046-760X.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2011) Book review: "Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The quest for Independence" by Sue Hawkins. Gender and History 23 (2), pp. 466-468. ISSN 0953-5233.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2011) Book review: "The Forgotten Contribution of the Teaching Sisters: A Historiographical Essay on the Educational Work of Catholic Women Religious in the 19th and 20th Centuries" by Bart Hellinckx, Frank Simon and Marc Depaepe. History of Education Researcher 87, pp. 42-43. ISSN 1740-2433.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2009) Book review: "Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1922-60" by Lindsey Earner-Byrne. Journal of Contemporary History 44 (2), pp. 360-362. ISSN 0022-0094.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2008) Britain's nineteenth-century Catholic almshouses. Catholic Ancestor 12 (2), pp. 73-79. ISSN 1350-1550.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2008) Book review: "Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920" by Lise Sanders. Journal of British Studies 47 (1), pp. 239-241. ISSN 0021-9371.
- Mangion, Carmen (2007) Laying 'good strong foundations': the power of the symbolic in the formation of a religious sister. Women’s History Review 16 (3), pp. 403-415. ISSN 0961-2025.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2007) Book Review: Judith Jennings, "Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The ‘Ingenius Quaker’ and her connections’". Women's History Magazine 57, pp. 27-28. ISSN 2059-0156.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2007) ‘Laying “Good Strong Foundations”: the power of the symbolic in the formation of a religious sister. Women's History Review 16 (3), pp. 403-415. ISSN 0961-2025.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2006) “Good teacher” or “good religious”?: the professional identity of Catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales. Women’s History Review 14 (2), pp. 223-242. ISSN 0961-2025.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2006) Book Review: Maria Luddy (ed), "The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy 1854-56". Nursing History Review 14, pp. 252-253. ISSN 1062-8061.
- Mangion, Carmen (2005) Book Review: Mary Sullivan (ed), The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841. Irish Studies Review 13 (4), pp. 534-536. ISSN 0967-0882.
Book
- Mangion, Carmen (2019) Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age, Britain 1945-1990. Gender in History. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526140463.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2008) Contested identities: Catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719076275.
Book Review
- Mangion, Carmen (2007) 'Gender, religion, and radicalism in the long eighteenth century: the 'ingenius quaker' and her connections, by Judith Jennings.
- Mangion, Carmen (2006) 'The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy 1854-56' by Mary Luddy.
- Mangion, Carmen (2005) 'The correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841', by Mary Sullivan (ed).
Book Section
- Mangion, Carmen (2019) “Shades of difference”: Poor Clares in Britain. In: Sorrel, Christian (ed.) Le Concile Vatican II et le monde des religieus (Europe occidentale et Amérique du Nord, 1950-1980). Chrétiens et Sociétés. Documents et Mémoires. LARHRA Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes. pp. 317-329. ISBN 9791091592239.
- Mangion, Carmen (2017) Syon Abbey’s ‘Second Summer', 1900-1950. In: Gejrot, C. and Andersson, E. and Jones, E. and Åkestam, M. (eds.) Continuity and Change. Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington 2015. KVHAA Konferenser. Stockholm, Sweden: Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien. pp. 367-388. ISBN 9789174024494.
- Mangion, Carmen (2016) Filles de la charité et sourds-muets. Une histoire transnationale (1869-1901). In: Brejon de Lavergnée, M. (ed.) Des Filles de la Charité aux sœurs de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul: quatre siècles de «cornettes» (XVIIe-XXe s.). Paris, France: Honoré Champion. ISBN 9782745330345.
- Mangion, Carmen (2016) London’s Catholic almspeople. In: Goose, N. and Caffrey, H. and Langley, A. (eds.) New Perspectives on Philanthropy: The British Almshouse 1400-1914. London, UK: Family and Community Historical Research Society. pp. 347-364. ISBN 9780954818029.
- Mangion, Carmen (2016) 'No nurses like the deaconesses'?: Protestant deaconesses and the medical marketplace in late-nineteenth-century England. In: Nolte, K. and Kreutzer, S. (eds.) Deaconesses in Nursing Care: International Transfer of a Female Model of Life and Work in the 19th and 20th Century. Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 161-184. ISBN 9783515113557.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Avoiding "rash and imprudent measures": English nuns in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1801. In: Bowden, C. and Kelly, J.E. (eds.) The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800: Communities, Culture and Identity. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. pp. 247-263. ISBN 9781409450733.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) Developing alliances: faith, philanthropy and fundraising in Nineteenth-Century England. In: Van Dijck, M. and de Maeyer, J. and Tyssens, J. and Koppen, J. (eds.) The Economics of Providence: Management, Finances and Patrimony of Religious Orders and Congregations in Europe 1773 to ca. 1930. KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. pp. 205-226. ISBN 9789058679154.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2013) "Meeting a well-known want": Catholic health care in Nineteenth-Century Britain. In: Bonfield, C. and Reinarz, J. and Huguet-Termes, T. (eds.) Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang. pp. 239-262. ISBN 9783034302449.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2011) "Give them practical lessons": Catholic women religious and the transmission of nursing knowledge in late Nineteenth-Century England. In: Dinges, M. and Jütte, R. (eds.) The Transmission of Health Practices (c.1500 to 2000). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 89-104. ISBN 9783515098977.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2010) Women, religious ministry and female institution building. In: Morgan, S. and deVries, J. (eds.) Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940. Oxford, UK: Routledge. pp. 72-93. ISBN 9780415232135.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2010) The "mixed life": balancing the active with the contemplative. In: Lux-Sterritt, L. and Mangion, Carmen M. (eds.) Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality: Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe 1200-1900. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 165-179. ISBN 9780230577619.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2009) Medical philanthropy and civic culture: Protestants and Catholics united by a "common Christianity". In: Malchau Dietz, S. (ed.) Nursing and History: Proceedings - First Danish History of Nursing Conference. Aarhus, Denmark: Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University. ISBN 9788792261908.
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2002) “Places of Memory”: exploring religious archives. In: Gard, R. (ed.) Reflections on Catholic Archives. London, UK: Catholic Archives Society. pp. 50-57. ISBN 9780907712008.
Editorial
- Mangion, Carmen and Bourke, Joanna and Hide, Louise (2012) Perspectives on Pain: Introduction. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (15), Birkbeck University. ISSN 1755-1560.
Other
- Mangion, Carmen M. (2014) Dickinson, Frances (1755-1830). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.